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  • noun Plural form of localvore.

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Examples

  • The question about "localvores" was part of a workshop in the elementary school theaterette by Chef Mike Ditchfield from the Pennsylvania School of Technology.

    unknown title 2009

  • The book selections will change with the seasons, so that the first several themes are “going to seed,” which features titles about seed gardening and composting, and “localvores,” which highlights books about preparing local food and eating locally, while later in the year, “preserving” has books about “capturing the harvest” and “fun with fungi” focuses on books about hunting and cooking mushrooms.

    Powells and Farmers Market Team Up - Reading Local: Portland 2009

  • Other regional movements have emerged since then, though some groups refer to themselves as “localvores” rather than “locavores.”

    2007 Word of the Year: Locavore William Harryman 2007

  • Time for the 'localvores' to step up I just finished writing my "other column" it sounds so illicit, which runs in a dozen or so weekly papers owned by Meredith-based Salmon Press, and in my hometown paper in Colebrook, the News and Sentinel.

    All Stories 2012

  • It is made with flour from wheat from two Vermont farms and another grain from a New York Farm - still within the 100-mile radius required by some localvores, according to Sperling.

    TimesArgus.com: Barre/Montpelier Region 2010

  • Many ways to bring the local harvest to your Thanksgiving table “Buy local, eat local, †is a mantra promoted by many localvores (those people who try to eat/shop most of their food locally).

    The News Tribune - Tacoma - - HOMEPAGE 2010

  • Tutlis and Watts say their extended season boxes will always be propped up by beets and potatoes from the previous fall, the kinds of things Michigan localvores have always eaten in the winter.

    Marketplace 2009

  • The land trust hopes to expand its cadre of weed-pulling volunteers by teaching localvores that some invasives are welcome in the kitchen.

    burlingtonfreepress.com - Local News 2009

  • The land trust hopes to expand its cadre of weed-pulling volunteers by teaching localvores that some invasives are welcome in the kitchen.

    burlingtonfreepress.com - Local News 2009

  • The answer is that localvores are people who seek out locally grown and produced foods.

    unknown title 2009

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