Locavore: The new organic

Four women in San Francisco coined the term "locavore" in 2005, and since then many similar groups have popped up all around the country. Each has the same idea: eating locally helps the environment, improves health, stimulates the local economy, and simply tastes better. For these reasons locally grown and produced food has been called "the new organic." The New Oxford American Dictionary even named locavore their word of the year in 2007.

Today, the average conventionally grown...