Seasonal Food Guide
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Find what produce is in season in your state at any time of year! With info on 140+ fruits, veggies, legumes, nuts and herbs, the Seasonal Food Guide is the most comprehensive digital almanac of seasonal local food available.

Features:
● Comprehensive data on more than 140 types of fruits, veggies, legumes, nuts and herbs.
● Search what’s in season at any time of year in each of the 50 states.
● Find out when your favorite produce is at peak freshness and tastes the best.
● Easily set shopping reminders so you’ll never forget to pick up your favorite seasonal foods at your next trip to the market.
● Never miss a seasonal food again! You can seamlessly set reminders for when your favorite foods are in season.
● Includes links to incredible recipes, fun facts and information about the environmental impact of growing each type of produce.
● Data sources: the Natural Resources Defense Council, USDA, state agriculture extension offices and state departments of agriculture.
● Seasonality data accurate to half-month increments.
● A free, food literacy resource developed by a nonprofit.

What is seasonal food?
Seasonal food is produce that is purchased and consumed around the time that it is harvested.

Why is it important to eat food that’s in season?
Studies indicate that seasonal food can be fresher, tastier and more nutritious than food consumed out of season. Seasonal fruits and vegetables produced on local farms are often fresher, as they do not require long distances for transport. Also, unlike out of season produce which is harvested early in order to be shipped and distributed to your local retail store, crops picked at their peak ripeness are full of flavor. Studies also show that fruits and vegetables may contain more nutrients when allowed to ripen naturally on their parent plant.

Why is eating local food important?
● Purchasing local food benefits the environment and helps support local farms in your community. A recent USDA study also found that direct-to-consumer producers were less likely to apply pesticides and herbicides to control weeds and insects than conventional producers (with the exception of chemicals to control insects and weeds in fruit, nut and berry crops).
● By purchasing local food, you’re supporting your community! The money you spend on products from local farmers and growers stays in the community and is reinvested with other local businesses, which generates jobs and subsequently stimulates local economies.
● Local growers can tell you how your food was grown. When you buy directly from farmers, you have the opportunity to ask what practices they use to raise and harvest the crops, enhancing consumer transparency around the steps it takes to get our food from farm to table.

Developer Information:
The Seasonal Food Guide is a project of GRACE Communications Foundation, a nonprofit organization that develops innovative strategies to increase public awareness of the critical environmental and public health issues created by our current industrial food system, and to advocate for more sustainable alternatives.

If you have any questions about the Seasonal Food Guide or would like to make a suggestion, please contact [email protected].
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4.28 out of 5

106 ratings in United States

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Great idea bad implementation

Darkkilian on

It’s almost perfect but selecting an item automatically selects it when backing out and then you have to delete it which takes you back and you have to select state and month again. It would nice when you hit any produce you could see the Jan-Dec chart on both screens as well. Keep trying, I know you will get it!

Near perfect!

Benuathanasia on

Exactly what I was looking for! If you ever want to add to the functionality, here’s some suggestions: Allow to filter by nutrients - like, if I wanna see where I can get vitamin C naturally at this time of year, let me choose my state and month and the nutrient I need so it only shows me in-season produce that have X% of that nutrient.

Yes but please fix it 🥺🙏

just another students on

I love this app so much, in recent years I’ve been trying my hardest to figure out how to be more sustainable. This App has shown me so much about my area that I didn’t even know about. I can’t believe I’ve gone 17 years without knowing I could’ve been eating delicious Foods native to Texas which I’ve lived in my whole life. The only thing that I see is a problem is the design of the site, it makes me enter in my address and seasonal search engine after every time I go in to check the availability of a certain plant. it’s a hassle to put in the information after every Time I want to check if apples grow in May or March (example) it’s gotten to the point where I have to be very selective with what I want to check or else I know I want to just not use the app (I get too lazy) I really hope the creators of this app still pays attention to it because it is overall a really good idea and as The world begins to shift apps like these are very important to the future of our food chain. i’ll make sure to spread the word to my friends and family that I’ve been following along with my diet habits as of recently, but I do believe that this App could benefit from marketing strategies, etc. :) that’s all for me I hope this app continues to grow

Mobile website is much better

jackiecrazely on

This app is finicky and tricky to navigate. I prefer their website as it is smooth and user-friendly.

Wonderful concept but too many bugs

hallowbe on

I’ve been trying to eat more produce in season, and this app seemed like the perfect guide. Unfortunately, I can’t even scroll halfway down the page before it randomly selects produce or freezes to where I have to restart the app. My iPhone is less than a year old and fully updated, so not sure what the issue is, but I’ll have to find a different app.

Needs some features :)

Avitlol Shtapyro on

Hi I love the idea and message behind this app! It's really beautiful and the design is great. However the app is clunky and difficult to use. I will explain three features that should be added. 1) A back button. It is fun to scroll up and down to see the produce, but sometimes the app decides I clicked something and all of a sudden it pauses, buffers, and then shows details about a plant. I want to go back immediately but there's no back button therefore I have to start my search all over again. Notice how Instagram's back button is really small, on the top left if I recall correctly, but very useful. I also think YouTube has a back button built into its design. 2) Sign-in. In today's world I expect apps to know me and my preferences when I open them. At the very least this app should understand I live in New Jersey and want to see produce available now. It does not make sense that I have to input this info every time. Therefore I think it would be great to have an account. If you cannot offer the bandwidth to create accounts, please allow users to save data locally on the phone. 3) A news feed. I think this app would be better off if it had a small banner about what vegetables are new/fresh in your state, and a small list of local farm news and upcoming farmers markets (chance for $ via advertising for local farms, markets, and municipalities). I understand the goal is to offer information freely and communicably, so my above three requests will bring your app closer to that resolution. Thank you!

no back button?!!?

bork420 on

i really wanted to love this app, and i think the concept is great. i love that you can click through an item to learn more about how to prepare, cook, and preserve it. it’s absolutely infuriating that there is no back button feature — once you click, purposely or not, on a produce item, you cannot just go back to your customized list. being able to customize your place and time is great — but why ask for my location if the app isn’t going to even do it automatically? being reset to the “all” category every single time renders the app essentially useless to me.

Too buggy to be useful

Elias hates Pandora on

I really like the idea of this app, it’s just too clunky to use. There is no way to save settings to my state or season, and there is no search function. This means scrolling through the whole list anytime I want to find something. To add insult to injury, halfway through the list the app often erases the settings I put in manually, so I have to re-enter them and scroll through the whole list again. Also, none of the links for more info on the specific products seem to work.

Useful tool

Sophia Chesa on

Great tool to live more sustainably.

Poor search functionality.

Mb5001 on

A search returns a list of foods. Selecting a food from the list to get more detail resets the search to the default parameters, and the search needs to redefined. I did two searches and deleted the app.

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App Info

Category
Food Drink
Languages
English
Recent version
2.1.14 (2 years ago )
Released on
Jun 27, 2017 (7 years ago )
Also available in
United States
Last updated
1 month ago