What You Can Do to Shop Local - Food & Beverages
You have the power to make the world a better place because of what you buy (and what you don't buy).

FOOD AND BEVERAGES

• People's Food Co-Op, 436 S. Burdick, Kalamazoo - www.peoplesfoodco-op.org - a consumer-owned cooperative grocery store, bringing a full array of natural products and healtful foods to the community at reasonable prices. Local products are helpfully labeled as such.
• Bank Street Farmers' Market, 1204 Bank Street, Kalamazoo - Open Saturdays in May & November; Tuesdays, Thursdays & Saturdays June thru October from 6 am to 6 pm. A variety of farm products (some of it organic), baked goods, plants, artwork. Lively and sociable.
• Something's Brewing, 120 W. South St., Kalamazoo - Kalamazoo's first and oldest coffee shop. Always fair-traded coffees and teas--not always certified as such.
• Water Street Coffee Joint, 315 E Water St & Oakwood Shopping Plaza, Kalamazoo. Organic, fair-traded coffee available sporadically--available as iced coffee all summer. Water Street has finally switched from styrofoam cups to biodegradable coated paper (and now gives credit for bringing your own cup).
• Sawall Health Foods, 2965 Oakland Dr, Kalamazoo - Since 1936 SW Michigan's largest most complete health food market.
• Full City Cafe, 2826 Parkview, Kalamazoo, and 7878 Oakland Drive, Portage. Now serves nothing but organic, fair-traded coffee. In addition, they've switched to biodegradable carry-out cups, and recycled, unbleached paper napkins. They provide a generous credit for bringing your own travel cup.
• Global Infusion, 143 Diamond St. S.E, Grand Rapids - globalinfusion.net - An eclectic marketplace of herbal, local and Fair Trade goods. Featuring an extensive tea and coffee bar.
• Nature Connection, 359 S Kalamazoo Mall. Local artists.
• Natural Health Food Center, 4610 W Main, Kalamazoo. Organic foods.

ORGANIC FARMS

• Blue Dog Greens, an excellent CSA in Bangor, Michigan. Good organic produce all season by subscription to the CSA and at the Kalamazoo Farmers' Market and People's Food Coop. www.squidoo.com/bluedoggreens.
• Eaters' Guild, Bangor - www.localharvest.org/farms/M9939 - 269.427.0423.
• White Yarrow Farm, Marcellus - beachynick@earthlink.net
• Lake Village Homestead, Farm and Learning Center, 7943 S. 25th St., Kalamazoo 49048. 269-808-2529