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Locavore iPhone App

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Other Challenges: 

Locavore is a powerful yet simple application for the iPhone and iPod Touch that allows users to find the freshest, most sustainable fruits and vegetables no matter where they are in the United States.

Utilizing built-in GPS and location awareness, Locavore finds a fresh food enthusiast's location and then shows them what foods are currently in season locally, and what is coming in season soon.   Getting this information quickly (especially while at the market and trying to decide what to buy) means that one can get the freshest, tastiest, and most healthy foods available any time of the year.

Locavore finds information about nearby farmers' markets and food availability data from a collaboration of partners such as LocalHarvest.org, the Natural Resources Defense Council, and others to give users a real-time look at what's available to them and where to get it.   This data will continue to improve and be updated over time.

The application also connects users to recipes from Epicurious and links to Wikipedia through a simple to use and intuitive interface. It features 234 well-known and more obscure fruits and vegetables with beautiful full-color images of each, in case a user momentarily forgets what an aprium or a rambutan looks like.

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Project Assessment
Financial support: 
No
Sustainability Model: 
I'm selling this app in the iTunes App Store for $2.99.   The business model is very simple, it simply needs to be useful enough to justify the cost.   The first couple weeks have proved that people believe this is a useful product.   My goal is to continue to improve its usefulness until it can sustain itself.
Expertise needed: 
Marketing/Media Expertise: I'm a builder, but have very little experience in promoting products.
Other: I'm interested in finding additional sources of information from other countries.   Also, for fish, poultry, and other animals.   Sustainably raised, of course.  
Project goals: 
Integrate with Facebook Connect from within the appFacebook Connect websiteAdd fish, poultry, beef, and porkInclude more countries outside the US
Identified Obstacles: 
Finding reliable data that is broken up by month, region, and food item is difficult, but I believe that by making the data open (so others could use it too), we could create a community of data-maintainers similar to (and complemenary to) localharvest.org and nrdc.org's efforts. Finding ways to allow for variation between seasons, regions, etc without making the data unreliable

Hi Buster, Some friends and I

Hi Buster,

Some friends and I developed a locavore website last year that is gaining popularity in the Southern Hemisphere - New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa.

website url:
http://locavore365.org

It allows members to add listings for local produce, we also record their Latitude and Longitude. Visitors to the site can then search by distance for any local produce within their area.

If you are interested in using our website for listing data on the Locavore iPhone app we would be happy to investigate that with you.

Cheers, Simon.
http://locavore365.org

Go Locavore!

I love this project! Thanks for taking the time to submit. What are your plans for mobile apps on other platforms?

Rachel Weidinger

Common Knowledge

www.commonknow.com

 

I'm open to it...

At the moment, I don't have the time to learn how to build an Android app, but I am open to the idea of collaborating with a developer to make it happen.   At heart, though, I am a web developer, and do have plans for making this information available as a web app for phones that have browser capabilities.

I'm pretty much open to all ideas, as I'm sure I have not thought of them all.   I am currently collecting ideas, feedback, and feature requests on Get Satisfaction.

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