Comments on: Foodoro v. Foodzie: Online Marketplaces for Foodies

By: Stephanie Im

Stephanie Im — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:47:45 +0000

thanks for sharing the info, guillermo.

By: Guillermo Payet

Guillermo Payet — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:20:58 +0000

This piece should have mentioned LocalHarvest.org, which does the same as Foodzie and Foodoro, but focused on products from family farms, and allowing buyers to search for local items. LocalHarvest now has more than 600 vendors and gets more than 10 time the website traffic than foodzie or foodoro. LH’s directory or family farms and farmers’ markets has more than 19,500 listings. The 600 mentioned above are the subset that choose to use our ecommerce services.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:55:34 +0000

Lyndsey: While I do support local producers (and try not to push anything on my readers), I agree with Emily's sentiment that for many people buying all local all the time is just not realistic or possible. I recommended Rick's Picks from NY b/c they're innovative, fun, and delicious. That is not to say they are the only picklers out there doing innovative, fun, and delicious things. Explore what's out there. Explore what's good and share the love. We're all in it for the same joys, no?

By: Lyndsey

Lyndsey — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 04:24:38 +0000

It is really frustrating to see you push local sustainability , then recommend pickles from ny. What about local picklers? What about buying local, it is ridiculous

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:41:58 +0000

Caragh: Thanks for letting us know about RegionalBest! Looks like you have a great range of products available.

By: Caragh Whalen

Caragh Whalen — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:26:43 +0000

In addition to these and other West Coast companies, we’re an East coast-based online food marketplace. We launched RegionalBest.com (http://www.regionalbest.com ) in July, 2008 and offer regional and local foods produced by artisans, farmers, ranchers, cheesemakers and other small family owned businesses. In addition, we support sustainable and eco-friendly production practices and many of our products are all natural and/or organic.