New Finds: The Local Foods Wheel Hits New York

Published on Wednesday, October 7, 2009, by Lessley Anderson / Edit Post

The San Francisco Bay Area has had one of these great local food wheels for a while, but now there’s a new version for the New York metro area. The rotating cardboard discs tell you what’s in season throughout the year; you can move the dial based on the month to see what you can consume and still be a locavore. The team that makes the wheels—Jessica Prentice, Sarah Klein, and Maggie Gosselin—dealt with the troublesome fact that nothing grows in the dead of winter in New York in a cute way. From mid-January to mid-March, there are pictures of a root cellar. Sweet potatoes, onions, dried beans, apples and such, are in crates below jars of apple cider and pickles, hanging cured meats, and crocks of sauerkraut, and kimchee. (CHOW has instructions on how to make sauerkraut.)

I’m happy to see that the locally-made items listed as “year round” include hard cider and maple candy. Now that’s a sustainable diet I can get behind.

Local Foods Wheel, New York Metro Area, $12.95.

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  • I couldn't disagree more, they're selling these at the small bookstore in my neighborhood and when I went in to buy a few for gifts they were sold out from the book fair they had attended the previous weekend - people love them! I even saw a blown up version of one on the info table at the Union Square Greenmarket and a school tour was huddled around it so it's also a great teaching device for...+READ

    I couldn't disagree more, they're selling these at the small bookstore in my neighborhood and when I went in to buy a few for gifts they were sold out from the book fair they had attended the previous weekend - people love them! I even saw a blown up version of one on the info table at the Union Square Greenmarket and a school tour was huddled around it so it's also a great teaching device for kids. It's a creative, attractive way to know what to eat and when, definitely worth the 13 clams (in season year round!).-COLLAPSE

  • Is it just me?

    Do I need to pay someone $12.95 for a little colorful toy that's gonna tell me what I can and cannot eat in NYC each month?

    Frankly, I thought about this concept. And even as a public relations device, it's over-priced.