The FindSlowFood Platform
Why is a bakery providing a digital platform?
Several years ago, we developed a web application (one of the owners is still a full-time software engineer) to assist with our research on emerging grain chain movements across the country.
FindSlowFood is a Daily Grains initiative to map and support the local food system across Boulder County and the Front Range. The vendor maps and profiles that likely brought you here are part of a growing database of the people and places that make local food possible — farmers, bakers, market vendors, and the food resources that connect them. Our goal is simple: help consumers find locally grown and produced food, and help the people who grow and make it reach the communities around them — and each other.
The project grew out of research we did for our own bakery, Daily Grains, as we tracked down micro-bakeries and regional grain sources along the Front Range and throughout Colorado. That work eventually connected us with the Colorado Grain Chain and convinced us the same tools we'd built to manage grain chain organizations and information could serve the broader Slow Food movement. Today, that platform powers vendor pages for partners like the Lafayette Farmers Market, pairing a flexible content management system with a structured vendor database so markets can present their community of producers online without the overhead of building it themselves.
If your farmers market, co-op, or food organization could use something similar, we'd love to hear from you. FindSlowFood is a Daily Grains project, and partner work is taken on as a sponsored initiative dedicated to strengthening the regional food system and the people who feed it.
- Paul Bonneville, Daily Grains
The project grew out of research we did for our own bakery, Daily Grains, as we tracked down micro-bakeries and regional grain sources along the Front Range and throughout Colorado. That work eventually connected us with the Colorado Grain Chain and convinced us the same tools we'd built to manage grain chain organizations and information could serve the broader Slow Food movement. Today, that platform powers vendor pages for partners like the Lafayette Farmers Market, pairing a flexible content management system with a structured vendor database so markets can present their community of producers online without the overhead of building it themselves.
If your farmers market, co-op, or food organization could use something similar, we'd love to hear from you. FindSlowFood is a Daily Grains project, and partner work is taken on as a sponsored initiative dedicated to strengthening the regional food system and the people who feed it.
- Paul Bonneville, Daily Grains