My wife and I find ourselves increasing showing the signs of LS: the Locavore Syndrome. For the holidays this past month, we made a concerted effort to purchase gifts made or grown locally and, if they ended up traveling a few hundred miles as part of their distribution, it was with us as we went to renew ties with family around the Midwest.

Those of us who have started this vertical (niche) social network for Locavores want to grow it to become a cyberspace "local" space where people w… Continue