Meaning

(cooking, neologism) One who tries to eat only locally grown foods..

Example Sentences

So I do think that there is a wonderful opportunity for us to find a carbon-neutral energy source where it is not only a beneficial model environmentally but we are sort of becoming forest and energy locavores, if you will, and so that is what we are trying to establish through this idea of a community wood energy program where we would be using, you know, town forests to actually supply town energy needs so that people can actually see the costs and the impacts of where their energy is coming from.

They are a locavore’s (someone who eats food produced within 100 miles of he lives) paradise.

Become a Locavore Try to eat foods grown close to your home, which helps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport as well as supporting your neighbors. […]

Its mottled green skin conceals a creamy yellow pulp that tastes of banana and mango; locavore-minded chefs alchemize it into ice cream, beer, bread and tasting-menu fodder — that is, when it’s not simply eaten raw with a spoon.

Word Forms

• locavores
• localvore

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Use locavore when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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