How to find and buy local food:

Stores in the Milwaukee area & region that feature local foods

Outpost Natural Foods

Milwaukee, Bayview and Wauwatosa

Beans and Barley
East-Side Milwaukee

Goodside Grocery
Sheboygan

Slow Pokes

Grafton

Riverwest Co-Op Grocery & Cafe

Milwaukee

To find local sources of Food:

Local food producers and other vendors who were
at the 2012 Eat Local Resource Fair - click here to see the list

The Milwaukee County Winter Farmer's Market
Saturday mornings starting in Nov. - 8 am - noon
Tommy Thompson Youth Center at State Fair Park
more info

For some hard to find local foods:.

  • Great River Organic Milling
    Organic grains, flour and mixes
  • Driftless Organics Sunflower Oil
    You don’t have to be a member of the CSA to order their oil from their website -- local, unrefined sunflower oil, pressed from their organically grown sunflowers.
  • Rolling Meadows Sorghum Mill
    for sorghum flour. They are at the Milwaukee Co Winter Farmers Market from November through April
  • Oly’s Oats – sells various formats of oats at farmers markets from his wife’s family mill, Lacrosse Milling Co.
    He attends Oconomowoc, Brookfield, South Shore and Tosa Farmers’ Markets during summer/outdoor season;
    Milwaukee County Winter Farmers’ Market from November through April

  • River Valley Seed and Grain
    River Valley Seed and Grain offers locally grown and processed organic grain products. Lonesome Stone Pancake Mix is a whole grain mix of all Iowa County grown wheat and rye; Lonesome Stone Organic Whole Wheat Flour - ground from Iowa County hard red winter wheat; Lonesome Stone Rye Flour - ground from Iowa County winter rye. Lonesome Stone Pancake mix available for purchase in 1 or 2 pound bags. All flour is available in 3 pound bags. River Valley Seed and Grain is headquartered out of Lone Rock, Wisconsin. Contact Gilbert at rivervalleyseed@verizon.net or 608-574-6656.