Farmers’ markets and organic shops directory

Farmers’ markets and organic shops in one directory.

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What it does

Every quarter: farmers’ markets and organic food stores in your city, with opening details, phone and website, kept in a Google Sheet for your sustainable food guide.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in San Francisco, find farmers' markets, organic food stores and health food stores in the area, clean up their categories, remove duplicates, then add row in Google Sheets and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

A sustainable food guide is only useful if it is current. This keeps the list fresh every quarter.

Who it is for

Environment, climate & sustainability. Sustainability teams, environmental consultancies, recyclers and city climate offices who need facts about places to act on. Every use case for environment & climate

Best use cases

  • A sustainable food guide
  • A city food policy team
  • A local food NGO

What each run gives you

  • A Google Sheet

The time it saves

Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 60 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 1 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.

The flow, block by block

  1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
  2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
  3. Local and organic foodxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
  4. Sort by kindxMap AI · Place classifierAssigns clean categories and merges duplicate places.
  5. Each place onceLogic · Remove duplicatesKeeps one of each item when the same one arrives more than once, for example from two searches that overlap.
  6. Update the food guide sheetApp · Google SheetsCreate, edit, and collaborate on spreadsheets online
  7. Email me the resultsAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.

Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.

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Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.

How to set it up

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