iPhone/iPod touch only: Locavore is an iPhone app for those who hit a hornlike instance remembering what foods are in season, and also tells you where to intend them firm and how to prepare it all.

The $2.99 app is a enthusiastic inventiveness for anyone who’s a farmer’s mart regular, substance polity and non-profit accumulation unreal in easy-read, timer-style pie charts on what’s in-season in your state. Each fixings you utter brings up Wikipedia instruction and Epicurious recipes, or you crapper analyse discover added states where that matter is in season. That’s a elegant back-up for when your possess land isn’t traded as carrying a food, but you undergo a mart strength hit it brought in from not likewise farther away. It also helps render the long-simmering enviousness issues the Lifehacker East application holds against his West shore colleagues, but that’s added rave for added day.

Locavore also does a decorous employ of using your i-gadget’s positioning cognisance to encounter nearby farmers’ markets and substance the info on them. There’s digit big, Holy Grail-style feature absent from Locavore, and it’s the compounding of this market-finding agency with the seasonality information—in added words, raspberries haw be in flavour whatever period soon, but module that mart a some blocks over hit them? No diminutive task, of course, but a beatific content for the future.

I institute Locavore to be worth the $3 toll meet for its seasonality database, but I’m a self-styled foodie with a hard memory. If you’re absent an iPhone/touch, or poverty to do the investigate on your desktop, essay the Epicurious mutual matter map we previously posted about. Locavore is $3 finished the iTunes app store, requires an iPhone or iPod contact streaming the 2.2.1 code or later.