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This is opening weekend at many local farmers markets — including Arlington’s Columbia Pike, Alexandria’s West End, Fairfax County markets and 14th & U in the District — and what better way to prepare than to point you to some online sources of locavore info and fellow local food enthusiasts. If you don’t have a Twitter account, what are you waiting for? Seriously though, if you don’t have an account you can still follow interesting Twitter users by clicking that orange RSS button at the right side of their page; this will subscribe you to their updates in your feed reader, just like you follow your favorite blogs. Over on Twitter, each week users share some of their favorite friends (“tweeps”) in an event called “Follow Friday.” Here’s my farmers market/local foods edition. This is far from an extensive list, so please feel free to identify yourself or add your favorites in the comments.

Farmers Markets & Local Food Resources on Twitter

Chesapeake Bay foodshed

• Edible Chesapeake magazine (@EdChes)
• What’s to Eat Baltimore (@whatstoeatbmore)
• On the Gourmet, mobile market, Va. (@chrisguerre)
• Great Country Farms, Va. (@thefarmersays)
• Smith Family Farm, Va. (@smithfamilyfarm)
• The Crab Place, Md. (@thecrabplace)
• Clyde’s restaurants (@clydes)
• sweetgreen restaurants (@sweetgreen)

Around the US

• Portland (Ore.) Farmers Markets (@portlandfarmers)
• Edible San Francisco magazine (@EdibleSF)
• Brooklyn Farmhouse blog (@bklynfarmhouse)
• Local Family, Local Beet (Chicago) blog (@localfamily)
• Earth Eats: Real Food, Green Living (Indiana) blog/podcast (@eartheats)
• Local Flavor Knoxville (Tennessee) (@localflavorknox)
• Eating Niagara (Ontario) blog (@eatingniagara)

National Resources

• Edible Communities magazines (@ediblestories)
• La Vida Locavore, food & ag policy blog (@locavoreblog)
• Farmers Markets Today magazine (@farmersmktstoday)
• Local Harvest, local foods directory (@localharvestorg)
• Eating Well magazine (@eatingwell)
• Go Locavore blog (@golocavore)
• Locallectual, online directory (@locallectural)
• Enjoy Locavore, the iPhone app (@enjoylocavore)

District-area foodies who occasionally tweet from the markets:

• Arugula Files (@arugulafiles)
• Capital Spice (@capitalspice)
• Counter Intelligence (@melissamccart)
• Farmette Report (@farmettereport)
• Metrocurean (@metrocurean)
• The Bitten Word (@bittenword)
• Alinea at Home‘s @CarolBlymire
• and me, @foodietot (no “s”)

Elsewhere on the web, Alexandria’s West End market has a new blog on Culinate. DC’s FreshFarm markets does not (yet?) have a blog but has an extensive database of their market vendors. The Washington Post food section’s newly-launched blog has a category titled “To Market, To Market,” so I hope that’s a sign they’re planning some farmers market coverage. (And WaPo food editor Joe Yonan is on twitter, too, @joeyonan.)

While we’re on the subject, I’m sure you’re already subscribed to the FoodieTots feed, but please note that you can now receive automatic email updates whenever we post something new. And if Twitter’s not your thing, you can also follow us on Facebook. Whatever method you choose, please touch base on Monday and let me know what you found at your local markets this weekend. Happy eating, locally!