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The American local food movement has been all about buying seasonal food from nearby farmers. Now,
thanks to the Web, it is expanding to include far-away farmers too. A new start-up, Foodzie, is an online
farmers market where small food producers and growers can sell their products.
Foodzie was started by Mr. LaFave and two of his friends, who met during college at Virginia Tech,
where they would pay frequent visits to farmers markets. Last year, while living in North Carolina, one of
them, Emily Olson, now 24, came up with one idea. She was working as a brand manager for a gourmet
grocery chain and realized that people who enjoyed fine food but didn't work in the business had no way to
discover handmade foods outside their local farmers markets. Small farmers had no way of finding or selling
to faraway customers, either.
Mr. LaFAve and the third co-founder, Nik Bauman, both 25, worked in corporate sales and software
development. "With business, food and computer science backgrounds, we figured we had everything we
needed." Mr. LaFAve said.
The three quit their jobs, and opened this site to the public in December and the site has had 43,000
visitors in the past month. So far, 29 sellers have opened shops and 41 are in the process of opening them.
The founders recently hired a fourth employee to help Ms. Olson recruit (吸收) new food producers at
farmers markets and food shows. Mr. LaFAve is convinced that the recession (经济衰退) will not reduce
people's interest in buying locally grown and handmade food."There is misunderstanding that all these foods
are more expensive than mass-produced alternatives," he said. "People are pouring their heart and soul into
these products, and they are of the highest quality."
1. The passage is mainly about _____. [ ]
A. how an online farmers' market works
B. the American local food movement
C. three youths starting an online farmers' market
D. the reasons why people are interested in local food
2. Why did the founders start the online farmers' market? [ ]
A. Because it met the need of the market.
B. Because the founders were interested in seasonal food.
C. Because some people wanted to buy locally grown food.
D. Because farmers wanted to sell their foods.
3. The underlined word in Paragraph 2 can be used to describe _____. [ ]
A. food of high quality
B. terrible food
C. food of low fat
D. fried food
4. The founders of the site employed another person to help _____. [ ]
A. open new shops in faraway markets
B. buy locally grown and handmade food
C. find more food outside their local farmers' markets
D. find more food growers to open shops on their site
5. About the three founders, we know that _____. [ ]
A. they are of the same age
B. to start the website they gave up their work
C. they used to be colleague
D. they majored in farming at college
