PlacerSustain: Voices of Placer County's Sustainability Community

In case someone didn't already post this, there's an article in today's Sac Bee about buying local meat: 

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/15/4263722/sacramento-area-families-buy-meat.html

The article doesn't have a lot of depth, but it shows that more people are aware of the benefits of buying from local farms, and it provides a contact information for a couple of local ranchers who sell to the public.