The recently-released Farm Star Living app for Android and iOS helps foodies find nearby restaurants with farm-fresh ingredients. It's a tasty app, but it may leave you wanting more, according to CIO.com blogger James A. Martin. Farm Star Living, a new, free app for Android and iOS, promises to make it easy for foodies to find and learn about restaurants specializing in meals made from ingredients from local farms in the U.S. Does it succeed? Yes, but it could use some more features. The concept, based on the Farm Star Living website, is deliciously simple. With the app, you can search for nearby restaurants, or those in other towns, that are part of the farm-to-table (aka farm-to-fork) movement. You get the restaurant’s address and phone number; a link to its website; reviews (if there are any); a description (which usually reads as if written by a member of the restaurant’s staff); and buttons to place a call and get directions. You can also tap a button to write your own review. Tapping the “By Location” button shows you the restaurants on a map. You can further filter the results by choosing a mile radius, such as “any,” “10,” and “15.” The app also lets you explore farms you can visit by tapping the “FarmFun” button. The app includes restaurants across the U.S. But when I looked at a list of restaurants in less densely populated cities, including Richmond, Va., and Asheville, N.C., restaurants in my city (San Francisco) were also included. Say what? It would be nice if, at least in the future, the app linked to Open Table, so you could easily make a reservation. I’d also like to see a few photos of the food from each restaurant. Finally, there are ads that sit at the bottom of the app screen. Some, such as Google’s ad for its iOS search app, are hard to ignore. But app developers need to make money, too. If you’re a farm-to-table fanatic, you need this app. It’s unique, too; my initial research didn’t uncover anything quite like it for iOS or Android. Related content brandpost The steep cost of a poor data management strategy Without a data management strategy, organizations stall digital progress, often putting their business trajectory at risk. Here’s how to move forward. By Jay Limbasiya, Global AI, Analytics, & Data Management Business Development, Unstructured Data Solutions, Dell Technologies Jun 09, 2023 6 mins Data Management feature How Capital One delivers data governance at scale With hundreds of petabytes of data in operation, the bank has adopted a hybrid model and a ‘sloped governance’ framework to ensure its lines of business get the data they need in real-time. By Thor Olavsrud Jun 09, 2023 6 mins Data Governance Data Management feature Assessing the business risk of AI bias The lengths to which AI can be biased are still being understood. The potential damage is, therefore, a big priority as companies increasingly use various AI tools for decision-making. By Karin Lindstrom Jun 09, 2023 4 mins CIO Artificial Intelligence IT Leadership brandpost Rebalancing through Recalibration: CIOs Operationalizing Pandemic-era Innovation By Kamal Nath, CEO, Sify Technologies Jun 08, 2023 6 mins CIO Digital Transformation Podcasts Videos Resources Events SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER From our editors straight to your inbox Get started by entering your email address below. Please enter a valid email address Subscribe