The Good Food Awards, which honors sustainable food and drink from across the US, is now accepting entries for their 2013 contest. Via their website:

We are inviting food producers from across the country to submit their beer, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate, coffee, pickles, preserves, pickles and – new this year – confections to America’s first national Award program to consider sustainability and taste.

A blind tasting with Alice Waters, Nell Newman, the food editors of Bon Appetit and 130 other taste makers will determine which craft food businesses are recognized as the Good Food Award winners of 2013. The catch: everything must be produced in an environmentally and socially responsible manner. A short online entry form and sustainability criteria are available here. The entry fee is $50, which goes to cover the sorting, storing and transporting of an anticipated 1,000 entries.

The deadline is August 31.