“Local Foods” is a term used to describe both foods produced and consumed locally and those activities that support efforts to make connections between local foods producers and consumers. Visit the USDA's website: Know Your Farmer-Know Your Food.Local foods are about relationships between people—those growing and marketing the food (producers), those purchasing and consuming the food (consumers) and those helping to make or support connections between producers and consumers (community developers).
The links on this page are designed to serve these three groups, with the goal of helping visitors quickly find items of greatest relevance to their areas of interest, but we expect that representatives of each of these interest areas will find information of value in each section.
Resources for Consumers | Resources for Producers | Resources for Community Developers
Resources for Consumers
Farmers' Market Nutrition Education Program
Northeast Regional Food Guide
2009-10 Guide to Foods Produced in the Southern Tier and Finger Lakes
Local Food Guides for Northern New York
Adirondack Harvest
Farm to Table
Columbia County Bounty
Finger Lakes Culinary Bounty
Garden-based Learning
Lake Erie Concord Grape Belt
Resources for Producers
Cornell Small Farms Program
NY Beginning Farmer Project
Guide to Farming in New York State
NY MarketMaker
Pride of New York
Northeast Sustainable Research & Education Program
Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurship
Resources for Community Developers
North Country Regional/Local Foods Initiative
Local Food and Agriculture Resource Guide (2008)
Farm-to-School
Cornell Small Farms Work Team: Local Markets
Kids Growing Food School Garden Program
Food Insecurity in Rural New York State
Land & Diet: What’s the Most Land Efficient Diet for NYS?