Continued Support for Local Food
USDA’s investments in local and regional food systems help provide farmers and ranchers with greater opportunities, consumers with more choices and bring jobs to rural and urban communities. USDA...
View ArticleSmall Start-Up Brings Big Change for Philly Communities
The Common Market team, led by founders Haile Johnston (far left in red shirt) and Tatiana Garcia-Granados (far right in orange sweater), brings food into Philly communities by connecting Mid-Atlantic...
View ArticleTaking a Bite out of the Local Apple in the Windy City
The Chicago Public Schools System has incorporated locally-grown produce into school menus, providing students with fresh, healthy food. (Administrator Anne Alonzo, 4th from right) USDA Photo Courtesy...
View ArticlePlanting Seeds for New Careers for our Veterans
Veterans Farm founder Adam Burke (dark jeans and blue shirt) takes AMS Veteran Program Manager Yowei Peralta (khakis and white shirt) on a tour of the organization’s blueberry farm. Each plant bears a...
View ArticleBehind the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Initiative: Matt Russell
Matt Russell (right) with his USDA colleagues Christina Conell (left) and Deborah Kane (center), at the 2015 USDA Farm to School Grantee Gathering in Denver, CO. The annual gathering is an opportunity...
View ArticleNew York State of Mind: Empowering Women and Creating Local Food Opportunities
AMS Administrator Anne Alonzo (standing in the middle) joined USDA state colleagues and New York State Commissioner of Agriculture Richard Ball for a roundtable on Women in Agriculture and Local Foods...
View ArticleUSDA Grants to Help Farmers, Entrepreneurs and Retailers Market Local Foods
Across the nation there is a strong interest to supply healthy, local foods to schools while supporting regional farmers and the local economy. Photo: Auburn University College of Agriculture. Thanks...
View ArticleBringing More Farmers Markets to Service Members
The cover of the new Guide for Farmers Markets on Military Installations, which is filled with effective strategies to bring farmers markets’ community spirit and local food to service members and...
View ArticleTalking Local Food: Measuring Progress and Creating Opportunities
Local Food Hub’s Kristen Suokko (right) and Bee Thorp (second from right) and Susan Hill (left) explain to USDA’s Deputy Under Secretary Elvis Cordova how the high tunnels extend the growing season and...
View ArticleFarmers Market Managers: Innovative Entrepreneurs Meeting Community Needs
Elvis Cordova (middle), USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs presents National Farmers Market Week proclamations to (left to right) Crofton Farmers Market managers Chad...
View ArticleGrowing Local Food Means Growing Opportunities
In 2012, FMPP supported the launch of Adelante Mujeres’s Sabor Color commercial kitchen project. This project focused on training small food producers and processors to develop culturally appropriate...
View ArticleInnovation Grows Local Food Economies in New York State
Field Goods staff with the Ironwood Farm team, a women-owned farm in Columbia County. Consumers expect a lot from local food. They want it to be fresh, healthy and raised responsibly. They want it to...
View ArticleUSDA Offers Grants to Help Expand Marketing and Local Food Opportunities
FMPP grant helped Ajo Farmers Market expand its vendors to offer a variety of foods and activities from fresh local veggies, stews and soups to Kids Month with mural painting activities for kids! If...
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