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Local Foods
Resources

Local Foods Web Sites

Local Foods Bibliography (this section is still growing)

"Designed for Disease: The Link Between Local Food Environments and Obesity and Diabetes," a report released by PolicyLink, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research, and the California Center for Public Health Advocacy.
http://www.policylink.org/documents/DesignedforDisease.pdf?msource=CHIS,

World Watch Institute.  Good overview and links http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4132

Buy Fresh Buy Local http://www.foodroutes.org/buy-fresh-buy-local.jsp

Duncan Hilchey’s Growing Home http://pelennor.leopold.iastate.edu/news/pastevents/hilchey/hilchey.htm

Local Harvest (www.localharvest.org) provides a comprehensive directory of farmers’ markets, farm stands, U-Pick Farms, and Community Supported Agriculture programs in the U.S.

Food Routes (www.foodroutes.org) is a U.S. non-profit dedicated to reintroducing Americans to their food—the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce it, and the routes that carry it from the fields to their tables.

Kellogg Foundation http://wkkf.org/Default.aspx?tabid=90&CID=4&ItemID=40205&NID=61&LanguageID=0

Loepold Center – Marketing and Food Systems initiative – a particularly good site esp related to the science of all this http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/research/marketing.htm

Whole Foods Market – Northeast http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/products/locallygrown/northeast/index.html

Glynwood’s Guide to Serving Local Food http://www.glynwood.org/resource/guidelocalmenu.pdf

Cornell’s Regional Food Guide – a little outdated but still relevant http://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/foodguide/archive/index.html

NESAWG’s The Northeast Food System Partnership http://northeastfood.tufts.edu/about.html

PSU’s Ag Map http://agmap.psu.edu/

Connecting Local Food Systems to Youth http://www.joe.org/joe/2008february/iw3.shtml

Market Maker http://www.marketmaker.uiuc.edu/

Cornell’s Small Farm – marketing etc – strong links http://www.smallfarms.cornell.edu/pages/resources/marketing/general.cfm

The Northeast Center for Food Entrepreneurs http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/necfe/basics/basics.html

New York Times – How local is local? http://www.nutrition.cornell.edu/foodguide/archive/index.html

Claire Hinrich’s “Embeddnedness and local foods systems”

UNL Food Processinig Center http://fpc.unl.edu/Entrepreneur/index.shtml

Slow Food International (www.slowfood.com) is an international organization that promotes food and wine culture and aims to protect the pleasures of the table from the homogenization of modern fast food and life.

The items on this page are for informational purposes only and are not necessarily endorsed by the Northeast Regional Center.

The Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development is located at the Pennsylvania State University and collaborates with land grant institutions in the northeast U.S.