American Farmland Trust: Offers a free “No Farms, No Food” bumper sticker. You can also join their “Keep It Local” pledge and make a commitment to buy local and support your local farms. They’ll provide resources and help you along your journey to discover the fresh and delicious food and farm products available near you.
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life: This website, and book, by Barbara Kingsolver, explores a journey of eating locally for one year. Included are recipes, resources, and a blog.
CNY Bounty: CNY Bounty works to support Central New York farmers, and to ensure the availability of locally-grown food to all citizens of Central New York, regardless of socio-economic status. We are headquartered in Norwich, NY and serve Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga and Tompkins Counties. We take weekly orders from customers (both wholesale and home delivery) for local and regionally grown and produced products and deliver them right to customers doors.
Cornell Cooperative Extension – Broome County
Cornell Cooperative Extension – Chenango County
Cornell Cooperative Extension – Tioga County
Shannon Hayes – The Farmer & the Grill: This website offers information on cooking grassfed meats and a blog on sustainable farming.
Extended Harvest: The area’s first winter CSA, combining fresh frozen locally grown and processed fruits and vegetables. Add-on shares include dairy products, grassfed meats and more.
Farmers’ Market Federation of New York: This website offers information on farmers’ markets in NYS and their locations. They also offer a harvest calendar.
Farm Foody: A social network connecting you to farm and garden.
Farmshed CNY: A searchable, browsable directory of 1,200+ local farms, farmers markets, CSAs and locally-owned businesses. Soon to come, a mobile phone app.
Food Routes: A national 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 our tables.
HarvestMark: HarvestMark® is the fresh food traceability solution from YottaMark. Visit the website to track products purchased in a grocery store for point of origin.
New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets: Request the Guide to Farm Fresh Foods and Community Farmers’ Markets at http://www.agmkt.state.ny.us/FandMSearch.html or call 800-554-4501. Regional editions available: West, Central, East, or Metro
Pride of NY: The Pride of NY program was developed to promote and support the sale of agricultural products grown and food products processed within NYS. Visit the website to find products in your area.