FoodRoutes - Where Does Your Food Come From?

We can help you connect with your local food system, just send Bob an e-mail with your request and we will try to help as best we can!

Also, see other Tools for Action including campaign materials for farming advocates and our toolkits.

There are many reasons to buy locally grown food

You'll get exceptional taste and freshness, strengthen your local economy, support endangered family farms, safeguard your family's health, and protect the environment.

Chapter Spotlight: Treasure Map to Virginia Beach Farms
July 2011

Virginia Beach, VA (July 2011) - Hampton Roads children can discover the bounty of fresh local produce by following a treasure map to Virginia Beach farms this summer... Learn more.

Chapter Spotlight: Buy Fresh Buy Local Awarded USDA Grant
November, 2010

Lehigh Valley, PA (October 14, 2010) - The Greater Lehigh Valley chapter of Buy Fresh Buy Local (BFBL-GLV), a program of the Nurture Nature Center, Inc (NCC) has been awarded a grant for $84,209 from the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service under... Learn more.

Farmers Markets Could Generate Tens of Thousands of New Jobs with Modest Federal Support, New Report Finds
Union of Concerned Scientists - Aug 4, 2011
WASHINGTON - Over the last several decades, thousands of farmers markets have been popping up... (more...)

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