Links of Interest
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.
Chenango Bounty: Farmers' Market at Your Door: We are headquartered in Norwich, NY and serve Chenango and Madison Counties. We take weekly orders from customers for local and regionally grown and produced products and deliver them right to customers doors. Our goal is to provide easy access to local, fresh food to all of Chenango and Madison citizens.
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.
Eat Local Southern Tier: Eat Local Southern Tier connects food service professionals, farm and community together to promote eating that is good, clean and fair.
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.
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 Farms!: NY Farms! is building Farmer-to-Consumer Connections in the Empire State. Visit their website to find recipes, a harvest calendar and a listing of restaurants which serve dishes utilizing in-season, local products.
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.
Senator Tom Libous
