Learn About Local Food as Economic Development

The Food Corridor - Resources for the shared kitchen community.

Network for Incubator & Commissary Kitchens (NICK) - Facebook group for Incubator Kitchens

Municipal Action Guide - Food Based Business Incubator Programs.

Farmland Access - Helping farmers and landowners affordably access, transfer, and conserve farmland.

Sustainable Food Systems Sourcebook is a free database of degree programs, consultants, scholarship funding, conferences, and other education and training resources for professionals and students focused on food systems work.  It is published by the Thomas A. Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems.

Rural Gives Sacramento New Direction (Wallace Center)

Video from the City of Chicago introducing the reasons they are strengthening their local food economy.

Why Local Food Matters - USDA presentation to National Assoc. of Counties, Debra Tropp, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service, March, 2014 (PDF)

Farmers Talking with non-Farmers Tips (Farm and Dairy, Ohio) - tips for farmers

Food and Agriculture (topical articles from Union of Concerned Scientists)

News: Can Organic Farming Boost Economies?  (Civil Eats, 2016)  Hint: Maybe .. maybe not.  More data is needed.

USDA Food Hub series of 4 reports draw on national data and case studies to understand why some food hubs have failed in an effort to learn from their mistakes and identify general lessons so new and existing food hubs can overcome barriers to success.
      Volume 1                Volume 2                 Volume 3                Volume 4