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National Guide to Finding Local Food

Editor’s Note: This post was developed in spring 2020 during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, so some links may be outdated or no longer active! We’re in the process of reviewing and updating it in early 2025 — but in the meantime, feel free to look around! Just do expect some broken or outdated links as the landscape has changed.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our country’s food system from farm to fork. Social distancing and other response strategies have upended agricultural markets throughout the country, including local and regional markets; and transformed the way individuals and families shop for, purchase and consume food. That transformation has brought with it a big uptick of interest in buying direct from local farmers, ranchers and fishermen as a way to support struggling producers and ensure family food security.

The following is a listing of websites, guides and directories to help people find local food. NSAC member and partner Farm Aid also is also maintaining a great site listing ways to access local food that is updated regularly.

National Resources for Finding Local Food

  • American Indian Foods – national directory of Native American-produced food, put together by the Intertribal Agriculture Council.
  • Buy Fresh Buy Local National – lists nearly 20 separate chapters around the country with local food directories: 
  • Food Animal Concerns Trust – National directory of local food vendors with emphasis on meat, dairy and egg producers that also offer delivery and curbside pick-up.
  • Local Harvest – longstanding directory of farmers selling direct to consumer
  • Niche Meat Processors Assistance Network – consumer resources for finding “Good Meat”.
  • USDA Local Food Directory – national directory of farmers markets, on-farm markets, CSAs and food hubs.
  • Slow Food USA – search tool to find a local chapter and local food near you.
  • Certified Naturally Grown – directory of more than 700 farms listed in 46 states nationwide.
  • A Greener World – national directory for local stores, restaurants, and farms offering sustainably certified products, as well as a list of online shopping options for regional delivery/pickup or nationwide shipping.
  • American Grassfed Association – national directory and map to find AGA certified livestock producers near you.

State by State Resources for Finding Local Food

Alabama

  • Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network – listing of local farmers markets and farms throughout Alabama.
  • The Farmers Market Authority of the State of Alabama – listing of farmers markets, farms, and roadside stands throughout Alabama.

Alaska

  • Buy Alaska Grown – listing of farmers markets, farms and retailers.
  • State of Alaska’s Farmers Market Nutrition Program – information about the Seniors and WIC farmers market nutrition programs.

Arizona

  • Local First Arizona – listing of farms, retailers and similar local food businesses:
  • Good Food Finder – listing of local food sources across the state.

Arkansas

  • Arkansas Food Access Map – listing community meals, food pantries, farmers markets and local farms
  • Arkansas Local Food Network – local food guide and online farmers market with pick-ups in Little Rock.
  • Ozark Pasture Beef – small scale producer partnership of farms raising grass-fed grass-finished beef, lamb, and goat; pastured eggs for pickup, delivery, or online ordering.

California

  • California Agritourism Directory – a directory of agritourism and local direct farms throughout the state. 
  • Community Alliance with Family Farmers – listing of recommendations and links to support farmers markets, CSA and local farm purchases throughout California.
  • Underwood Family Farms – A farm in Ventura County has a Healthy Harvest Box that can be picked up at the farm or shipped anywhere in the United States except Hawaii, via FedEx.
  • Altadena Farmers’ Market – Farmers market with online ordering, picking and choosing among local produce, cheeses, honeys and other foods from a number of vendors for curbside pickup, in a kind of custom-built, no-contact CSA offering.
  • Eater – listing of 10 Los Angeles Restaurants Selling Produce Boxes to Support Local Farmers

Colorado

  • Colorado Department of Agriculture – 2019 Farm Fresh Directory
  • Denver Sustainable Food Policy Council –  resource page including food access info and how to find local farm.
  • Colorado Proud – listing of farmers markets, local farms, value-added products and more
  • Colorado Produce Association – listing of where to find Colorado grown fruits and vegetables
  • CSU Food Matchmaking – tool to match up needs and surplus in the Colorado food supply due to food system changes associated with COVID-19.

Connecticut

  • Connecticut State Government – site that includes listings of where to get produce and meat from local farmers.
  • CitySeed – organizations that are operating an outdoor, pre-order farmers market in New Haven.
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Connecticut – map and directory of farms, farmers markets, and farm stands.

Delaware

District of Columbia

Florida

  • Florida Food and Farm – listing of where to get local food in Florida.
  • Red Hills Small Farm Alliance – non-profit that connects local farms to buyers in their community and includes a virtual market offers food from about 75 producers.
  • Florida Farm to You – Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services website to help consumers access Florida food and farm products.

Georgia

  • Georgia Organics – Good Food Guide listing Georgia farmers and good food small businesses.
  • Atlanta Community Farmers Market – site with information about getting local food through Atlanta farmers markets during the pandemic, including online and pick-up order information.

Hawaii

  • GoFarm Hawaii – a tool for finding your local farms, farmers markets and more.
  • Hawaii Homegrown – a listing of farmers markets and CSAs.
  • The Food Basket – Hawaii Island’s lone food bank, has its own CSA program called “Da Box.”
  • Big Island Farm Direct – multi-farm partnership with online stores, CSA shares and drive-up deliveries.
  • Adaptations –  organization offering weekly and biweekly subscription produce boxes delivered to convenient minimal contact locations around the big island.

Idaho

  • Idaho Preferred – listing of farmers, farmers markets and more.
  • Only Local Farmers Market – a year-round, 7-days a week, farmers market just north of Cocolalla Lake, between Coeur d’Alene and Sandpoint in Sagle, Idaho.
  • Boise Farmers Market – has an online ordering and drive-through pick up system.
  • Idaho Statesman’s CSA Guide – article from The Idaho Statesman features local CSA farms.

Illinois

  • Green City Market – created a guide to farmers offering online ordering with pick-up or delivery.
  • Illinois Buy Fresh Buy Local Guide – a directory of farms, farmers markets, farm-to-table restaurants, artisans, and local food. 
  • Illinois Institute of Rural Affairs Local Food – Site listing ways to find local food in IL.
  • Known & Grown STL farmers – Missouri based organization with a listing of environmentally-responsible farmers in Eastern Missouri and Central Illinois serving St. Louis area.
  • Logan Square Farmers Market – list of CSA’s available from their farmers and a virtual marketplace to purchase directly from farmers (in-person farmers market currently closed).
  • Advocates for Urban Agriculture – interactive urban agriculture map for Chicago.

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

  • NCAT Kansas – directory of how to find local food in Kansas.
  • Kansas City Metro CSA and Market Box Farms – open source site listing farms with CSAs and similar programs.
  • Kansas City Food Circle – directory of local Kansas farms.
  • From the State of Kansas – statewide interactive map to find products grown, raised, produced, and sold in Kansas.
  • ICT Food Circle – local food directory for the south central Kansas foodshed.
  • Growing Lawrence – directory to connect to producers in the Lawrence area.
  • High Plains Food Coop – buying cooperative delivering local food to families in the High Plains foodshed.
  • Kansas City Food Hub – cooperative of family and non-profit farms that aggregate produce, protein, and value-added goods in the Kansas City area.
  • Rolling Prairie Farmers Alliance – locally grown produce subscriptions serving northeast Kansas.
  • From the Land of Kansas – statewide farmers market directory and interactive producer map.
  • Republic County Economic Development – local food directory and map for Republic County.

Kentucky

  • Kentucky Proud – listing of where to find local food.
  • Organic Association of Kentucky – Directory of farms, including CSAs and certified organic farms.

Louisiana

  • Louisiana Grown – directory of where to buy local food in Louisiana.
  • Crescent City Farmers Market – information about online orders and a drive-thru options to purchase direct from farmers in New Orleans.

Maine

  • Maine Cooperative Extension – Tool for finding local farms and seafood in Maine farms.
  • Maine Organic Gardeners and Farmers Association – online tool for finding certified organic growers in Maine, farmers markets and CSA farms.

Maryland

Massachusetts

  • Massachusetts Coalition for Local Food and Farms – lists all the regional local food guides together in one place. 
  • MassGrown – a map of where you can find farmers markets and local farms.
  • Boston Public Market – the well known market has moved outside and has online ordering and delivery service.
  • Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture – Local Food Guide for central and western Massachusetts.
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Massachusetts – Food Guide and other resources for accessing local food.

Michigan

Minnesota

  • Minnesota Grown – Tool and directory for finding Minnesota grown farm products.
  • The Food Group – Fare for All initiative operating drive-thru programs at three sites.
  • Arrowhead Grown – farmers market directory for northeast MN.
  • Minnesota Farmers Union “Minnesota Cooks” Program – list for buying while social distancing and a farm to table directory.
  • Sprout – regional food hub providing CSA and a retail marketplace.

Mississippi

  • Farmers Pal – listing of local farms through Mississippi
  • Mississippi Farmers Markets – MS Department of Agriculture listing of farmers markets in the state.

Missouri

  • Missouri Food Finder – Extension run site listing of local farms in MO.
  • Known & Grown STL farmers – listing of environmentally-responsible farmers in Eastern Missouri and Central Illinois serving St. Louis area.
  • Curbside St. Louis – resource to find restaurants, grocers and farms that are open for selling.
  • Ole Tyme Produce – longstanding business that delivers produce, using online ordering, from local growers and farms to the St. Louis area.
  • Missouri Grown – resource to find products grown and produced by Missouri farmers.

Montana

  • Made in Montana – listing of where to get Montana made products including food and farm products.
  • Abundant Montana – directory and map of where to find local food In Montana.
  • Montana Organic Association – organic business and resource directory.
  • Montana Local Food Challenge – Local Food Map of where to find farms and farm products.

Nebraska

  • Buy Fresh Buy Local Nebraska – listing of where to find local food in Nebraska.
  • Nebraska Department of Agriculture – listing of where to find local meat and local food.

Nevada

New Hampshire

  • New Hampshire Made – directory of where to find local food products in NH.
  • New Hampshire Food Alliance – Buy Local Guides that links to state-wide and local guides.
  • University of New Hampshire Extension – NH Farm Products Map to respond to COVID-19.
  • Vital Communities – Valley Food & Farm Guide, a guide to farms, food, and farm-based businesses. Serving NH and VT (Upper Valley).
  • Three River Farmers Alliance – network of local farmers with online ordering working cooperatively to distribute local food to the greater Seacoast NH region.
  • Seacoast Eat Local – listing of farms, food pantries, and farmers markets covering the Seacoast of New Hampshire.
  • New Hampshire Farm Bureau – listing for local meat and produce in the state of NH.

New Jersey

  • New Jersey Farm Bureau – directory of local farms.
  • Jersey Fresh – search tool that allows people to find Jersey Fresh produce closest to them.

New Mexico

  • Farm to Table New Mexico – listing of where to find local food in New Mexico.
  • New Mexico Farmers’ Marketing Association – listing of farmers markets in New Mexico.

New York

  • Taste New York – listing of where to find local food products and farms in New York.
  • Just Food – Value Chain Map of NYC’s largest CSA network as well as regional farmers and Community-Run Farmers’ Market.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension – listing of where to find local food and farms in the Cornell area.
  • Grow NYC – information about NYC farmers markets.
  • Hearty Roots Farm – Farm in the Hudson valley that offers CSA memberships to residents of New York City and counties north.
  • Local Roots NYC – Organization giving NYC residents access to fresh, local food while buying from the small, independent farms nearby, which have lost significant restaurant business.
  • Buy Local Food NY – lists more than 400 farms and producers in Tompkins, Tioga, Schuyler, Chemung and Cortland Counties.
  • Ithaca Farmers Market – consumer directory of farms serving Tompkins County that are willing to deliver or have a farm stand with limited foot traffic.
  • Erie Grown – farm locator map for the Erie region.
  • Skidmore College – Hudson Valley Farm Availability Map made in conjunction with Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.
  • Hudson Valley CSA Coalition – search tool to find a CSA in the Hudson Valley.
  • Orange Pippin – New York orchards directory.
  • Adirondack Harvest – interactive map to find local food in the Adirondacks.
  • Central NY Regional Market – large farmers market in Syracuse, NY.

North Carolina

North Dakota

  • North Dakota Department of Agriculture – online directory with local farmers, ranchers and businesses that are growing, raising and producing products in North Dakota.

Ohio

  • Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association –  local food guide for Ohio.
  • Ohio State University Extension – Ohio local food directory.

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

  • Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Associations – listing of places to find local farms and farmers market.
  • Future Harvest – map of more than 500 farmers and markets selling local food in the Mid-Atlantic, including in Pennsylvania.
  • Farm to Table Western Pennsylvania – local food guide.

Rhode Island

  • Get Fresh, Buy Local – directory of farms and other resources for accessing local food in Rhode Island.
  • Farm Fresh RI – Food hub offering community access to all the local foods they normally only sell to wholesale, with delivery or pick up.
  • Southeastern Massachusetts Agriculture Partnership – resource page for eaters with comprehensive links for accessing local food in the region including Rhode Island.
  • Rhode Island Food Policy Council – site aggregating information on available food access and food business resources and opportunities.

South Carolina

South Dakota

  • Dakota Rural Action – guide for local eaters to navigate the COVID-19 outbreak, with helpful links to the Dakota Fresh Food Hub as well as extensive lists of farmers markets and CSA in operation.
  • South Dakota Local Foods Directory –  a consumer’s guide to eating locally.
  • South Dakota Specialty Producers Association – map and directory of South Dakota farmers markets and resource to find local producers.

Tennessee

  • Pick Tennessee Products – directory of where to find farms, farmers markets, and more.

Texas

Utah

  • Utah’s Own – site for finding local food and farm products in Utah.

Vermont

  • Vermont Department of Agriculture – directory listing farm stands, CSAs and farmers markets.
  • Farmers To You – a company with online ordering and delivery of farm-fresh food sourced from regional farms and producers.
  • The Intervale Food Hub – This food hub offers year-round deliveries of local food to homes and community sites in the greater Burlington area.
  • Vermont Farmers Food Center – online and curb-side pick-up local market.
  • Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont – map and directory of CSA farms in Vermont.

Virginia

Washington

  • Washington Department of Agriculture – directory of how to find local farms and food in Washington State.
  • Seattle Neighborhood Farmers’ Markets – compiled a list of market vendors with “alternative sales options.”
  • Salmonberry Goods – New online shop aggregating food from small Washington farms to sell through its weekly delivery.
  • Tilth Alliance – Farm Guide for connecting directly to local farms in Washington State.

West Virginia

Wisconsin

  • University of Wisconsin Extension – directory of where to find local food and farms.
  • The Fondy Food Center – resources on how consumers can access pick-up sites and more for local food around the city of Milwaukee.
  • The Michael Fields Agricultural Institute – combined resource page for farmers and consumers with a tailored list of links ranging from the searchable state-wide Farm Fresh Atlas to educational COVID-19 coverage exploring the pandemic through a food system lens.
  • Farm Fresh Atlas Wisconsin – online tool for finding local food in Wisconsin.
  • Urban Ecology Center – resource for finding a local CSA in the Milwaukee area.

Wyoming

  • Wyoming Farmers Market Association – list of farmers markets in Wyoming.
  • Sheridan Area Virtual Farmers Market – online farmers market with at-home delivery.