Choose Local: October: Eat Local

Making Ripples

From August 1 to August 31, our Eat Indie Local campaign works to inspire all of us to eat more locally grown, raised, and made foods, meet the farmers, growers, and chefs behind our food, and learn new skills that keep more of us eating locally throughout the year. Together, we urge our communities to take positive action and boost the ripple effects our neighborhoods, towns, and cities receive when we support our local food system.

Amplifying Our Work

We strive to amplify all local, statewide, national, and international networks’ efforts to promote Eat Indie Local during the month of August.

Sharing Inspiration

• Eat/Drink Local Campaigns

• • NH Eats Local (August)
    • For Partners – NH Eats Local (2024)
    • https://nheatslocal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Communications-Social-Media-Toolkit-2024-NH-Eats-Local-Month.pdf (2024)
      • NH Eats Local Creative (2024)
    • Six Ways to Live Free + Eat Local 
    • Recipe Roundup ’22 – North Country Local (2022)
    • Take the Local $5 Pledge! (2020)
  • Eat Local Always – Boston, MA (2024)
  • Dig In Vermont 
    • Vermont Open Farm Week 2024 (August)
  • Eat Local Month King County (August 2023)
    • Eat Local Month King County Giveaway (2023)
  • Eat Drink Local Month (April – June) – Lowcountry Local First (2024)
    • Eat Drink Local Challenge
    • Chef’s Potluck
    • May Local Social   
  • Eat Local Challenge – New Orleans (June 2023)
  • Eat Local First – WA (September)
    • Eat Local First Collaborative 
    • Eat Local Month | Sustainable Connections 
    • ELF for Biz | Eat Local First 
    • Jefferson County Farm Tour | The Production Alliance 
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  • Willy Street Co-op (September 2022)
    • https://www.csacoalition.org/bike-the-barns 
  • Viroqua Food Co+op Introduces Eat Local Bingo (2022)
  • Nourish Our Community | People First Economy – MI (September)
    • MSU’s Good Food Charter focuses on ‘local’ | Crain’s Grand Rapids Business 
    • Center for Regional Food Systems 
  • Vermont Farm to Plate 
    • IWA Pre and Post Conference Tours in Vermont 
    • Governor Scott proclaims August Agritourism Month | Vermont Business Magazine 
  • Alaska Grown $5 Challenge 
    • https://alaskafarmersmarkets.org/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/EAK-24-FarmersMarket_4pgFoldout-Final-2.pdf 
  • Eat Local Month – CO (October 2023)
  • RI Grown: Buy Fresh, Get Local | Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management 
    • Rhode Island Scavenger Hunt (2021)
  • Eat Local Bingo (2021)
  • Hungry for History (2022)
  • Northeast Organic Family Farm Partnership 
  • https://wallacecenter.org/the-power-of-community-based-food-systems 

 

• Celebrating Farmers Markets

• • National Farmers Market Week (First full week in August)
    • National Farmers Market Week music playlist 
    • Advocacy – Farmers Market Coalition 
    • The Anti-Racist Farmers Market Toolkit 
    • 2024 NFMW Graphics
    • June Updates (2024)
    • 2024 Social Media Cheat Sheet
    • Canva Templates (2024)
    • I ‘Heart’ Farmers Market Tattoos
  • America’s Farmers Market Celebration 

 

• Week Two: Start With the Land

• Farmland

• Agrarian Trust

• • • Farmland Access Legal Toolkit 
    • New England Farmland Finder
    • Federation of Southern Cooperatives
  • Compost
    • Composting for Community – Institute for Local Self-Reliance
    • Infographic: How Composting Combats the Climate Crisis – Institute for Local Self-Reliance
    • https://vtfoodcycle.com/ 
    • https://us7.campaign-archive.com/?u=a916efad15735b28723d0ce37&id=6332466184 

 

• Week Three: Celebrate Diversity on Your Plate

• Native Food Systems

• • • • https://amiba.net/event/gather-fall/ 
      • https://www.ecoliteracy.org/download/gather-viewing-guide 
      • Nourishing Native Foods & Health | First Nations Development Institute 
      • A guide to Indigenous land acknowledgment – Native Governance Center 
      • Live with the Seasons 
      • Native Farm to School Guide: Connecting Traditional Foods, Stories, Language, and Community | First Nations Development Institute 
      • Rethink Your Drink 
      • Indigenous Food Harvest Calendar – NH 
      • A Return to Native Agriculture | Civil Eats 
      • Projects — Tahoma Peak Solutions 
      • Agriculture — Flower Hill Institute 
      • Native American Agriculture Fund 
      • Native American Storytelling, One Pint at a Time – YES! Magazine 
      • Conservation Planning Curriculum for Native American Ranchers | First Nations Development Institute 
      • Appalachia Regional Food Business Center 

• Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

• • • Beloved Community: Tips on Running a Juneteenth Event at your Farmers Market 
    • Recipes for Welcoming — PortLand of Opportunity 
    • Growing Resistance: How Black-Led Organizations Are Feeding Louisville – Modern Farmer 
    • BIPOC Foods Vancouver Pop-Up 
    • Bakers Against Racism 
    • Study Finds Black Farmers Have Lost $326 Billion in Land
    • Real Food Media: Healing Grounds: Liz Carlisle & Aidee Guzman | Ep. 55 on Apple Podcasts 

 

• Farm Bill

• • Urgent Action Needed: Support These Three Essential Bills to Fortify our Local Farms, Markets and Food System 
  • Act Now to Shape Five Years of Farm and Food Policy | Co+op 
  • The Farm Bill Uprooted Episode One: Overgrown | IATP 

 

• Invest

• • CDFA – Food Systems Finance Resource Center 
  • From Capital To Community-first Mindset In Impact Investing 
  • Good Food Funding Guide 
  • Iroquois Valley Farmland REIT 
  • NuMarket 
  • Credibles
  • AC Fundraisers – Agrarian Trust 
  • Farmland LP   

 

• Protect Farmers/Farm Workers/Farming/Farmland/Land Access

• • Farm Fund – Monadnock Food Co-op 
  • National Co+op Grocers releases its 2022 Food Co-op Impact Report – NCBA CLUSA 
  • Advancing Justice and Regeneration in the Food System – American Sustainable Business Network 
  • https://farmcommons.org/ 

 

• Seafood

• • Local Catch Network 
    • https://www.canva.com/design/DAFrv70I0Oc/h-0oB6dGe3weyrHWd88jsg/view?utm_content=DAFrv70I0Oc&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link&utm_source=publishsharelink#2 (2023)
    • https://localcatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/LCN-Toolkit-1.pdf (2022) 

 

• Programs for Kids

• • From Our Kitchen – Recipe for Success 
  • Farmers Market Bingo Card for Kids
  • About Our Farm to School Program — Food Connects 
  • New Hampshire Harvest of the Month 

 

• Restaurants

• • https://www.madisonblackchamber.com/black-restaurant-week 
  • https://socorestaurantweek.org/ February
    • https://sonomacounty.golocal.coop/stories/sonoma_county_restaurant_week_2024/1172/ 
  • Black Restaurant Week 
  • Welcome to the Connecticut FarmtoChef Program  
  • Farm to Table Trail | Sustainable Connections 
  • Eat Local Month – Restaurant Week | Sustainable Connections 

 

• Networks

• • https://www.foodsystemsnetwork.org/index.php/features

 

• Directories

• • Eat Local MA mobile app — SBN Sustainable Business Network
  • Visit NC Farms 
  • Localvore Passport
  • EatOkra   
  • Find NH Local Food
  • Eat Local VT Mobile App 
  • Wood River Valley Locally Grown Guide 

 

• Local Food Access

• • Double Up Food Bucks 2021 Annual Impact Report 
  • 4 Community Gardens & Farms The Food-Forward Neighborhood 

 

• Food Policy

• • https://www.canr.msu.edu/michiganfood/get-involved/resolution-of-support/ 
  • Food Policy Networks
  • https://nefoodsystemplanners.org/ 
  • A 10-YEAR FOOD POLICY PLAN – NYC 

 

• Agritourism

• • International Workshop on Agritourism 
  • Agritourism Research | Vermont Tourism Research Center
  • Thurston Bountiful Byway
  • Savor Snoqualmie
  • Olympic Culinary Loop
  • Dig In Vermont 
  • Farmstay Manual | Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA)
  • https://industry.traveloregon.com/opportunities/programs-initiatives/culinary-agritourism-development/  
  • Farm tourism puts vacationers to work — and they love it – Marketplace 

 

• Training

• • https://www.armedtofarm.org/apply/ 
  • https://www.foodsystemsnetwork.org/acre.php 
  • https://www.foodsystemsnetwork.org/carat.php 

 

• Climate Farmers

• • Climate-Friendly Digital Marketing Toolkit | NOFA Vermont 
  • Infographic: How Composting Combats the Climate Crisis
  • https://madagriculture.org/ 
  • https://www.matriarkfoods.com/ 

 

• Grains

• • https://northeastgrainshed.com/ 

 

• Distribution

• • https://www.crownomaine.com/ 

 

• Regional Food Systems

• • https://www.lysoncenter.org/a-regional-imperative-report