What USDA Local Food Directory Is Right For Your Business?

According to the USDA’s Local Food Directories, there are specific definitions for farmers’ market, on-farm market, CSA, and food hub. These directories are free for business owners to list their operations in.

• An On-Farm Market is a farm market managed by a single farm operator that sells agricultural and/or horticultural products directly to consumers from a location on their farm property or on property adjacent to that farm.
• A Farmers’ Market is a market that features two or more farm vendors selling agricultural products directly to customers at a common, recurrent physical location.
• A CSA is a farm or network/association of multiple farms that offers consumers regular (usually weekly) deliveries of locally grown farm products during one or more harvest season(s) on a subscription or membership basis. Customers have access to a selected share or range of farm products offered by a single farm or group of farmers based on partial or total advance payment of a subscription or membership fee.
• A Food Hub is a business or organization that actively manages the aggregation, distribution, and marketing of source-identified food products to multiple buyers from multiple producers, primarily local and regional producers, to strengthen the ability of these producers to satisfy local and regional wholesale, retail, and institutional demand.

Do you qualify? Visit USDALocalFoodDirectories.com to add (or update) a listing.