This is a compilation of food hubs and aggregators who deliver to Pennsylvania schools and ECEs or are interested in getting started.

This program, developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education and Project PA (Penn State University), promotes a local agricultural

Use these Activity Guides to support your educational activities in the classroom and cafeteria when celebrating the local agricultural product each month.

This chart from the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture is a visual guide to which products are in season when.

The Colorado Local Food Program Guidebook, provided by Nourish Colorado, provides insights and tools for launching, implementing, and sustaining farm to school programs.

Project PA has been supporting farm to school and creating resources for school food service personnel for more than a decade.

The Common Market is a nonprofit regional wholesale food distributor on a mission to connect communities to good food grown by sustainable family farmers. We are building a nation composed of vibrant regional food systems with thriving urban and rural communities.

Since 2008, The Common Market has distributed local foods from over 300 sustainable family farms and producers to 1,800+ partner institutions. In that time, we estimate over 58 million meals have been served that include these fresh, healthy foods.

Interested in aligning your sourcing with your values? Ready to support vibrant regional food systems? Transform your sourcing and tap into a network of local farms producing some of the best foods our regions have to offer.

Since 2013, Happy Valley Meat Company has brought the small farms with the highest standards to the restaurants with the greatest chefs. These farmers, ranchers, butchers, and chefs have come together to make high quality humanely-raised beef more affordable and delicious for everyone.

Three Rivers Grown (TRG) connects regional producers to Pittsburgh’s buyers, bridging the gap between the field and the walk-in. TRG manages the aggregation, sale and distribution of local goodness — quality food from small farms and food producers located in the three rivers region. Our goal is to increase the availability of local foods in wholesale markets. Currently we sell exclusively to wholesale buyers ranging from grocery stores, to restaurants, to large foodservice operations.

When you join Lancaster Farm Fresh Co-op, you become part of a nourishing experience: every week brings organic local food that’s fresh, clean, and grown with integrity. You get the highest quality, nutrient-dense produce and thoughtfully made local goods for your family. By putting your food dollars where they truly matter, you support sustainable farming practices that protect our environment. Together, we celebrate the joy of delicious food, build healthy communities, and help our local farmers thrive.

We offer CSA shares every season to support our farmers year-round while ensuring your kitchen is stocked with exceptional food you can feel good about.

Family Farm Direct LLC is challenging the status quo of the food supply chain by creating a direct-to-market platform that reconnects local communities with family farms through a contactless approach. We aggregate independent, USDA-certified processors to deliver scale while preserving the heritage of family farms.

We bring fresh, healthy food from our farms to your family.

We are a group of over 50 local farms and food makers who are working together to make sure our communities get the freshest, most healthy food possible. We are constantly adding more local producers and each of us is committed to using the healthiest techniques so you can shop with confidence.

We deliver pastured meat, organic produce, eggs, dairy, baked goods, heat-and-eat meals and pantry items right to your home! There is no commitment and no minimums, just shop for what you want, when you want.

We are a NJ based local food hub serving restaurants, retailers, schools and box delivery service customers in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. Our goal is to strengthen the local and regional food system – we partner with farms and producers in our region to bring the highest quality farm fresh produce, dairy, meat, and value added products to our customers, 52 weeks of the year.

A Guide for Connecting Local Food Suppliers with School Food Buyers at School Nutrition Trade Shows

The Good Food Purchasing Program provides a metric-based, flexible framework that encourages large institutions to direct their buying power toward five core values — local and community-based economies, environmental sustainability, valued workforce, animal welfare, and community health and nutrition — and the principles of equity, accountability, and transparency. The Good Food Purchasing Program is the first procurement model to support these food system values in equal measure.

Toolkit contents include; program basics, procurement tools, cost management, sourcing good foods, good food operators, and community resources.

A Resource for Maximizing Food Budgets To Buy Local

The USDA Department of Defense Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program (USDA DoD Fresh) is a program available to schools in 48 states, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands to help increase access to fresh produce for school children.

Farms, farmers markets, and food hubs near you.

Find local farms, farmers markets, CSAs, and events near you.

PA Preferred® is your resource for finding locally grown and processed agricultural products from Pennsylvania.

State Demographics Spreadsheets by population, household income, unemployment, etc.

USDA Agricultural Marketing Services researches a variety of issues and market channels relevant to local and regional food systems, such as farmers markets, food value chains, food hubs, farm to institution, urban agriculture, and local meat production.

Join the national movement to bring good food policies to your city.

The Scratch Cooking in Schools Solution outlines our policy priorities for increasing scratch cooking in schools; expanding access to healthy school meals; and unlocking the academic, environmental, economic, and social benefits scratch cooking offers children and communities.

A guide to advocating for a Local Food
Purchasing Incentive (LFPI) in Pennsylvania.

Findings From Interviews and Focus
Groups with Key Stakeholders Within
and Outside of Pennsylvania.

Local Food Purchasing Incentives (LFPIs) are programs that provide additional funding to child nutrition program (CNP) operators to directly offset or incentivize local food purchases. Typically funded and operated at the state level, these programs intend to increase the purchasing of local foods in school and early care and education (ECE) settings. The first state-level LFPI was established in 2001, and as of August 2023, at least 16 states and Washington, D.C. have established LFPIs.

This toolkit is for parents, caregivers, family members, and community members who care about replacing ultra processed foods in schools with fresh, delicious, made-from-scratch meals that protect kids’ health and the environment.

The resources on this page will help Child Nutrition Program (CNP) operators buy local. Many of the resources speak to K-12 school program operators. However, the information still applies to child care providers and summer feeding sites.

RFSP offers two types of projects, 24-month Planning and Design and 36-month Implementation and Expansion Projects. Planning and Design projects range from $100,000 to $250,000, while Implementation and Expansion projects range from $250,000 to $1,000,000.

The purpose of the Resilient Food Systems Infrastructure (RFSI) program is to build resilience in the middle of the food supply chain, to provide more and better markets to small farms and food businesses, to support the development of value-added products for consumers, fair prices, fair wages, and new and safe job opportunities.

The goal of the Neighborhood Partnership Program (NPP) is to foster the development of collaboration among
Business Firms, Neighborhood Organizations, local government entities and residents to encourage high impact
long term investment(s) in Distressed Areas