Local Food

Use these tools to make buying or receiving donations from local farms and markets easier

Farm to Food Assistance Guide

Guide PDF

Resources Folder

Visual Buyers Guide “How much is that?”

Visual Buyer's Guide to Farm Produce.pdf

Community-Based Food Access

Ideas for food councils and other community partners to develop the local food system to increase access to healthy food

Beyond the Food Bank Guide

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mg8scANd08QzKSaINmECUfCtcLUB8Kdc/

Pop-up Markets Guide

 How to Launch a FMNP Pop-up Market.pdf

Pantry Garden Resources

 Pantry Garden Resources

Innovative Operations

Ideas to help improve the way you operate and serve the community

Pantry Bags Drive Guide

Reusable Bag Drive 

Instructions

 

Culturally Connected Foods Guide (UCONN Rudd Center)

Culturally Connected Foods Guide for Food Assistance Sites - UCONN Rudd Center.pdf

Healthy Backpacks

 MyPlate Healthy Backpacks .pdf

Nutrition Education

Encourage cooking with confidence using these resources. Distribute printed copies, link to the online resource with a scannable QR code, or print a display copy and encourage folks to take a picture

MyPlate Resources

https://www.myplate.gov/resources

Recipe Database Flyer (Top 8 Maryland languages) 

 SNAP-Ed Recipe Database Flyer

Produce fact sheets and videos

Local Produce

YouTube Buy, Store and Prepare

SNAP-Ed Recipe Cards

SNAP-Ed Recipe Cards English.pdf

Full recipe database

Take a Picture bilingual card

English

Spanish