Local Food Resources

The Food Shed Buying Club ~ A buying club located in Utica, NY whose mission "is to serve our local farms in their quest to provide nutritious, sustainable food to our community."
UTICA ~ SYRACUSE/ROME

Brenda's Natural Foods ~ "Offers a variety of health foods, gluten-free and local foods,as well as natural personal care products and cleaners."

Slow Food Mohawk Valley  ~ "We seek to inspire a transformation in food policy, production practices and market forces so that they ensure equity, sustainability and pleasure in the food we eat."

Maple HIll Creamery ~ European style "cream on top" whole milk yogurt, made from 100% grass-fed whole milk.

Eat Wild ~ "The Clearing House for Information about Pasture-Based Farming" - If you want to quickly get up to speed on the "why" of grass-fed beef, pastured poultry and other produce, then this is the place to go.

Local Harvest ~ "Real food, real farmers, real community - A nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources.

Polyface Farms ~ Joel Salatin is one of the foremost advocates for pasture-based farming. He writes and speaks from years of experience on his own farm in the Shenandoah Valley.   

Joel was interviewed on 1/31/08 by Charlotte Brown of OperationWakeUp.com along with Mike Gurecki, a Cornell University, Dairy Cattle Science graduate. You can download and listen to two mp3 audio files of two hour show here:

1st Hour,2nd Hour

YouTubes of Salatin Style Farming

Food, Inc. ~ New documentary takes a critical look at the American food system, contrasting industrial agribusiness with operations like Polyface.

See trailer here: Food, Inc. and another here. 

Fresh - the movie ~ New thinking about what we're eating. 

Michael Pollan ~ Author of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals and In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, Michael Pollan, has much to say on the modern food source and the problems created by predominant farming methods in use today.

ACRES USA Magazine ~ "A Voice for Eco-Agriculture" 

Stockman Grass Farmer Magazine ~ "The bible for people raising animals on pasture." - NY Times

And some non-food resources:

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