The objective of the Extension Local Food Program is to facilitate the production, marketing, and consumption of food grown, caught, and raised within North Carolina.

North Carolina Cooperative Extension, in cooperation with additional organizations and stakeholders, actively collaborates with our communities to develop and expand local food systems across the state. North Carolina Cooperative Extension maintains this Local Food website to provide residents and businesses across the state with local food systems resources and timely information. We aim to use this website as a tool to share information and link resources from Cooperative Extension, in addition to other NC organizations and state partners working on local food programming. As a dynamic site, the website serves as a hub for new resources as they are developed over time. 

If you have questions or comments, or if your organization has research-based North Carolina local food systems resources that you would like us to consider linking to from this website, please email localfoodncce@ncsu.edu. We welcome contributions from all who would like to share potential news items about local foods of interest at a national, regional, or state level.