Integrating Local Food in Retail Outlets

  • Healthy Food Access Portal  This website provides resources specifically for communities to increase food access by working with retail strategies.  A good source of research updates, grant/funding and policy information.
  • NC Growing Together   is a USDA funded research project that is implemented through the Center for Environmental Farming Systems (CEFS).  The goal of the project is to increase the incorporation of local food in mainstream markets, including supermarkets and the military.  Resources are available for working with supermarkets to increase their procurement of local food.