NC 10% Campaign
Our Programs
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Farm to Senior Services
Farm to Senior Services (F2SS) is designed to increase local food procurement in county-based senior food services, increase farmer and food hub revenue, increase access to healthy, local foods for senior populations, and increase knowledge on benefits of and how to access local foods. To build your own F2SS program, check out our how to guide based on a 2020-2023 F2SS pilot in three North Carolina counties: McDowell, Scotland, and Warren.
Local Food Campaign and Reporting
Extension agents and community organizers can use our Local 10% Campaign Handbook to plan local food education efforts in their county. By utilizing existing templates and strategies included in the handbook, agents can easily run a local food campaign that fits into their existing extension work and that assists consumers, farmers, and businesses in their counties.
Local Business Engagement
The NC 10% Campaign has partnered with local businesses over the years to boost their spending on local food. Currently, we support Cooperative Extension county agents to facilitate county-based meetings between GAP-certified producers and wholesalers, and between smaller farmers and restaurants and food coops.
Archived Programs
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Food System Strategic Planning
Community members in Bladen, Columbus, and Robeson counties teamed up with a research and facilitation team from NC State University from 2022-2024 to create a food system assessment and plan for the region. Over two years, community members across the three counties provided insight, information, and goals for the local food system that they envision for a more resilient future.
Local Food Ambassadors
The Local Food Ambassador (LFA) Program (2015-2019) encouraged local foods education and outreach on university campuses by engaging the student body through events and media promotion, supporting local foods in alignment with the campus sustainability mission, connecting university and community advocates, providing resources for food service organizations, and mentoring future leaders in understanding community-based food systems.
UFoods
UFOODS (University Food Systems) was a two-year (2016-2018) project designed to research and develop new market opportunities for farmers by building collaborative supply chains links from farms to university campuses in North Carolina. Researchers at North Carolina State University and North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University focused work at the six universities that partner with the LFA Program.
Partner Map
Between July 2010 and January 2024, the NC 10% Campaign partnered with over 8300 NC businesses, institutions, and organizations that buy, sell, and promote local foods. These partners were searchable county and zip code and mapped by categories such as grocers, farmers' markets, farms, schools/universities, and community partners. Additional partners included wholesale suppliers that worked with the Campaign to increase their purchases from local farmers. The Campaign verified that partners purchased local foods and offered marketing materials to show their commitment to local farmers and fishers.
Consumer Reporting Dashboard
The NC 10% Campaign provided a local food reporting dashboard to the over 1200 consumer members signed up to report their food purchases from North Carolina. The dashboard helped members keep track of their progress and enabled them to compare their purchases to other members in their county or with a similar household size. The dashboard notified members of new local food partners in their county and offered an opportunity to notify the Campaign of any local food businesses that were not on NC 10% Campaign Partner Map.