
Our Programs
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 2020-2024 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.
Visioning Our Food Future
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 Business Engagement
The NC 10% Campaign has partnered with local businesses over the years to boost their spend 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
Local Food Ambassadors
The Local Food Ambassador (LFA) Program 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.