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Resources
Understanding Your Food Transportation Costs
During the past few years, the Land Stewardship Project has been working with farmers who are seeking more efficient ways of transporting to market the food they produce. For transportation worksheets, online calculators and other resources related to smoothing the road between field and fork, click here.
LSP Fact Sheet: Buying Directly From a Farmer
A fact sheet on how consumers can bypass the corporate bottleneck when buying food (PDF).
LSP Fact Sheet: How U.S. Cities are Using Zoning to Support Urban Ag
A fact sheet on how citizens in various cities have gotten local zoning rules modified to favor community gardens, farms, farmers' markets and other forms of urban agriculture (PDF).
LSP Local Food Handling Guidelines
The Land Stewardship Project has helped develop a series of three fact sheets that provide guidelines on legally and safely selling food into local Minnesota markets. The three fact sheets are:
- Sale of Shell Eggs to Grocery Stores & Restaurants in Minnesota. Click here for a pdf copy.
- Sale of Meat & Poultry to Grocery Stores & Restaurants in Minnesota. Click here for a pdf copy.
- Providing Safe, Locally-Grown Produce to Commercial Food Establishments & The General Public in Minnesota. Click here for a pdf copy.
Checklist: Ten Things to Re-Think as You Build a Greenhouse & Grow
This is a checklist developed by the Land Stewardship Project for a series of field days on setting up and operating greenhouses. Available as a pdf by clicking here.
Checklist: Things to Consider as you Buy Local
This is a checklist developed by the Land Stewardship Project's office in southeast Minnesota to help eaters when they are trying to make local food buying decisions. Available as a pdf by clicking here.
Food Alliance Midwest
Food Alliance Midwest (FAM) is a third-party certification program that uses a certification seal in a public education and consumer awareness campaign to support local farms and foods. By looking for the FAM certification seal, consumers can choose and purchase foods from farms that are local, environmentally friendly, and socially responsible. Food Alliance Midwest is the only certification that combines these healthful elements into one certification seal.”
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