ASAP helps create and expand local food markets that will preserve our agricultural heritage, give everyone access to fresh, healthy food, and keep our farmers farming. Our mission is to collaboratively create and expand regional community based and integrated food systems that are locally owned and controlled, environmentally sound, economically viable, and health-promoting.
Search our Local Food Guide. Shop for Appalachian Grown certified products. Get involved in the Growing Minds Farm to School program. Visit a farmers market. Browse our information on workshops, grants, and more. Use our classified, section, calendar, and online resources. Whether you're a farmer, consumer, or work with a school, restaurant, or grocer, join us in reconnecting people throughout the region with their food.
Northeast Georgia Local Food Guide
A new Northeast Georgia
edition of the Local Food Guide, a free guide to locally-grown food, has been
published. This new Guide is based on Western North
Carolina’s Local Food Guide. NorthGeorgiaTechnicalCollege partnered with ASAP to create
a version that spotlights the producers and providers in NorthGeorgiaTechnicalCollege’s
(NGTC) eight-county service area.
ASAP will hold the sixth
annual Marketing Opportunities for Farmers Conference on Saturday, February
28th at Warren Wilson College in Swannanoa, NC.
The goal of the conference is to provide farmers with networking and
training opportunities and give them the knowledge they need to sustain their
farms in a time of changing markets and landscapes.
If
you own a local farm or business that uses local food products, you can
be listed in our Local Food Guide. If you're already included in the
2008 edition, update your
listing for 2009. We're working on the new edition for spring
publication.
“First
Steps in Starting a Market Garden Business,” a free workshop led by Peter Marks of
ASAP, will be offered at The North Carolina Arboretum on January
31.
