Recommendation Status: In Progress
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Recommendation: The NH Food Alliance and partners to create resources directly connecting institutional buyers to appropriate New Hampshire-based wholesale food producers (a wholesale-ready farm catalog, list of distributors offering New Hampshire grown or produced food, mapped existing delivery routes, etc.). In addition to resources, targeted funding would enable the NH Food Alliance to design and host an annual Local Food Planning Meeting (institution and farmer matchmaking event) to facilitate direct relationships between wholesale buyers and New Hampshire producers and food hubs.
Current work happening on this recommendation: The NH Food Alliance, in partnership with the NH Department of Agriculture, Markets, and Food, published the Wholesale Producer Directory as a print and digital catalog of farms and food businesses across New England prepared to sell into the wholesale market. The directory will be updated and re-published each year. Learn more here
Craving context? This recommendation is included in the Institutional Markets brief, part of the NH Food and Agriculture Strategic Plan.
Read the Institutional Markets brief here
