Local Food Directory
A Mecklenburg County Local Food Directory
There's a bounty of local food resources here to help you find everything - from restaurants serving to farms growing to YOU growing! Our directory of resources for urban farmers and those who want to be involved is growing ......if you see we missed one, please contact us and we'll keep updating AND eating & growing here in Meck County!
For Starters:
Know Your Farms Eating local is good for you, good for farmers and great for our community! Farm Tours;
Center for Environmental Farming Systems CEFS develops and promotes food and farming systems that protect the environment, strengthen local communities and provide economic opportunities in North Carolina and beyond.
Farm to Fork Consumers commit 10 percent of their existing food dollars to support local food producers, related businesses and communities
Charlotte Region Farmers Markets list of where to buy local grown food.
Slow Food Charlotte supporting food that is good, clean and fair.
COMMUNITY GARDEN RESOURCES
Charlotte Green of Mecklenburg County, Inc. private, non-profit group organized to assist interested and well-organized community groups to develop and sustain gardens in their neighborhoods
Registry of Mecklenburg Community Gardens NCSU Extension Service
Community Garden Plot Rentals Mecklenburg County Parks and Recreation Department