→ Looking to eat local?
→ Want to strengthen local farms?
→ Trying to source more local, regional, sustainable foods?
Nurture your family and community: support local farms!
➡ Encourage your company or institution to serve locally sourced, sustainably produced foods at events and in the cafeteria.
➡ Next time you’re at a restaurant or grocery store, ask what local Montana-grown options they have. When you can, choose those!
➡ Put more of your dollars toward regionally grown, raised and processed foods.
To find all things local — from food pantries to grocery stores, from farms and ranches to the processors, distributors, and organizations that support community-based food systems — Abundant Montana is the go-to resource.
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What Is “Local”?
To us, local means foods from small- and mid-sized farms grown using sustainable, regenerative methods of production — often certified organic, but not always — distributed locally and regionally.
Foods grown, raised, and harvested by people rooted in community.
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Choose Local!
Clearly, some things — coffee, rice, chocolate — don’t grow here. Yet so many foods do!
All of us — businesses, schools, families, individuals, hospitals — are better off when we chose more locally and regionally grown foods.
Invest in local farms and food systems.
In this region — where land prices, the cost of living, fair wages, and housing prices continue to skyrocket, and ‘progress’ threatens agricultural lands — local farms working to grow healthful food in sustainable ways face incredible challenges. Choosing local and supporting those who make local foods available to all community members are two critical ways that each of us help strengthen systems for future generations.
➙ Just 70 years ago, roughly 70% of foods eaten in Montana came from Montana. Today, just 10% of what Montanans eat comes from in state. Let’s change that!
