March 2026 Local Growers Meeting

Written By MaryJayne Zemer

Meeting Time: TBD - MJ will send an email next week with details

Meeting Location: TBD

Meeting Overview: We’ll work collaboratively to begin a grown-local Northeastern PA shopping guide that meets the unique needs of our local food community.

Project Goal: Make it easier and more convenient for local consumers and restaurants to buy locally grown food and agricultural products (wine, honey, jam, etc). This is intended to address the convenience challenges and also the education needs identified in our February 2026 growers meeting. We’ll start with a resource that maps farm products, food hubs, and farmers markets in the following counties: Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Susquehanna, and Wyoming. All local food producers in these counties are enthusiastically invited to participate.

Meeting Agenda:

  • How will we ensure all of our local farms, CSAs, food hubs, farmers markets etc. all have an opportunity to be listed

  • What will make this is a valuable, easy to navigate, and easy to access resource that works for farms and also for consumers and restaurants wanting to buy local and in season.

  • Define the organizing categories for the buyers guide (this will become our index/table of contents)

    • Possible Examples: Farmers Markets, CSAs, Produce (will need subcategories), Meat (will need subcategories) Honey, U-Picks, Nurseries, etc.

  • Discuss if this is a print or digital resource,

    • If printed: how will we cover printing costs?

    • If digital: how will people find it?

  • What we call this guide

  • Date, Time, and Agenda for next meeting

 

Please RSVP here…

so we know how many humans to have seating for and to help us ensure we’ll have representation across the full breath of local food products and counties

 

The local buyers guide idea emerged from our February 2026 Local Growers Meeting, you’ll find our meeting notes and agenda here. It was inspired by the 2026 Shopping Guide created by The Weston A Price Foundation (Photo Below). While we’re taking inspiration from this resource we wont be replicating it- we’ll be using it as a jumping off point to create a unique resource that meets the need of our local food community.

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MaryJayne Zemer
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