Our Mission: Protect and promote a culture that builds community & local economy, nurtures a healthy environment & produces delicious foods. Non Profit
The Carteret Local Food Network (CLFN) was formed in 2008 to help build momentum and spread the word about what’s happening locally, so interested citizens like yourself can find ways to increase your access to locally farmed foods and make choices that support our local farming families. We all make choices shopping for many products – Fair and Local are great words to remember when buying groceries for your families. Our local farming families work very hard to bring you nutritious, seasonal produce picked at the peak of ripeness instead of optimal shipping sturdiness. We need to support their work by choosing to shop differently.I
Carteret Local Food Network exists to help you connect with locally grown and locally produced foods. Food that doesn’t travel thousands of miles is harvested fresher, more nutritious, and even better, often tastes much better. Find our map and brochure (printable in pdf format on the ‘Local Farmers’ page) to guide you to the many roadside stands, farmers’ markets, retail stores, resources and demonstration gardens.
As a new growing season approaches, the CLFN salutes all growers, gardeners, fishermen, educators, chefs, entrepreneurs, volunteers and others who bring good fresh food to our tables; and we look forward to a bountiful season ahead.
We continue to find ways to share information and news about community food projects and sources of fresh local food.
Let’s include helping school children and young adults who participate in FFA and 4-H, and encourage farmers grow more sustainabily to minimize our impact on our environment and improve the quality of comestibles for us consumers.
Cooperative Extension helps you learn how to grow and cook your own fruits and vegetables; the Master Gardeners have four demonstration gardens (two specialize in home vegetable gardens).
Two community gardens are underway and invite you to join their activities, another is actively being planned
Carteret Catch assist local fishing families market their products, find local retailers and restaurants serving their fish at www.carteretcatch.org.
Here in Carteret County, there are many activities that we should all support and assist: Fresh from Our Farms
For a variety of reasons—health, fine cuisine, environmental impact, social justice, food security, thrift, cultural heritage preservation or economic development—“fresh local food” and “sustainable local food systems” are all important phrases to many folks in our country these days. And great things are happening, not only in big cities and trendy food meccas like NC’s Piedmont, but right here in Carteret County.
Potatoes, carrots, eggplant, onions, tomatoes, beets, radish, turnips
