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Yum strives to provide sound, research based resources for both the producer and the consumer. That being said, you’ll find some entertaining and amusing offerings from time to time as well.
Scroll to the bottom for a list of locally owned restaurants who source and serve local ingredients.
Ag Marketing
- Center for Profitable Ag Resources
- Food Entrepreneur Resources
- Marketing to Retail
- Marketing Terms, from the UN FAO, become and educated consumer!
- Selling Strategies for local food producers
- Good structure for producer coops, Value Chain Partnerships, Iowa.
Alternative and Sustainable Ag Resources
- Four Season Farm – Eliot Coleman and info on high tunnel winter veggie production.
- The Land Institute – 30+ years experimenting with perennial grains instead of annuals in ag systems.
- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture
- Rodale Institute, New Farm
Business and New Farm Development
- A Guide to Farming in Pennsylvania
- Thinking of starting a food related business? How to get started
Community Development
Community Supported Agriculture
- Blackberry Meadows Farm and CSA – Natrona Heights
- Christoff’s Farm and Greenhouses – Bridgeville, PA
- Churchview Farms – Pittsburgh, PA
- Dillner Family Farms – Gibsonia, PA
- Golden Harvest Farm – Leechburgh, PA
- Goose Creek Gardens – Oakdale, PA
- Harvest Valley Farms – Valencia, PA
- Isidore Foods – Pittsburgh, PA
- Kretschmann Farm – Rochester, PA serves greater Pittsburgh area
- Left Bower Farm – Avella, PA
- M&M Robertson Farms – Sligo
- One Woman Farm – Gibsonia, PA
- Penn’s Corner CSA – Pittsburgh
- Shared Acres – Clinton, PA
- Who Cooks for You Farm – New Bethlehem, PA serves greater Pittsburgh area
Farm Certifications
Farm Markets
- Local Harvest has a great search tool here
- Pittsburgh Post Gazette’s list, encompasses WPA
- PG’s text version (a long list) is here
- Pittsburgh City Parks Farm Market list
Gardening and Permaculture Resources
- Pittsburgh Permaculture - showcases the progressive, environmentally sound food production of beautifully developed intentional ecosystems.
- Penn State Master Gardeners
- Pittsburgh Garden Experiment
- Steel City Soils
Groceries: Local Food Friendly
- PSU Ag Map (food finder)
- Buy Fresh Buy Local (food finder)
- East End Food Coop
- Isidore Foods and their eat local Pittsburgh blog
- Right By Nature
- Whole Foods
Nutrition
Restaurants with local suppliers
- Bella Sera
- Andys
- Braddock’s American Brasserie
- Franktuary
- Habitat
- Sonoma Grille
- Dinette
- Quiet Storm
- La Vite
- The Pines Tavern
- Pizza Fusion
- One Eleven
- Solstice Restaurant and Lounge
- Joseph Tambellini Restaurant
- J’eet
- Iovino’s Cafe
- Isabela on Grandview
- Willow
- Red Oak Cafe
- The Cafe at the Frick
- Square Cafe
- Bocktown Beer and Grill
- Pangea
- Cafe du Jour
- OTB Bicycle Cafe
- Cioppino
- Enrico Biscotti Co.
- Right Way Cafe
- Wild Rosemary
- big Burrito Restaurant Group (Casbah, Soba, Umi, Eleven, Kaya, Mad Mex and catering)
- Bona Terra (Sharpsburg)
- Cafe Zao (Downtown)
- The Carlton (Downtown)
- Eat n Park
- East End Food Coop Cafe (Point Breeze)
- Legume (Regent Square)
- Le Pommier Bistro (South Side)
- Lucca (Oakland)
- Point Brugge (Point Breeze)
- Vivo (Belleview)
Web lists for your ag business
Value Added Links
