The 2016 Herkimer County Local Foods Map is now available from Cornell Cooperative Extension of Herkimer County in East Herkimer; and is being distributed to organizations and businesses throughout Herkimer County and the Mohawk Valley including all of the Mid-York libraries and farmers’ markets located in Herkimer County. To view an online version of this map, visit http://bit.ly/HerkCoLocalFoodsMap2016.
There are 62 producers on the map along with nine Farmers’ Markets this year. Support for updating and printing the map was provided by a grant from Herkimer County Mental Health through the Farm Family Assistance Project and Herkimer County Office for Aging.
The benefits of “eating local” are many including fresher foods that taste great and are often more nutritious than foods that have traveled many miles and days to get to your table. Also when you buy directly from local farmers, your dollars stay within your community and strengthen the local economy which helps preserve farming as a livelihood and rural landscapes as farmland too.
For more information or to pick up a map, please call Cornell Cooperative Extension at (315) 866-7920.