Your Choices Matter

Making sustainable and regenerative choices have a huge impact on your personal health and the economic health of your local community.

Supporting small local farmers keeps our food system
nutritious, resilient, and diverse.

How to Start:

• Buy from local sustainable farmers

  • The Midwestern Directory

  • Local Harvest

  • USDA National Farmers Market Directory

• Join a CSA or meat CSA

• Look for Animal Welfare Approved, Certified Humane, G.A.P., Certified Organic, and Certified Regenerative Organic food labels at your local co-op, local grocery store, or farmers market.

• Look for certified Grass-fed products, grass-fed, or pasture-raised products

• Shop at local butcher shops who support sustainable and regenerative farming practices

• Start your own garden!

• Utilize kitchen economy with food scraps.

  • Use trimmings like broccoli stems, chicken bones, etc to make stock. Stock can be used for braising meat, mashed potatoes, stir fry, soups, and an infinite number of other delicious cooking uses!

Help Support Us

We have many more projects and resources that we would like to add! With your support we can reach our goals quicker.

Please do consider supporting us in any way that you can.

• Do you have a farm, butcher shop, or product that uses sustainable and regenerative practices and would like to be added to the directory?

• Do you have a suggestion for how to improve the website?

• Have an idea for a topic you would like for us to cover in
  our blog or podcast?

Let us know!
We are always open to ideas,
suggestions, and collaborations.