USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service announced recently it is developing three new directories to better connect farmers and buyers and enhance awareness of local food availability.

• The Community-Supported Agriculture Enterprise Directory will list farms and farm networks that offer delivery of locally grown products.
• The Food Hub Directory will provide information on business and organizations that can organize the marketing of products to multiple buyers from multiple producers.
• The On-Farm Market Directory will list farms with on-farm sales.

Like the Farmers Market Directory, there is no cost to be listed in the three new directories and it is easy to update and keep information fresh.

USDA currently is requesting that managers and owners of local-food entities enter their business information in the new directories by going to http://usdalocalfooddirectories.com then clicking on “Add or Update a Listing.”

After a sufficient number of operations have been listed, the directories will be available for public viewing.

Contact the marketing service at directoryupdates@ams.usda.gov for more information.