NI Local Food Guide

Healthy Harvest of North Iowa produces an annual NI Local Food Guide, formally the North Central Iowa Buy Fresh, Buy Local Chapter. The NI Local Food Guide includes an hard-copy guide printed every March and our online searchable directory featuring individual business profiles. Producers and buyers can sign up any time of the year. The deadline for the hard copy is February of each year.

Sign Up for the Guide

Iowa MarketMaker

Iowa MarketMaker is an interactive mapping system that locatesbusinesses and markets of agricultural products in Iowa, providing animportant link between producers and consumers.  Producers, include MarketMaker in your marketing plan as a way for food buyers to find you.

Iowa MarketMaker

Local Harvest

Use this website to find farmers’ markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies. Shop their catalog for things you can’t find locally!

Local Harvest

Visit Iowa Farms

Agritourism is a growing segment of the rural economy in many areas of Iowa. This website is your guide to rich and educational agricultural experiences in Iowa.  Register your farm as a site to visit.

Visit Iowa Farms

Small Farm Central

Small Farm Central develops technology tools for farm business success. Their goal is to support the development of a viable local food system through the economic success of farmers. They have a collection of free and paid resources for CSA and other small farms.

Small Farm Central

Local Dirt

Local Dirt is a searchable database of local food that can serve farmers, sellers, and buyers alike with the development of a robust market for locally-grown produce and other foods.

Local Dirt

Insurance Webinars

Part of the Farmers Market Coalition’s ongoing mission is to serve producers, market managers, and other farmers market organization staff. They launched a webinar series on insurance, designed to help farmers markets and producers better understand and manage the liability risks that could compromise everything they’ve worked so hard to achieve.

Insurance Webinars

Iowa Kitchen Connect

Iowa Kitchen Connect links entrepreneurs with commercial kitchens in Iowa, allowing food entrepreneurs to Start-up their businesses at a fraction of the cost and helping them to maximize profits when they need it most. Their “Resources Oasis” covers topics on insurance, licensing, food safety, labeling, business resources, pricing, market research, and more!!

Iowa Kitchen Connect for Entrepreneurs

Small Farm Nation

Tim Young brings his 20+ years of corporate marketing experience to the small farming world with in his podcasts, blog, and collection of resources. He reminds farmers that “Successful small farming is 20% about growing and 80% about farm marketing to customers.” 

Small Farm Nation

Farming the Web: Online Marketing for Small Farm Businesses

A social media marketing workshop hosted in March 2020 by Healthy Harvest of North Iowa, with guest presenter Ash Bruxvoort from Amethyst Content Marketing.

Finding Your Voice on Video: A Farm Marketing Workshop

In this free workshop, learn about different types of videos you can use to market your business and when you would use each one depending on your goal. Leave with a short video you can share on social media and a process you can implement over and over again.

Social Media Resources:

Create social media graphic with ease through Canva

Pre-schedule social media posts through Buffer