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Nutrition Resources

MyPyramid

MyPyramid offers personalized eating plans, interactive tools to help you plan and assess your food choices, and advice to help you:

  • Make smart choices from every food group.
  • Find your balance between food and physical activity.
  • Get the most nutrition out of your calories.
  • Stay within your daily calorie needs.

Farmers Market Nutrition Program Cornell Cooperative Extension

Fruits & Veggies: More Matters

Eat a variety of fruits and vegetables daily.  Fruits & Veggies More Matters offers interactive features, customized advice on fruit and vegetable intake as well as recipes that incorporate fruits and vegetables. There is even a new section entitled “30 minutes or less seasonal recipes”.

Fruit and Vegetable Recipe Search from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Find great meals by searching the database of recipes.  You’re able to search by fruit or vegetables as well as by type of dish.


Local and Seasonal Food Resources

Buy From the Backyard

This website lists lists farms and Farmer’s Markets where people can find local food in Chenango, Broome, and Tioga Counties.

Chenango Bounty

Through this website Chenango county residents can order locally and regionally grown products and have them delivered to their front door.

Columbia County Bounty

Farm to Table

You can connect to top farmers and find out how and where you can buy their products.  The site introduces you to farmers markets, and great restaurants and stores where you can savor local products.  It’s also another good source for locating farmers and farm stands in your area.

Farmers’ Market Federation of New York

The Farmers’ Market Federation of New York is a grassroots, membership organization of farmers’ market managers, market sponsors, farmers and market supporters. On the website you’ll find support materials that will guide you to the successful development, implementation and operation of farmers’ markets. Everything from publications and guides to research to evaluation tools are available to assist you in market development.

From Farm to Table TV Program

This program encourages viewers to discover the bounty of New York’s Capital Region, from the fields to the dinner table. Archives of the program are available free on their website.

Fruit & Vegetable Seasonal Availability Calendar

A chart developed by Pride of NY that shows the months that fruits and vegetables are available from local sources for New York state.

Get Fresh! At Your Farmers Market

Eight 5-minute video shows, each featuring a farmers’ market fruit or vegetable, were produced in both English and Spanish by New York. Accompanying recipe cards include two recipes for each as well as cooking and storing tips, nutrient information, and suggestions for fun ways to involve children in preparing foods at home.

Madison Bounty

New York State Farm Fresh Guide

The NYS Department of Agriculture and Markets has a comprehensive state guide to finding fresh products on the farms where they’re grown, at farm stands, and at farmers’s markets.

New York State Farmers’ Markets

A listing by county of the community farmers’ markets in New York State.

Orleans County Home Growing Markets

This website features a searchable list of Orleans products including year-round and seasonal as well as maple products and wineries.

Produce and U-Pick Stands in Yates County

An online guide to local foods in Yates County.

Sustainable Table


Family Meal Resources

Eat Better; Eat Together

October is National Eat Better; Eat Together month. It is time for adults to eat meals with children and teenagers and to celebrate family meals.

Families, Food and Fitness Website

The Families, Food, and Fitness section of eXtension provides education and skills to help families make informed decisions about healthy eating and physical activity by providing them with evidence research based information and interactive learning opportunities through eXtension. This virtual educational environment is targeted to families with young children.


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