Related Links
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
BuyFromthe 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.
Previous Eat3 Participating Cooperative Extension County Associations
- Albany county
- Chenango county
- Columbia county
- Delaware county
- Erie county
- Fulton county
- Genesee county
- Greene county
- Herkimer county
- Montgomery county
- Orange county
- Orleans county
- Otsego county
- Rensselaer county
- Saratoga county
- Schenectady county
- Schoharie county
- Warren county
- Washington county
- Yates county