CONNECT Our Future is a process in which the communities, counties, businesses, and other organizations within a 14-county area in North and South Carolina, centered around the Charlotte area, are working together to create a regional growth framework.

As part of that effort, the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project in partnership with the Center for Environmental Farming Systems and the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association, are conducting a food system assessment for the CONNECT region. This assessment includes a mapped inventory of businesses that serve as intermediary steps in local food supply chains such as value-added processors (for example, fruit and vegetable processing, cheese manufacturers, specialty jams and pickling operations), fresh produce wholesaler/distributors, multi-farm CSAs, foods hubs, cold storage,and community kitchens.

Please use the Add Location and Contact links to correct the list as it is now, and to add new businesses so that we all can have the most accurate listing possible. In addition to currently operating businesses, we are also trying to identify underutilized infrastructure that could be repurposed and used in local food supply chains. Add these possibilities on the Add Location page.

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