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Welcome to Taste the Local Difference Online Services! With one account you can create listings with three different services of Taste the Local Difference: TLD Wholesale, TLD Farm to School, and Get Farming.

The first step is to register an account. If you already have an account, you can simply login using the email and password you have already registered. Then you can click to the service you choose and enter more detailed information there or edit your existing information.

 
     
  TLD Wholesale: Your Internet Force for Local Foods Sales and Purchasing!
TLD WholesaleAre you a farmer with a bounty of beautiful green beans coming soon on the vine? TLD Wholesale will help you sell them! Tell us what’s popping, and we’ll tell area restaurants, grocers, distributors, and other food buyers how to connect with you.
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Are you a local restaurant or caterer with a big event coming up? Need some juicy local tomatoes to wow your customers? TLD Wholesale helps you put out the call to area farms, which might have just what you need.

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TLD Farm to School
Farm To SchoolTLD Farm to School offers valuable information for a range of people working to present fresh, healthy local food to kids and build the area farm economy by developing new markets for farms and greater understanding of where our food comes from. TLD Farm to School offers the following:

  1. Detailed directories of farms and their products, both for cafeteria use or for school fundraisers.
  2. Lists of food service directors interested in buying local food and information about their purchasing needs.
  3. Information for parent groups, faculty and others on linking local food to the classroom, such as lists of farms available for field trips and class visits.
  4. Resources for kitchen staff, administrators, and others interested in increasing the presence of local food and farms in schools, whether in the cafeteria, in the curriculum, or through a school fundraiser.

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Get Farming!
Get Farming!This free site is the place to be if you are seeking land for your own new farm, growers to work your fallow land, or a buyer for your operation. Over time this Web site will grow to include information on farm related grant oppotunities, agricultural legislation, educational workshops, financial planning, and more. So please check with us often to fully realize the benefits of our Get Farming! program.

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