The Last Green Valley Farm Survey

Do you want to sell more of your farm products to local restaurants and retailers?

We are researching various ways to increase the amount of locally grown product sold within The Last Green Valley. If you have an agricultural business located in The Last Green Valley, your ideas are important to us, and we want to hear from you!

Please help us assess the region’s capacity to supply food to local markets by taking 15 minutes to fill out a short on-line survey. You can access the survey by clicking on the link below. Your response will give us a clearer picture of the region's ability to meet the growing demand for local, farm-fresh food.

Our goal is to support agriculture in The Last Green Valley by linking your farm business to new or expanded local markets. We are also asking purveyors (restaurants, caterers, inns, hospitals, private schools, and so forth) to participate in their own on-line survey to better assess the demand for locally grown and produced products (click on the "Purveyor Survey" link from our home page). Through these surveys, we want to find out whether there is enough interest to develop a region-wide distribution system.

This project is supported by grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Business Cooperative Service, and from the Farm Credit Northeast AgEnhancement Program. For more information about the project, please contact Lois Bruinooge, Deputy Executive Director, at 860 963-7226, or ljbruinooge@tlgv.org.

Thank you in advance for your participation. Your results will remain anonymous and confidential, and will not be used for any purpose other than this study.

Click on this link to take the farm survey!

P.S. – Did you know that our region is called “The Last Green Valley” because more than 78% of the land is still forested and farmed, in stark contrast to the surrounding metropolitan sprawl stretching from Boston to Washington, D.C.? More than 400 farms and other agricultural businesses provide fresh food and locally produced goods (soaps, jams, etc.) to residents of the region and beyond.