Our mission is to make sure fresh, healthy food reaches every fork — by connecting the people who grow it, serve it, and need it.
Food, labor, and fuel costs keep climbing. At the same time, funding for senior and youth food services is being cut. There's no local system connecting farms, restaurants, and community members to each other — so good food goes to waste while people go without it.
Small farmers, restaurants, and small grocers are the segments with the right minds to come together and solve food system problems — so they're who we bring to the table.
Local growers navigating rising costs and regulation, often without anyone in their corner who understands the work.
Local kitchens looking to source closer to home and stay in step with what their communities want to eat.
Neighborhood stores that want a steadier, more local supply chain and a say in solving it.
Farmers are often wary of outsiders, and for good reason — a lot of people show up from somewhere else looking to take more than they give. We don't ask for trust; we earn it, one honest conversation at a time.
A recurring, working table — not a one-time event. Here's what joining looks like.
Through word of mouth, or a personal invitation. New members are recruited directly, one relationship at a time.
We walk you through what Field to Fork is, share our rules for participating, and ask you to sign on before joining.
Show up with or without your family. Kids and spouses have their own activities, like a pumpkin patch or hay rides, while you're at the table.
Dinner is served using food from the farms that participate — a working example of the local food system we're building.
Members sit down together for a working session in the style of the Changemakers Lab, run by our founder, to develop real ideas and solutions for the local food issues we all face.
The Think Tank isn't only a place to talk about problems — it's where members leave with something they can actually use.