Welcome Food Access partners! The resources below are designed to help our food pantry managers and any volunteers with food assistance efforts, to help make the healthy choice the easy choice and increase access to healthy food in your community.
Local Food
| Use these tools to make buying or receiving donations from local farms and markets easier | |
Farm to Food Assistance Guide |
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Visual Buyers Guide “How much is that?” | Visual Buyer's Guide to Farm Produce.pdf 
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Community-Based Food Access
| Ideas for food councils and other community partners to develop the local food system to increase access to healthy food | |
Beyond the Food Bank Guide | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Mg8scANd08QzKSaINmECUfCtcLUB8Kdc/ 
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Pop-up Markets Guide | How to Launch a FMNP Pop-up Market.pdf 
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Pantry Garden Resources |
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Innovative Operations
| Ideas to help improve the way you operate and serve the community | |
Pantry Bags Drive Guide |
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Culturally Connected Foods Guide (UCONN Rudd Center) | Culturally Connected Foods Guide for Food Assistance Sites - UCONN Rudd Center.pdf 
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Healthy Backpacks | MyPlate Healthy Backpacks .pdf 
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Nutrition Education
| Encourage cooking with confidence using these resources. Distribute printed copies, link to the online resource with a scannable QR code, or print a display copy and encourage folks to take a picture | |
MyPlate Resources | https://www.myplate.gov/resources 
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Recipe Database Flyer (Top 8 Maryland languages) |
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Produce fact sheets and videos |
YouTube Buy, Store and Prepare 
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SNAP-Ed Recipe Cards | SNAP-Ed Recipe Cards English.pdf 
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Take a Picture bilingual card |
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