Asap (appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project)
Charity Organization
Why pick this one
ASAP connects Southern Appalachian farms with markets, consumers, schools, and healthcare programs while supporting more than 1,300 Appalachian Grown farms and businesses.
Best for
- farmers seeking business planning, marketing, or market-outlet support
- consumers looking for local farms and food through the Local Food Guide
- farmers markets seeking promotional or technical assistance
- schools and early childhood centers seeking farm-to-school programming
- buyers seeking connections with local farm products and ingredients
- community members seeking local food access programs
Look elsewhere if
- someone needs a conventional commercial service provider rather than a local food and agriculture nonprofit
- someone needs services unrelated to farms, food systems, farmers markets, or community food programs
Specialties
- farmer business planning and marketing support
- Appalachian Grown branding
- farmers market promotion and technical assistance
- Growing Minds farm-to-school programming
- local food research
What makes them different
- Nonprofit based in Asheville serving the Southern Appalachian region
- Appalachian Grown branding program includes more than 1,300 farms and partner businesses
- Provides promotional and technical assistance to more than 100 farmers markets
- Operates Asheville City Market as a year-round Saturday morning farmers market
- Publishes the annual Local Food Guide
- Serves
- Asheville
Distilled from this business's own website.
Contact & Location
- Address
- 306 W Haywood St, Asheville, NC 28801-3105
- Phone
- 18282361282
- Website
- https://asapconnections.org
Services
- local food and farm promotion
- farmer-to-market connections
- farmers market operation and support
- farm-to-school education
- local food access programs
- community health initiatives
- local food research
- farmer events and workshops