Northern Arizona University

Canyon Country Fresh—A CSE Program

Since 2000, the Center for Sustainable Environments has been working with local farmers, ranchers, markets, and restaurants to promote local food production and use. Recently, with the addition of a USDA grant for local marketing initiatives, CSE has begun to implement strategic marketing practices to help promote local farm products, from a food directory to development of an eco-label and local advertising.

Over the past year, CSE solicited information from its partners in an effort to narrow down what specific future activities would help support local foods in the area. Here are your and our ideas consolidated:

1. Help farmers direct market produce to restaurants and markets.
2. Help restaurants find fresh and high quality local foods to supplement menus.
3. Tell the stories of the growers through a regular newsletter and advertisements.
4. Give northern Arizona local foods an identity, particularly in these drought-stricken times.

How will we accomplish our tasks? While we will continue to work in our traditional roles through education and outreach, Canyon County Fresh is intended to take the next step in enhancing communication between farmers, ranchers, restaurants, and markets.

As we move forward, we hope to expand advertising opportunities in local transit hubs. We also will expand our monthly Fresh Corner to better serve our partners’ specific direct marketing needs.

We look forward to your participation. For more information or to provide feedback, please contact:

Program Coordinator
(928) 523-0664

Read the Canyon Country Fresh News
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October, 2004
November, 2004
December 2004
March 2005
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July 2005
September 2005 
November 2005 
January 2006

Please support our Canyon Country Fresh Members: AzMex, Flagstaff Crossroads Café, Prescott El Portal Sedona, Sedona Flagstaff Brewing Company, Flagstaff Garland’s, Oak Creek Canyon, Sedona Granite Creek Vineyards & Tasting Room, Chino Valley Hell’s Backbone Grill, Boulder, UT Macy’s Coffeehouse, Flagstaff Main Street Catering, Flagstaff Montezuma Lodge, Mormon Lake Morning Glory Café, Flagstaff Mount Hope Natural Foods, Cottonwood Mrs. Brown’s Burger Bar, Flagstaff New Frontiers Natural Marketplace, Flagstaff, Prescott and Sedona New Jersey Pizza, Flagstaff Parks Garden Market, Parks Pesto Brothers Piazza, Flagstaff Pinon Bistro, Cottonwood Prescott Natural Foods, Prescott Simply Delicious Catering, Flagstaff The Turquoise Room at La Posada, Winslow Wild River Expeditions, Bluff, UT Winter Sun Trading Co., Flagstaff Xanterra Parks and Resorts, Petrified Forest National Park, Zion National Park and Young’s Farm and Market, Dewey We also hope you continue to support our partners in local foods: Flagstaff Community Market Prescott Farmer’s Market Cottonwood Farmer’s Market Hopi Farmer’s Market Flagstaff Community Supported Agriculture Project (CSA) Flagstaff Foodlink Flagstaff Wild Foraging Project Hopi Cultural Center The Café at Arcosanti

 

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