The Center for Disease Control estimates that every year 76 million Americans get sick, more than 300,000 are hospitalized, and 5,000 die from food borne illnesses.

–CDC, 2002

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FoodRoutes Toolkits and Toolboxes

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• BUY LOCAL TOOLKIT: Harvesting Support for Locally Grown Food: Lessons Learned from the "Be a Local Hero, Buy Locally Grown" Campaign

• COMMUNICATOR'S TOOLKIT: Where Does Your Food Come From? Recipes for Communicating Effectively About American Agriculture

  
  

FoodRoutes Campaign Fact Sheets

• BUY LOCAL CAMPAIGN MATERIALS: Download our Buy Local Campaign Sheets and Food Cost Tag Sheets for free and distribute them to promote buy local campaigns in your area.

• FARM TO COLLEGE MATERIALS: Check out our Farm to College sheets and start getting your college or university to purchase food locally.