Get to Know Your Local Food System
Eating local starts with knowing what grows, swims, and thrives around you. Explore our guides for practical ways to find local food, support the people who produce it, reduce waste, and get closer to the food system that feeds our region.
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Explore the Resource Guides
Southeast Louisiana’s forests, floodplains, riverbanks, and even overlooked urban spaces are home to an incredible variety of wild plants and fungi. Learn about our region’s foraging landscape, discover some of the mushrooms you may encounter, and get to know the importance of safe, responsible identification.
Wild Mushrooms & Foraging
Learn how to identify, find, and ask for Louisiana seafood while supporting local fishing families, preserving our culinary heritage, and making informed choices about what’s on your plate.
Local Seafood
Finding Local Fruits & Veggies
Discover what’s growing in our region, where to find it, and how shopping seasonally can support local farmers and keep more of your food dollars close to home.
What happens after the meal matters, too. Explore simple ways to reduce food waste, return valuable resources to our environment, and help build a more resilient regional food system.
Sustaining our Local Food System
Growing & Gardening for Local Food
Learn how to identify, find, and ask for Louisiana seafood while supporting local fishing families, preserving our culinary heritage, and making informed choices about what’s on your plate.
Start where you are. Eat what grows here.
Every local choice helps support the farmers, fishers, growers, makers, land, and waters that make our regional food system possible. [Learn More About Eat Local →]