Mission Monday: Local Food Guide

Our mission at Golden Hills RC&D is to collaboratively develop and lead community, conservation, and cultural initiatives to improve our quality of life in rural western Iowa. Our "official" territory from our original organizational bylaws is an eight-county region in the southwestern portion of Iowa (Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, and Shelby). In 2023, we added four more counties (Audubon, Carroll, Crawford, and Monona). Several projects extend beyond these 12 counties into more than 20 counties (learn more about where we work). ​

Our goals are to develop industries in local communities that utilize local resources; ensure healthy natural resources that meet the needs of agriculture, industry, private use, and recreational facilities; promote and enhance art, culture and historic resources in rural communities; collaborate with local governments and organizations on projects that benefit the environment; and work on projects that fill gaps in community services to benefit people of southwest Iowa.

We accomplish these goals by focusing our work in five program areas: outdoor recreation and tourism, land stewardship, water resources, local foods, and arts and culture. Today's Mission Monday focus is Local Foods.

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The Local Food Guide is a part of our Local Foods program area. The guide lists local producers in southwest Iowa, including farmers markets, farms, stores, restaurants, and other local food businesses. The guide is also available in Spanish.

Click here or on the map image above to see the guide in an interactive map, or scroll down to see a list of farmers markets, farms, stores, restaurants, and other local food businesses. This guide includes Audubon, Cass, Fremont, Harrison, Mills, Montgomery, Page, Pottawattamie, and Shelby counties in southwestern Iowa.

If you are a local producer and not currently included in the local food guide, please fill out this form.

Please note the Local Food Guide is regularly updated and we rely on farmers, market managers, and others to provide the most updated information. It is best to call ahead to confirm business and market hours before visiting. If you see anything that needs updated, please email [email protected].

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