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Acknowledgements
  Project Team
Introduction
  The Many Hats Project
How to Use the Toolkit
  Toolkit Structure
Podcast
The Founder Hat
The Value Chain Builder Hat
The Resilience Advisor Hat
The Amplifier Hat
Project Conclusion
Resources and Template Directory
Toolkit Endnotes
Advisory Hubs at a Glance
  The Common Market
  Food Shed
  Red Tomato
  Share Farm
  ValleyHUB
  Kitchen Sync Strategies
Annotated Bibliography of Food Hub Resources 2012-2025
Resources and Template Directory
You can find many of these resources linked throughout the toolkit narrative and the director is organized by:
Strategy: From our Advisors
Strategy: General
Start Up Resources
- Building successful Food Hubs: A Business Planning Guide for Aggregating and Processing Local Food in Illinois
- How to Start a Food Hub: 4 Key Lessons for Success
- Exploring the Feasibility of Online Food Hubs in Low-Income Communities
- Local Food Organizational Toolkit – Part 1: Defining your organization’s focus and leadership toolkit
Food Hubs as Part of Food Systems
- Food Resilience Toolkit written guide & Strategic planning instructional video (English) Strategic planning instructional video (Spanish)
- Local Food Systems Response to COVID: Building Better Beyond
- Local and Regional Food Systems Resilience Playbook
- Local and Regional Food Systems Response to COVID Resource Hub
Food Hub Data
Grower & Customer Relations: From our Advisors
Food Safety
Transactional Paperwork
- The Common Market: Bill of Lading
- The Common Market: Sample Invoice
- The Common Market: Sample Purchase Order
- Red Tomato: Bill of Lading
- Red Tomato: Invoice
- Share Farm: Shipper Confirmation
Supplier On-Boarding & Crop Planning
- The Common Market: Building Resilient Agriculture Through Forward Purchasing Commitments and Direct Farmer Financial Investment
- The Common Market: Sample Crop Plan
- Red Tomato: 2025 Annual Eco Growers Meeting Agenda
- ValleyHUB: Standard Supplier Agreement Part 1
- ValleyHUB: Standard Supplier Agreement Part 2
- ValleyHUB: Supplier Screening Checklist
Grower & Customer Relations: General
Food Safety
- The Food Safety Certification for Specialty Crops Program
- Food Safety Outreach Program
- Food Safety Trainings for Farmer Support Organizations – (four-part video series)
- Group GAP Benefits
- Group GAP for Buyers
- Group GAP for Growers
- Group GAP User Guide
- A Guide to Food Safety Certification for Food Hubs and Food Facilities
- How Group Gap Works
- The Path to Group GAP Certification Fact Sheet
- SAMPLE Food Safety Plan
Business Development
- Farm to Hospital Toolkit
- Food Hub’s Guide to Selling to Restaurants
- Increasing the Capacity of a Local Food Hub to Service School District Nutrition Programs
- NCAT Marketing Tip Sheet Series
- New England Food Hub Network: Exploring Options to Enhance Food Hub Collaboration & Increase New England Farm to Institution Sales
Wholesale Readiness
- Bringing the Farm to School
- Food Hubs: A Producer Guide
- Global Growers Wholesale Readiness
- Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) Audits
- The Good Food Purchasing Initiative Guide for Growers and Food Businesses
- Grades and Standards
- The Role of Food Hubs in Local Food Marketing
- Wholesale Readiness Training
- Wholesale and Retail Product Specifications: Guidance and Best Practices for Fresh Product for Small Farms and Food Hubs
- Wholesale Packing Resource Guide: A Plain Language Guide from New Entry Sustainable Farming Project
- Wholesale Success: A Farmer’s Guide to Food Safety, Selling, Postharvest Handling, and Packing Produce
Organizational Development: Advisors
Organizational Development: General
Financing & Fundraising
- Council of Development Finance Agencies Food Systems Finance Resource Center
- Food Systems and Access to Capital
- Financing Healthy Food Options
- Funding Sources for Food-Related Businesses
- Hub Funding Mix Worksheet
- Innovations in Small Business Lending
- Local Food Organizational Toolkit – Part 3: Funding your local food organization
- USDA Local and Regional Food Systems Resource Guide
Food Hub Operations
- Leveraging Technology to Build Resilient Local Food Systems
- Standard Operating Procedure – Farmers Market Hub
- Standard Operating Procedure – Farmers Market Hub II
- Regional Food Hub Resource Guide
- Running A Food Hub: Lessons Learned from the Field Volume One
- Running A Food Hub: A Business Operation Guide Volume Two
- Using Accounting Software for Food Hubs: Processing Traceable Orders
Food Hub Financials
- Economic Viability of a Food Hub Business: Assessment of Annual Operational Expenses and Revenues
- A Manager’s Guide to Food Hub Finances: How to Evaluate and Improve your Food Hub Operations
- Iowa Food Hub: Managing Cash Flow for a Low Capital Food Hub Start-up
- Running a Food Hub: Assessing Financial Viability Volume Three
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Partnerships: General
- In It Together: Examining the Role of Food Hub Networks in Supporting Hub to Hub Collaborations
- National & Regional Food Systems Networks
- Wallace Center’s Communities of Practice: (Food Safety and Quality, Value Chain Coordination, Network Stewards, Farm to Food Assistance, Community Food Projects)