Use the calendar below to learn when certain locally grown foods are available. While the global food industry can now deliver strawberries to the supermarket 12 months a year, there is nothing like a sun-ripened berry picked five miles down the road the morning you purchase it.

In response to a year-round consumer demand for local farm products, many of the region's farmers are using greenhouses, rowcovers and storage techniques to meet this demand and increase the duration of the harvest.