Food Systems Resources

Selling & Donating Food

• Learn the legal ins and outs of selling food from your home or community garden
• Promote your sustainable restaurant
• Learn how to donate surplus food
  • Community Table Program
  • Donate Food 412 Rescue
• Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act of 1996

Adopt-A-Lot Market Stand Lease

In order to donate or sell uncut, unprocessed produce that you have grown on City-owned land on site, you must complete a Market Stand Lease.

• Market Stand Lease
• Farmers Market Stand Guidelines
• Starting a Food Business
• Sustainable Pittsburgh Restaurants
• 412 Food Rescue
• The Good Samaritan Laws for Donations

Food Access Programs

If you are struggling to make ends meet or know someone who could use a little help, there are resources available.

• Fresh Access Food Bucks
• Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
• Just Harvest
• Mapping Food Insecurity
• Supplemental Nutrition & Assistance (SNAP)
• WIC
• BigBurgh

Map of grocery stores, healthy corner stores, farmers markets, and food pantries coming soon.

Children & Families

If you are a new parent looking for lactation support, or you have older children and you want to know how you can provide them with healthier food, or start a garden in their school, you will find information here. There are also links here for researchers that want you to know how Pittsburgh Public Schools are participating in the Farm to School movement and other Good Food practices.

Farm to School

• USDA Food and Nutrition Services
• Farm to School Pittsburgh

School Gardening Programs

• Grow Pittsburgh School Gardens
• Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
• The Kitchen Community

Healthy Eating

• Action for Healthy Kids
• Pittsburgh Public School Lunches
• Sesame Street in Communities
• Farm to Table Western PA
• Project PA Sound Nutrition Education

Lactation Support

• Breastfeeding Center of Pittsburgh
• UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
• Lactation Center at UPMC Magee-Women’s Hospital
• La Leche League International
• Mid-Atlantic Mothers’ Milk Bank
• Pennsylvania Breastfeeding Coalition
• Pittsburgh Black Breastfeeding Circle
• Sankofa Childbirth Education & Lactation Services
• The Midwife Center for Birth and Women’s Health

last updated: 12/17/2025