Farm to plate food policy and principles

This law establishes a state policy to “encourage and support local food producers, farming, and fisheries, including businesses engaged in agriculture, the raising and care of livestock, dairy, fishing, foraging, and aquaculture, agritourism, horticulture, orchard management, maple syrup production, and the associated local and regional businesses that process, purchase, distribute, and sell such food throughout the state.” It also directs various state agencies and educational institutions to “strive for interagency cooperation as well as cooperation with public and private entities to foster local, state, and regional food systems” that “adhere to” certain enumerated “Granite State farm to plate principles.”