Connecting, cultivating, and strengthening relationships between local and regional producers and local and regional food businesses

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Press:

Diana Endicott has been featured in:

• Successful Farming

• The Furrow

• Rural Cooperatives

• Small Farm Today

• The New American Farmer

• Women and Sustainable Agriculture - Agents of Change

• The Status of Women in Agriculture in Kansas - Institute for Women's Policy Research

• Kansas City Star News Article:  Small farms band together to grow their connections to consumers who hunger for local food (2015)

• Good Natured Family Farms: Farmer meets chef, Head Start kids win (2014)

• In Ivanhoe, Food Helping Neighborhood Rebuild (2014)

• Local Meat Distribution: Kansas City Style by firsthandfoods (2012)

• Press Release - House Committee on Agriculture:  Subcommittee Reviews Healthy Food Accessibility and Strategies to Increase Availability (2010)

• National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition - Press release: "Mid-sized Farmers Brief Congress on Economic Benefits of Producing for Local and Regional Markets", Interview with Diana Endicott, (2010)

• Farm co-op aims to raise money, capacity (2009)

• Wallace Center National Good Food Network Announces Advisory Council (Diana Endicott) (2008)

• Diana & Gary Endicott, Rainbow Farms Banding Together to Build an Alternative Meat Market (2008)

• Diana and Gary featured in the SARE book: The New American Farmer, 2nd Edition. (2005)

• Rodale Institute) Small farms band together to grow their connections to consumers who hunger for local food (2000)

 

Honors/Awards:

• Ms. Endicott was named a ‘Trailblazer’ by the Kansas City Star

• Recipient of the national Agriculture Hall of Fame’s Honor Acre

• Recipient of the prestigious Tibbetts Award, which recognize companies and organizations for their accomplishments through the SBIR/STTR government funding program. (2008) 

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Grant Supported Agricultural Initiatives, Diana Endicott, Principal Investigator:

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• ​Local Food Promotion Program - LFPP - Agricultural Marketing Service 2024-2026)    Title - Strengthening Missouri’s Local Food Chain Resilience And Farmer Sustainability By Utilizing Existing Promise Zone Infrastructure Creating New Channels For Aggregation, Processing And Distribution.   GNFF's proposal is to enhance the sustainability of Missouri's local farms by establishing a new food system infrastructure and taking advantage of economies of scale. GNFF will utilize space in an existing grocery’s warehouse in a promise-zone in the North-side community of St. Louis, Missouri. The goal is to establish and expand the aggregation, processing, and distribution capacity of locally-grown and produced foods. GNFF will focus on local and regional producers, with emphasis on new, minority and women-owned growers.

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• ​The Heartland Center Business Builder Grant provided funding to The Food Conservancy and other small and mid-sized food and farm businesses in the Heartland region (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and northwest Arkansas) to support local food system development. The program's goal was to foster a resilient local food supply by helping businesses grow, expand operations, and strengthen regional food systems and rural economies. (2023-2025)

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• ​National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA/Small Business Innovation Research, Phase II - "Good Natured Food Campus - An Economic And Cultural Engine For The Northside Regeneration Plan" (2015-2017)

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• National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA/Small Business Innovation Research, Phase I - "Good Natured Food Campus - An Economic And Cultural Engine For The Northside Regeneration Plan" (2014)

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• USDA/Good Natured Family Farms Group Gap Pilot Study (2012)

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• National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA/Small Business Innovation Research, Phase II: Final Report, "A CSA Model to Bring Locally Grown Foods to The Corporate Workplace, Inner City Households and Schools Utilizing a Supermarket Infrastructure" (2009-2012)

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• ​Bistro Kids Farm 2 School Program – Bringing Healthy, Locally Grown Food to the Next Generation (2011)

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• USDA New Technologies for Ag Extension project; GNFF Meat Processing Plant (2008)

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• Innovative Models-Small Grower and Retailer Collaborations: Good Natured Family Farms and Balls Food Stores (2008)

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• National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA/Small Business Innovation Research, Phase I: Final Report:  A Marketing Model For Small Family Farms Selling Niche Products To Supermarkets (2007)

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• Diana Endicott as a Research Reference - ATTRA Small-scale Poultry Processing (2003)

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• National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA/Small Business Innovation Research, Phase I: "A Test Case To Evaluate The Efficacy Of The USDA Quality System Certification Program (QSCP) For Small Beef Producers And Processors" (2002)

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• Research developed under Diana Endicott, mentor, Cattlemen's Day at Kansas State:  "Quality and Display Life of Chilled or Frozen All-Natural Beef and Beef-Buffalo Frankfurters", Authors: Limsupavanich, R.; Kropf, Donald H.; Hachmeister, K.A.; Loughin, T.M.; Boyle, Elizabeth A. E.; Boland, Michael A.  (2000)

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• National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA/Small Business Innovation Research, Phase I:  "A Guide for USDA ISO-9000 Based (QSCP) Quality System Certification Program" (1999)

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