Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Department of Agricultural Resources ("Agricultural Resources" or the "Department") seeks one or more organizations (the "Responder") to enhance the buy local effort in western, central, northeastern and southeastern Massachusetts. The Responder will submit a response to Agricultural Resources on how it would accomplish the Department's goals. These goals are: 1) To increase the cash receipts for farmers from local sales of agricultural products or other locally produced products from primarily local ingredients grown or made in the Responder's respective region of the State; 2) To increase recognition of Massachusetts agriculture in the specific regions of western, central, northeastern and southeastern Massachusetts; 3) To attract regional partners among traditional and non-traditional groups to support and promote agriculture in the region including leveraging other dollars; and 4) To help to build local capacity to do similar activities independently in the future.
