Vermont has been conducting Local Food Counts since 2011 with the most recent taking place in 2020. In order to provide data for our regional percentage, our Research team used the proportions from Vermont’s 2020 count and applied the data to the 2022 USDA food expenditure data. As a result, the Vermont calculations for total and local food expenditures in this reporting reflect a 2022 estimate and do not match what is reflected in Farm to Plate’s Data Dashboard from 2020.
Note About Connecticut Maps: Although Connecticut has not had county governments since 1960, county boundaries have historically been used to depict data. For example, all USDA Census of Agriculture data for Connecticut is collected at a county-level. In 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau shifted to using Connecticut’s nine planning regions as county equivalent geographic units for data collection. This has presented a challenge for depicting data for Connecticut’s planning regions in Tableau. This mapping challenge has not been resolved yet, but when a solution is available, we will update Connecticut maps.