The Stroll is not just a parade—it’s a movement. We work year-round to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation at farm and food businesses, to connect people and organizations of many kinds around sustainable living and resilient communities, and to promote the value of local food systems, local thinking, and Slow Living.

We also annually publish the Strolling of the Heifers Locavore Index, which ranks US states according to their support of local farm and food systems. “The purpose of the Index is to stimulate efforts across the country to use more local food in homes, restaurants, schools, and institutions,”said Orly Munzing, founder and executive director of Strolling of the Heifers.