Pennsylvania produce

Looking to enjoy some locally grown Pennsylvania produce? Here's how:

• Search the farm database on PAVeggies.org

• Visit your local growers' or farmers' market regularly

• Look for roadside stands as you travel throughout the state

• Ask for PA veggies at your favorite supermarket and buy them (often identified with the "PA Preferred" logo)

• Seek out Pennsylvania farms and veggies on menus at your favorite restaurants

Pennsylvania's 3,950 vegetable growers plant 49,400 acres of vegetables and produce more than 280,000 tons of vegetables including sweet corn, potatoes, snap beans, tomatoes, peppers, cabbage, cantaloupes, watermelon, zucchini and other squash, lima beans, lettuce, beets, carrots, onions and fresh herbs. Crops are ranked as follows:

1. Sweet corn is Pennsylvania's largest vegetable crop with about 10,300 acres per year.

2. Potatoes cover 5,500 acres.

3. Snap beans cover about 5,500 acres.

4. Pumpkins cover 5,500 acres.

5. Tomatoes cover more than 2,500 acres of fresh-to-market tomatoes plus about 1,000 acres of processing tomatoes.