Structure
Membership in the Good Food Guild is open to both retailers and craft food and beverage businesses, in the nine industries that the Good Food Awards works with and beyond to include all traditional American craft food traditions, from butter to cookies to crackers, mead, cider and more. If your industry is not listed on the sign up form, choose “Other Craft Food” and tell us about what you do. Membership will be based on meeting the standards developed by the Good Food Awards Committees, a diverse group of leaders from each industry. Each set of standards reflects the best practices of
tasty, authentic and responsible food producers
as it relates to the specific industry,
while not being so stringent as to preclude all but a few dozen businesses. The Guild is committed to adding additional stake holders to support a revision of the criteria every year to reflect changes in our rapidly changing food system, and to using its marketing power to support advancement in sustainability and social responsibility. A copy of the current standards are below.