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Locally-sourced food has recently become a very popular trend, both in consumer choice and in food scholarship. The literature on local food, though, notes how the consumption of local food is not an option available to all consumers. Due in part to price premiums on local food (relative to conventionally produced food) access to things like farmers' markets and CSA memberships is differentiated along lines of race and class: many local food participants tend to be white and have high incomes and levels of education. This study contributes to these conversations around the inequalities of access by shifting from the largely case study approach scholars have taken to this point to a food system level study. Rather than doubt the broader applicability of these previous studies, this study confirms and expands their findings by coupling the locations of locally-oriented farms with U.S. Census data on the region's racial and class demographics. Through this mix of GIS and regression analysis I find that the inequalities documented in these individual sites of research hold when considered through a broader lens (the local food system across southern New England), but do so in complex and nuanced ways depending on the type of local food outlet considered.