# USDA Food Access Muse connector

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## USDA Food Access

Look up SNAP participation, food insecurity indicators, and farm data by county for grant writing and community planning

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/usda-food-access
- Category: Research & Data
- Developer: Olyport (https://olyport.com)
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 165ms, checked 2026-09-28T08:46:01Z
- Endpoint: https://mcp.olyport.com/usda-food/mcp
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-09-24T17:21:20Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (com.olyport/usda-food) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=com.olyport%2Fusda-food

Connects to USDA Census and agricultural data. Muse can retrieve SNAP household participation rates, food insecurity risk profiles combining poverty and income, food desert indicators, and agricultural production statistics by state and county.

Example request: "Show me the SNAP participation rate and poverty level for King County, Washington to include in my food bank grant application."

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use USDA Food Access to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://mcp.olyport.com/usda-food/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- get_snap_participation: Get SNAP/food stamp household participation by county using Census ACS Table B22001. Returns the number and percentage of households receiving vs not receiving SNAP/food stamp benefits, broken down by county. Essential for understanding food assistance utilization in grant target
- get_food_insecurity_indicators: Get food-related economic indicators as proxies for food insecurity by county. Combines SNAP participation rate (B22001), poverty rate (B17001), and median household income (B19013) to build a food insecurity risk profile. Higher SNAP rates, higher poverty, and lower income corre
- get_food_environment: Get county-level food access risk profiles using Census ACS data. Constructs food access risk profiles by combining vehicle access (B25044), poverty status (B17001), and SNAP participation (B22001). Limited vehicle access combined with high poverty indicates food desert risk. Use
- get_agricultural_data: Get USDA NASS QuickStats data on agricultural production by state. Returns crop values, production quantities, and farm statistics from the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Useful for understanding local food production capacity in grant narratives. Args: state: Two

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 201ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (mcp.olyport.com, olyport.com not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: n/a (No npm or PyPI package published)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (4 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (No redirects off the domain)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)