Resources :: A Smarter Food System
The FoodRoutes Web site features a nationwide directory of local, sustainable farmers, farmers' markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) farms that sell fresh fruits and vegetables, pastured poultry, hormone-free dairy products, grassfed beef, and more. The site also has a Community Food Market where consumers can buy food directly from family farmers, online.
American Community Gardening Association
The American Community Gardening Association and its member organizations work to promote and support all aspects of community food and ornamental gardening, urban forestry, preservation and management of open space, and integrated planning and management of developing urban and rural lands.
Food and Community is striving to achieve a future food system that provides all people access to a food supply that is not only safe and nutritious but grown in a manner that protects the environment and adds economic and social value to rural and urban communities. The purpose of the FAS Initiative is to support the creation and expansion of community-based food systems that are locally owned and controlled, environmentally sound, and health promoting.
Promotes the environmental and economic benefits of certified organic food production to farmers, processors, distributors, retailers, and consumers.
Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.
The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC)
The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) brings together farmers and others to organize national projects focused on preserving and strengthening family farms.
Farm Aid co-founders Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, and Neil Young, have brought hundreds of artists together to sing a song of hope for rural America. Thousands of Americans have joined these artists in their commitment to help keep family farmers on their land.
Community Food Security Coalition
CFS is about building partnerships between public and private sectors, between consumers and producers. The food policy council, which brings together stakeholders from the diverse sectors of the food system to address problems and create solutions, embodies the community food security approach.
Sustainable Table is a consumer campaign developed by the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE). It was launched to help fill in the gaps in the sustainable food movement, and to help direct consumers to the leading organizations who are working on the issue. Instead of becoming overwhelmed by all the problems surrounding our food supply, Sustainable Table celebrates the joy of food and eating.
Organic Crop Improvement Association
An organization that provides farmers and farmers in transition the means to establish and maintain standards of production for the organic foods industry in order to promote a sustainable agriculture.
Worm's Way promotes organic and hydroponic gardening by offering articles and other information resources to their visitors. Worm's Way offers a wide array of innovative, high quality and earth-friendly products to satisfy your every gardening need—indoors and out, all year 'round.
American Farmland Trust is committed to protecting the nation's farm and ranch land, keeping it healthy and improving the economic viability of agriculture. Our staff of farmers, policy experts, researchers and scientists knows the issues from the ground up — how communities can be strengthened by protecting farmland and supporting local farmers, and how farmers and ranchers can best be engaged to conserve the land and protect our natural resources.
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