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Food Security/Food Systems

 Bits & Bytes (database of food security resources) www.bitsandbytes.ca
 Catholic Mobile Hunger Page www.shc.edu/theolibrary/hunger.htm
 Center for Food and Justice departments.oxy.edu/uepi/cfj/index.htm
 Community Alliance with Family Farmers www.caff.org
 Community Food Security (United Kingdom)
www.wye.ac.uk/FoodLink/commsec.html
 Farm Fresh Rhode Island www.farmfreshri.org
 Farm to Family Connection www.farmtofamily.net
 Farm to Table www.farmtotable.org
 Food & Agriculture Organization (of the United Nations) www.fao.org
 Food and Society www.foodandsociety.org
 The Food Project www.thefoodproject.org
 Food Research & Action Center www.frac.org
 Food Secure Canada www.foodsecurecanada.org
 Food Security Learning Center www.whyhunger.org/programs/fslc.html
 Foodshare www.foodshare.net
 Growing Power Community Food Center www.growingpower.org
 Hartford Food System www.hartfordfood.org
 Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy - Ag Observatory
www.agobservatory.org/
 Just Community Food Systems www.emmitsburg.net/jcfs
 Just Food www.justfood.org
 Madison Food System Project www.wisc.edu/mfsp
 Maine Coalition for Food Security www.mefoodsecurity.org
 National Farm to School Program www.farmtoschool.org
 Massachusetts Farm to School Project
www.mass.gov/agr/markets/Farm_to_school
 New Jersey Urban Ecology aesop.rutgers.edu/~njuep
 Northeast Food System Partnership northeastfood.tufts.edu
 Occidental College www.uepi.oxy.edu
 Slow Food USA www.slowfoodusa.org
 Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group www.ssawg.org
 State Food Policy Council www.statefoodpolicy.org
 Sustainable Food Center www.sustainablefoodcenter.org
 Tahoma Food System www.tahomafoodsystem.org
 USDA Community Food Projects
www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/food/in_focus/hunger_if_competitive.html
 USDA Community Food Security Initiative
www.csrees.usda.gov/ProgView.cfm?prnum=1687
 Welfare Information Network
www.financeprojectinfo.org/WIN/food_security.asp
  W.K. Kellogg Foundation's Food Systems and Rural Development
www.wkkf.org/Programming/NewsList.aspx?CID=4
 World Hunger Year www.worldhungeryear.org
 World Watch Institute: "Home Grown" Report
www.worldwatch.org/pubs/paper/163

Urban Agriculture/Community Gardens

NATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS (U.S. & CANADA)

 American Community Gardening Association www.communitygarden.org

 Growing Power www.growingpower.org
 CFSC's Urban Agriculture Committee www.foodsecurity.org/ua_home.html
 Metro Ag: Alliance for Urban Agriculture www.metroagalliance.org

LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS

 Boston Natural Areas Network www.bostonnatural.org

 The City Farms Program (Just Food), New York City www.justfood.org
 City Farmer www.cityfarmer.org
 Collective Roots www.collectiveroots.org
 Community Harvest www.communityharvestdc.org
 The Council on the Environment of New York City www.cenyc.org
 Denver Urban Gardens www.dug.org
 Des Moines Community Gardening Coalition (Des Moines Park and Recreation
Dept.) www.botanicalcenter.com/com.html
 The Food Project, Boston & Lincoln, Mass. www.thefoodproject.org
 Gateway Greening Inc. www.gatewaygreening.org
 Green Guerillas, New York City www.greenguerillas.org
 GreenThumb (City of New York Parks & Recreation) www.greenthumbnyc.org
 Growing Gardens, Portland, OR www.growing-gardens.org
 Hunger Grow Away, NM www.hungergrowaway.com
 Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture www.kccua.org
 Los Angeles Community Garden Council www.lacommunitygardens.org
 Neighborhood Gardens Association, Philadelphia www.ngalandtrust.org
 Nuestras Raices, Holyoke, Mass. www.nuestras-raices.org
 P-Patch Community Gardens, Seattle
www.cityofseattle.net/neighborhoods/ppatch
 Parkway Partners, New Orleans www.parkwaypartners.com
 Philadelphia Green (Pennsylvania Horticultural Society)
www.pennsylvaniahorticulturalsociety.org
 Seattle Tilth www.seattletilth.org
 SEEDS, Durham, N.C. www.seedsnc.org
 Urban Harvest, Houston www.urbanharvest.org
INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS

 CASA Garden (Care Assurance System for the Aging & Homebound),
Huntsville, Al. www.casagarden.com
 Flint (Mi.) Urban Gardening & Land Use Committee (Salem Housing Comm.
Development Corp.) www.salemhousing.org
 Food From the 'Hood, Los Angeles foodfromthehood.com
 Friends of Troy Gardens, Madison, Wis.
www.madison.com/communities/troygdn
 The Garden Project, Lansing, Mi www.lansingfoodbank.org/gardenproj.html
 God's Gang Chicago godsgang1.org
 Greensgrow Philadelphia Project www.greensgrow.org
 Homeless Garden Project, Santa Cruz, Cal. www.infopoint.com/sc/orgs/garden
 Marra Farm (Fremont Public Association), Seattle
www.fremontpublic.org/client/moremarra.html
 The People's Grocery, Oakland www.peoplesgrocery.org
 UBC Farm (University of British Columbia) www.agsci.ubc.ca/ubcfarm
 Waltham Fields Community Farm, Waltham, Mass. www.communityfarms.org

RESOURCES & INFORMATION

 City Farmer (Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture) www.cityfarmer.org

 FEEDS - Food & Ecosystem Educational Demonstration Sites feeds.uwex.edu
 Food Security Learning Center (Community Gardens section)
www.whyhunger.org/programs/fslc/topics/community-gardens.html
 Funding Opportunities for Community Gardens (University of Arizona, Maricopa
County Cooperative Extension
ag.arizona.edu/maricopa/garden/html/funding/fund.htm
 Gardening Resources (Cornell University Department of Horticulture)
www.hort.cornell.edu/gardening
 Learning Centre (FoodShare, Toronto) www.foodshare.ca
 Reinvesting in America Community, Market & Youth Gardens page (World
Hunger Year) www.reinvestinginamerica.org
 Resource Centre on Urban Agriculture and Forestry (RUAF) www.ruaf.org
 USDA Community Food Projects
www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/food/in_focus/hunger_if_competitive.html
 Grow With Your Neighbors Program, Dayton, OH www.metroparks.org
 Heifer Project International www.heifer.org
 Homeless Garden Project www.infopoint.com/sc/orgs/garden
 Lettuce Link www.fremontpublic.org/client/moremarra.html
 Making a Garden as a Community Project www.hort.cornell.edu/gardening
 Parkway Partners www.parkwaypartners.com
 The Garden Project www.lansingfoodbank.org/gardenproj.html
 Urban Community Gardens alexia.lis.uiuc.edu/~sewells/communitygardens.htm
Nutrition
 Community Nutrition Institute www.unidial.com/~cni
 Community Wellness & Prevention Program of Contra Costa Health Services
www.ccprevention.org
 Edible Connections: Changing the Way We Talk About Food, Farm, and
Community agexted.cas.psu.edu/faculty/EdibleConnections.html
 Federal Nutrition Programs
www.financeprojectinfo.org/WIN/federal_nutrition_programs.asp
 GA State Univ. Nutrition Education for New Americans Project
multiculturalhealth.org
 The Hunger and Environmental Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group
www.hendpg.com
 Monterey County Health Dept. www.co.monterey.ca.us/wic
 National Agriculture Library www.nal.usda.gov./pubs_dbs
 Square Foot Nutrition Program at WSU Coop. Ext.
www.pierce.wsu.edu/Nutrition/SFN/index.htm
 Tufts Univ. School of Nutrition Science & Policy nutrition.tufts.edu

Sustainable Agriculture
 ATTRA www.attra.ncat.org
 American Farmland Trust www.farmland.org
 Bioneers Food & Farming Network www.bioneers.org/rdi/kellogg.html
 California Certified Organic Farmers www.ccof.org
 California Sustainable Agriculture Working Group (CA SAWG)
www.calsawg.org
 Community Alliance with Family Farmers www.caff.org
 Eat Well Guide www.eatwellguide.org
 Ecological Farming Association www.eco-farm.org
 Farm Aid www.farmaid.org
 Fatal Harvest www.fatalharvest.org
 Farm Folk/City Folk www.ffcf.bc.ca
 FL Organic Growers & Consumers www.foginfo.org
 Food Alliance www.foodalliance.org
 Food, Faith, and Farm Initiative www.mrn.org/FFFI
 Food First www.foodfirst.org
 The Food Project www.thefoodproject.org
 FoodRoutes Network www.foodroutes.org

Humane Society of the US www.hsus.org

 Indigenous Permaculture www.indigenous-permaculture.com
 Landloss Prevention Project www.landloss.org
  Lopez Community Land Trust www.lopezclt.org
 Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture Coalition (MACSAC)
www.macsac.org
 MI Organic Food & Farming Alliance www.moffa.org
 Michael Fields Agricultural Institute www.michaelfieldsaginst.org
 New England Small Farm Institute www.smallfarm.org
 Northeast Organic Farmers Association - VT www.nofavt.org
 Organic Farming Research Foundation www.ofrf.org
 Palouse Clearwater Env. Institute www.pcei.org
 Partners For Family Farms www.partnersforfamilyfarms.org
 Permaculture Links www.ibiblio.org/london/permaculture.html
 Pesticide Action Network panna.igc.org
 Practical Farmers of Iowa www.pfi.iastate.edu
 Roots of Change www.rootsofchange.org
 Rural Coalition www.ruralco.org
 Soul of Agriculture www.soulofag.org
 Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group www.ssawg.org
 Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) www.sare.org
 SARE-Virginia www.sare-va.vt.edu
 Sustainable Communities Network www.sustainable.org
 Univ. of CA SAREP www.sarep.ucdavis.edu
 VA Association of Biological Farming www.vabf.org
 Women, Food and Agriculture Network www.wfan.org

Farmers' Markets
 California Federation of Certified Farmer's Markets www.cafarmersmarkets.com
 Community Alliance with Family Farmers www.caff.org
 Farmers Market Coalition www.farmersmarketcoalition.org
 Farmers Market Federation of New York www.nyfarmersmarket.com
 Farmers' Markets of Southern California www.farmernet.com
 Findlay Market findlaymarket.org
 Food Security Learning Center (Farmers' Markets section)
www.whyhunger.org/programs/fslc/topics/farmersa-market.html
 The Food Trust www.thefoodtrust.org
 Local Harvest www.LocalHarvest.org
 Pike Place Market Farm Program www.pikeplacemarket.org
 Santa Monica Certified Farmers Market www.farmersmarket.santa-monica.org
 Sustainable Communities Network
www.sustainable.org/economy/agriculture.html
 Tacoma Farmers Market tacomafarmersmarket.com
Anti-Hunger
 Alameda Co. Community Food Bank www.accfb.org
 America's Second Harvest www.secondharvest.org
 Arizona Community Action Association www.azcaa.org
 Arkansas Hunger Coalition www.arkansashunger.org
 Association of Arizona Food Banks www.azfoodbanks.org
 Atlanta Community Food Bank www.acfb.org
 Bread for the World www.bread.org
 California Food Policy Advocates www.cfpa.net
 Capital Area Community Food Bank www.capitalareafoodbank.org
 Care & Share Food Bank www.careandsharefoodbank.org
 Center on Hunger and Poverty www.centeronhunger.org
 Central PA Food Bank www.centralpafoodbank.org
 Community Food Bank of NJ www.njfoodbank.org
 Community Food Share www.communityfoodshare.org
 Fairbanks Community Food Bank www.fairbanksfoodbank.org
 Food for Lane County www.foodforlanecounty.org
 Foodlink www.foodlinkny.org
 Food Security Learning Center www.whyhunger.org/programs/fslc
 Foodshare www.foodshare.org
 Freestore/Foodbank www.freestorefoodbank.org
 Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank www.brfoodbank.org
 Greater Pittsburg Community Food Bank www.pittsburghfoodbank.org
 Hunger in Georgia www.fighthungerga.com
 Hunger Task Force of Milwaukee www.hungertaskforce.org
 Institute for the Study of Homelessness and Poverty weingart.org/institute
 Institute on Assets and Social Policy (IASP) www.assetinstitute.org
 Just Harvest trfn.clpgh.org/harvest
 Kauai Food Bank www.hawaiian.net/~food
 KIDS Can Make A Difference www.kidscanmakeadifference.org
 LA Coalition to End Hunger & Homelessness www.peoplesguide.org
 LA Regional Food Bank www.lafightshunger.org
 Mercer Street Friends www.mercerstreetfriends.org
 Minnesota Food Share www.gmcc.org/foodshare
 Oregon Food Bank www.oregonfoodbank.org
 PA Hunger Action Center www.pahunger.org
 Philabundance www.philabundance.org
 Sacramento Hunger Commission www.communitycouncil.org
 Second Harvest Heartland www.2harvest.org
 Snow Cap Community Charities www.snowcap.org
 Toledo-Northwest Ohio Food Bank www.toledofoodbank.org
 Western Massachusetts Food Bank www.foodbankwma.org
 Westside Food Bank www.westsidefoodbank.org
  World Hunger Ecumenical Arizona Task-Force (WHEAT) www.hungerhurts.org
 World Hunger Year www.worldhungeryear.org

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)

 Alternative Farming Systems Information Center www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/csa
 CSA Learning Center at Angelic Organics www.CSALearningCenter.org
 CSA of North America www.umass.edu/umext/csa
 Food Security Learning Center (CSA section)
www.whyhunger.org/programs/fslc/topics/community-supported-agriculture.html
 Robyn Van En Center for CSA Resources www.csacenter.org
 Seattle Tilth CSA www.seattletilth.org/activities/2004CSADirectory.htm

Progressive
 Center for Ecoliteracy www.ecoliteracy.org
 Center for Neighborhood Technology www.cnt.org
 Community Coalition www.ccsapt.org
 Self Help Credit Union www.self-help.org
 Sustainable Living Systems www.sustainablelivingsystems.org
 Union of Food and Commercial Workers Local 770 www.ufcw.org

Religious
 California Council of Churches www.calchurches.org
 National Catholic Rural Life Center www.ncrlc.com
 Northeast Emergency Food Program (Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon)
www.emoregon.org
 Presbyterian Hunger Program www.pcusa.org/pcusa/wmd/hunger
 US Catholic Bishops Conference www.nccbuscc.org/sdwp

Community Development
 Center for Community Development www.udel.edu/CCDFP
 Center for Civic Partnerships www.civicpartnerships.org
 First Nations Development Institute www.firstnations.org
  Isles Community Farm Project www.isles.org
 Northeast Neighborhood Alliance www.nena10.com
 Community Action Partnership of Orange County
www.orangecountyfoodbank.com

University/Cooperative Extension
 Dept. of Urban & Regional Planning - UW Madison www.wisc.edu/mfsp
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 Center for a Liveable Future - Johns Hopkins University
www.jhsph.edu/environment
 Jefferson County Cooperative Extension www.ca.uky.edu
 VA Cooperative Extension www.ext.vt.edu

Restaurants/Chefs/Co-ops
 Border Grill www.marysueandsusan.com
 Chefs Collaborative www.chefscollaborative.org
 La Montanita www.lamontanita.org
 Veritable Vegetable www.veritablevegetable.com
 Williamson St. Grocery Coop www.willystcoop.com

FOOD SECURITY LINKS WEB SITE:

http://www.foodsecurity.org/links.html

Feeding America

35 E. Wacker Drive, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60601

800-771-2303
feedingamerica.org
Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest) is the nation's largest domestic
hunger relief organization. Through a network of over 200 food banks and food-rescue
programs, they distribute food to 26 million hungry Americans each year, eight million of
whom are children.

Food Research and Action Center

1875 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 540, Washington, DC 20009
202-986-2200
www.frac.org
The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is a leading national organization working
to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and under-nutrition in the United States.
Founded in 1970 as a public interest law firm, FRAC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan
research and public policy center that serves as the hub of an anti-hunger network of
thousands of individuals and agencies across the country.

World Hunger Year, Inc.

505 Eighth Avenue, New York, NY 10018

212-629-8850
www.whyhunger.org
WHY is convinced that solutions to hunger and poverty can be found at the grassroots
level. WHY advances long-term solutions to hunger and poverty by supporting
community-based organizations that empower individuals and build self-reliance, i.e.,
offering job training, education and after school programs; increasing access to housing
and healthcare; providing micro-credit and entrepreneurial opportunities; teaching people
to grow their own food; and assisting small farmers. WHY connects these organizations
to funders, media and legislators. WHY also manages the National Hunger
Clearinghouse, the only centralized national database of innovative organizations
working on food, nutrition and agriculture issues in the country.

Coalition Building

AHEC/Community Partners

24 South Prospect Street, Amherst, MA 01002

413-253-4283
info@ahecpartners.org
www.ahecpartners.org
A Massachusetts based organization committed to developing, promoting and sustaining
community-based efforts. Organizational goals are to increase collaboration within and
between communities, to build citizen participation, and to improve community quality
of life. Programs focus on expanding health care access and creating healthy
communities. Their website includes extensive information on coalition building.

Midwest Academy

28 E. Jackson Street #605, Chicago, IL 60604

312-427-2304
mwacademy@aol.com
The Midwest Academy offers five-day training sessions for leaders and staff of citizen
and community groups. The Academy is one of the nation's oldest and best known
schools for community organizations, citizen organizations and individuals committed to
progressive social change. The Academy also supports professional trainers around the
country who are available for coalition trainings.

Community Building, Community Development

ABCD Institute for Policy Research

Northwestern University

2040 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208

Audrey Chambers, Publications Director
847-491-8712 Alice Chambers Publications Director for ABCD

ABCD Publications

ACTA, 4848 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL 60640

800-397-2282
The source for ABCD Publications.
www.northwestern.edu/IPR/abcd.html
The Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD), established in 1995 by the
Community Development Program at Northwestern University's Institute for Policy
Research, is built upon three decades of community development research by John
Kretzmann and John L. McKnight. The ABCD Institute spreads its findings on capacity-
building community development in two ways: (1) through extensive and substantial
interactions with community builders, and (2) by producing practical resources and tools
for community builders to identify, nurture, and mobilize neighborhood assets.

Center for Civic Partnerships

1851 Heritage Lane, Suite 250, Sacramento, CA 95815

916-646-8680
ccp@civicpartnerships.org
www.civicpartnerships.org
The Center for Civic Partnerships (Center) assists communities and organizations in
creating the physical, social, and economic conditions in which people can be healthy by
providing technical assistance, educational programs, publications, funding resources and
opportunities, and consultation. Some of the Center's publications include: From
Organization Practices to Public Policies: Local Strategies to Increase Healthy Eating and
Physical Activity (2003); Fresh Ideas for Community Nutrition and Physical Activity
(2002); and Sustainability Toolkit: 10 Steps to Maintaining Your Community
Improvements (2001).
National Community Building Network

1624 Franklin Street, Suite 1000, Oakland, CA 94612

510-663-6226
network@ncbn.org
www.ncbn.org
The NCBN is a national membership organization that serves as a hub for brokering
information and connections among community builders. NCBN offers an annual
conference on community building.

University of Kansas Community Tool Box

www.ctb.lsi.ukans.edu
The Community Tool Box aims to promote community health and development by
connecting people, ideas and resources. The web site is created and maintained by the
University of Kansas Work Group on Health Promotion and Community Development in
Lawrence, KS, and AHEC/Community Partners in Amherst, Massachusetts. Currently,
the core of the Tool Box is the "how-to tools." These how-to sections use simple, friendly
language to explain how to do the different tasks necessary for community health and
development. For instance, there are sections on leadership, strategic planning,
community assessment, advocacy, grant writing, and evaluation to give just a few
examples. Each section includes a description of the task, advantages of doing it, step-by-
step guidelines, examples, checklists of points to review, and training materials.

Cultivating Community: Principles and Practices for Community Gardening

as a Community Building Tool by Karen Payne & Deborah Fryman

American Community Gardening Association

1777 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43203-2040
www.communitygarden.org
This document showcases how community gardening programs can advance community
development, as well as empower local leadership and nurture families, strengthen
economic development, and improve quality of life overall. Cultivating Community
provides useful tips on how approach community gardening as an organizing tool, and
highlights specific practices and activities that have proven to work. It also features
stories and case studies from community gardens around the country.

Growing Communities Curriculum: Community Building and

Organizational Development through Community Gardening by Jeanette
Abi-Nader, Kendall Dunnigan, Kristen Markley and David Buckley

American Community Gardening Association

1777 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43203-2040
www.communitygarden.org
The Curriculum provides an in-depth exploration into the practices and strategies
community organizers can use to develop dynamic leaders and to create strong programs
using a participatory approach to community building. This 300+ page curriculum builds
on the years of ACGA experiences and includes chapters and detailed workshop outlines
on Diversity, Asset-Based Community Development, Community Organizing 101,
Leadership Development, Meeting Facilitation, Board Development, Grassroots
Fundraising, Communications and Outreach, Coalition Building and How to Lead a
Workshop.

Community Food Systems

Community Food Security 101

This lively, interactive educational tool enables participants to walk through the food
system and brainstorm about creative community solutions. It includes materials and
complete instructions for a one to two hour session.
Download pdf file

Food and Nutrition Information Center, Community Food Systems Site

www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/000061.html
This site is loaded with information on food and nutrition and how they relate to
community food systems. It includes links to a farmer's market state by state directory,
profiles of successful community food system projects, articles and links to sites on food
system related topics and organizations, dietary guidelines and information and an A to Z
information bank of food and nutrition related topics.

University of California Sustainable Agriculture and Research Program

(SAREP)

University of California
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616
530-752-7556
sarep@ucdavis.edu
www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/cdpp/
SAREP funds sustainable agriculture and food systems projects in California, sponsors
conferences and workshops, and publishes reports and a quarterly newsletter. The
website includes an extensive bibliography of Community Food System resources and
descriptions of currently funded SAREP projects.

Community Food Security: A Guide to Concept, Design, and Implementation

Editor: Hugh Joseph
Community Food Security Coalition
3830 SE Division St
Portland, OR 97202
503-954-2970
Go to order form
This guidebook details such issues as the concept of CFS, community food planning,
needs assessments, building collaborations and coalitions, project implementation,
entrepreneurship, funding, program sustainability, case studies, and multiple attachments
Community Food Security Resource Kit: How to Find Money, Technical Assistance, and
Other Help to Fight Hunger and Strengthen Local Food Systems

USDA Community Food Security Initiative

Room 536-A, 14th & Independence, SW

Washington, DC 20250
202-720-5746
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/ProgView.cfm?prnum=1687

Growing a Community Food System by Steven Garrett and Gail Feenstra

Bulletins Office, Washington State University

Cooper Publications Building
P.O. Box 645912
Pullman, WA 99164-5912
http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/wrep0135/wrep0135abstract.htm
This 20-page publication presents practical steps and processes for communities
interested in building a community food system. It describes how to establish strong
coalitions and plan strategically. The authors outline key components of the process
including: visioning, community food system assessment, development of project
concepts, and evaluation planning. Western Regional Extension publication number
WREP0135, available for, $2.50.

The Hartford Food System by Dawn Biehler and Melissa Sepos

509 Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford, CT 06114

860-296-9325
www.hartfordfood.org
This manual can act as a blueprint for organizations seeking to adopt the core principles,
concepts and philosophies of the Hartford Food System in their work towards creating a
new working model sustainable food system.

Local Food Project: A How-to Manual by Gary L. Valen

The Humane Society of the United States

2100 L St, NW
Washington, DC 20037
202-452-1100
www.hsus.org
This readable 43-page guidebook provides practical advice on various aspects of
planning and implementing a local food project. It includes a nationwide annotated
resource list of organizations.

Community Gardening/Urban Agriculture

American Community Gardening Association

1777 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43203-2040

www.communitygarden.org
The American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) is a national nonprofit
membership organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of community
greening in urban and rural communities. ACGA offers an annual conference and
publications centered on community building and greening.

City Farmer, Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture

Vancouver, BC, Canada

cityfarm@interchange.ubc.ca
www.cityfarmer.org/urbagnotes1.html#notes
This site includes an array of resources (organizations, website links, books, etc.) on
urban agriculture and community gardening.

Entrepreneurial Community Gardens: Growing Food, Skills, Jobs and

Communities by Gail Feenstra, Sharyl McGrew and David Campbell

University of California
Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Publications
6701 San Pablo Avenue, 2nd Floor
Oakland, CA 94608-1239
800-994-8849
danrcs.ucdavis.edu
This document is the result of a two-year study evaluating the success and failures of 27
community building organizations working with entrepreneurial urban agricultural
projects. The document covers -how they were started, what it takes to make them work,
how successful they have been in contributing to economic development and what
lessons might be learned for potential new projects.

Growing Communities Curriculum: Community Building and

Organizational Development through Community Gardening
by Jeanette Abi-Nader, Kendall Dunnigan, Kristen Markley and David Buckley

American Community Gardening Association

1777 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43203-2040
www.communitygarden.org
The Curriculum provides an in-depth exploration into the practices and strategies
community organizers can use to develop dynamic leaders and to create strong programs
using a participatory approach to community building. This 300+ page curriculum builds
on the years of ACGA experiences and includes chapters and detailed workshop outlines
on Diversity, Asset-Based Community Development, Community Organizing 101,
Leadership Development, Meeting Facilitation, Board Development, Grassroots
Fundraising, Communications and Outreach, Coalition Building and How to Lead a
Workshop.

Direct Marketing

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service

www.ams.usda.gov
The extensive USDA Agricultural Marketing Service site includes links to various
agricultural marketing topics including farmer's markets, direct marketing, the National
Organic Program and fruit and vegetable information. Two links on this site of special
interest are www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets which includes a National Directory of
Farmer's Markets (also available by print at 202-720-8317) and
www.ams.usda.gov/directmarketing which includes news, announcements, publications
and resources on direct marketing topics including farm to school, farmer's markets,
wholesale and alternative marketing.

Guide to Educational Resources on Direct Marketing

by David Chaney, Gail Feenstra, Karen Levy

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP)
University of California
One Shields Ave. Davis, CA 95616
530-752-7556
sarep@ucdavis.edu
www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/cdpp/
Annotated list of recommended resources related to farmers markets, CSAs, roadside
stands, coops, and other direct marketing approaches. Web version will be available later.

Environmental Justice
Community Coalition for Environmental Justice

105-14th Av Suite 3-C, Seattle, WA 98122

206-720-0285
www.ccej.org
CCEJ works on social, economic and environmental health issues that disproportionately
impact people of color, refugee, immigrant, and low income communities. CCEJ
successfully organized communities to fight polluters such as the VA Hospital's medical
waste incinerator in Beacon Hill, and industry in South Park. Trainers are offered on
building community coalitions, which identifies and eliminates environmental injustice,
and advocates for and creates environmental justice.
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Food System Assessment

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Sustainable Food Center

1106 Clayton Lane, Suite 480W, Austin, TX 78723
512-236-0074
www.sustainablefoodcenter.org/SFC_reports.html
This study describes a neighborhood food system, shows how it fails to meet community
needs, and makes suggestions for actions to improve the situation.

Seeds of Change: Strategies for Food Security for the Inner City by Linda
Ashman, et. al.

UCLA Urban Planning Department & CFSC

Available for download from www.foodsecurity.org
The product of a year's work for six researchers, Seeds of Change is perhaps the most
thorough documentation of an urban community's food system. There are sections on
hunger, nutrition, food industry, supermarket industry, community case study, farmers'
markets, urban agriculture, joint ventures, and food policy councils.

What's Cooking in Your Food System? A Guide to Community Food

Assessment

by Hannah Burton, et. al.

Community Food Security Coalition
3830 SE Division, Portland, OR 97202
503-954-2970
Available for download from www.foodsecurity.org
Learn about Community Food Assessments, a creative way to highlight food-related
resources and needs, promote collaboration and community participation, and create
lasting change. This Guide includes case studies of nine Community Food Assessments
(see PDF file); tips for planning and organizing an assessment; guidance on research
methods and strategies for promoting community participation; and ideas for translating
an assessment into action for change.

Fundraising

The Foundation Center

79 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10003

212-620-4230
www.fdncenter.org
The Foundation Center's mission is to support and improve institutional philanthropy by
promoting public understanding of the field and helping grantseekers succeed. Founded
in 1956, the Center is the nation's leading authority on institutional philanthropy and is
dedicated to serving grantseekers, grantmakers, researchers, policymakers, the media, and
the general public.

Local Food Policy

Getting Food on the Table: An Action Guide to Local Food Policy

by Dawn Biehler, Andy Fisher, Kai Siedenburg, Mark Winne and Jill Zachary
Community Food Security Coalition
3830 SE Division, Portland, OR 97202
503-954-2970
Available for download from www.foodsecurity.org
This guide includes a department by department inventory of local programs, policies and
functions that provide opportunities for supporting community food security. The guide
also includes case studies, advice from experienced food policy advocates, a resource
guide and federat funding sources.

The Hartford Food System

by Dawn Biehler and Melissa Sepos

509 Wethersfield Avenue, Hartford, CT 06114
860-296-9325
This manual can act as a blueprint for organizations seeking to adopt the core principles,
concepts and philosophies of the Hartford Food System in their work towards creating a
new working model sustainable food system.

Nutrition and Nutrition Education

Food and Nutrition Information Center, Community Food Systems Site

www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/000061.html
This site is loaded with information on food and nutrition and how they relate to
community food systems. It includes links to a farmer's market state by state directory,
profiles of successful community food system projects, articles and links to sites on food
system related topics and organizations, dietary guidelines and information and an A to Z
information bank of food and nutrition related topics.

Food & Health Communications, Inc.

P.O. Box 266498, Weston, FL 33326

800-462-2352 or 954-385-5328
www.foodandhealth.com/handout.shtml
This site offers several food and nutrition educational handouts that can be downloaded
and used for trainings. Topics include diet and weight loss, fruits and vegetables, heart
disease and nutrition and wellness.

Tufts University Nutrition Navigator

navigator.tufts.edu
The Tufts University Nutrition Navigator is the first online rating and review guide that
solves the two major problems Web users have when seeking nutrition information: how
to quickly find information best suited to their needs and whether to trust the information
they find there. The Tufts University Nutrition Navigator is designed to help you sort
through the large volume of nutrition information on the Internet and find accurate, useful
nutrition information you can trust.

School and College Food

FarmToCollege.org

CFSC's Farm to College Program website; an excellent information clearinghouse for

both new and existing farm to college projects, with practical tools and resources, profiles
of 140 projects, and updates on trends in the movement. If your college or university
purchases products from local farmers, please make sure your program is listed on the
site and the information is up to date.

National Farm to School Network

www.farmtoschool.org
Offers training and technical assistance, information services, networking, and support in
policy and media and marketing activities.

Healthy Farms, Healthy Kids: Evaluating the Barriers and Opportunities for
Farm-to-School Programs

by Andrea Azuma and Andy Fisher

Community Food Security Coalition
3830 SE Division St, Portland, OR 97202
503-954-2970
Available for download at www.foodsecurity.org
This report documents the barriers and opportunities for school food services to purchase
food directly from local farmers. Case studies and policy recommendations are included.

Fast Food Nation: The dark side of the all American Meal

by Eric Schlosser
As one reviewer put it, Fast Food Nation is "a stomach-churning critique of the health
and labor practices of the burger business, which argues that Americans should change
their dietary habits." Schlosser's book is convincing, detailed and well-informed.

Action Alliance for Children

1201 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, CA 94612

510-444-7136
www.4children.org/news/599food.htm
Includes an article, "What are we feeding our kids?" which originally appeared in the
Action Alliance for Children's March-April 1999 Children's Advocate newsmagazine.
The site also includes information on other Children advocacy issues.

University of Wisconsin
Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems

1450 Linden Drive, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706

608-262-5200
phaza@facstaff.wisc.edu
www.cias.wisc.edu
Learn about colleges and universities around Wisconsin who are connecting with local
farmer's for their campus food service needs.
Local Food Project: A How-to Manual

by Gary L. Valen
The Humane Society of the United States
2100 L St, NW, Washington, DC 20037
202-452-1100
www.hsus.org
This readable 43-page guidebook provides practical advice on various aspects of
planning and implementing a local food project. It includes a nationwide annotated
resource list of organizations.

Northern Iowa Food & Farm Partnership

Center for Energy and Environmental Education, University of Northern Iowa

http://www.uni.edu/ceee/foodproject

Community Food Systems Project of Practical Farmers of Iowa

http://www.pfi.iastate.edu/Local_Food_Syst/Field_to_family.htm

Innovative Marketing Opportunities for Small Farmers: Local Schools as

Customers

February 2000. USDA.

How Local Farmers and School Food Service Buyers are Building Alliances

May 2000. USDA.

Order these two publications from Dan Schofer, 202-690-1170, dan.schofer@usda.gov

Oxfam America's Change Initiative Toolkit

For students interested in developing farm to college projects.

http://www.oxfamamerica.org/youth/art1767.html

FoodRoutes Network

To locate farmers and farm groups in your area and for information on developing
educational campaigns, contact the FoodRoutes Network.
http://www.foodroutes.org

National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture

For information on policy issues that support your local farmers and the environment,
contact Becky Ceartas with the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture.
becky@sustainableagriculture.net, 845-744-8448
http://www.sustainableagriculture.net

Public Citizen - Irradiated Food Campaign

For information on the campaign to keep irradiated food off campuses or to receive an
activist packet, contact Monique Mikhail at Public Citizen 202-546-4996 or
mmikhail@citizen.org
or check out www.citizen.org/cmep/foodsafety.

Real Food Challenge

realfoodchallenge.org
Unites students for a more just and sustainable food system. Organizing both locally and
nationally, the Challenge is building a student movement strong enough to transform our
food economy.

Sustainable Agriculture and Family Farming

ATTRA-Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas

P.O. Box 3657, Fayetteville, AR 72702

800-346-9140
www.attra.org
Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas-is the national sustainable farming
information center operated by the private nonprofit National Center for Appropriate
Technology (NCAT). ATTRA provides technical assistance to farmers, Extension agents,
market gardeners, agricultural researchers, and other ag professionals in all 50 states.
Topics addressed by ATTRA can be categorized into three broad areas: sustainable
farming production practices, alternative crop and livestock enterprises and innovative
marketing. Technical assistance, publications, and resources are provided free of charge
to appropriate users. ATTRA is funded through a cooperative agreement with the USDA
Rural Business--Cooperative Service agency.

National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture

P.O. Box 396, Pine Bush, New York 12566

845-744-8448
www.sustainableagriculture.net
The National Campaign For Sustainable Agriculture, Inc. is dedicated to educating the
public on the importance of a sustainable food and agriculture system that is
economically viable, environmentally sound, socially just, and humane.

Sustainable Agriculture Working Groups (SAWGs)

Five regional Sustainable Agriculture Working Groups (SAWGs) coordinate educational

and advocacy efforts to advance sustainable agriculture in their regions. Their contact
information is available on the National Campaign website.

Robyn Van En Center for CSA Resources

Wilson College Fulton Center for Sustainable Living

1015 Philadelphia Ave, Chambersburg PA 17201
717-264-4141 ext. 3352 contact person Jayne Shord
info@csacenter.org
www.csacenter.org
Wilson College is a small, women-centered liberal arts college in southern Pennsylvania
founded in 1869. The Fulton Center for Sustainable Living was created in 1994 to
integrate sustainability issues into the curriculum and to utilize the school's 100-acre farm
as a living laboratory. The Community Supported Agriculture Project was created in
1997 to promote and support CSA in Pennsylvania and beyond. This site includes
extensive information on CSA's and provides a state-by-state directory of CSA's.

Sustainable Communities Network, Agriculture and Food Systems Site

www.sustainable.org/economy/agriculture.html
Provides a detailed resource list of organizations utilizing whole systems approaches to
sustainable agriculture. Includes an extensive reading list. Presents seven successful
sustainable agriculture and community development case studies. Links to similar
resources in areas of related interest including forestry, economic development,
manufacturing, urban/rural ties, technology and fisheries.

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