Links

A collection of food-security web links in the following categories:

Food Security/Food Systems	Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Urban Agriculture/Community Gardens	Progressive
Nutrition	Religious
Sustainable Agriculture	Community Development
Farmers’ Markets	University/Cooperative Extension
Anti-Hunger	Restaurants/Chefs/Co-ops

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

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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

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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
Always Current Garcinia Cambogia Information
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
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

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