RELATED WEBSITES

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

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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• 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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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

See an annotated list of recommended resources.