American Farmland
Trust
AFT works
to stop the loss of productive
farmland and to promote farming
practices that lead to a healthy
environment.
Community Involved in
Sustaining Agriculture (CISA)
CISA 's mission is to help farming
thrive in western Massachusetts.
They accomplish this through working
with farmers, consumers, educators
and researchers to strengthen local
agriculture.
CRAFT
The Food
Project helped launch an
agricultural training program for
apprentices, interns, and workers on
farms in the Eastern Massachusetts
area.
The Henry A. Wallace
Institute for Alternative
Agriculture
Covers
national sustainable agriculture
issues
W.K. Kellogg Foundation – Food
Systems and Rural Development
Resources, publications, and grants
promoting sustainable food systems
and the restoration of vision and
vigor of rural communities.
Massachusetts Dept.
of Food and Agriculture
State
website.
The Natural Resource,
Agriculture, and Engineering Service
Educational resources and
conferences in support of
cooperative extension, especially
for the Northeast region. Links to
the 14 state agricultural
universities that sponsor it, plus
information about past and upcoming
conferences.
N.O.F.A.
The
Northeast Organic Farming
Association.
Organic Trade
Association
The Organic Trade Association (OTA)
is a membership based business
association representing the organic
industry in Canada, the United
States and Mexico.
Slow Food
The Slow Food movement is an
international collaboration to
support and further traditional slow
food processes, in both the making
and the enjoying.
The Tufts School of
Nutrition - Northeast Food Systems
Partnership
The overall goal of the Partnership
is to build a common working agenda
among sustainable food interests in
the Northeast region. (Links,
information and resources)
University of
Massachusetts Extension Vegetable
Program
State
Extension Service.
Meaning of Food - PBS Videos http://www.pbs.org/opb/meaningoffood/
Urban Ecology Collaborative
http://128.119.112.6/uec/
CMU Grening Vacant Lots
http://itclass.heinz.cmu.edu/greenlots/
The Food Project
http://www.thefoodproject.org/
Grow Pittsburgh
http://www.growpittsburgh.org/
PASA Pittsburgh Association for
Sustainable Agriculture
http://www.pasafarming.org/
Carnegie Library links (very
comprehensive!) -
http://www.carnegielibrary.org/subject/gardening/orgs.html
Allegheny County Cooperative
Extension -
http://allegheny.extension.psu.edu/
The Community Food Security
Cooalition (CA) -
http://www.foodsecurity.org/
Resource Centres on Urban
Agriculture & Food Security -
http://www.ruaf.org/
City Farmer -
http://www.cityfarmer.org/
Sustain: The Alliance for Better
Food & Farming (UK) -
http://www.sustainweb.org/index.php