Kansas City Food Circle www.kcfoodcircle.org
The Kansas City Food Circle is building a community food system
in which farmers, eaters, chefs, and grocers know and trust
each other. Our network enables us to share our knowledge and
experience while we work together promoting the benefits of
locally-grown organic and free-range foods. We cooperate in
nourishing each other today while seeking to sustain the ability
of future generations to nourish themselves through healthy
farming practices.
Growing Growers www.growinggrowers.org
Growing Growers was established to address this need for
more farmers and for more effective farmers. As a collaboration
between K-State Research and Extension, University of Missouri
Research and Extension, the Kansas City Food Circle (a
consumer organization), and the Kansas Rural Center, we
set out the goal of providing educational opportunities
to help new growers get started and established ones get
better at what they do. Present Magazine www.presentmagazine.com
Follow the Kansas City 100 Mile Diet team search for
local food.
KC Healthy Kids www.kchealthykids.org
KC Healthy Kids is a nonprofit, private operating foundation
focused on promoting fit and healthy kids in Greater Kansas
City. We aim to serve as the platform for connecting all
the childhood obesity reduction efforts in the region.
Our goal is to provide the most useful information and
tools to give our children an opportunity to live healthy
lives. We are proud to report that the content of the site
is provided through community collaboration. Local Harvest www.localharvest.org
Local Harvest maintains a definitive and reliable "living" public
nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and
other local food sources. Our search engine helps people
find products from family farms, local sources of sustainably
grown food, and encourages them to establish direct contact
with small farms in their local area. Our online store helps
small farms develop markets for some of their products beyond
their local area. Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture www.kccua.org
The Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture is a 501(c)3
tax-exempt corporation founded in 2004 by two Kansas City
farmers dedicated to promoting urban agriculture in the
Kansas City metropolitan area. Robyn Van En Center www.csacenter.org
The Robyn Van En Center provides a national resource center
about Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) for people
across the nation and around the world. The Robyn Van En
Center also offers outreach and works to gain publicity
about CSA farms in order to benefit community farmers and
consumers everywhere. Organic Consumers Association www.organicconsumers.org
The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and
grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization
campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability. The
OCA deals with crucial issues of food safety, industrial
agriculture, genetic engineering, children's health, corporate
accountability, Fair Trade, environmental sustainability
and other key topics. We are the only organization in the
US focused exclusively on promoting the views and interests
of the nation's estimated 50 million organic and socially
responsible consumers. Community Food Security Coalition www.foodsecurity.org
The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a non-profit
501(c)(3), North American organization dedicated to building
strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems that
ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally
appropriate food for all people at all times. We seek to
develop self-reliance among all communities in obtaining
their food and to create a system of growing, manufacturing,
processing, making available, and selling food that is
regionally based and grounded in the principles of justice,
democracy, and sustainability. Just Food www.justfood.org
Just Food is a non-profit organization that works to develop
a just and sustainable food system in the New York City
region. We do this by fostering new marketing and food-growing
opportunities that address the needs of regional, rural
family farms, NYC community gardeners, and NYC communities. MACSAC www.macsac.org
The Madison Area Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Coalition
works to create a sustainable, just, and locally based
food system in Southern Wisconsin by promoting and supporting
CSA farms and coordinating community and farmer education
programs about the benefits of locally, sustainably grown
foods.
Equiterre www.equiterre.org/en
Our organization develops projects that empower citizens
to make environmentally and socially responsible choices.
The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) network gives
citizen-consumers an opportunity to support local citizen-growers
by purchasing a share of the harvest in advance. Équiterre
started promoting CSA in 1995. Today, the network brings
together more than 90 farms that provide organic food to
over 7,500 families in 14 Quebec regions. |