The Richmond Area Food System

Promoting a sustainable community food system in Richmond, VA

General

Resources for Developing Virginia Community Food Systems

 

Matt Benson

Virginia Cooperative Extension

Community Viability Specialist

P.O. Box 701

Warrenton, Virginia 20188

(540) 341-7961

mcbenson@vt.edu

 

* If you know of additional resources to be listed, please contact me. Thanks!

                                                                                                                                               

 

National:

 


100 Mile Diet

http://100milediet.org

 

Added-Value

www.added-value.org

 

Ag Decision Maker- Iowa State University

www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/index.html

 

Agriculture Marketing Resource Center

www.agmrc.org

 

Agriculture Marketing Service

www.ams.usda.gov

 

Agriculture of the Middle

www.agofthemiddle.org

 

American Community Gardening Association

www.communitygarden.org

 

American Farmland Trust

www.farmland.org

 

ATTRA- National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service

www.attra.org

Association of Family Farms

www.familyfood.net

 

Barbra Kingsolver

www.kingsolver.com

 

Baum Forum

www.baumforum.org

 

CARD- Center for Agriculture and Rural Development

www.card.iastate.edu

 

Center for Intergraded Agricultural Systems: CIAS

www.cias.wisc.edu

 

Center for Rural Affairs

www.cfra.org

 

Center for Sustainable Agriculture- University of Vermont

www.uvm.edu/~susagctr

 

Center for Sustaining Agriculture & Natural Resources (CSANR) - WSU

http://csanr.wsu.edu

 

 

Chef Ann Cooper: Renegade Lunch Lady

www.chefann.com

 

Chefs Collaborative

http://chefscollaborative.org

 

Community Alliance with Family Farmers

www.caff.org

 

Community, Food and Agriculture Books & Film Database

www.msu.edu/~howardp/booksfilms.html

 

Community Food Security Coalition

www.foodsecurity.org/index.html

 

Community Food Systems and Sustainable Agriculture Program-

University of Missouri Extension

http://agebb.missouri.edu/sustain

 

Cornell University- Discovering the Food System

http://foodsys.cce.cornell.edu/index.html

 

Crossroads Resource Center

www.crcworks.org

 

C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems

www.mottgroup.msu.edu

 

CUESA- Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture

www.cuesa.org

 

Culinate- Eat to Your Ideal

www.culinate.com

 

Eat Local

www.eatlocal.net

 

 

Eat Well Guide

www.eatwellguide.org

 

Eat Wild

www.eatwild.com

 

Economic Research Service, USDA

www.ers.usda.gov

 

Emerging Agricultural Markets- Wisconsin Cooperative Extension

www.uwex.edu/ces/agmarkets

 

Farm-to-School.org

www.farmtoschool.org

 

Farmers Market Coalition

www.farmersmarketcoalition.org

 

Food Alliance

www.foodalliance.org

 

Food and Water Watch

www.foodandwaterwatch.org

 

Food Circles Networking Project

www.foodcircles.missouri.edu

 

Food First

www.foodfirst.org

 

Food Routes

www.foodroutes.org

 

Food Trust

www.thefoodtrust.org

 

Future Harvest

www.futureharvestcasa.org

 

Glynwood Center

www.glynwood.org

 

Growing Power

www.growingpower.org

 

Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

www.iatp.org

 

Intervale Center, Burlington, VT

www.intervale.org

 

Just Food

www.justfood.org

 

Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture

www.kerrcenter.com

 

Keystone Agricultural Innovation Center

http://kaic.psu.edu

 

King County Extension- Food Systems

http://king.wsu.edu/foodandfarms/foodsystems.htm

 

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture

www.leopold.iastate.edu

 

LiFE- Linking Food and the Environment

www.tc.edu/centers/life/index.html

 

Local Harvest

www.localharvest.org

 

Mark Winne

www.markwinne.com

 

Michael Pollan

www.michaelpollan.com

 

Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture

www.misa.umn.edu/MN_Food_Works.html

 

Missouri Alternatives Center

http://agebb.missouri.edu/mac

 

Michigan Land Use Institute

www.mlui.org

NACo- Healthy Counties Database

www.healthycounties.org/database

 

National Agriculture Statistics Service

www.nass.usda.gov

 

National Agriculture Law Center Reading Room- Local Food Systems

www.nationalaglawcenter.org/readingrooms/localfood

 

National Association of Produce Market Managers

www.napmm.org

 

National Food Industry MarketMaker Portal

http://national.marketmaker.uiuc.edu

 

Networking Association for Farm Direct Marketing and Agri-tourism

www.nafdma.com

 

National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture

www.sustainableagriculture.net

 

New England Small Farm Institute

www.smallfarm.org

 

Northeast Iowa Food & Farm Coalition

www.extension.iastate.edu/allamakee/info/local+food.htm

 

Northeast Iowa Food & Fitness Initiative

www.iowafoodandfitness.org

 

PASA- Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture

www.pasafarming.org

 

Practical Farmers of Iowa

www.practicalfarmers.org

 

Rodale Institute

www.rodaleinstitute.org

Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity

www.yaleruddcenter.org

 

Slow Food USA

www.slowfoodusa.org

 

Small Farm Center- University of California

www.sfc.ucdavis.edu

 

Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

www.ssawg.org

 

Stone Barns Center for Food & Agriculture

www.stonebarnscenter.org

 

Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education

www.sare.org

 

Sustainable Table

www.sustainabletable.org

 

Sustainable Food Systems

www.sustainablefoodsystems.com

 

The Cornucopia Institute

www.cornucopia.org

 

U.S. Census Bureau

www.census.gov

 

U.S. Department of Agriculture

www.usda.gov

 

Value Chain Partnerships

www.valuechains.org

 

Wallace Center

www.wallacecenter.org


Virginia:

 


Agriculture in the Classroom

www.agclassroom.org

 

Appalachian Sustainable Development

www.asdevelop.org

 

Buy Fresh, Buy Local Virginia

www.buylocalvirginia.org

 

Buy Fresh, Buy Local for the Shenandoah Valley

www.buylocalshenvalley.org

 

Edible Gardener

www.theediblegardener.com

 

FarmFoody>> Connecting YOU to the sustainable family farm

www.farmfoody.org

 

Fauquier County Ag Development Office

www.fauquierag.com

 

Flavor Magazine

www.flavormags.com

 

FRESHFARM Markets Farmers’ Markets

www.freshfarmmarket.org

 

Institute for Environmental Negotiation, UVA

www.virginia.edu/ien

 

Local Food Project at Airlie

www.airlie.org/activities/foodproject.htm

 

Loudoun County Agriculture Development Office

www.loudounfarms.org

 

 

Lynchburg Grows

www.lynchburggrows.org

 

Rappahannock County Farm to Table Program

www.headwatersfdn.org/Farm2Table

 

Richmond Area Food System Council

http://richmondfoodsystem.com

 

Save Our Food

www.saveourfood.org

 

Southwest Virginia Fresh Direct

www.swvafreshdirect.com

 

Virginia Agri-business Council

www.va-agribusiness.org

 

Virginia Agricultural Vitality Program

www.savefarms.com

 

Virginia Association of Biological Farming

www.vabf.org

 

Virginia Beach Agriculture Department

www.vbgov.com/agriculture

 

Virginia Chef's Association, Inc.

www.vachefs.org

 

Virginia Cooperative Extension

www.ext.vt.edu

 

Virginia Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services

www.vdacs.virginia.gov

 

Virginia Department of Community Development & Housing

www.dhcd.virginia.gov

 

 

Virginia Department of Health

www.vdh.state.va.us

 

Virginia Farm Bureau

www.vafb.com

 

Virginia Farmers’ Direct Marketing Association

www.vfdma.org

 

Virginia Foundation for Agriculture Innovation & Rural Sustainability

www.vafairs.com

 

Virginia Organic Producers & Consumers Association

www.vopca.org

 

Virginia Secretary of Agriculture & Forestry

www.ag-forestry.virginia.gov

 

Virginia State University

www.vsu.edu

 

Virginia Tech

www.vt.edu

 

Virginia Food & Beverage Association

www.vfaba.org

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