Issue Area: Local Food Systems

When the average North American sits down to eat, each ingredient has typically travelled at least 1,500 miles—call it the SUV diet.” On the first day of spring

Our Mission21 Acres, an innovative is a community-drivenproject that will serve as anagricultural and environmental learning center for people of all ages.The organization is committed to making local, sustainable-grown food acornerstone of healthy lifestyles and communities. With the mission tocultivate, demonstrate and advance systems that support sustainableagriculture, the land now …

A permaculture stewardship network encouraging healthy humans, homes and habitatsWe organized in 2008 with three primary initiatives:PROTECT the environment by restoring and supporting ecological building, food, healing, and land stewardship practicesCREATE cooperative bioregional skill banks for permaculture training, employment, and volunteer opportunitiesTEACH and demonstrate permaculture ethics, principles, and practices

Local Harvest- LocalHarvest maintains a definitive and reliable living” public nationwide directory of small farms

A Rocha is a Christian nature conservation organisation, our name coming from the Portuguese for the Rock”

Mission statementABALIMI is a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) working to empower the disadvantaged through urban agriculture and environmental programmes and projects.We support our target groups’ ability to replicate their success and transform their lives in their urban and rural environments.ABALIMI assists by providing the following support services:Project implementationAgricultural and horticultural commoditiesTrainingOrganisation …

Abundance Manchester is a project which picks surplus or unwanted fruit from gardens and public trees around South Manchester and distributes it to local groups and communities. We also collect and distribute surplus vegetables from allotments and we have started our own Abundance allotment to grow our own food to …

Imagine stepping out your door with a basket and leisurely strollingaround your yard, all the while harvesting enough ingredients to make awhole meal upon your return to the kitchen.  From your edible landscapeyou pick a few vine ripened heirloom tomatoes, dig up some sweetpotatoes and a ginger root or two, …