American Farmland Trust
American Farmland Trust is a private, non-profit organization founded in 1980 to protect our nation's farmland. AFT works to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming practices that lead to a healthy environment.

Earth Pledge
Earth Pledge identifies and promotes innovative techniques and technologies that restore the balance between human and natural systems. Through education, research and implementation, they deliver viable models to government, industry and communities. The New York region is Earth Pledge's laboratory for implementing replicable solutions that will inspire and facilitate a global transition to sustainability.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
FAO-UN leads international efforts to defeat hunger. Serving both developed and developing countries, FAO acts as a neutral forum where all nations meet as equals to negotiate agreements and debate policy. FAO is also a source of knowledge and information, helping developing countries and countries in transition modernize and improve agriculture, forestry and fisheries practices and ensure good nutrition for all. Since its founding in 1945, FAO has focused special attention on developing rural areas, home to 70 percent of the world's poor and hungry people. FAO's activities comprise four main areas: Putting information within reach; sharing policy expertise; providing a meeting place for nations; bringing knowledge to the field.

The Garden Conservancy
The Garden Conservancy is a national, non-profit organization founded in 1989 to preserve exceptional American gardens for the public's education and enjoyment.

Glynwood Center
Glynwood Center helps communities address change in ways that conserve local culture and natural resources, while strengthening economic well-being. Their Agricultural Initiative is helping to connect communities, farmers and food.

Historic Hudson Valley
Historic Hudson Valley is a network of six historic sites in Sleepy Hollow Country and the Great Estates Region. The organization's mission is to preserve the culture, landscape, and history of the Hudson River Valley, and to present this heritage to the public through educational outreach, daily programming at historic properties and special events.

Jacob Burns Film Center
The Jacob Burns Film Center (JBFC) is a non-profit cultural arts center in Pleasantville, NY, dedicated to: presenting the best of independent, documentary, and world cinema; promoting visual literacy; and making film a vibrant part of the community. The Film Center offers a variety of educational programs that serve over 5,000 elementary, middle and high school students in Westchester each year.

Kykuit
Kykuit, the Rockefeller estate, now a historic site of the National Trust, is the Hudson Valley's most exceptional house and gardens.

The Land Institute
The Land Institute, a non-profit research and education organization, has worked for over 20 years on the problem of agriculture.

The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
The Leopold Center is a research and education center with statewide programs to develop sustainable agricultural practices that are both profitable and conserve natural resources.

LiFE Linking Food & the Environment
The Linking Food and the Environment Program of Columbia University Teachers College is a two-year inquiry-based education and nutrition program for fourth through sixth grade urban children, teachers and parents.

National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, Inc. is dedicated to educating the public on the importance of a sustainable food and agriculture system that is economically viable, environmentally sound, socially just and humane.

The New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden is one of the world's great collections of plants, the region's leading educational center about gardening and horticulture and an international center for plant research.

Pace University
Pace University, a comprehensive, independent institution of higher education with campuses in New York, Westchester and the Hudson Valley, believes that its students must learn to work together to improve, and try to solve, environmental problems. Pace believes that the body of knowledge known as environmental education must be integrated into many different aspects of the curriculum. In order to achieve that, the University has programs in: Environmental Law, Environmental Science, Environmental Studies, Environmental Education, as well as the Pace Academy of the Environment and the Pace Institute for Environmental and Regional Studies, and assists all Pace schools and programs in broadening their collaborative reach to the entire community. The Environmental Center is an academic component of Pace's Department of Biological Sciences of Dyson College of Arts and Sciences. The primary objective is to promote environmental education. The Environmental Center maintains a strong bond with the community outside of the University through various outreach programs.

Philipsburg Manor
Philipsburg Manor vividly interprets aspects of the history of colonial New York and the system of racially based slavery which helped keep the estate running in the 18th century.

Spoons Across America
Spoons Across America provides and supports food and nutrition education to children, families and teachers through classroom, after-school and other school- and community-based programs.