Center for Food Safety
Center for Food Safety works to protect human health and the environment by curbing the proliferation of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic and other forms of sustainable agriculture. CFS engages in legal, scientific and grassroots initiatives to guide national and international policymaking on critical food safety issues.
Center for Informed Food Choices
Center for Informed Food Choices advocates for a diet based on whole, unprocessed, local, organically grown plant foods; their website contains a useful FAQ page about food politics and eating well, as well as an archive of relevant articles.
The Eat Well Guide
The Eat Well Guide, a project of Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, is an online directory of sustainably-raised meat, poultry, dairy and eggs. Consumers simply put in their zip code to find sustainable products from farms, stores, and restaurants in their area.
Eat Wild
Eat Wild lists local suppliers for grass-fed meat and dairy products.
Farm-Based Education Association
In May 2006, representatives from eleven farms and organizations met to establish the Farm Based Education Association. The mission of FBEA is to inspire, nurture and promote farm-based education.
Farm to Table
Earth Pledge's Farm to Table Initiative aims to educate the public about food and agriculture issues, and to guide and support farmers in their transition to sustainable practices
Farmland Information Center
Farmland Information Center is a clearinghouse for information about farmland protection and stewardship. It is a partnership between the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service and American Farmland Trust.
FoodChange
FoodChange (formerly CFRC) improves lives through nutrition, education, and financial empowerment. Founded in 1980, the agency first focused on feeding New York's hungry children and adults. Overtime, FoodChange expanded its services to address the underlying financial bariers that compel people to depend on these emergency meal programs. They also aim to make nutrition and wholesome eating a daily reality for all New Yorkers.
Food Routes
Food Routes is a national nonprofit dedicated to "reintroducing Americans to their food - the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce it, and the routes that carry it from our fields to our tables."
GEO-PIE Project
The GEO-PIE Project was developed to create objective educational materials exploring the complex scientific and social issues associated with genetic engineering, to help readers consider those issues for themselves.
Greenmarket
New York City's farmers markets. A program of the Council on the Environment of New York City.
Heritage Foods USA
Heritage Foods USA sells mail-order "traceable" products from small farms - maple syrup, pole caught tuna, grassfed kobe beef - whose labels provide every detail about their production and processing.
The Hunger Action Network
The Hunger Action Network of New York State is a statewide anti-hunger coalition that combines grassroots organizing at the local level with state-level research, education and advocacy to address the root of hunger and its causes, including poverty. Founded in 1982, Hunger Action Network is a not-for-profit organization comprised of emergency food programs, concerned citizen advocates, low-income individuals, community agencies and religous organizations.
Just Food
Just Food is a non-profit organization that works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region. Just Food does this by fostering new marketing and food-growing opportunities that address the needs of regional, rural family farms, NYC community gardeners and NYC communities.
Local Harvest
Local Harvest offers a definitive and reliable nationwide directory of CSA's, farmers' markets, family farms, and other local food sources.
Locavores
Locavores, based in San Francisco, encourages people to eat only foods produced within a 100-mile radius of their home. Their Food Web page offers a plethora of additional resources, including books, articles, amd websites.
The Meatrix
The Meatrix, the critically acclaimed, award winning flash animation on factory farming. The four-minute film spoofs
The Matrix movies in order to educate viewers about the problems with today’s meat supply.
My Personal Farmers
My Personal Farmers provides the highest quality, locally produced foods throughout the year to the people working and living in Westchester and Putnam counties. Their goal is to raise awareness that local foods are better for health, taste, and environmental sustainability while committing themselves to the economic growth of Hudson Valley farmers.
Organic Consumers Association
A research and action center for the organic and fair-trade movement that maintains a comprehensive web archive of articles about genetically engineered foods, cloning, food safety, organics, and globalization.
Scenic Hudson Valley
Scenic Hudson Valley is an environmental organization and land trust working for outstanding quality of life for everyone in the Hudson River Valley.
Seafood Watch
Seafood Watch is a program of Monterey Bay Aquarium designed to raise consumer awareness about the importance of buying seafood from sustainable sources - offers a downloadable, pocket-sized region-by-region guide to eco-friendly seafood.
Slow Food USA
Slow Food USA is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to land stewardship and ecologically sound food production, to supporting and celebrating the food traditions of North America, and to living a slower and more harmonious life.
Spoons Across America
Spoons Across America provides information and programs about food and nutrition for schools, families, and community organizations.
Sustainable Table
Sustainable Table is a consumer campaign developed by the Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE). Sustainable Table is an introduction to issues surrounding today’s agricultural system and what is happening with our food, in particular, the meat supply.
USDA Agricultural Marketing Service
USDA Agricultural Marketing Service includes a state-by-state listing of farmer's markets across the US.
Worldwatch Institute
Worldwatch Institute is an independent research organization working "for an environmentally sustainable and socially just society." Their website features accessible, compelling, analytical publications - including their annual
State of the World book - that addresses critical global issues.