Organizations and Links
Farmland Preservation
Organizations
(Farmland Preservation)
The American Farmland Trust
1200 18th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036,
(202) 331-7300,
Fax 202-659-8339.
Web: www.farmland.org
Email: info@farmland.org
The Equity Trust
539 Beach Pond Road, Voluntown, CT 06384, Phone/fax: (860) 376-6174.
Web: www.equitytrust.org
Institute for Community Economics
57 School Street, Springfield, MA 01105, (413) 746-8660, Fax (413) 746-8862.
Web: www.iceclt.org Email: iceconomic@aol.com
The Land Trust Alliance
1331 F Street NW, Ste. 400, Washington, D.C. 20005, (202) 638-4725,
Fax (202) 638-4730. Web: www.lta.org Email: lta@lta.org
The Trust for Public Land
33 Union Street, Fourth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-3306, (617) 367-6200.
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Publications
(Farmland Preservation)
Community Land Trust Handbook, Institute for Community Economics, Springfield, MA: Institute for Community Economics, 1982.
Doing Deals: A Guide to Buying Land for Conservation. Land Trust Alliance and The Trust for Public Land. Washington, DC, 1995.
Preserving Family Lands: Book Two. Stephen J. Small. Boston: The Landowner Planning Center, 1997.
Saving American Farmland: What Works. American Farmland Trust. Washington, DC: American Farmland Trust, 1997.
Holding Our Ground: Protecting America’s Farms and Farmland. Tom Daniels and Deborah Bowers. Washington, DC: Island Press, 1997.
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Community Action, Food Security & Urban Agriculture
Organizations
(Community Action, Food Security & Urban Agriculture)
Center for Ecoliteracy
2522 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702, (510) 845-4595, Fax (510) 845-1439.
Web: www.ecoliteracy.org
Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA)
One Ferry Building Suite 50, San Francisco, CA 94111, (415) 291-FARM.
Web: www.cuesa.org
City Farmer
801 318 Homer Street, Vancouver, BC V6B 2V3, (604) 685-5832, Fax: (604) 685-0431. E-mail: cityfarm@unixg.ubc.ca
Collective Heritage Institute (Bioneers)
901 W. San Mateo Rd., Suite L; Santa Fe, NM 87505, (877) 246-6337, (505) 986-0366, Fax (505) 986-1644. Web: www.bioneers.org Email: info@bioneers.org
Community Alliance with Family Farmers
P.O. Box 363, Davis, CA 95617. (916) 756-8518, (800) 852-3832, Fax: (916) 756-7857. Web:www.caff.org E-mail: caff@caff.org
Community Food Security Coalition
P.O. Box 209, Venice, CA 90294, (310) 822-5410. Web: www.foodsecurity.org,
Email: cfsc@foodsecurity.org
New Dimensions World Broadcasting Network
PO Box 569, Ukiah, CA 95482, (707) 468-5215).
Web: www.NewDimensions.org Email: info@newdimensions.org.
Pesticide Action Network North America Regional Center
116 New Montgomery, Ste 810, San Francisco, CA 94105. (415) 541-9140,
Fax: (415) 541-9253. Web: www.panna.org/panna E-mail: panna@panna.org,
Public Voice for Food and Health Policy
1012 14th Street NW #800, Washington, DC 20005, (202) 347-6200.
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Publications
(Community Action, Food Security & Urban Agriculture)
Basic Formula to Create Community Supported Agriculture. Robyn Van En. Great Barrington, MA: 1992.
Chicken Little, Tomato Sauce and Agriculture: Who Will Produce Tomorrow’s Food? Joan D. Gussow. New York: The Bootstrap Press, 1991.
Community and the Politics of Place. Daniel Kemmis. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1991.
Community Related Agriculture: An Introduction. Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association. Kimberton, PA,, 1994.
Community Supported Agriculture: An Annotated Bibliography and Resource Guide. S. Demuth. Beltsville, MD: National Agriculture Library, 1993.
Empty Breadbasket? The Coming Challenge to America’s Food Supply and What We Can Do About It. The Cornucopia Project, Emmaus PA, 1981.
For the Common Good: Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future. Herman Daly and John Cobb. Boston: Beacon Press, 1989.
From Land to Mouth: Understanding the Food System. Brewster Keen. Toronto, Canada: NC Press Limited 1993.
The Good City and the Good Life. Daniel Kemmis. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1995.
On Good Land: The Autobiography of an Urban Farm. Michael Ableman. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1998.
Organizing a Local Cornucopia Project: A Manual for Changing Your Food System. The Cornucopia Project. Emmaus, PA: The Cornucopia Project, 1982.
Refashioning Nature: Food, Ecology and Culture. David Goodman and Michael Redclift. London: Routledge Press, 1991.
Sex, Economy, Freedom and Community. Wendell Berry. New York: Random House, Inc. 1992
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Food, Agriculture & Gardening
Organizations
(Food, Agriculture & Gardening)
American Community Gardening Association
100 North 20th St., Philadelphia, PA 19103, (215) 988-8785.
Web: www.communitygarden.org
Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association
P.O. Box 550, Kimberton, PA 19442, (800) 516-7797, Fax: (610) 983-3196.
Biological Urban Gardening Services
P.O. Box 76, Citrus Heights, CA 95611-0076, (916) 726-5377.
California FarmLink
P.O. Box 2224, Sebastopol, CA 95473, (707) 829-1691, Fax: (707) 829-1693.
Web: www.californiafarmlink.org, Email: info@californiafarmlink.org
Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems
1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, (831) 459-3240, Fax: (831) 459-2799.
Web: www.ucsc.edu/casfs
Committee for Sustainable Agriculture
406 Main Street #313, Watsonville, CA 95076, (408) 763-2111, Fax: (408) 763-2112.
Ecology Action
5798 Ridgewood Road; Willits, CA 95490. (707) 459-0150, Fax (707) 459-5409.
Web: www.growbiointensive.org
The Land Institute
2440 E. Water Well Road, Salina, KS 67401-9051, (785) 823-5376, Fax (785) 823-8728.
Web: www.landinstitute.org E-mail: theland@landinstitute.org
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
209 Curtiss Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011-1050, (515) 294-3711,
Fax: (515) 294-9696.
Web: www.ag.iastate.edu/centers/leopold E-mail: leocenter@iastate.edu
National Gardening Association
180 Flynn Avenue, Burlington, VT 05401, (802) 863-1308.
Oasis Design
5 San Marcos Trout Club, Santa Barbara, CA 93105-9726, (805) 967-9956.
Web: www.oasisdesign.net
Rodale Institute Experimental Farm
611 Siegfriedale Road, Kutztown, PA 19530, (610) 683-6383, Fax: (610) 683-8548.
Web: www.rodaleinstitute.org E-mail: info@rodaleinst.org
Seed Savers Exchange
3076 North Winn Road, Decorah, IA 52101, (563) 382-5990, Fax (563) 382-5872.
Web: www.seedsavers.org
Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture
9200 Edmonston Road, Ste. 117, Greenbelt, MD 20770-1551, (301) 441-8777,
Fax: (301) 220-0164.
The Wild Farm Alliance
406 Main Street, Suite 213, Watsonville, CA 95076, (831) 761-8408,
Fax: (831) 761-8103.
Web: www.wildfarmalliance.org, E-mail: wildfarms@earthlink.net
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Publications
(Food, Agriculture & Gardening)
Backyard Market Gardening: The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Selling What You Grow. Andrew W. Lee. Burlington, VT: Good Earth Publications, 1995.
Common-Sense Pest Control: Least Toxic Solutions for Your Home, Garden, Pets & Community. Sheila Daar and William Olkowski. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1991.
Enduring Seeds – Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation. Gary Paul Nabhan. Berkeley, CA: North Point Press, 1989.
Farms of Tomorrow – Community Supported Farms, Farm-Supported Communities. Trauger Groh and Steven S. H. McFadden. Kimberton, PA: Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association, 1990.
From the Good Earth: A Celebration of Growing Food Around the World. Michael Ableman. New York, Abrams, 1993.
MetroFarm: The Guide to Growing for Big Profit on a Small Parcel of Land. Michael Olson. Santa Cruz, CA: TS Books, 1994.
National Organic Directory. Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Davis, CA: 1997.
Our Sustainable Table. Edited by Robert Clark. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990.
The Self-Sufficient Gardener. John Seymour. London: Faber & Faber, 1978. (out of print)
Shattering—Food, Politics and the Loss of Genetic Diversity. Cary Fowler and Pat Mooney. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 1990.
The Simple Act of Planting a Tree—Healing Your Neighborhood. Treepeople. Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1990.
Towards a Sustainable Agriculture: A Teacher’s Guide. The Sustainable Agriculture Curriculum Project. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, 1991.
The Unsettling of America. Wendell Berry. San Francisco: Sierra Club Press, 1977.
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