Food and Farming Resources

2007 Farm Bill Resources:
-- Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy's Farm Bill Page
-- FarmPolicy.com : A daily summary of all the recent ag policy news
-- "Harvesting Cash: A Yearlong Investigation by the Washington Post"
-- House Committee on Agriculture
-- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry
-- The Sustainable Agriculture Coalition : Farm Bill Primer

Food and Farming Non-profits in Minnesota:
-- The Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture
-- The Land Stewardship Project
-- The Minnesota Project
-- The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
-- Minnesota Food Assocation
-- Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota
-- Minnesota Farmers Union
-- Minnesota Grown
-- The Permaculture Collaborative
-- Organic Consumer Association
-- Farm in the City
-- Youth Farm and Market Project
-- Green Routes
-- Edible Twin Cities
-- GardenWorks
-- St. Paul Farmers Market
-- Minneapolis Farmers Market
-- White Earth Land Recovery Project
-- Women's Environmental Institute
-- Sustainable Resources Center
-- Renewing the Countryside
-- Local Fair Trade Network
-- Minnesota Department of Agriculture

Finding and supporting local/organic/sustainable food systems:
-- 2007 Twin Cities Community Supported Agriculture Directory
-- Why Eat Local?
-- Marketing Local Foods, a MISA Publications
-- Minnesota Grown Directory: Search for locally produced goods
-- LocalHarvest.org: Search for locally produced goods all over the U.S.
-- Food Routes: Where does YOUR food come from?
-- Seasonal Food Guide for the Upper Minnesota River Valley

Excellent Articles on local/organic/sustainable food systems:
-- "Seeing Red: Eating Locally and Debunking the Red-Blue Divide" by Barbara Kingsolver, in Mother Jones Magazine
-- "No Bar Code" by Michael Pollan, in Mother Jones Magazine
-- "You Are What You Grow" by Michael Pollan, in the New York Times Mag.
-- "Unhappy Meals" by Michael Pollan, in the New York Times Magazine

Dayna Burtness -- Senior CIS Web Portfolio -- 2007