Fresh Links
www.whitedogcommunityenterprises.org
Fair Food's parent organization, the White Dog Community Enterprises' website includes information about Fair Food, the Fair Food Farmstand in Reading Terminal Market, and the organization's work to cultivate a Philadelphia regional economy that is inclusive, just, environmentally healthy, and based on local business ownership.
The Food Trust, a partner in the Buy Fresh Buy Local campaign, runs farmers markets in the Greater Philadelphia region, promotes policies that support family farmers and organizes a variety of initiatives related to nutrition and sustainable food systems.
Farm to City, a partner in the Buy Fresh Buy Local Campaign, runs farmers markets and CSA distribution in the Philadelphia region, as well as a winter buying club - check out the site for more information.
http://straightfromthefarm.net
A blog about Weaver's Way Farms
Sweet blog about local food in Philly
www.journeyhomecommunitycenter.org/teens4good.htm
Philly teens making a difference in their neighborhood and learning about life by growing food
The Urban Nutrition Initiative (UNI) is a university-community partnership that engages K-16+ learners in an active, real-world problem-solving curriculum that strives to improve community nutrition and wellness.
The Jewish Farm School is an educational organization comprised of farmers, builders, writers and educators. Our mission is to practice and promote sustainable agriculture in order to cultivate just food systems rooted in Jewish traditions.
A database of information on local food and sustainable farming. Food Routes is the national coordinator for the Buy Fresh Buy Local Campaign.
The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture is the state-wide coordinator for the Buy Fresh Buy Local Campaign and supports sustainable family farmers throughout the state.
www.slowfoodphilly.org
Organize dinners, tastings, tours, lectures, and picnics, where members gather in a convivial setting to explore the richness of our area's culinary heritage or the food and drink of other cultures around the world.
The website for the Pennsylvania Buy Fresh, Buy Local Campaign, with information about farm products across the state.
www.pickyourown.org/PAeast.htm
Find an orchard or farm to pick your own fruit, flowers and vegetables.
An on-line national directory of family farms and farmers' markets.
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE) is a national movement of locally owned, socially and environmentally responsible business networks. Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia is the Philly network.
SBN, the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, is a non-profit network of local triple-bottom-line businesses and social entrepreneurs.
Includes Sustainable Table, the Eat Well Guide, and the popular "The
Meatrix" movies. Illustrates the conditions of the factory farming
industry and offers ideas for supporting an alternative food system.
Slow Food is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to supporting and celebrating the food traditions of North America.
A clearinghouse of information about pasture based farming (also referred to as grass fed).
www.mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp
The website for the Monterey Bay Aquarium has information about sustainable seafood choices and an "All-Fish List" rating each fish on the sustainability scale.
National clearinghouse for information about the organic farming industry, organic standards, and other detailed information about buying "organic".
The website for American Farmland Trust, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming practices that lead to a healthy environment.
