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Organization based in Boston and rural Massachusetts, dedicated to building a sustainable food system by developing youth leadership and skills, engaging communities in thinking critically about the food system, and speaking out for change. The hallmark of this organization is its focus on identifying and transforming a new generation of leaders by placing teens in unusually responsible roles, with deeply meaningful work.
 

Cooperative farm near Montreal (Quebec) selling certified organic vegetables, seeds and seedlings. Runs a CSA serving 150 families between Valleyfield and Montreal; also sells at farmers' markets in Hudson and St Anne de Bellevue. Operates as a workers' coop, founded by five young people with a vision of ecological stability, sustainability, and progressive and egalitarian development; website in both French and English.
 

Local Harvest helps food consumers find farmers' markets, family farms, CSAs, co-ops, and other sources of sustainably grown food in locales around the USA.

Produced and recorded in the studios of Kootenay Co-op Radio in Nelson, British Columbia, Deconstructing Dinner has been created to dispense and discuss current food issues. The program assists listeners in making more educated choices when purchasing food either for the kitchen or at restaurants. Currently broadcast on 34 radio stations across Canada, Deconstructing Dinner also appears on over a dozen stations around the world. All episodes are accessible through the Internet in live, archived and podcasting formats.

This on-line directory features local food advocacy organizations, CSAs, farmers markets, and food cooperatives throughout Canada, and includes contact information, and direct links to websites, where available. A project of Deconstructing Dinner, a weekly radio show produced by Jon Steinman and broadcast from the studios of Kootenay Coop Radio (CJLY) in Nelson, BC.  Contact Deconstructing Dinner for information on how to get your organization listed in the directory!

The Reality Report interviews Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. The interview reviews the historical development of the global food system, from 15th century England to the WTO and today's multi-national corporations. The discussion includes countervailing social responses to today's food crisis, such as the landless movement in Brazil to the CSAs of North America. Source: Global Public Media: Public Service Broadcasting for a Post-Carbon World. Originally broadcast June 2, 2008 (58:58 min)
 

The Small Farm Success Project is a coalition of land grant universities, USDA, and nonprofit organizations in the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. who are dedicated to helping small and emerging farmers. The SFSP website features a wealth of resources on everything from business management to marketing to farmers' markets to CSAs to new cover crops to energy efficiency. Website also profiles successful farmers in the US mid-Atlantic region, and identifies characteristics that make them successful.
 

Article (20 pages) Laura Sayre, Sustainable Agriculture Network (SARE).

See www.sare.org for a tremendous wealth of other helpful resources for farmers.

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Essay (11 pages) by Elizabeth Henderson, 2007.

Excellent piece by a farmer & CSA operator. Many more to be found on the website of the Genessee Valley Organic CSA (GVOCSA).
 

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Special report (24 pages). Published by the Farmland Center, 2005

Profiles small-scale entrepreneurial farm operations in northeast Ohio; is in one sense very specific, but in another sense quite generalizable and potentially valuable to others. Contains some great information. Well-produced.
 

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