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Cooperatively owned and operated commercial kitchen in the Cowichan Valley of Vancouver Island (British Columbia, Canada). Offers business start-up and marketing advantages to small-scale local food processors.
 

The Leopold Center is dedicated to exploring and cultivating alternatives that will secure healthier people and landscapes in Iowa and the USA.
 

Video showcasing innovations in sustainable agriculture funded by SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education), a program of the USDA. Can be viewed livestreaming or ordered on VHS (free).(14 minutes)

Organic farmer marketing cooperative (goes under the Organic Valley and Organic Prairie Family of Farms labels); also offers news articles, educational materials for farmers, videos, networking/buying&selling resources, list of feed mills and suppliers, and other services for members.
 

A project of the Beginning Farmers Resource Centre, Cornell University Cooperative Extension. Site features twelve short videos profiling farmers sharing advice learned from experience. Titles include:
Meet the Farmers | Lessons from Experience | Getting $tarted | Grants | Setting Goals  Marketing | Evaluating Land and Facilities | Choosing an Enterprise |
Taking Care of the Land | Profitability | Regulations, Taxes, and Insurance
Love of Farming

Site dedicated to sharing information, ideas, inspiration, and news that affects our food supply, foodshed, and the health of our local as well as global community. Features interviews with chefs, foodies, activists, farmers - anybody who has something to say about food and the way it is produced, perceived, marketed, eaten, distributed.

Kate Manchester is the publisher of “Edible Santa Fe”, a quarterly publication that celebrates the abundance of local foods, season by season.

Powerpoint presentation summarizing lessons learned at three Iowa farms raising grass-based meat. Prepared by Practical Farmers of Iowa with support from Food Alliance Midwest and funded by the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Nov 2005 (42 slides)

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The University of California Small Farm Program focuses on the challenges and opportunities of California’s small-scale farm operators.

The Small Farm Center website offers an on-line expert database, research publications, news and other information resources on topics from farm management to food safety to risk management, organic agriculture, farmers markets, agricultural tourism, women in agriculture, specialty crops, pesticide safety and more.

Foodlink is a non-profit organization  that creates partnerships with food producers, processors, retailers and consumers to promote the sale and consumption of locally grown and produced food in the Waterloo region (Ontario).  

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.