Urban Community Food Projects

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Community Food Project Overviews:

• Community Ventures Partnerships in Education and Research
  Growing a Community Food System

• Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
  Food Security Begins at Home: Creating Community Food Coalitions in the South

• Community Food Security Coalition
  Building Community Food Security: Lessons from Community Food Projects, 1999-2003
  Sowing Opportunity, Harvesting Change: Community Food Projects in Action
  Presentation (Powerpoint) Presenter’s Guide (MS Word)

• Community Food Security Position of Dietitians of Canada

• WHY - World Hunger Year
  Food Security Learning Center

New York City:

Brooklyn

• East New York Farms!

• Added Value - Red Hook Community Farm

• Brooklyn Rescue Mission

• Urban Oasis at Kingsboro Psychiatric Center

Bronx

• La Familia Verde

• Bissel Gardens

Queens

• Queens County Farm

Citywide

Just Food The City Farms

Other Locations:

• Poughkeepsie, NY
  City Seeds

• Rochester, NY
  Rochester Roots School-Community Garden Project

• Philadelphia, PA
  Mill Creek Farm
  Greensgrow Farms

• Boston, MA
  The Food Project

• Holyoke, MA
  Nuestras Raíces

• Providence, RI
  Southside Community Land Trust

• New London, CT
  F.R.E.S.H. New London

• Hartford, CT
  Hartford Food System Grow Hartford

• Washington DC
  The 7th Street Garden

• Lynchburg, VA
  Lynchburg Grows
  at the H.R. Schenkel Urban Farm and Environmental Education Center

• Louisville - Lexington, KY
  Community Farm Alliance
  SustainLex - Lexington Sustainable Communities Network

• Chattanooga, TN
  Crabtree Farms

• Atlanta, GA
  Truly Living Well
  Oakhurst Community Garden

• Gainesville, FL
  Edible Plant Project

• New Orleans, LA
  New Orleans Farm and Food Project

• Houston, TX
  Urban Harvest

• Austin, TX
  Sustainable Food Center

• St. Louis, MO
  HopeBUILD Urban Gardens and Community Produce Markets

• Kansas City, KS
  Center for Urban Agriculture

• Detroit, MI
  Detroit Black Food Security Network
  Earthworks Urban Farm Program of the Capuchin Soup Kitchen

• Youngstown, OH
  Grow Youngstown

• Cleveland, OH
  City Fresh
  The New Urban Agrarianism: Linking Farm to City, Community to Community, People to Nature

• Chicago, IL
  Growing Home
  Institute for Community Resource Development

• Milwaukee, WI and Chicago, IL
  Growing Power

• Milwaukee, WI
  Milwaukee Urban Agriculture Project

• Madison, WI
  Community GroundWorks at Troy Gardens

• Denver, CO
  Denver Urban Gardens

• San Diego, CA
  Seeds at City Urban Farm

• Los Angeles, CA
  South Central Farmers
  Proyecto Jardin

• Goleta, CA
  Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens

• San Francisco, CA
  Literacy for Environmental Justice
  “Good Neighbor” Healthy Corner Store program

• Berkeley, CA
  Spiral Gardens

• Oakland, CA
  People’s Grocery
  Mo’ Better Food
  City Slicker Farms
  PUEBLO - People United for a Better Life in Oakland
  Urban Youth Harvest, produce gleaning

• Seattle, WA
  21 Acres
  An innovative, community-driven project that serves as an agricultural and environmental learning center for people of all ages. It is an “agri-urban park” that is accessible to the whole community.

• Portland, OR
  Janus Youth Programs Village Gardens Urban Agricultural Services

• Toronto, ON
  Afri-Can Food Basket
  The Stop Community Food Centre
  FoodShare

• Montréal, QC
  Santropol Roulant

• Victoria, BC
  LifeCycles Project Society

• Urban Farming
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