Here are some links to organizations we like.  

These sites provide good information about work others are doing in this new and growing arena.  You will find examples of food policy, community food assessments, sustainable agriculture programs and childhood nutrition and nutrition education.  Enjoy perusing these sites and gleaning new information.

Local, State, Regional and National Food System Projects

• Community Food Security Coalition
  www.foodsecurity.org
  
  
• Berkeley Food Policy
  www.berkeleyfood.org/
  
  
• Marin Food Systems Project
  www.eecom.net/projects_school.htm
  
  
• California Food and Justice Coalition
  www.foodsecurity.org/CA_Food_Justice_Pledge.pdf
  
  
• Fertile Crescent network
  www.ecoliteracy.org/pages/fertilec.html

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Community Supported Agriculture

• www.sustainableag.net/community_supported_agriculture.htm
  
  

Community/School/Youth Gardens

• Sonoma County School Garden Report
  cesonoma.ucdavis.edu/4H/Youth/SGRN_reprt.html
  
  
• Harmony Habitat Project
  harmony.k12.ca.us/district/garden/main.html
  
  
• Santa Rosa Recreation and Parks After School Garden Program
  www.metroactive.com/papers/sonoma/08.07.03/sunflower-0332.html
  
  
• Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
  www.oaec.org/
  
  
• Master Gardeners
  cesonoma.ucdavis.edu/Gardener/index.shtml

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Restaurant

• Restaurant Association of the Redwood Empire (RARE)
  http://www.restaurantassociation.org/
  
  
• Culinary Guild
  www.sonomacountyculinaryguild.org/
  
  
• Food Facility Search
  www.sonoma-county.org/health/eh/foodinsp/foodsearch.htm
  
  
• Artesco
  www.artesco.com

Food Waste Recycling

• cesonoma.ucdavis.edu/HORTIC/compost_food_97-98.pdf
  
  
• cesonoma.ucdavis.edu/HORTIC/compost_food_98-99.pdf
  
  
• cesonoma.ucdavis.edu/HORTIC/compost_food_99-00.pdf

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Food Banks, Soup Kitchens and Hunger Surveys

• www.refb.org/hunger_survey/hunger_frame_choice.htm
  
  

Transportation

• Community Food Security Coalition, Transportation and Food: The Importance of Access: A Policy Brief by the Center for Food and Justice in conjunction with the Community Food Security Coalition, September 2002
  www.foodsecurity.org/policy_trans03_brief.html
  
  

• Food Access within the County; Sonoma County Paratransit
  www.sctransit.com
  
  

Farmers' Markets

• Link to Sonoma County Farmers' Markets on our Web Site

• www.sonomazone.com/farmmarkets.html
  
  

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Educational Opportunities/Agencies/Institutions/NGOs

• Center for Ecoliteracy
  www.ecoliteracy.org
  
  
• Community Alliance with Family Farmers'
  www.caff.org
  
  
• Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
  www.oaec.org/
  
  
• Northern California Center for Well Being
  www2.norcalwellbeing.org/
  
  
• Sonoma County Herb Association
  www.altrue.net/site/scha/
  
  
• University of California Cooperative Extension Sonoma County
  cesonoma.ucdavis.edu/
  
  
• 4H
  cesonoma.ucdavis.edu/4h/main.html
  
  
• Windsor Bloco
  ucce.ucdavis.edu/counties/cesonoma/Custom_Program376/
  
  
• New College
  www.newcollege.edu/northbay/
  
  
• Food Industry Advisory Forum
  www.sonoma-county.org/health/eh/fiaf.htm
  
  
• Sonoma County Agriculture Commissioner’s office
  www.sonoma-county.org/agcomm/index.htm
  
  
• Children and Families Commission
  www.sonoma-county.org/children/about.htm
  
  
• WIC
  www.sonoma-county.org/health/wic/en/contact.htm
  
  
• Sonoma Breastfeeding Coalition
  www.dhs.cahwnet.gov/pcfh/mchb/countymaps/sonoma.htm
  
  
• Santa Rosa Junior College Shone Farm
  www.sustainableag.net/shone_farm.htm
  
  
• Organic Consumers Association
  www.organicconsumers.org
  
  
• Slow Foods USA
  www.Slowfoodusa.org

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Community Food Assessment Tools

• Center for Advanced Studies in Nutrition and Social Marketing
  socialmarketing-nutrition.ucdavis.edu/Tools/somarktools.php
  

Food Nutrition Policy

• California Taskforce on Youth and Workplace Wellness
  www.wellnesstaskforce.org/legislation.html
  

Agri-Tourism

• Organic Traveler's Guide
  www.healthyworld.org/
  
  
• Farm Trails
  www.farmtrails.org/