Links for peers and partners

There are many organizations doing positive work to spread good food. We have linked to some on this page, including Fodor Farm, a new community farm in Norwalk, Connecticut that Millstone Farm helped launch.

Often when farmland goes, it goes for good, so the Connecticut Farmland Trust plays an important role keeping pieces of the food future intact.

Farmers markets still line the streets of Paris and Rome, and they are growing here too. This one, Wholesome Wave Farmers Markets, includes links to many of the farms that sell at the market.

School food can represent the bottom of the industrial food chain. Two Angry Moms work to help people help schools add nutrition back into children's school meals.

This video on the Farm Aid site looks at the difference between family farms and industrial food. There's more information at Farm Aid about good food.

We have a national tradition of dinner at Thanksgiving, and every religion has its feasts. This group is adding a new dinner, for Earth Day.

Rodale has been tilling organinc soil for more than three decades. The information here goes deeply into the differences between industrial and sustainable farming.

We live in an urban world. City Farmer is what its name suggests, a resource about the greener side of cities. We're located near New York, and this organization is looking at building a sustainable food system for that city.

Food is a huge business, getting good food can seem daunting. Michael Pollan is an author who does a page turning job of helping people understand the food landscape.

The illustrations on our site are wood engravings by the Connecticut artist Thomas Nason, and are part of his collection at the Florence Griswold Museum.