Organizations:
Rooted in Community http://www.rootedincommunity.org/
The Food Project http://thefoodproject.org/
Urban Nutrition Initiative www.urbannutrition.org
Appetite for Change www.afcmn.org
Berkeley Youth Alternatives www.byaonline.org
CANFit http://www.canfit.org
Center for Food and Justice http://www.uepi.oxy.edu/cfj
Coalition of the Immokalee Workers http://ciw-online.org/
Community to Community www.foodjustice.org
Cultiva! http://www.growinggardens.org
Cultivating Community www.cultivatingcommunity.org
Damayan: The Garden Project www.damayan.org
Eco Station NYC http://www.ecostationny.org/
East NY Farms http://www.eastnewyorkfarms.org/
Flowering Tree Permaculture Floweringtreepermaculture.com
F.R.E.S.H. New London www.freshnewlondon.org
Farm Fresh Choice http://www.ecologycenter.org
Food Project, http://www.thefoodproject.org
Food, What?! www.foodwhat.org
Garden Project http://www.gardenproject.org
Garden Raised Bounty http://www.goodgrub.org
Good Food Jobs Goodfoodjobs.org
Green Guerillas http://www.greenguerillas.org
Growing Power http://www.growingpower.org
Lots to Gardens www.lotstogardens.org
Massachusetts Avenue Project & Growing Green www.mass-ave.org
Mo Better Food http://www.mobetterfood.com
Nuestras Raices http://www.nuestras-raices.org
People’s Grocery http://www.peoplesgrocery.org/
Pie Ranch http://www.pieranch.org
Add Planting Justice www.plantingjustice.org
Project E. A.T. – Fresh Crew http://www.projecteat.com
RootDown LA http://rootdownla.org
Roots & Wings – Angelic Organics Learning Center www.learngrowconnect.org
SEEDS http://www.seedsnc.org
Solstice Seeds – Sylvia Davatz (she has a farm in Hartland VT with many experimental projects, also is a grower for seedsaver.org)
The Solution Project Thesolutionproject.org
Uprose http://uprose.org/
Urban Roots www.urbanrootsatx.org
WhyHunger (Grassroots Action Network) http://www.whyhunger.org
Worcester Roots Project Worcester Roots Project
Books:
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver (recommended by Noah Kopf who says that “it discusses the locavore movement as a whole, especially one family’s experiences in trying to live by those ideals”)
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
On Cooking Grassfed Meat – Sharon Hayes
Resilient Gardener – Carol Dope
Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast
Build an Oasis with Grey Water – Art Ludwig
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands
Restoration Agriculture – Mark Shephard
Earth Repair – Leila Darwish
In the Shadow of Slavery – African Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World – Carney and Rosomoff
Agrarian Dreams – Julie Guthman
Bananeras: Honduran Banana Workers – Dana Frank
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of Capitalism – Julie Guthman
Food Justice – Robert Gottlieb and Anupama Joshi
Besky, S. (2014) The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor and Justice on Fair Trade Tea Plantations in India. University of California Press.
Ganz, M. (2010) Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement. Oxford University Press
Gray, M. (2014) Labor and the Locavore: the Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic. University of California Press
Guthman, J (2014) Agrarian Dreams: the Paradox of Organic Farming in California. University of California Press
Harrison, J L (2011) Pesticide Drift and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice. MIT Press
Schurman, R and Munro, W (2010) Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists Versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology. University of Minnesota.
Articles:
Gangsters, Swastikas, Tweakers and Permaculture by Chris Hoke: http://modernfarmer.com/2015/01/gangsters-swastikas-tweakers-permaculture
Tangled Roots and Bitter Fruit: What Ferguson Can Teach the Food Movement: http://foodfirst.org/publication/tangled-roots-and-bitter-fruit-what-ferguson-can-teach-the-food-movement/
Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow: http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/radical-farmers-use-fresh-food-fight-racial-injustice-black-lives-matter
The Food Police – Why Michael Pollan makes me want to eat Cheetos – Julie Guthman http://www.utne.com/politics/the-food-police.aspx
Videos:
Occupy the Farm- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D73MJcEsFlE
Food Chains- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqZLrXVAde4
Pueblo Food Experience- https://vimeo.com/82926771
The Garden- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmEPigRmTXQ
Food Forward Documentary on PBS- http://www.pbs.org/food/features/food-forward-season-1-the-us-of-agriculture/