Community
Arizona Organizations
Cascabel Hermitage Association Education Program
www.saguaro-juniper.com
Host of annual Cascabel mesquite milling event and great workshops on
sustainable living.
Community Food Connections
www.foodconnect.org
Phoenix organization that works to increase community food security by
alleviating hunger and creating food sufficiency for low-income households
through community and economic development. Information on AZFMNP, Arizona
Farmers Market Nutrition Program, and the most up-to-date list of all the
farmers markets in Arizona with times, location, and contact information.
Community Gardens of Tucson
www.communitygardensoftucson.org
Devoted to building a community where families produce their own food while
greening their neighborhood
Desert Harvesters
www.desertharvesters.org
Tucson organization that promotes local food security and production by
encouraging the planting of indigenous, food-bearing shade trees in
water-harvesting earthworks and educating the public on how to harvest and
process the bounty. Its trailer-mounted hammermill quickly grinds mesquite
pods into flour and can be rented for milling events around southern
Arizona.
Kino Fruit Tree Project
www.desertmuseum.org
The Kino Heritage Fruit Trees Project of Tucson's Arizona Sonora Desert
Museum researches, locates, propagates and re-establishes historically
appropriate fruit tree cultivars (quince, pomegranate and fig) to the
original orchards and gardens at Tumacacori National Historical Park and
Tucson Origins Heritage Park.
Malpai Borderlands Group
www.malpaiborderlandsgroup.org
The Malpai Borderlands Group is implementing ecosystem management on nearly
a million acres of virtually unfragmented open space landscape in
Southeastern Arizona and Southwestern New Mexico.
Native Desert Foods
www.omick.net
Information on harvesting of native desert foods with recipes by David Omick of the Cascabel community.
Native Seeds/SEARCH
www.nativeseeds.org
Native Seeds/SEARCH conserves, distributes, and documents the adapted and
diverse varieties of agricultural seeds, their wild relatives and the role
these seeds play in cultures of the American Southwest and Northwest
Mexico. Tucson seed bank and store and grow-out farm in Patagonia.
NAU's Center for Sustainable Environments
www.environment.nau.edu
The Center for Sustainable Environments at Northern Arizona University
promotes reducing the impacts of food production, transport, and processing
on biodiversity, food security, water and energy consumption. Promotes the
use of wild and local foods in the four corners region of the southwestern
U.S., publishes a Foods of the Four Corners local food directory and helps
to put on annual sustainable marketing conference.
Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands
www.HarvestingRainwater.com
Water harvesting and water conserving resources for drylands and beyond.
Includes many strategies to maximize the potential of landscape plantings
so they can provide food, shelter, passive heating and cooling, wildlife
habitat, beauty, and more while subsisting solely on harvested water.
Sonoran Permaculture Guild
www.sonoranpermaculture.org
A local non-profit organizing various workshops in permaculture and other
sustainable technologies.
Southwest Regis-Tree
home.nau.edu
NAU and collaborators' regional effort to document and save over sixty of the Southwest region's most celebrated fruits and nuts.
Tohono O'Odham Community Action
www.tocaonline.org
TOCA is a community-based organization dedicated to creating cultural
revitalization, community health and sustainable development on the Tohono
O'odham Nation. Its Community Food System is a project dedicated to the
creation of a sustainable food system within the Tohono O'odham community
emphasizing traditional O'odham foods - including tepary beans, mesquite
beans, cholla (cactus) buds and chia seeds that help regulate blood sugar
and significantly reduce the effects of diabetes.
Tucson Community Food Bank's Marana Farm
http://communityfoodbank.com
The Marana Farm is a 10 acre produce farm partnership between the Community
Food Bank Community Food Security Center, the Town of Marana Parks and
Recreation Department and many community members. It uses organic growing
methods and strives to operate a farm that improves the health of the
community and environment and sells its produce at the farm, at two
Community Food Bank farmers markets in Tucson and elsewhere.
Tucson CSA
www.tucsoncsa.org
For more information go to CSA or Community Supported Agriculture section
of Find Local Food Page.
Regional Organizations
Bioneers
www.bioneers.org
A think tank with an annual conference on advances in green economics,
alternative medicines and natural foods.
Farm to Table
www.farmtotable.org
New Mexico organization linking agriculture and healthy communities. Farm
to school programs.
Home Grown Nutrition Program
www.cacradicalgrace.org
To date, HGNP has placed 20 gardens in a community that sits atop the
former dump in Juarez, Mexico. All of the gardens are getting lots of
loving care and are producing an abundance of fresh organic food for the
caregivers.
New Mexico Farmers' Marketing Association
www.farmersmarketsnm.org
Supporting New Mexico's farmers' and growers' markets.
Sustainable Agriculture Center at Alcalde
alcaldesc.nmsu.edu
NMSU's center dedicated to research on sustainable agriculture and related
issues to benefit small family farms and ranches of north-central New
Mexico.
The Quivara Coalition
www.quiviracoalition.org
Education, Innovation, Restoration... One Acre at a Time.
A Wonderful Sense of Humus
http://awonderfulsenseofhumus.org
Santa Fe Community Composting Program & Sustainable Agriculture for Kids.
SW Marketing Network
www.swmarketingnetwork.org
Helps Southwestern producers and communities develop new and improved
markets and enterprises and to rebuild local food systems. Expanding
Markets for Southwest Small-Scale, Alternative, & Minority Producers.
Southwest Grassfed Livestock Alliance
www.swgla.org
Raising Livestock the Natural Way.
National Organizations
American Community Gardening Association
www.communitygarden.org
1-877-ASK-ACGA
ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
www.attra.org
The latest in sustainable agriculture and organic farming news, events and
funding opportunities. Feature all that, plus in-depth publications on
production practices, alternative crop and livestock enterprises, innovative marketing, organic certification, and highlights of local, regional, USDA and other federal sustainable ag activities.
Community Food Security Center, Community Food Bank
www.communityfoodbank.com
An arm of the Tucson Community Food Bank promoting local food security through a farmers' market program, creation of backyard and community gardens, and hosting an annual mesquite milling event.
Community Food Security Coalition
www.foodsecurity.org
Dedicated to building strong, sustainable, local and regional food systems
that ensure access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate
food for all people at all times.
Eat Wild
www.eatwild.com
The #1 Site for Grass-Fed Food & Facts.
Growing for Market
www.growingformarket.com
Monthly journal for direct market farmers.
Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
www.kerrcenter.com
The Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
www.leopold.iastate.edu
Its mission is to encourage increased interest in and use of sustainable
farming practices and market opportunities for sustainable products, and to
stimulate public discussion about sustainable agriculture in Iowa and the
nation.
Iowa Produce Market Potential Calculator
www.leopold.iastate.edu
This calculator was designed to help users determine expanding markets in
Iowa if consumers ate more locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables rather
than produce from conventional sources outside the state
Local Harvest
www.localharvest.org
Local Harvest is a nation-wide directory that lists thousands of family
farms, u-pick farms, farmers markets, and other local sources of
sustainably grown food across the U.S.
National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
www.sustainableagriculture.net
The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture is a nationwide
partnership of diverse individuals and organizations cultivating grass
roots efforts to engage in policy development processes that result in
food and agricultural systems and rural communities that are healthy,
environmentally sound, profitable, humane and just.
National Farmers Direct Marketing Association
www.nafdma.org
NAFDMA is a 501(c)6 trade association dedicated to nurturing the farm
direct marketing industry.
Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education, S.A.R.E
www.sare.org
Information on sustainable agriculture for producers. Grants available for
sustainable agriculture projects
Slow Food U.S.A.
www.slowfoodusa.org
Slow Food is an educational organization that recognizing the enjoyment of
wholesome food as essential to the pursuit of happiness and is dedicated to
living a slower and more harmonious rhythm of life.
The New Farm
www.newfarm.org
Farmer-to-Farmer Know-How from the Rodale Institute.
