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Category: Conscious consumers
945 Hollywood Drive
Chesapeake, VA 23320See map: Google Maps
We are a grassroots organization. Our purpose is to change the zoning laws to allow more residents of Chesapeake, VA, to keep micro-flocks of hens as backyard pets. Contact us at https://www.facebook.com/4ChesapeakeHens.
Sign our petition at http://www.change.org/petitions/4chesapeakehens# before July 20, 2012.
For a funny "XtraNormal" satire of the current zoning laws, try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o6XyjwRBX8 . The video explains why we need urban hens.
76 San Pablo Avenue, Ste 200
San Rafael, CA 94903See map: Google Maps
Our mission is to promote a viable food system, to educate the public about the benefits of buying fresh and locally grown food, and to bring farmers and communities together.
We operate eight award-winning San Francisco Bay Area certified farmers markets and provide public education related to local food and farms.
Business incubators, Conscious consumers, Education/research centers and programs, Environment and conservation, Farmer training, networks, and resources, Hunger, food security, and food access, Institutional purchasing, Policy advocacy, Urban agriculture and food systems, Youth development and food systems
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1619 E. Kalamazoo St.
Lansing, MI 48912See map: Google Maps
517-367-2468
For over a decade, Allen Neighborhood Center has been identifying and innovatively addressing the needs of Lansing’s Eastside community. While our community-building efforts have been focused on the northeast quadrant of the Capital City, we are highly networked with institutional partners and community-based organizations throughout the region that share and support our broad agenda.
We say of our work that it is “comprehensive and integrative”, having discovered the enormous value of...
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306 W. Haywood St.
Asheville, NC 28801See map: Google Maps
(828) 236-1282
Helps create and expand local food markets to preserve agricultural heritage, give everyone access to fresh, healthy food, and keep farmers farming. Projects include a local food guide to Appalachian Grown certified products, farm-to-school program, list of local farmers' markets, workshops, and online resources for producers, consumers, purchasing departments, and retailers. Even though ASAP (as it is called) is local to the Asheville area, it is a great model of a nonprofit organization...
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420 W. 14th St., Suite 2NE
New York, NY 10014See map: Google Maps
(212) 334-5544
Partners with New York City-area producers and communities to sell good food at affordable prices. Basis delivers local produce, fruit, dairy, and eggs to homes, offices, restaurants, and institutions and is about to launch a chain of small-format retail stores to sell good food sourced directly from family farms. There are similar businesses in other cities, but not yet a good directory of them. I expect many more businesses like this to emerge over the next few years as the demand for local...
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227 E. Lafayette St
Easton, PA 18042See map: Google Maps
6104383950
Buy Fresh Buy Local (BFBL) is a national program that connects consumers to fresh, locally-grown foods. The Greater Lehigh Valley chapter of BFBL (BFBL-GLV) is helping residents of Berks, Lehigh, and Northampton Counties find, choose, and appreciate great locally-grown foods, while supporting the farmers and lands that produce them.
BFBL-GLV is a program of the Nurture Nature Center, a 501(c)(3) organization. BFBL chapters across Pennsylvania are coordinated by the Pennsylvania Association...
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15 Hillsboro Street
Pittsboro, NC 27312See map: Google Maps
919-542-2402
Promotes local and organic agriculture in the Carolinas by inspiring, educating and organizing farmers and consumers.
1243 North 10th Street, Suite 200
Milwaukee, WI 53205See map: Google Maps
414.289.7799
The Center for Resilient Cities builds robust and thriving urban communities that are healthy, just, economically viable and environmentally sound. We envision a world of resilient cities filled with clean water, clear air, green landscapes, sustainable and just food systems, and healthy people in economically thriving neighborhoods. From its early focus on land preservation at its incorporation in 1996, the Center for Resilient Cities has expanded to a proactive project, program and policy-...
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6349 S Fairfield
Chicago, IL 60629See map: Google Maps
7735978155
The Center for Urban Transformation is currently reorganizing to become a community development corporation and community/economic development and urban planning consultancy and practice. The organization will continue to engage in research oriented strategies to design solutions to food syste issues and other problems that negatively impact inner city and oppressed communities.
For more information about the CUT please see our web site at www.cutchicago.org.
Conscious consumers, Education/research centers and programs, Hunger, food security, and food access, Urban agriculture and food systems
2515 Waugh Drive
Houston, TX 77006See map: Google Maps
Central City Co-Op is a community-based organization devoted to bringing organic and sustainable farm products to Houston, Texas neighborhoods since 2001. We work to bring you convenient, easy organic shopping, supporting the local farm economy in a carbon-conscious way. We accept cash, check, Visa, Mastercard and EBT.
www.centralcityco-op.com
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