Indy Sustainable Food Alliance
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From the Hancock Harvest Council.
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If you find that we should include a particular resource, let us know. Indianapolis-area grocers/venders who offer local produce Be sure to visit these locally-owned grocery stores:
If you know of a locally-owned grocery store that sells locally-grown food that is not listed here, let us know. Visit the Eat Well Guide Web site for a list of grocers, farmers, and venders who sell locally produced foods. Grocery stores that stock some locally-produced items:
Also, Ivy Tech Culinary Arts program uses locally-grown produce. Indianapolis-area restaurants whose menus include local produce
Should your restaurant be included on this list? If so, let us know. Web sites related to sustainable food solutions 100-Mile Diet: Local eating for global change. SustainLane: U.S. City Sustainability Ranking Environmental Commons: Publishes fact sheets on local control in regional food systems. Available free by download or mail. Kitchen Gardeners International: The Kitchen Gardeners International mission is to empower individuals, families, and communities to achieve greater levels of food self-reliance through the promotion of kitchen gardening, home-cooking, and sustainable local food systems. International Kitchen Garden day is August 26, 2007. Community Food Security Coalition: The Community Food Security Coalition (CFSC) is a non-profit, North American organization 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. We seek to develop self-reliance among all communities in obtaining their food and to create a system of growing, manufacturing, processing, making available, and selling food that is regionally based and grounded in the principles of justice, democracy, and sustainability. Eat Local Foods Coalition of Maine: Perhaps not a local site but the concepts and ideas apply to Indiana. ELFC is a state-wide non-profit network that seeks social change at a fundamental level: changing what we eat and how we make decisions about what we buy. ELFC is a coalition of organizations interested in creating a shift towards a locally-based food system that is economically vibrant, environmentally sustainable, and healthy. World Hunger Year: Promotes innovative, community-based solutions to hunger and poverty. Eat well guide: Learn more about sustainable food resources in your community. City Farmer: An urban-agriculture legend. Organic Consumers Association: Until local farms can provide enough for all of us, it is helpful to support organic efforts. While the U.S. Department of Agriculture attempts to erode organic standards, the OCA campaigns for health, justice, and sustainability. Relocalize.net: Building local communities and economies. American Community Gardening Association: The American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) is a bi-national organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of community greening in urban and rural communities. ACGA recognizes that community gardening improves the quality of life for people by ... encouraging self-reliance, ... producing nutritious food, reducing family food budgets, ... [and] conserving resources ... Organizing local food systems: Sustaining family farms and rural communities, a resource published by Purdue University. Slow Food Indy: One of four convivia in Indiana working to create a robust, active movement that protects taste, culture and the environment as universal social values. Other resources related to sustainable food solutions The Oil We Eat. By Richard Manning, Harpers Magazine, July 2004. Is our food system connected to oil in Iraq? Read this article and decide. For Hunger-Proof Cities Sustainable Urban Food Systems. Edited by Mustafa Koc, Rod MacRae, Luc J.A. Mougeot, and Jennifer Welsh. For Hunger-Proof Cities is the first book to fully examine food security from an urban perspective. It examines existing local food systems and ways to improve the availability and accessibility of food for city dwellers. It looks at methods to improve community-supported agriculture and cooperation between urban and rural populations. This book is available online as a PDF or for purchase. Highly recommended. Serving Up Justice. How to Design an Emergency Feeding. Program And Build Community Food Security. This document is available online as a PDF. Indianapolis-area community gardens and food security For Indianapolis to be a more food-secure city, it needs around 400 community gardens, based on the statistics produced by SustainLane. A recent survey of Indianapolis-area gardens found only 60 gardens. Check back for resources on starting a community garden in your neighborhood. Other Indianapolis-area "green" resources
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