NATIONAL TOUR PARTNERS
Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture
CISA links farmers and communities to strengthen agriculture and enhance the economy, rural character, environmental quality, and social well-being of western Massachusetts, and partners with other organizations in the region and around the country to sustain agriculture. CISA’s Be a Local Hero, Buy Locally Grown Campaign® (www.buylocalfood.com), now in its 15th year, is the longest-running buy locally grown campaign in the country.
Laughing Dog Farm
Located on the hilltop site of an historic commune in Western Massachusetts Laughing Dog Farm is today a three-acre, organic market garden and teaching site promoting micro-intensive, permaculture style growing methods to steward the land and produce gourmet quality, heirloom fruits, vegetables and flowers around the calendar.
LOCAL PARTNERS
Added Value
Added Value’s mission is to promote the sustainable development of Red Hook by nurturing a new generation of youth leaders. It works towards this goal by creating opportunities for South Brooklyn’s youth to expand their knowledge base, develop new skills and positively engage with their community through the operation of a socially responsible urban agriculture enterprise: the 2.75-acre Red Hook Community Farm.
ArtsEngine
Arts Engine supports, produces and distributes independent media of consequence and promotes the use of independent media by advocates, educators and the general public. By fostering the production and use of independent film, video and new media, Arts Engine connects media makers and active audiences in order to spur critical consideration of pressing social issues. Learn more at www.artsengine.net. Arts Engine’s Media That Matters Film Festival brings high-impact shorts and Take Action tools to audiences around the country all year long through distribution of a DVD with all sixteen films, Web streaming, broadcasts and community screenings.
Just Food
Just Food is a non-profit organization that works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region. We do this by fostering new marketing and food-growing opportunities that address the needs of regional, rural family farms, NYC community gardeners, and NYC communities.
Slow Food NYC
Slow Food New York City, the NYC convivium of the international Slow Food movement, identifies the varied and authentic gustatory and cultural experiences that are unique to our city and preserves and cultivates them through education, activism, and enjoyment. They support and celebrate regional farmers, artisans, and professionals who fill our market baskets and dinner plates with fresh, seasonal, and sustainably produced foods and traditionally crafted food products and beverages.
Lower Eastside Girls Club
The Lower Eastside Girls Club programs include The Cookie Academy, an entrepreneurial training program that offers a real opportunity for girls to develop skills in the work place and discover their passions for future career choices. They also conduct community farmers market in lower Manhattan. Visit their bakery and check out their other programs. They will be serving baked goods every night at the After Show Café.
FoodChange
Founded in 1980, FoodChange provides emergency meals to New York City’s hungry children and adults. Through education and direct service, they increase low-income people’s knowledge of nutrition and healthy foods and try to make wholesome eating a daily reality for all New Yorkers.
Small Planet Institute
Frances Moore Lappé and Anna Lappé founded the Small Planet Institute in 2001 to help define, articulate, and further an historic transition: a worldwide shift from the dominant, failing notion of democracy as a set of fixed institutions toward democracy understood as a way of life, a culture in which the values of inclusion, fairness, and mutual accountability infuse all dimensions of public life.
Greenmarket
Greenmarket promotes regional agriculture and ensures a continuing supply of fresh, local produce for New Yorkers. Greenmarket has organized and managed open-air farmers markets in NYC since 1976. Greenmarket supports farmers and preserves farmland for the future by providing regional small family farmers with opportunities to sell their fruits, vegetables and other farm products to New Yorkers.
Natural Resources Defense Council
NRDC is an environmental action organization that uses law, science, and the support of 1.2 million members and online activists to protect the planet’s wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things.
World Hunger Year
WHY is a leading advocate for innovative, community-based solutions to hunger and poverty.
