Sustainable Food Systems

Valley Verde Community Food Systems
Santa Clara County, California, is the epicenter of the tech industry. Home to Silicon Valley, it is also one...

Community Food Sovereignty
Conservation of our land and water resources is inextricably tied to food production and the health of people. If...

Swift Level Farm
Swift Level Farm, a 152-acre historic landmark located in West Virginia’s Greenbrier Valley, has been in Jennifer “Tootie” Jones’...

Grand Co-Opening
Durham Co-op Market and Hendersonville Community Co-op opened their respective doors this April at new locations, complete with open...

Earning More per Acre with Grain Bins
Curtis Branch grows wheat, soybeans and corn on his Murfreesboro, North Carolina farm, a 240-acre property that has been in...

Tackling Food Deserts in Michigan
What are you having for dinner? Imagine trying to answer that question if you couldn’t get to a grocery...

Green Rural Redevelopment Organization
Henry Crews and Ardis Crews are taking a smart approach to revitalizing blighted neighborhoods in their small town of...

Mother Earth Produce
Despite being surrounded by agriculture, Andrea and Graham Duvall realized that many people in Western North Carolina did not...

Rock Cave IGA
Glen and Jo Ann Hawkins first opened their Rock Cave, West Virginia, convenience store and gasoline station in 1990....

San Diego Urban Agriculture
Each year, the United States grants sanctuary to 50,000 refugees displaced by war or political crisis. Many of them...

Stacy Family Farm Grows With NCIF
The Stacy family traces its Ohio agricultural roots back to 1899, when Albert and Lina Frost Stacy purchased 24...

CSX: West Virginia
Healthy Food Distribution Initiative
In West Virginia, one in five children has limited or no access to fresh fruits, vegetables,...

Firefly Farms Creamery & Market
It all started with a neighbor’s goats and the question: “Can we milk ‘em to make cheese?” With that,...

Filling in the GAPs in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
As consumer demand for fresh, local food has grown, so have instances of foodborne diseases. Certification in Good Agricultural...

Grant Program for Transporting Healthy Food
Final round of grant program provides funding to community organizations working to improve healthy food distribution in underserved communities.This...

Healthy Eating, Active Living
Despite abundant natural resources, many people in North Carolina lack access to fresh food and opportunities to pursue an...

Food and Farm Initiative
Though the region is surrounded by large agricultural lands, half of North Carolina’s “food deserts” are located in the...

Faith and Food
In partnership with The Duke Endowment, Resourceful Communities provides rural churches with training to strengthen skills, small grants to...

Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture
Women are the fastest growing segment of farmers in the country, and in rural western North Carolina, women farmers...