Farm-Fresh Local Foods Resources
American Community Gardening Association
This organization works to promote community gardening across the United States and Canada. Community gardening allows people to come together while beautifying their neighborhoods, getting physical activity and producing quality fruits and vegetables. This association supports community gardening initiatives, encourages research into the benefits of gardening and hosts educational training programs.
www.communitygarden.org
Farm-to-School Program
This Web site provides resources about the farm-to-school program broken down by state. It includes guides, reports and strategies. The site also includes state and local policy recommendations aimed at fixing the current school meal programs to incorporate fruits and vegetables from local farms.
www.farmtoschool.org
www.farmtoschool.org/policies.php
The FoodRoutes Network
FoodRoutes Network is a nonprofit organization that provides information about promoting community-based food systems.
www.foodroutes.org
International City/County Management Association (ICMA), Community Health and Food Access: The Local Government Role
This report examines the need for local government intervention to ensure that all citizens have access to healthy food. According to the report, legislators can intervene by supporting farmers’ markets or community gardens, using zoning laws to restrict fast-food restaurants and supporting supermarket development in lower-income areas.
http://bookstore.icma.org/freedocs/E43398.pdf
National Conference of State Legislatures, Healthy Community Design and Access to Healthy Food Legislation Database
This database compiles and summarizes state legislation that increases access to healthy foods or promotes physical activity. Searches can be performed by state, topic area, year and bill type. It is updated bi-monthly from January to May and monthly the remainder of the year.
www.ncsl.org/programs/environ/healthyCommunity/healthycommunitydb.htm
Northeast-Midwest Institute, Summary of Notable Federal Brownfield and Vacant Property Programs and Initiatives
This document highlights a number of programs and loans available to help increase economic development and housing and neighborhood revitalization in cities, states and urban counties.
www.nemw.org/images/stories/documents/Brownfields&VacProp_NEMWFedCommRevitProg2006.pdf
Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (FMNP)
This Web site contains information about WIC FMNP, which provides fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables to low-income pregnant, breastfeeding and non-breastfeeding post-partum women and to infants and children up to 5 years of age who are found to be at nutritional risk. Recipients are issued FMNP coupons that they can use at approved farmers’ markets or stands.
www.fns.usda.gov/wic/FMNP/FMNPfaqs.htm
Drake University Agricultural Law Center, The State and Local Food Policy Project
This Web site provides information about the State and Local Food Policy Project, which facilitates the growth of by providing support and resources to these groups. This project offers legal perspectives, case studies and in-depth analysis.
www.statefoodpolicy.org
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Farmers Market Promotion Program Guidelines
This document provides the guidelines for entities seeking funding from the USDA Farmers’ Market Promotion Program. Eligible entities include local governments, nonprofit corporations, agricultural cooperatives, and other domestically-located entities whose main source of income results from producing and selling produce directly to consumers.
www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/getfile?dDocName=STELPRDC5067826&acct=fmpp
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Community Food Projects Competitive Grants Program
This program provides funding for community-based food and agriculture projects nationwide. Eligible projects help increase access to food for lower-income people, increase a community’s ability to provide for its own needs, promote comprehensive responses to local nutrition or food needs and meet specific needs for long-term viability in infrastructure improvement and development.
www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/fundview.cfm?fonum=1080
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