Food as Medicine Global Resource Directory

Food as Medicine Global Resource Directory

The Food as Medicine Global Resource Directory includes organizations and community initiatives engaging in positive food system solutions. The directory is intended to increase awareness, collaboration, and engagement to benefit individuals, communities, and the planet.

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Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice

Agriculture Nutrition and Health Academy

Alameda County Recipe4Health

American Nutrition Association

Beacon Food Forest

Biodynamic Federation Demeter International e.V.

Brooklyn Grange

Center for Whole Health Learning in K-12, The

Coastal Roots Farm

Common Threads

Community Kitchen Chicago

Community Kitchens

Cooking Matters

Cultivate Collective

Daily Table

Dr. Elaine's Soil Food Web School

Ecology Center, The

Farm My School

Food as Medicine Institute

Food Forest Abundance

Food To Power

Food Trust, The

FoodCorps

Garden Green

Goetheanum Section for Agriculture

Health of the Soil International

Healthy Food Policy Project

Institute for Natural Medicine

Kitchenistas Movie, The

National Farm to School Network

Native Roots Farm Foundation

Nature Nurture Farmacy

Need More Acres

North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems

Partnership for a Healthier America

Peoria Grown

Pharm Table Apothecary Kitchen

Planetary Health Collective

Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition

Seeds of Wellness, Inc.

Sustainable Harvest International

Tahoma Peak Solutions

Teaching Kitchen Collaborative

Teens for Food Justice

Urban Growers Collective & Green Era Campus

Veterans Healing Farm

White Buffalo Land Trust

Whole Vashon Project

Wholesome Wave

Agraria Center for Regenerative Practice

Location:

131 E. Dayton-Yellow Springs Road, Yellow Springs, Ohio 45387

Contact:

info@agrariacenter.org

Description

Agraria is a nonprofit focused on Bioregional Regeneration in the Miami Valley of Ohio. At our 138acre farm, we research, demonstrate & teach practices to restore soil health, heal our relationship with the land, and grow just and equitable food systems. We offer a national BIPOC Farming Network, BIPOC farmer training & incubation, conferences & workshops, youth programs, K-12 curriculum, research with universities and farmer's markets support.

Agriculture, Nutrition and Health Academy

Location:

Based in the UK

Worldwide

Contact:

anh-academy@lshtm.ac.uk

Description

The Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy is led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. It is a global community of interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working on agriculture and food systems for improved nutrition and health, with over 6,500 members in 145+ countries. We host an annual conference, provide skills-based training and support and are active in finding ways to accelerate research methods and metrics in the field. Membership is free of charge.

Alameda County Recipe4Health

Location:

Alameda County, California

Contact:

Recipe4Health@acgov.org

Description

Recipe4Health is a nationally recognized, award-winning model that integrates foodbased interventions into healthcare settings (“food as medicine”) to treat, prevent, and reverse chronic conditions; to address food and nutrition insecurity; and to improve health and racial equity. Recipe4Health is one of the first “food as medicine” programs in California to become a Medi-Cal (Medicaid) covered service. The Recipe4Health model has “three ingredients” that are scalable and adaptable to the local community. In Alameda County, the “three ingredients” are:

Food Farmacy: Patients receive a produce prescription for 12 weeks of regenerative organic produce (local, pesticide-free, seasonal, nutrient dense) delivered weekly to their homes. Dig Deep Farms grows the food regeneratively and organically. Behavioral Pharmacy: Patients receive health group/individual coaching (e.g., movement, nutrition education, stress reduction, and social connection) to integrate food interventions into daily life habits. Open Source Wellness provides the health coaches.

Food as Medicine training: Healthcare clinic staff receive clinical nutrition training and clinic/electronic health record workflow integration support.

Recipe4Health connects agricultural sourcing and supply of regenerative organic produce from Dig Deep Farms to healthcare’s demand for “food as medicine” prescribed by healthcare team members. This model transforms the healthcare and agricultural system’s capacity to increase access to and utilization of affordable healthy foods to improve human health, soil health, and planetary health. [https://allin.acgov.org/recipe4health/]

Recipe4Health’s research and evaluation partners include Stanford School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, the Community Health Center Network, and the Nutrition Incentive Hub of the Gusnip NTAE Center.

American Nutrition Association

Location: USA

Contact: media@theANA.org

Description

The American Nutrition Association (ANA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to a society of Healthy People, Powered by Nutrition. As the goldstandard in personalized nutrition, the ANA educates and certifies professionals to use nutrition in practice, advocates for full-scale integration of science-based nutrition in public policy, and connects the nutrition ecosystem by mobilizing individual, institutional and networklevel leadership required to shape the future of nutrition.

Beacon Food Forest

Location:

16th Ave S & S Dakota St.

Beacon Hill, Seattle, WA

USA

Contact:

volunteer@beaconfoodforest.ngo

@beaconfoodforest

Beacon Food Forest

Description

Our vision is a world where every community participates in creating local food ecosystems. Beacon Food Forest is a demonstration site and a learning community that reimagines what urban green spaces can offer. Volunteers turned a swath of grass into a vibrant, thriving ecosystem that now provides fresh produce, uplifting beauty, pollinator habitat, healthy soils, climate change mitigation, storm water filtration, educational opportunities, andperhaps most importantly - a community where everyone is welcome to be, participate, learn and teach.

Biodynamic Federation Demeter International e.V.

Location:

Brandschneise 1, 64925

Darmstadt, Germany Worldwide

Contact:

secretariat@demeter.net

Description

The Biodynamic Federation Demeter International e.V. is the worldwide movement of biodynamic agriculture embracing a holistic, ecological and ethical approach of farming. It is the only agricultural association that has built up a network of certification bodies for biodynamic farmers worldwide, which certify for the Demeter brand. Today, the Federation has 47 member organisations in 36 countries worldwide, that work together in many areas of biodynamics, including developing the Demeter international standard. There are around 7.000 Demeter certified farms with more than 250.000 hectares in 65 countries.

Brooklyn Grange

Location:

Brooklyn Navy Yard

63 Flushing Ave

Building 3, Suite 1105

Brooklyn, NY 11205

Contact: info@brooklyngrangefarm.com

(347) 670-3660

Description

Founded in 2010, Brooklyn Grange is the leading rooftop farming and intensive green roofing business in the US, operating the world’s largest rooftop soil farms, located in New York City. Brooklyn Grange promotes sustainable urban living by building green spaces, hosting educational programming and events, and widening access to locally grown produce in New York City communities.

The Center for Whole Health Learning in K-12, Inc. -

WholeHealthED

Location: Washington DC USA

Contact:

Taylor Walsh Founder and Director

taylorwalshdc@gmail.com

Description

WholeHealthED is a 501©3 nonprofit program, advisory, and activist organization established in 2018 to advocate for re-imagining health education in US schools in order to prepare children for adult life in the challenging 21st Century. We believe that the goal of “empowering people to manage their own health” is best achieved by starting that process in the earliest grades. U.S. schools are fortunate to have ready access to well-established school-based whole health learning activities: school gardens, nature education, mindfulness and yoga, food and nutrition literacy, cognition-supporting PE and movement that uniquely engage children on multiple levels. They have also demonstrated outcomes that offset the impacts of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), trauma, and negative social determinants. They may also complement school efforts to support mental health at a time psychologists and counselors are quite taxed. We convene whole health learning stakeholders and researchers, Whole Child adherents, pediatricians and the local and national institutions that support them, in order to raise awareness of the demonstrated benefits of their work. This can support greater investment in school-based wellbeing, and in the first instance meet the urgency of child and adolescent mental health disruptions.

Coastal Roots Farm

Location:

441 Saxony Rd.

Encinitas, CA 92024

USA

Contact:

Jess Arroyo, Marketing and Events Coordinator

jess@coastalrootsfarm.org

Description

Coastal Roots Farm is a nonprofit community farm and education center where we practice organic farming, share our harvest with those who lack access, deliver unique farm-based education, and foster inclusive spaces for people of all ages and backgrounds to come together to engage in ways that catalyze a healthier, more vibrant community and a more sustainable future for the region. The Farm manages 17 acres of certified-organic farmland and utilizes regenerative agricultural practices to meet the immediate needs of the community. Coastal Roots Farm cultivates healthy, connected communities by integrating sustainable agriculture, food justice, and ancient Jewish wisdom.

Location:

United States

Common Threads

Contact: Stephanie Folkens

teachers@commonthreads.org

Description

Common Threads is a national nonprofit that provides children, families, educators, and providers cooking and nutrition education to encourage healthy habits that contribute to wellness. Through our Food as Medicine Programs, we aim to improve non-clinical patient care and support adoption of nutrition and culinary medicine as part of the medical education experience.

Community Kitchen Chicago

Location:

Chicago, IL USA

Contact:

emily.communitykitchen@gmail.com

Description

Community Kitchen is a Covid-19 food relief program designed to support individuals in need of access to food as well as local chefs, restaurant workers, vendors and farmers whose livelihoods have been made precarious by the pandemic. Through its own fundraising, Community Kitchen is able to pay Chicago chefs to source locally and create delicious, unique and nutritious meals that are distributed to various service organizations and directly to individuals on a weekly basis. The Community Kitchen is a program of Public Media Institute. Community Kitchen (Video)

Location: Oakland, CA USA

Community Kitchens

Contact: Mollye Chudacoff

Meal Program Manager mollye@ckoakland.org

Maria Alderete,Executive Director, maria@ckoakland.org

Description

Community Kitchens is a free meal program for Oakland’s most vulnerable community members. Our mission is to feed people left behind by other food programs and to build community and solidarity through food. We bring together over 50 local restaurants and 10 community groups to prepare and distribute meals to our unhoused, at-risk youth, and shut in or low-income seniors every day. Our meals are distributed by a network of community organizations who use our meals as a trust-building tool that helps them connect marginalized communities with needed services and support.

Location:

Across the USA

Cooking Matters

Contact: For general questions

cmhelp@strength.org

Description

Cooking Matters champions the fight against hunger through food skills education. It provides communities with evidence-based, customizable and innovative tools to help parents and caregivers of young children prepare and serve healthy, affordable meals. As a trusted resource for families, Cooking Matters turns stressful mealtime challenges into moments of confidence and joy. Cooking Matters is a program of Share Our Strength, an organization committed to ending hunger and poverty.

Cultivate Collective

Location:

4942 West 44th ST.

Chicago IL 60638

Contact: community@cultivateher.org (773) 234-5848

Description

The Cultivate Collective development is a holistic hub on the southwest side of Chicago that is slated to be completed Fall 2023. Our first phase of construction will house the Academy for Global Citizenship's (AGC) existing K-8 school, an early childhood center, community health care center, three-acre urban farm, neighborhood marketplace, six teaching kitchens, and a range of community wellness programs and amenities. Our second phase will feature a training hub for minority workforce, an Institute, and a hydroponic farm.

Locations:

450 Washington St.

Dorchester, MA 02124

2201 Washington St.

Roxbury, MA 02119

684 Massachusetts Ave.

Cambridge, MA 02139

USA

Contact:

info@dailytable.org

Description

Daily Table

Daily Table is a nonprofit grocery chain dedicated to providing fresh, tasty, and nutritious food to communities most in need at prices everyone can afford. By partnering with a network of suppliers, we source high-quality food at low costs and make it available to everyone at prices designed for a SNAP budget. Our stores offer a selection of fresh produce, grocery staples, and made-from-scratch prepared foods. We provide a retail experience that empowers people to eat well with the dignity and power of their own dollars.

Dr. Elaine's Soil Food Web School

Location:

2864 NW Monterey Place

Corvallis, OR 97330, USA

Worldwide

Contact:

info@soilfoodweb.com

Description

The mission of Dr. Elaine's Soil Food Web School is to empower individuals and organizations to regenerate the soils in their communities. Dr. Elaine’s Soil Food Web Approach has been used to successfully restore the ecological functions of soils on six continents. The courses offered by Dr. Elaine’s Soil Food Web School have been designed for people with no relevant experience – making them accessible to individuals who wish to retrain and to begin a meaningful and impactful career in an area that will help to secure the survival of humans and other species.

The Ecology Center

Location:

32701 Alipaz St.

San Juan Capistrano

CA 92675

Contact: Jonathan Zaidman | Impact & Partnership

858-722-8222

info@theecologycenter.org

Description

We are in business to shift culture. By curating ecological experiences for everyone, we provide creative yet achievable solutions for thriving on planet Earth. We believe everyone should have access to the tools, knowledge, and skills that promote healthy communities in the 21st century.

Food as Medicine Institute

Location:

Portland, OR USA

Contact: Andrew Erlandsen ND

aerlandsen@nunm.edu

Description

The Food as Medicine Institute aims to provide evidencebased nutrition education to individuals, families, and communities while nourishing healthy relationships with whole foods and to educate health care professionals on the use of food as medicine in the prevention and reduction of chronic disease. We envision communities free of chronic disease and nourished through healthy whole foods. Our Guiding Principles are to: Promote whole foods and lowprocessed foods; Encourage a diverse, primarily plant-based diet; Include food from healthy animals; Promote antiinflammatory food choices; Recognize that individuals have unique food needs; and care about food and its sources.

Contact:

Food Forest Abundance

hello@foodforestabundance.com

Description

At Food Forest Abundance, we exist to help people grow their own food. We’re happy to help one person in a part of their backyard or a whole city grow their own food. We utilize our growing, talented and mission-driven international team in concert with the proven principles and methodologies of permaculture to increase the amount of food anyone can grow without the use of pesticides, insecticides or even fertilizers in many cases. Our mission is to create living grocery stores across the world. We believe a local, convenient, healthy, growing, low maintenance food supply is the best way to set people free. Food Forest Abundance. Growing Freedom.

Food To Power

Location:

1090 S Institute St

Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Contact:

info@foodtopowerco.org

Local: (719) 470-2737 | Toll-free: (888) 416-4678 (Email preferred!)

Description

Food to Power's mission is to cultivate a healthy, equitable food system in the greater Colorado Springs community. We do this through areas of food access, education, advocacy, and production and take a holistic approach to the food system.

Our signature food access program, No Cost Grocery, is available twice a week on Tuesdays at 2:00 PM and Saturdays at 12:00 PM. Come see us!

Location: Headquarters: Philadelphia, PA

Contact:

The Food Trust

foodbucks@thefoodtrust.org

Description

Founded in 1992, The Food Trust works with neighborhoods, institutions, retailers, farmers and policymakers across the country to ensure delicious, nutritious food for all. Backed by three decades of research and evaluation, our holistic, community-centered approach to nutrition security weaves together three core programming elements -- access, affordability and education -- as well as a focus on advocating for public policy solutions. The Food Trust's Nutrition Incentives program, offering Food Bucks and Food Bucks Rx, helps make fresh produce and other healthy food accessible and affordable. Food Bucks are primarily SNAP incentives earned at the point of purchase by shoppers paying with SNAP, and Food Bucks Rx produce prescriptions are distributed to patients by their healthcare providers. Learn more: thefoodtrust.org/foodbucks

FoodCorps

Location:

Portland, Oregon

Working across the USA

Contact:

info@foodcorps.org

212-596-7045

Description

FoodCorps partners with schools and communities to nourish kids’ health, education, and sense of belonging. Our AmeriCorps members serve alongside educators and school nutrition leaders to provide kids with nourishing meals, food education, and culturally affirming experiences with food that celebrate and nurture the whole child. Building on our service program, FoodCorps advocates for policy change in service of every kid’s health and wellbeing.

Garden Green

Location:

Vashon Island, WA

USA

Contact:

Michael Laurie

mlaurie@mindspring.com

Description

Garden Green provides education on nontoxic alternatives to toxic pesticides for home gardeners, farmers, retailers, parks departments, municipalities, nonprofit organizations, and corporations. Located on Vashon Island, in the Puget Sound, we specialize in the green gardening needs of Western Washington. Our work also includes educating retailers about green garden products and giving talks to the public, schools, community groups, and businesses about the benefit of green gardening.

Goetheanum Section for Agriculture

Location: Hügelweg 59 CH-4143 Dornach Switzerland

Contact:

Phone: +41 61 706 4212 Fax: +41 61 706 4215 agriculture@goetheanum.ch communications.agriculture@goetheanum.ch

Description

The Section for Agriculture at the Goetheanum has the main vision to enable that every person can freely and actively join in shaping the biodynamic farming and food culture for the future of the earth and humanity.We believe that a space for inspiration, the combination of research and practice, learning and exchanging and partnerships are essential to achieve a healthy and sustainable farming and food future.We collaborate with trainer, advisors, farmers, consumers, researchers and others to spread biodynamics worldwide.

Healthy Food Policy Project

Location:

South Royalton Vermont, USA

Contact:

CAFS@vermontlaw.edu

Description

The Healthy Food Policy Project (HFPP) identifies and elevates local laws that seek to promote access to healthy food while also contributing to strong local economies, an improved environment, and health equity, with a focus on socially disadvantaged and marginalized groups. HFPP is a collaboration of the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems at Vermont Law School (CAFS), the Public Health Law Center (PHLC), and the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health at the University of Connecticut. Healthy food access policies and racial justice go hand in hand. This project is funded by the National Agricultural Library, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Health of the Soil International

Location:

Based in Nigeria Worldwide

Contact:

https://healthofthesoil.org/contact

Description

VISION: Imagine fully-restored, spongy, friable, healthful, living & protected farm soil, brimming with billions upon billions of beneficial soil citizens (microbial community), helping to drive increased food and nutrition security in Africa and the world at large, and contributing to the seamless sequestration of carbon in the biosphere. This is our core vision, preoccupation and pride, and we’re in it together, as soil is our common ground. We envision and professionally help to evolve an actively regenerated, bio-functional soils for all farmers through the instrumentality of regenerative agriculture with the following Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for programme efficiency: reduced erosional forces of water and wind, maximum water infiltration, improved nutrient cycling, zero inputs and increased overall resiliency of the land. At Health of the Soil, we are promoting the adoption of regenerative agriculture paradigm and generating replicable solutions at the intersection of:

1. Rural Regeneration (smallholder farmers)

2. Urban Regeneration (Urban-dwelling families and individuals)

3. Generational Regeneration (Connecting rural and urban school-age children, who lack access to practical agricultural training, to the excitement of practical regenerative agriculture).

Institute for Natural Medicine

Location:

USA

Contact: Michelle Simon

msimon@naturemed.org

Description

The Institute for Natural Medicine is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that seeks to increase public awareness of naturopathic medicine as well as access to naturopathic doctors for patients. Currently, we have two major projects dedicated to showing the efficacy of the core naturopathic principle of food as medicine. Our first project, "Food is Medicine," is a 16-week clinical research study that focuses on the power of diet and lifestyle change in underserved populations with participants from both North Carolina and San Diego. Our second, "Naturally Well" educates underserved youth about the inherent values of whole foods, benefits of low processed foods, natural fats, fiber, etc. and complementary topics, such as nutrients, digestion, good hydration, and navigating food deserts. The program's experiential, reinforcing curriculum helps to establish lifelong healthy habits in the youth served. Learn more about us and our mission at naturemed.org.

The Kitchenistas Movie

Location:

Based on Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center

National City, California

Film available worldwide

Contact:

kitchmovie@gmail.com

IG/FB @thekitchenistasmovie

TW @thekitchmovie

Description

The Kitchenistas feature film is about women advocating for healthy food traditions to change communities and transform lives. What started as a 7-week nutrition program eight years ago in National City (CA) for women seeking healthier diets, has become a 300+ Latina-led movement to raise the health, wellbeing, and resilience of the community. Broadcasting nationally on PBS, receiving film festival awards/recognitions, and being featured at professional conferences and college courses, the film is also available widely on Apple TV and other streaming services. See trailer here: thekitchenistasmovie.org

National Farm to School Network

Location:

P.M.B. #104

8770 West Bryn Mawr Ave, Suite 1300 Chicago, IL 60631-3515

Contact:

Email info@farmtoschool.org

Twitter - @FarmtoSchool

Facebook - @National Farm to School Network

Instagram - @FarmtoSchool

LinkedIn - @National Farm to School Network

YouTube - @National Farm to School Network

Flickr - @National Farm to School Network

Description

National Farm to School Network has a vision of a strong and just food system for all, and we seek deep transformation toward this vision through farm to school – the ways kids eat, grow, and learn about food in schools and early care and education settings.

Our Mission

National Farm to School Network increases access to local food and nutrition education to improve children’s health, strengthen family farms, and cultivate vibrant communities.

Our Vision

National Farm to School Network envisions a nation in which farm to school programs are an essential component of strong and just local and regional food systems, ensuring the health of all school children, farms, environment, economy and communities.

Location:

Nature Nurture Farmacy

176 NE School St. Chehalis, WA 98532

Contact: info@naturenurturefarmacy.org (360) 996-4387

Description

Nature Nurture Farmacy is a grassroots community health center and 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Chehalis, WA, aimed at building community health through the use of herbal medicine, sustainable food cultivation and empowering education in Lewis County. We are a no-barrier community health center providing affordable healthcare services and herbal medicine education. NNF was founded in 2018 by Dr. Alicia Spalding after graduating from Bastyr University, feeling called to return to her community to help build health foundations. Today, we are an ever-growing group of naturopaths, herbalists, farmers, chefs, families, and super-volunteers working in collaboration to address the health and wellbeing of Lewis County. Alongside our naturopathic, no-barriers health center, Nature Nurture Farmacy began Project: Food is Medicine (PFIM) in 2019, and is the culmination of our mission at NNF. We believe that food is the foundation of our health. The lack of agricultural resources, nutritional education, and local farmer connections has left our Lewis County, WA community dependent on external resources for food. Our mission is to connect our local farmers growing nutritious, organic produce to those in our schools and community that experience limited access to healthy food. PFIM has several branches, including supporting and energizing local educational and community gardens, developing accessible and fun nutrition education opportunities, and coordinating a free Community Seed Library within our health center.

Need More Acres

Location:

South Central Kentucky

Contact:

Michelle Howell

Description

Need More Acres Farm has over 20 years of experience merging public health, community organizing, and agriculture with a focus on equity and justice. The co-owners, Nathan and Michelle Howell combine Nathan's experience growing up on a beef and tobacco farm in Kentucky and Michelle's experience of poverty and hunger as a child raised in San Diego, California. They raise proteins and over 100 fruits and vegetables year-round on 20 acres in South Central Kentucky. Together with relational providers in public health, schools, hospitals, extension services, government, and universities, they have implemented food is medicine programming that addresses the needs of their neighbors in unique and innovative ways. Their farm includes an on farm certified kitchen and food hub that supports over 20 minority farmers.

The Farming, Culinary Arts & Community Organizing co-op for High Schoolers allows NMAF to work alongside high schoolers to implement many of their programs, including hosting 7,500 school students every year, harvesting, aggregating, packaging, and delivering 4,800 grocery rx boxes directly to the doorstep of Medicaid participants, and hosting the Equity in Ag cohorts for minority farmers every spring and fall. NMAF is excited and hopeful to be able to network with integrative healthcare to provide a more comprehensive approach to our food is medicine programming. Our two goals are to see our neighbor overcome preventable diseases while increasing economic impact through local agriculture. We believe that this will be increasingly important as we prepare for future pandemics, natural disasters, and food shortages.

Native Roots Farm Foundation

Location: Delaware

Contact: NativeRootsDE@gmail.com

Description

Native Roots Farm Foundation (NRFF) is reclaiming, cultivating, and celebrating Native relationships with land, plants, and community for the next Seven Generations. NRFF is a Native (Nanticoke) woman-led 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that identifies native plants in the Nanticoke and Lenape languages; shares how tribes have used these plants for food, ceremony, medicine, and textiles; helps rematriate natives seeds to the communities that cultivated them; and nurtures appreciation, awareness, and action for tribal communities and the environment.

Location:

Midtown Global Market

920 E. Lake St.

Minneapolis, MN 55407

USA

Contact:

info@natifs.org

Description

North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems

(NĀTIFS) is dedicated to addressing the economic and health crises affecting Native communities by reestablishing Native foodways. We imagine a new North American food system that generates wealth and improves health in Native communities through foodrelated enterprises, such as the Indigenous Food Lab, a professional Indigenous kitchen and training center.

Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA)

Location:

Headquartered in Washington, DC

Working across the USA

Contact:

Carmen Berry, MPH, RD, LD (Senior Manager, Program Nutrition) at cberry@ahealthieramerica.org

Description

Partnership for a Healthier America (PHA) is the premier nationwide nonprofit working to create lasting, systemic changes that transform the food landscape in pursuit of food and health equity. Every family, in every zip code in America should have access to good food - food that is affordable, healthy, sustainable, high-quality and culturally connected. Our work helps people access good food. PHA develops evidencebased approaches that are implemented in partnership with the private sector, nonprofits, and government, leveraging PHA’s assets and the partner’s knowledge to accelerate the pace of transformation.

Peoria Grown

Location:

Peoria Illinois, USA

Contact:

Description

Our Mission

Peoria Grown believes in two fundamental principles: 1. Everyone should have access to affordable, healthy food 2. Education is the key to helping individuals be self-sufficient and improve community wellness.

Peoria Grown's mission is to address food insecurity issues through improved coordination of resources; access to affordable, healthy food with an emphasis on fresh produce; and education on nutrition and healthy food choices. We have learned that food-insecure people are likely to face major health issues and are often unsure how diet affects their health. Diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, obesity, high blood pressure, dental issues, and more can be greatly affected and controlled by diet. We also discovered that there is a misconception that healthy food should take a backseat whenever people are in need or when there is an emergency. Healthy food does not have to be more expensive, and it builds good habits that disrupt the cycle of food insecurity that plagues our community. Peoria Grown would like to make a difference in how emergency food is provided to our community, particularly for children who are forming lifelong eating habits. Market 309 offers fresh produce at a convenient location and at a cost cheaper than grocery stores. The market provides individuals and families access to healthy food during business hours. No need to sign up, no minimums or maximums – just show up to shop! This initiative is part of the Peoria Grown mission to provide accessible, affordable fresh fruits and vegetables. See website for all Market 309 locations.

Planetary Health Collective

Location:

Virtual / HQ in Southern CA

USA - Nationwide

Contact:

hello@planetaryhealthcollective.org

Description

We are a 501(c)(3) collective of food and nutrition professionals who are passionate about leveraging our unique proximity with each dimension of the food system to mitigate climate change and nourish human health through the power of food. We empower, educate, incubate, and activate our community to take an active role in food system efforts to optimize both human and environmental health through accessible events and courses, resource sharing, mentorship, and community organizing.

Location:

Seattle, WA

USA - Nationwide

Contact:

Joseph Bogaard

206-300-1003

joseph@wildsalmon.org

Description

Save Our Wild Salmon is a coalition that brings together 40+ regional and national organizations and associations representing conservationists; commercial and recreational fishing people; salmon, orca and clean energy advocates working together to protect, restore, and reconnect healthy, resilient habitats that support abundant, self-sustaining salmon and steelhead populations for the benefit of people, fish and wildlife, and ecosystems.

Location:

595 E Crossville Rd. #700

Roswell, GA 30075

Contact:

404-895-1302

bewell@sowgratitude.com

Description

Our Vision: Passion for restoring and maintaining the health of the global community and Environment. Our Mission: Connecting people in the community with holistic wellness education and to furthering the promotion and preservation of indigenous healing and medicinal practices, and sustainable farming practices. Bridging the gap between Farming & Wellness. What We Do: We work with at-risk populations to encourage healthy lifestyles and habits, encourage biodynamic farming practices to promote living soil and healthy ecosystems, and help to preserve indigenous healing and medicinal practices through education and to further deepen connection to the Earth.

Sustainable Harvest International

Location:

Our programs are based in Central America at the moment. As an international organization, we have staff and supporters around the world. We plan to expand our programs to other regions.

Contact

Email: hello@sustainableharvest.org

Phone: (207) 669-8254

Mail to:

Sustainable Harvest International 177 Huntington Ave Ste 1703 #23701 Boston, Massachusetts 02115

Description

Sustainable Harvest International was built on the idea that environmental degradation and rural poverty are linked. That’s why the solution must also be linked. Since 1997, we have provided local, long-term technical assistance and training to rural farming families in Central America. Our proven model equips and empowers lowincome farmers with resources to implement alternatives to slashand-burn agriculture. Farmers adopt regenerative methods that sustain the land for future generations, halt tropical deforestation, and build strong, self-supporting communities through agribusiness. By supporting family farmers as they learn to grow their own food, we increase access to nutritious food, addressing food security issues in rural areas.

Location:

Tahoma Peak Solutions

Remote: We work with clients across the United States, but most of our staff is in the Pacific Northwest.

Contact:

Savannah@tahomapeak.com

Description

Tahoma Peak Solutions is a Native woman-owned firm specializing in Indigenous food systems planning, food sovereignty, and strategic communication. Led by TPS cofounder Valerie Segrest, an Indigenous foods expert, and Maria Givens, Tahoma Peak Solutions offers a variety of services from food systems planning, cultural education, Indigenous diversity, equity and inclusion training on Native food systems, and facilitation and process development. We work with nonprofits, foundations, tribes, companies, and universities to meet their needs at the intersection of food and Indigenous communities.

Teaching Kitchen Collaborative

Contact:

For more information visit

www.teachingkitchens.org

Description

The TKC is a collaborative of medical professionals, chefs, educators, researchers, and food system experts dedicated to the improvement of personal and public health. Our mission is to catalyze and empower a growing network of innovators changing lives through food. The TKC functions as a connective hub and accelerator to support the reproducibility, scalability, and evaluation of emerging teaching kitchen models and educational programs.

Teens for Food Justice

Location:

33 W. 60th St., Ste. 1211

New York, NY

10023

Contact:

info@teensforfoodjustice.org (833) 524-2742

Description

Teens for Food Justice TFFJ operates high-capacity hydroponic farms on five school campuses in four NYC boroughs and one in Denver, Colorado. TFFJ students use 21st-century technology to grow up to 10,000 pounds of hydroponic produce annually per school. Through the program, TFFJ’s farmers develop a meaningful solution to food insecurity, transform their relationship with the food they eat, and develop cutting-edge STEM skills needed in a new green sector economy.

Urban Growers

& Green Era Campus

Location:

Chicago, IL USA

Description

Urban Growers Collective is a Black- and women-led non-profit farm in Chicago, Illinois working to build a more just and equitable local food system. We aim to address the inequities and structural racism that exist in the food system and in communities of color. Rooted in growing food, our mission is to cultivate nourishing environments which support health, economic development, healing, and creativity through urban agriculture. We provide hands-on job training and create economic opportunity for youth, beginner BIPOC farmers. Our aim is to provide jobs while working to mitigate food insecurity and limited access to affordable, culturally-affirming, and nutritionally-dense food.

Green Era Campus Green Era’s mission is to create more sustainable communities by supporting local food production through better management of biodegradable waste and access to soil. We’re transforming a 9-acre vacant brownfield on the South Side of Chicago into a renewable energy facility and green oasis for economic empowerment, clean energy, fresh produce, and vibrant communities.

Description

Veterans Healing Farm

White Buffalo Land Trust

Location:

3635 Jalama Road

Lompoc, CA 93436

USA

Contact:

info@whitebuffalolandtrust.org

Description

White Buffalo Land Trust practices, promotes, and develops systems of regenerative agriculture for local, regional, and global impact. We are committed to the evolution of land stewardship and the redesign of our food system to directly address the climate, biodiversity, public health, and food security challenges that we face today. We've also launched Figure Ate, a brand dedicated to providing restorative foods from regenerative agriculture.

Whole Vashon Project

Location:

Vashon Island WA, USA

Contact:

wholevashonproject@gmail.com

Description

Our mission… Uniting our community to confront the climate crisis, we develop ways to work collectively and achieve transformative goals for an ever-green, healthier island home. The Whole Vashon Project was launched in early 2019 with a vision of our small community sharing green goals and making our efforts and commitments visible everywhere on the island —for the sake of our kids and their future. Our existence on this planet is more threatened today than at any time in our history, yet in most communities these days, who would know we face a climate crisis? Here on Vashon, there are wonderful efforts going on all over the island, but they are mostly invisible in daily life. Our goal is to make this work visible to all and thereby to help it grow.

Wholesome Wave Georgia

Location:

Atlanta, GA USA

Description

Wholesome Wave Georgia (WWG) is dedicated to increasing food access and nutrition by making fresh, healthy, locally grown produce available and affordable for all Georgians in need. WWG makes healthy, nutritious choices accessible for Georgia’s food insecure population to change eating habits and promote behavior change through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) nutrition program. WWG realizes its mission through its three programs: Georgia Fresh For Less (GF4L), Georgia Food for Health (GF4H), and Georgia SNAP Connection (GSC). The Georgia Fresh for Less (GF4L) program is WWG's SNAP nutrition incentive program. GF4L expands access to fresh, healthy, and local food by doubling SNAP recipients' purchasing power at participating local food outlets across Georgia. The Georgia Food for Health (GF4H) program, WWG’s produce prescription program, provides a unique health intervention for diet-related illnesses by promoting affordable access to fruits and vegetables and healthy eating in food insecure communities through partnerships with healthcare providers, community organizations, and local fresh produce retailers. Through our produce prescription program, healthcare providers give families innovative prescriptions that can be spent on fresh, healthy locally grown fruits and vegetables at participating farmers’ markets. The Georgia SNAP Connection (GSC) program provides free statewide application and general assistance for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicaid, the Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program (WIC), the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, and the Childcare and Parent Services (CAPS) program. The GSC team is a registered community partner of the state of Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS).