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SUGGESTED LINKS
If you are a fan of the Druid City Garden Project, you might be interested in...-
JVUF is a community-based non-profit organization in Birmingham, Alabama. Utilizing over 3 acres of vacant downtown property, JVUF grows organic produce and flowers, educates the community about healthy food, and helps make Birmingham a vibrant community.
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The Edible Schoolyard (ESY), a program of the Chez Panisse Foundation, is a one-acre organic garden and kitchen classroom for urban public school students at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California.
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Smart by Nature™, the Center’s framework and services for schooling for sustainability, is based on two decades of work with schools and organizations in more than 400 communities across the United States and numerous other countries.
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Crabtree Farms was founded in 1998 to bring urban sustainable agriculture to Chattanooga. The mission of Crabtree Farms is to promote research & education in sustainable agriculture.
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As a nonprofit leader in plant-based education, our vision is to make available free educational plant-based materials, grants, and resources that speak to young minds, educators, youth and community organizations, and the general gardening public.
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We use gardening as a vehicle for encouraging children to make good food choices, augmenting classroom studies with experiential learning, building a love of nature, stimulating social interaction, facilitating cultural exchange, and more.
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Sustainable Table promotes the positive shift toward local, small-scale sustainable farming by educating consumers on food-related issues, and helping build community through food.
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The American Community Gardening Association (ACGA) is a bi-national nonprofit membership organization of professionals, volunteers and supporters of community greening in urban and rural communities.
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Community food security is a condition in which all community residents obtain a safe, culturally acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet through a sustainable food system that maximizes community self-reliance and social justice.
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The Food Environment Atlas serves to both assemble statistics on food environment indicators to stimulate research on the determinants of food choices and diet quality, and to provide a spatial overview of a community’s ability to access healthy food.
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The best organic food is what's grown closest to you. Use our website to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.
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This 1100 acre farm is located 10 miles west of Tuscaloosa. Snow's Bend produce is marketed in Tuscaloosa and Birmingham through a CSA, farmer’s markets, a few fine dining restaurants, and small, locally owned grocery stores.
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From April 2008 to April 2009, four "locavores" ate only food grown or raised in the state of Alabama. They embarked on this gastronomical adventure to focus on sustainable farming and to make a case for a revitalization of the state's rural economy.
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Within the school environment, a garden offers an unparalleled platform to help kids achieve learning goals in ways that are recommended by the National Science Standards and most state and local educational bodies.
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ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service provides information and other technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, Extension agents, educators, and others involved in sustainable agriculture in the United States.
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Farm to School connects schools (K-12) and local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing agriculture, health and nutrition education opportunities, and supporting local farmers.
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FARMER'S MARKETS IN THE TUSCALOOSA AREA
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“The Pepper Place Saturday Market abounds with wonders that awaken the senses, such as feeling the soft fuzz and smelling the sweet aroma of a Chilton County peach before taking the first bite.” -Southern Living
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Homegrown Alabama is a student-led group at the University of Alabama that seeks to educate students about the value of local produce, as well as to foster partnerships between local farmers and the University of Alabama.
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TFM insures its customers that they are buying fresh, HOME GROWN products, never bought and re-sold products. Please come down to the market and talk to our farmers and see why buying local is the best way to feed your family fresh produce!
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Our open-air, indoor facility provides an ideal spot for vendors to share their fresh fruits, vegetables and more with the public. We feature both wholesale and retail produce and are open YEAR ROUND.
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BOOKS
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What should we have for dinner? Pollan follows each of the food chains that sustain us – industrial food, organic food, and food we forage ourselves – from the source to a final meal, and in the process writes an account of the American way of eating.
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Written by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser, this book examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry. First serialized by Rolling Stone in 1999, the book has drawn comparisons to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
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Berry's 21 essays promote a clear and compelling vision important to all people dissatisfied with the stress, anxiety, disease, and destructiveness of contemporary American culture. Why is agriculture becoming culturally irrelevant, and at what cost?
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"This book reveals the chasm between the two food systems of America-the one for the poor and the one for everyone else. Winne offers compelling solutions for making local, organic, and highly nutritious food available to everyone.” - Dr. Jane Goodall
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Gary Nabhan’s year-long mission to eat only foods grown, fished, or gathered within 220 miles of his Arizona home offers striking, timely insights into our evolving relationship with food and place—and encourages us to redefine “eating close to home” as a
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Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, this book (released May 2007) tells the story of how our family was changed by one year of deliberately eating food produced in the place where we live.
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Brilliantly synthesizing philosophy, literature, science, memoir, and his own detective work, Foer explores the stories we use to justify our eating habits—and how such tales can lull us into a brutal forgetting.
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"More" is no longer synonymous with "better"—indeed, for many of us, they have become almost opposites. McKibben puts forward a new way to think about the things we buy, the food we eat, the energy we use, and the money that pays for it all.
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Roberts indentifies the forces that are undermining our capacity to produce food that is safe, nourishing, or adequate to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population. Readers will see how our food systems are breaking down, and how they can revived.
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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.In Defense of Food shows us how, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, by doing so, most of the chronic diseases that diet causes.
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From seed to store to plate, Stuffed and Starved explains the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.
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Hope’s Edge follows the author of the classic Diet for a Small Planet and her daughter as they travel the world, discovering practical visionaries who are making a difference in world hunger, sometimes one village at a time.
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Johnson is a hands-on gardener, and she shares with the reader a wealth of practical knowledge and fascinating garden lore. But she is also a lover of the untamed and weedy, and she evokes through her exquisite prose an abiding appreciation for earth.
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GARDENING BOOKS
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A classic in the field of sustainable gardening, this book shows how to produce a beautiful organic garden with minimal watering and care, whether it's just a few tomatoes in a backyard or enough food to feed a family of four on less than half an acre.
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Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step permaculture design to help farmsteaders and city dwellers alike build fertile soil, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in their own "paradise gardens."
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Master grower Eliot Coleman presents the simplest and most sustainable ways of growing top-quality organic vegetables. Coleman updates practical information on marketing the harvest, on small-scale equipment, and on farming for the health of the soiil.
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FILMS
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In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA.
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King Corn is a documentary released in 2007 that follows Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis as they move from Boston to Greene, Iowa to grow and farm an acre of corn. In the process, they examine the role that the increasing production of corn has in society.
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The Garden follows the plight of the farmers, from the tilled soil of this urban farm to the polished marble of City Hall. Mostly immigrants from Latin America, from countries where they feared to speak out, we watch them organize and demand justice.
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The Future of Food continues to be a key tool used by activists and educators who call for increased attention to genetic engineering of food crops by large agro corporations who claim such technology to be the answer to the world food crisis.
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Swine & Wine!!!
Proceeds from this year's Swine & Wine event in Birmingham will go to benefit the DCGP and our educational outreach programs!
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