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The Whole Foods Co-Op
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Duluth Farmer's Market
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Slow Food Lake Superior
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Calendar of Events...

• American Community Gardening Association
  
  
• American Farmland Trust
  
  
• American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
  
  
• ANDES
  
  
• Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA)
  
  
• Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2004.
  
  
• Bioneers
  
  
• Buy Local -- foodroutes.org
  
  
• Center for Food Safety
  
  
• Center for Rural Affairs
  
  
• Center or Sustainable Environments -- Northern Arizona Univerity
  
  
• Chefs Collaborative -- ". . . a national organiation that promotes sustainably raised, locally grown, artisan food. Membership is open to anyone intrested in the interconnectedness of the environment and food choices" (Jane Goodall, Harvest for Hope)
  
  
• City Farmer - Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture
  
  
• Community Farm Alliance
  
  
• Community Food Security Coalition
  
  
• Community Food Systems and  Sustainable Agriculture Program -- Agricultural Electronic Bulletin Board
  
  
  
• Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture
  
  
• Community Supported Agriculture -- USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service
  
  
• Conservation Beef
  
  
• Crossroads Resource Center
  
  
• Council for Responsible Genetics
  
  
• Densmore, Frances, "Uses of Plants by the Chippewa Indians," U.S. Bureau of American Ethnology, Annual Report, 1926-1927, 44 (1928), 275-397. (Reprinted as How Indians Use Wild Plants for Food, Medicine, and Crafts. New York: Dover, 1974).
  
  
• Dooley, Beth, and Lucia Watson. Savoring the Seasons of The Northern Heartland. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995.
  
  
• Duluth Community Garden Program
  
  
• Earth Pledge
  
  
• Ecological Farming Association
  
  
• "Edible Schoolyard," The Meaning of Food, PBS
  
  
• F3 -The Local Food Consultants
  
  
• Farmers Markets and Wholesale -- USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service
  
  
• FarmFolk/CityFolk Society
  
  
• Feeding America (fka Second Harvest)
  
  
• Food Alliance
  
  
• Food and Water Watch
  
  
• Food Circles Networking Project
  
  
• Food First
  
  
• Food Routes
  • Get Connected
    • Upper Midwest
      
      
• The Food Trust
  
  
• Friends of the Earth Europe
  
  
• Fruit and Vegetable of the Month

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• The Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative -- "a new initiative aimed at dismantling racism and empowering low-income and communities of color through sustainable and local agriculture"
  
  
• Hachten, Harva, and Terese Allen. The Flavor of Wisconsin: An Informal History of Food and Eating in the Badger State. Madison, WI: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 2009.
  
  
• Halweil, Brian. Eat Here: Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket. W. W. Norton, 2004.
  
  
• Hartford Food System
  
  
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
  
  
• International Center For Technology Assessment (CTA)
  
  
• International Society for Ecology and Culture
  
  
• Just Food
  
  
• Kaplan, Ann R., Marjorie A. Hoover, and Williard B. Moore. The Minnesota Ethnic Food Book. St. Paul, MN: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2003 [1986].
  
  
• Karstadt, Bruce N., Lila Peterson, and Irene Carlson. Var Sa God: Heritage and Favorite Recipes & Handbook of Swedish Traditions. Minneapolis, MN: American Swedish Institute, 2002.
  
  
• Kingsolver, Barbara, Camille Kingsolver, and Steven L. Hopp. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.). NY: HarperCollins, 2007. <www.animalvegetablemiracle.com/> (Indices)
  
  
  • "Ethics of Eating." [Krista Tippet speaks with celebrated author Barbara Kingsolver about the longings and lessons behind her book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle — a chronicle of a year her family spent eating primarily what they could grow or raise themselves.] -- Krista Tippet, Speaking of Faith [transcript]
    
    
• Kitchen Gardeners International

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• Land Stewardship Project
  
  
• Lappé, Frances Moore, and Anna Lappé. Hope's Edge: The Next diet for a Small Planet. NY: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2003.
  
  
• Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture -- Iowa State University
  
  
• Locavore nation -- The Splended Table
  
  
  • Central Region blog posts
  • Easternl Region blog posts
  • Westernl Region blog posts
    
    
• Local food -- Wikipedia

• Local Fair Trade Network
  
  
• Local Harvest
  
  
• LOTRA - The Local Trade Alliance - Reviving America's local communities
  
  
• Luard, Elisabeth. European Peasant Cookery. London: Grub Street, 2007. [Be sure to read the "Introduction."]
  
  
• Minnesota Department of Agriculture
  
  
  • Find a Farmers' Market near you
    
    
• Nabhan, Gary Paul. Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods. W.W. Norton, 2004.
  
  
• Nabhan, Gary Paul (Ed.). Forward by Deborah Madison. Renewing America's Food Traditions: Saving and Savoring the Continent's Most Endangered Foods. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green, 2008.
  
  
• The National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture
  
  
• Native Seeds/SEARCH
  
  
• "Near Eats," The Meaning of Food, PBS
  
  
• Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society
  
  
• Navdanya [New Delhi, India: a network of seed keepers and organic producers spread across 16 states in India]

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• Ojakangas, Beatrice A.The Great Scandinavian Baking Book. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1999.
  
  
• Ojakangas, Beatrice A. Scandinavian Feasts: Celebrating Traditions throughout the Year. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.
  
  
• Old Country Cookbook: Iron Range Ethnic Food. Chisholm, MN: Ironworld USA, 1981.
  
  
• Oldways
  
  
• Pesticide Action Network of North America
  
  
• Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals. NY: Penguin, 2007.
  
  
  • Michael Pollan. Bill Moyer's Journal. PBS (28 November 2008). (Watch Video; Read Transcrip) -- Few people reflect and report more astutely on the state of American food production and consumption than Michael Pollan. Beginning with his fascination in plant cultivation, THE BOTANY OF DESIRE, Pollan has become a mixture of reporter and prophet, documenting the state of American food and warning of the consequences if we don't change our ways.
    
    
  • Review: "Appetizing Anthropocentrism," Carrie Packwood Freeman ("Humanimalia: A journal of human/animal interface studies, Volume 1, Number 1 - September 2009)
    
    
• Polyface Farms
  
  
• Puckett, Susan. A Cook's Tour of Iowa. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 1990.
  
  
• Rodale Institute
  • New Farm
    
    
• Romer, Elizabeth. The Tuscan Year: Life and Food in an Italian Valley. London: Weidenfeld, 1984. (NY: North Point Press, 1989)

• Roufs, Timothy G. American Indian Oral History Collection, American Indian Oral History Collection, Vol. II, No. 21 -- Traditional Foods. (Paul Buffalo, et al. audiotape. Paul Buffalo discusses wild rice.) Dr. Joseph H. Cash, General Editor. New York: Clearwater Publishing Company, 1981. [UM DULUTH Library Multimedia PC 1203; see also microfiche collection]
  
  
• Rural Advancement Foundation International - USA

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• Salatin, Joel. Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: The Food Buyer's Guide to Farm-Fresh Food. Swoope, VA: Polyface, 2006.
  
  
• Sea Web
  
  
• Shuman, Michael. Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age. Routledge, 2000.
  
  
• Seed Savers Exchange
  
  
• Stern, Jane and Michael. Real American Food. NY: Alred A. Knopf, 1986.
  
  
• Stern, Jane and Michael. Two for the Road. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006.
  
  
• Sustain: The Alliance or Better Food and Farming
  
  
• Sustainable Agriculture Research and Eduction
  
  
• Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota
  
  
  • Lake Superior Chapter
    
    
• Sustainable Table -- GRACE
  • Meatrix Films
    
    
• Tasting Food, Tasting Sustainability: Defining the Attributes of an Alternative Food System With Competent, Ordinary People. Human Organization 59:2 (July 2000): 177-186.
  
  
• Tolbert, Frank X. A Bow of Red. College Station, TX: Texas A&M, 1994. [Texas]
  
  
• Toronto Food Policy Council
  
  
• University of Minnesota Farmers Market
  
  
  • Cooking Tips and Recipes
  • Learn what it means when fruits and vegetables are organically grown
  • Shopping Tips
  • Tomato Tips
  • Zucchini Tips
  • University of Minnesota Wellness Works Magazine
    
    
• USDA
  • Census of Agriculture
  • Agricultural Marketing Service
    • Farmers Markets and Local Food Marketing
      
      
• Wholesale and Farmers Markets -- USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service
  
  
• Worldwatch Institute
  • China Watch
  • Consumption
  • e2 - Eye on Earth
  • Energy and Climate Change
  • Environmental Milestones Timeline
  • Food
  • Population
  
  
  
• Zelickson, Sue. American Cancer Society. Minnesota Heritage Cookbook: Hand-Me-Down Recipes (Minnesota Heritage Cookbook I). Minneapolis, MN: American Cancer Society, 1979.