About Fork & Shovel

The Ag Futures Alliance (AFA) and Food System Alliance (FSA) are county to county leadership networks working to ensure that agriculture, community, and the environment will thrive indefinitely.

Ag Innovations Network is a leader in the sustainable agriculture movement. Since the early 1990’s they have worked with farmers, ranchers, farm labor advocates and environmentalists to devise strategies that support healthy farms and a healthy environment. They focus primarily on creating leadership consensus, community support, and public policies that are needed to move toward sustainability.

American Farmland Trust is United States National organization dedicated to innovative ways to preserve agricultural land. Lots of great success stories and policy recommendations here.

A site that exposes the cruel side of factory farming, with an evocative animation called “The Meatrix”.

Business Alliance for Local Living Economies is working to promote sustainable local economies. They are partners with Ag Innovations in hosting the San Benito County (California) Ag Futures Alliance. Lots of great strategies for sustainability here.

Our mission is to build family farming and conserve farmland in California by linking aspiring and retiring farmers; and promoting techniques and disseminating information that facilitate intergenerational farm transitions

The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living by fostering a profound understanding of the natural world, grounded in direct experience.

Chef’s Collaborative
Chefs Collaborative is a national network of more than 1,000 members of the food community who promote sustainable cuisine by celebrating the joys of local, seasonal, and artisanal cooking.

Answer thirteen simple questions to find out what your personal ecological footprint is – and how you might reduce it. Also includes more info about Footprint, FAQs, and option to send the site to a friend.

In 2002, we founded the EWG Action Fund, a 501©(4) organization that advocates on Capitol Hill for health-protective and subsidy-shifting policies.

EWG specializes in providing useful resources (like Skin Deep and the Shoppers’ Guide to Pesticides in Produce) to consumers while simultaneously pushing for national policy change.

Farm and Food Policy Project
The cross-sector approach of the Farm and Food Policy Project (FFPP) reflects a commitment to advocate for policies that address the full spectrum of public needs addressed by this critical piece of legislation. This broad and growing alliance believes that by working together, it can make real progress toward supporting family farms and local communities, improving health and nutrition, ending hunger, and increasing biodiversity and improving the quality of our soil, water and air.

FIELD will promote economic and social prosperity for Latinos and other low-income individuals and their families to help them realize their inherent worth and strengthen their communities.

The Institute for Food and Development Policy/Food First shapes how people think by analyzing the root causes of global hunger, poverty, and ecological degradation and developing solutions in partnership with movements working for social change.

Marin Organic is a bold new concept for preserving farmland and farming as a way of life in our region, focused on environmental soundness and economic profitability.

It was developed by an association of farmers, ranchers, agriculture advisors and marketing experts to serve Marin County’s producers and consumers.

We aim to promote and ensure that the diverse foods and traditions unique to North America reaches our tables by means that make our families and communities healthier and our food system more diverse: ecologically, culturally and structurally. We focus on clusters of foods at risk that we feel we have a capacity to recover, using models of discovery, recovery and sustainability that may inspire others to do similar work.

Roots of Change (ROC) believes that the best way to make the food system sustainable is to connect and support the people and parts within the system that have the knowledge, roles, relationships and commitments required to successfully manage a rapid transformation.

Slow Food USA
Slow Food USA is the home of the Slow Food movement in the United States. Great information about how you as an eater can help us create a more sustainable agriculture.

Sustainable Table celebrates the sustainable food movement, educates consumers on food-related issues and works to build community through food. Sustainable Table was created in 2003 by the nonprofit organization GRACE to help consumers understand the problems with our food supply and offer viable solutions and alternatives.

Educational programs, newsletters and publications, crop and livestock production information, biologically integrated farming systems, methyl bromide alternatives, grants & funding opportunities, community farming, and organic farming methodology.e.