Cal Poly's Sustainable Agriculture Resource Consortium: Our purpose is to advance sustainable food and agriculture systems through education, demonstration of sustainable agricultural practices, investigation and facilitation of collaborative efforts for sustainability, both on campus and in our community.

California Farm Link: Matching land with farmers

Center for Food Safety works to protect human health and the environment by curbing the proliferation of harmful food production technologies and by promoting organic and other sustainable methods of agriculture.

Central Coast Grown: Local farmers, ranchers, and organizations of San Luis Obispo County are working together to educate the community about the many benefits of supporting local agriculture by buying locally grown food, fiber and flowers.

Central Coast Vineyard Team: a non-profit grower-group representing a collaborative partnership of growers, wineries, consultants, researchers, and natural resource professionalswhose mission is to promote sustainable practices on the Central Coast. 

Cloud Star: "Good stuff for good pets." Natural, healthy pet products from a company founded by two SLO natives."

Eat to Beat Prostate Cancer: Acclaimed cookbook author and editor David Ricketts offers everyday food for men battling prostate cancer, and well as healthy eating for their families and friends.

Eden Foods: There are a lot of health food companies out there, but this one has remained independently owned and operated by the same co-op food store owners that started it in 1968.

Edible Communities: Cultivating communities through food with these locally produced newsletters.

The Edible Schoolyard, in collaboration with Martin Luther King Junior Middle School, provides urban public school students with a one-acre organic garden and a kitchen classroom. Using food systems as a unifying concept, students learn how to grow, harvest, and prepare nutritious seasonal produce. Experiences in the kitchen and garden foster a better understanding of how the natural world sustains us, and promote the environmental and social well being of our school community.

The Ethicurean: A great info site -- their tagline "Chew the Right Thing" says it all!

Fairview Gardens: The Center for Urban Agriculture at the Gardens celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2007. This non-profit effort spearheaded by Michael Ableman saved a viable farm from intense development in the Goleta Valley.

Full of Life Flatbread -- The home page for this great pizza, produced with local and organic products in Los Alamos, CA.

The Green Restaurant Association℠ (GRA), a national non-profit organization, provides services in research, consulting, education, marketing and community organizing. The GRA utilizes a collaborative strategy that involves restaurants, manufacturers, vendors, grassroots organizations, government, media, and restaurant customers. The GRA's model provides a convenient way for all sectors of the restaurant industry, which represents 10% of the U.S. economy, to become more environmentally sustainable.

Heifer International: Heifer's strategy is to “pass on the gift.” As people share their animals’ offspring with others – along with their knowledge, resources, and skills – an expanding network of hope, dignity, and self-reliance is created that reaches around the globe.

The Hunger Site: Help provide food with just a click. Also links to other worthy causes, and their online store has some great items.

The Hungry Passport: Explore culinary adventures at home and abroad with culinary guide, author and chef Carol Penn-Romine.

Lunch Lessons: The web site of "the renegade lunch lady," CHef Ann Cooper, who has achieved PHENOMENAL strides in remaking the Berkeley school lunch program.

MADRE: Rights, Resources & Results for Women Worldwide

Nat Decants FREE Wine E-Newsletter Wine picks, articles and humor from Natalie MacLean, named the World's Best Drink Writer at the World Food Media Awards in Australia. Natalie is also the author of Red, White and Drunk All Over: A Wine Soaked Journey from Grape to Glass. For more details on this book and to sign up for the newsletter, visit www.nataliemaclean.com.

Nature's Touch Nursery & Harvest -- This small, family-owned store in Templeton is one of the county's greatest local and organic food champions

N'credible Edibles -- Investing in Sustainability by Creating Edible Landscapes, SLO County

The Non-GMO Project -- "The Non-GMO Project is a non-profit organization, created by leaders representing all sectors of the organic and natural products industry in the U.S. and Canada, to develop and uphold a standardized definition of “non-GMO” for organic and natural products that are produced without genetic engineering or recombinant DNA technologies."

Pie Ranch -- "A rural center for urban renewal -- seeks to inform and inspire an ever-widening circle of urban and rural residents to know and take intimate part in the food they eat. We have planted wheat for pie crusts and berries for filling, and are raising bees for honey, goats for milk and chickens for eggs on a 14-acre parcel above the historic Steele Ranch at Green Oaks Creek (San Mateo)."

Seafood Watch: The new sustainable seafood guides from the Monterey Bay Aquarium are published. Find out the latest recommendations at www.montereybayaquarium.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp.

Solar Cookers International: Using low-tech solar cooking methods not only frees the world's people (usually women) from having to find and haul combustible fuel sources, but also saves those resources.

Southern Foodways Alliance: The laudable mission of the SFA is to document and celebrate the diverse food cultures of the American South.

Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
Their mission is to teach, demonstrate, and promote sustainable, community-based food production.

Victory Gardens: A local network of home gardens = A community of food producers! Watch this presentation by Program Director Blair Randall at the 2007 Taste3 Conference

CCOF Introduces Expedited Organic Certification Services