Sustainable Food Resources
San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond
Chris Dolezalek
Bay Area Local and,or Organic Restaurant Links:
Bay Area Vegetarians (www.bayareaveg.org) is a San Francisco Bay Area wide group for
vegan, vegetarian and animal rights folks to connect and find support with
like-minded folks, while our activities & events encourage and educate the
community on the benefits of a plant-based diet. We are a 100% volunteer, no
fees, plant-powered organization with over 4,000 members throughout the Bay Area
and beyond.
Can San Francisco feed itself from local farms? (postcarboncities.net/node/2763)
CCFO
(www.ccof.org/) Organic Certification, Trade
Association, Education & Outreach, Politcal Advocacy. CCOF promotes and
supports organic food and agriculture through a premier organic
certification program, trade support, producer and consumer
education and political
advocacy. From apples to zucchini, from almonds to wine, CCOF is
involved in every facet of organics, with over 750 different organic crops and
products, including livestock, processed products and services.
Center for Informed Food Choices (informedeating.org) advocates a diet based on whole, unprocessed, local,
organically grown plant foods; its Web site contains a useful F.A.Q. page about
food politics and eating well, as well as an archive of relevant articles.
Common Ground Organic Garden Supply and Education Center (www.commongroundinpaloalto.org
) in Palo Alto, California: Common Ground is a project of Ecology Action, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization
promoting the GROWBIOINTENSIVE™ method of sustainable agriculture.
Communities: 3greencommunities (environment.meetup.com/340/) The Communities of Los Gatos/Monte
Sereno, Saratoga and Campbell have joined forces to promote green
sustainability. We invite you to speak up and be heard.
Communities: East Bay Slow Food Advocates
(wholefood.meetup.com/123/) Our group follows the principles of 'slow food'
with a commitment to use quality foods, adhere to wholesome nutrition and
maintain personal wellness.
Communities: Food
Near CNET Network (cnetfood.ning.com/)
Communities: Food
Shed Network (foodshed.ning.com/)
A Facebook/MySpace-like social network for people who care about where their
food comes from - and for those who grow it, distribute it, prepare it, and
sell it . . . within the local
Communities: Going
Green (green.meetup.com/224/)
A Community fostering Greener SOLUTIONS Through Innovation, Investing, and
Industry Experts, investors, and entrepreneurs meet to provide innovation &
insight into the cutting edge green areas.
Communities: Power of
the Heart (poweroftheheart.ning.com/)
This site is about possibilities. It’s about compassion, action, and change.
It’s about empowering people to make a difference.
Communities:
San Francisco Bay Area Local Food ( SFOlocal.com ) Community for people
interested in eating organically and/or locally grown food in the San Francisco
Bay Area
Communities: San
Francisco Organic, Raw Food &
Natural Health Meetup (rawfood.meetup.com/436/)
Meet people who are interested in organic, raw, natural food and health! Come
to a Meetup to have fun, share recipes, discuss food, health, make new friends,
get inspired and motivated! Anyone interested in living an organic life and
meeting others who are passionate about food and health are welcome
Communities: Sustainable
Food (sustainablefood.ning.com/)
Growing 100 M tons of corn to burn for ethanol creates ecological suicide as it
drains trillions of gallons of non-replenishable groundwater, spikes food and
fuel prices, decimates food exports and threatens millions with starvation.
Cool Eatz (www.cooleatz.com) CoolEatz makes
a difference by using food and wine raised, harvested, and
produced sustainably and regionally.
Eating
Sustainably (www.globalcommunity.org/vhd/eatsusbay.pdf)
Here in the San Francisco Bay area, we are lucky to have an abundance of
choices for eating sustainably. In this pdf document we concentrate on
sustainable food resources for the San Francisco Peninsula and South Bay, but
we include some listings for those of you in the City and in the East Bay, too.
Resources for the San Francisco Bay Area (www.commongroundinpaloalto.org/eatingsustainably.htm)
Eat Local (environment.about.com/od/greenlivingdesign/a/locally_grown.htm) About.com: Environmental Issues: “How Does Eating Locally Grown Food Help the Environment?”
See also, www.newdream.org/consumer/farmersmarkets.php"> Center for a
New American Dream
Eat Local Challenge (http://www.eatlocal.net/)
Eat Well (eatwellguide.org) is an online directory of sustainably raised meat,
poultry, dairy and eggs. Enter your ZIP Code to find healthful, humane and
eco-friendly products from farms, stores and restaurants in your area.
Eat Wild (eatwild.com) lists local suppliers for grass-fed meat and dairy
products.
Ecology Action (www.growbiointensive.org/) A sustainable solution for growing
food. Aware
of intensifying world challenges
and the basic need of people to feed themselves, we have developed a
small-scale agricultural system — GROW BIOINTENSIVE® Sustainable
Mini-Farming — that nurtures soil, produces high yields, conserves
resources and can be used successfully by almost everyone. Our goal is to help
this system be known and used locally — on a worldwide scale.
edible San Francisco - SF Bay Area Sustainable Resources (hediblesanfrancisco.com/index.php/2007121732/News/Latest/SF-Bay-Area-Sustainable-Resources.html)
Farm
Fresh to You (www.farmfreshtoyou.com/index.php)
where food comes from and how it was grown, Community Supported Agriculture
(CSA) is becoming a popular alternative for getting high quality food from a
trusted local farm.
Fresh
As It Gets ( www.freshasitgets.com )
Farmers & Flea Markets ( www.sfgate.com/food/farmersmarkets ) SFGate’s List
Food First ( www.foodfirst.org )
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.
Food Routes ( foodroutes.org )
is a national nonprofit dedicated to “reintroducing Americans to their food
— the seeds it grows from, the farmers who produce it and the routes that
carry it from the fields to our tables.”
Games: SimFarm for Windows ( free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/simulations/games_s/simfarm_for_windows.html
)
Tips, cheats, reviews, … ( dobre-gry.het.pl/SimFarm,40.html
)
Games: Local Food Economy Game (http://localfoodeconomygame.com/)
Green
Store Zebra ( www.thegreenzebra.org )
A coupon book, a directory, an educational resource, the 2008 Green Zebra
guides show you how to have fun living green in the Bay Area, while saving
thousands of dollars too.
Happy Boy
Farms ( hcaldining.berkeley.edu/farmerprofiles/HappyBoy.pdf
, http://www.happyboyfarms.com )
bringing certified organic produce to farmers markets in the Bay Area and to
restaurants such as California Cafe, Zibibbos, Flea Street Cafe, ...
Healthy World Organic
Guide Books ( healthyworld.org/guides.html)
Heifer
International ( www.heifer.org
) Heifer animals (and training in their care) offer hungry families around the
world a way to feed themselves and become self-reliant. Children receive
nutritious milk or eggs; families earn income for school, health care and
better housing; communities go beyond meeting immediate needs to fulfilling
dreams. Farmers learn sustainable, environmentally sound agricultural
techniques.
Heritage Foods USA ( heritagefoodsusa.com ) sells mail-order ‘traceable’ products from small farms — maple syrup, pole-caught tuna, grass-fed Kobe beef — whose labels provide every detail about how they were produced.
Just Food ( justfood.org )
works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region
through projects including City Farms (a New York community garden program) and
community supported agriculture (which connects regional farmers with
produce-hungry city dwellers).
KeepGreenGoing ( keepgreengoing.com
) is a blog developed for anyone who wants to become more environmentally
friendly. We enjoying researching the latest green news and passing that
information on to you. With the overwhelming amount of “green marketing” taking
place, it’s hard to know where to look for useful information.
Local Foods Wheel ( www.localfoodswheel.com
)
Local Harvest ( localharvest.org
) offers a definitive and reliable nationwide directory of C.S.A.’s, farmers’
markets, family farms and other local food sources.
Locavores ( locavores.com ),
based in San Francisco, encourages people to eat only foods produced within a
100-mile radius of home. Their Food Web page offers an abundance of additional
resources, including books, articles and Web sites.
My
Organic Day (myorganicday.com)
Explore San Francisco Bay Areas hot spots for organic and sustainable living
Natural Pages ( www.naturalpages.com/downloads.html
)
We are a small, community minded company
committed to personal, community, and planetary health to put people who are
seeking natural products and services in touch with the providers.
OM Direct ( www.om-direct.com/omdirect.jsp
) a web service for making the most
of your regional harvest We make it easier for wholesale buyers and producers
to make connections from field to plate.
Omnivores
Solution (www.theomnivoressolution.com)
a journey in search of creative solutions in the kitchen that balance the
sustainability of our earth and ourselves with a passion for taste and flavor.
Organic Consumers Association ( organicconsumers.org ), The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) is an online and grassroots non-profit 501(c)3 public interest organization campaigning for health, justice, and sustainability.
Organic Highways / California ( organichighways.com/search-1.php?location=15&submit=Search
)
Organic
List – California ( organicslist.com/California.html
)
Organic
Travel (organictravel.com)
guides for natural food markets, farmers markets, organic restaurants, organic
farms, wineries, natural attractions, pesticide-free parks, organic stores, events,
green lodging & more.
Seafood Watch ( mbayaq.org/cr/seafoodwatch.asp ) — a program of the Monterey Bay Aquarium designed to raise consumer awareness about the importance of buying seafood from sustainable sources — offers a downloadable, pocket-sized, region-by-region guide to eco-friendly seafood.
Seed
Quest ( seedquest.com/organic/printpublications
)
SF Bay Area Community ( SFOlocal.com ) for people interested in eating organically and/or locally grown food in the San Francisco Bay Area
Sierra Club: Ten Ways to Eat Well (
www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200611/tenways.asp)
Slow Food USA ( slowfoodusa.org )
is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to ecologically sound land
stewardship and food production and to living a “slower and more harmonious”
life.
Stone Barns Center for Food &
Agriculture ( stonebarnscenter.org
) is a hands-on educational center and restaurant that aims to demonstrate,
teach and promote sustainable, community-based food production on a working
farm 30 miles from Manhattan.
Sustain
Lane ( www.sustainlane.com
) We're a group of people who are probably a lot like you. We care about living
healthy and full lives, and we are concerned about our future and that of our
friends and families as we become more aware of the growing issues surrounding
the sustainability of our communities and our planet.
Sustainable Table ( sustainabletable.org ) offers an introduction to the sustainable food movement and the issues surrounding it, plus resources for further investigation (the links for ‘Introduction to Sustainability’ and ‘The Issues’ are good places to start).
The U.S.D.A. Agricultural Marketing Service ( ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets )
includes a state-by-state listing of farmers’ markets across the United States.
True Food Network ( www.truefoodnow.org
), established in 2000 and now a
40,000 member network, is the grassroots network of the Center
for Food Safety as
a means to engage non-farmers in the struggle against genetically engineered
crops dedicated to stopping the genetic engineering of our food, farms and
future, and working with others to create a socially just, democratic and
sustainable food system.
Tufts Food Awareness Program ( www.tufts.edu/%7Eeco/tfap/tfap.html ) is a program initiated, developed, and run by Tufts students, to educate the university community about environmentally and socially responsible food choices.
Underground Food Collective ( undergroundfoodcollective.org
) Home of Underground Catering,
Madison WI
Vegetarian
US Travel Guide (
www.vegetarianusa.com/city/SanFranciscoRestaurants.html) Welcome to the
Vegetarian Travel Guide! Why not plan your next trip using one of our FREE
(printable) city or state guides ... or browse through any of our 15 chapters
below ... and discover how exciting a vegetarian lifestyle can be!
Where does your food come from? ( www.foodroutes.org
)
Wine (organic and/or sustainable) Links
About.com:
Organic Wines (
wine.about.com/od/wineandhealth/a/Organicwines.htm
)
Napa
Green Certified Wineries (www.napavintners.com/about/ab_2_ngwinery.aspx)
Article: Organic
& Sustainable Wine Production Expanding Rapidly in California ( www.organicconsumers.org/organic/wine012104.cfm
)
Article: Conventional
versus Environmentally-Sensitive Wines: ( www.scientificjournals.org/journals2008/articles/1343.pdf
) The Status of Wine Production Strategies in California North Coast Counties
Article: Biodynamic Wine Making (ediblesanfrancisco.com/index.php/ESF-Feb/March-08/Issue-10/The-practicing-agnostic.html)
Winery:
Alma Rosa (
www.almarosawinery.com/about/philosophy.html
)Alma Rosa Winery
& Vineyards practices and promotes organic farming, sustainable agriculture, ecologically-responsible packaging, and green building. In addition it supports related earth-friendly causes such
as the reintroduction of peregrine falcons to the Santa Ynez Valley and
the international slow food movement.
Winery:
Bonny Doon Vineyard ( www.bonnydoonvineyard.com )
Winery:
Pelican Ranch Winery (www.pelicanranch.com)
Winery:
Roudon-Smith
Winery
( www.roudonsmith.com )
Winery:
Santa Cruz Mountain Vineyard
( www.santacruzmountainvineyard.com
)
Winery:
Silver Mountain (www.silvermtn.com) Learn
more about
Silver Mountain's certified organic estate vineyard and our sustainable
vineyard practices.
Winery:
Storrs Winery (
www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/partner/story?id=52503
) Solar
Technologies recently completed a 12.4 kW solar power system for Storrs Winery at their Corralitos vineyard estate near Santa Cruz,
California. Steve and Pamela Storrs, owners of Storrs Winery, have been
converting their estate to organic farming practices. In keeping with their philosophy
of sustainable farming, they chose to install a solar power system by Solar
Technologies to power the irrigation pumps of their farm.
Winery:
Talley Vineyards ( www.talleyvineyards.com
) Fund for Vineyard and Farm Workers (www.talleyvineyards.com/talley_frame.fsp?aname=visittalleyvineyards&bSubSection=0&id=233549)
World Watch Institute ( www.worldwatch.org
) The Worldwatch Institute is an independent research
organization known around the world for its accessible, fact-based analysis of
critical global issues.
CSA Community Supported Agriculture
One, increasingly popular, form of
CSA allows consumers to schedule regular deliveries of local, organic fruit and
vegetables (usually picked the day before) to be delivered to your community
and/or doorstep.
·
USDA on
CSA ( www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/pubs/csa/csadef.shtml
) …”CSA consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a
farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the
community's farm”…
·
CSA
Directory ( www.ecologycenter.org/directory/results.php?sFAQ=CSA/community%20supported%20agriculture
)
·
Delicious.com bookmarked CSA sites ( delicious.com/search?p=csa&u=&chk=&context=all&fr=del_icio_us&lc=0
)
·
Food and Cooperatives in California ( www.gengreenlife.com/cooperatives.php?s=CA )
·
Kaboodle: Organic Produce Deliver in the San Francisco Bay Area ( www.kaboodle.com/thesilentstorm/organic-produce-delivery-in-the-san-francisco-bay-area.html )
·
TuSavvy CSA Web Pages Discovered by People ( www.tusavvy.com/index.php?mode=search&query=csa )
Implications of Organic, Sustainable and “local” on the
third world…
· Agriculture for a Food Secure Third World (www.efb-central.org/images/uploads/article_serageldin.pdf)
… The world population increases at an average rate of three persons per
second, every second of the day…
We cannot meet this challenge by producing less to keep the environment
unaffected by agriculture. People
must be fed, no less than the environment must be nurtured. This means that we
have to produce differently, not
less, while rethinking resource use…
·
Can
Organic Farming Feed the World? ( www.cnr.berkeley.edu/~christos/articles/cv_organic_farming.html
)
With the world population passing the 6 billion mark last October, the debate
over our ability to sustain a fast growing population is heating up.
Biotechnology advocates in particular are becoming very vocal in their claim
that there is no alternative to using genetically modified crops in agriculture
if "we want to feed the world".
·
Cuba’s
Organic Revolution ( www.twnside.org.sg/title/twr118h.htm
)
The US trade embargo of Cuba, plus the collapse of the island’s Soviet market, has meant that
the country has found it virtually impossible to import the chemicals and
machinery necessary to practise modern, intensive agriculture. Instead, it has
turned to farming much of its land organically - with results that overturn the
myths about the “inefficiency” of organic farming.
·
Farmers in developing world hurt by
'eat local' philosophy in U.S. (www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/11/18/EDGOTB668.DTL)
Increasing awareness of climate change has transformed the way Americans think
about organic food. While organic consumers used to focus on how food was
produced, such as whether pesticides were used, they now are also concerned
about how far food has traveled to arrive at their plate. The issue is that
greater distances often equate to more energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
· Nature and limits of socio-economic impact analyses (www.syngentafoundation.com/biotechnology_third_world_agriculture.htm
)
Assessing the socio-economic impacts of agricultural biotechnologies in
developing countries may »simply« be an academic task - the evaluation of the
results, however, is subject to a great variety of interests and value
judgements of a multitude of stakeholders. A review of the literature on the
issue confirms this fact. Some authors consider agricultural biotechnologies to
be amongst the most powerful and economically promising means1, while others
perceive them as a threat2 to development in Third World countries.
· Organic Benefits Third World Farmers ( www.organicconsumers.org/Organic/benefits022502.cfm
)
Farmers in
developing countries are reaping the benefits of adopting Ogreen' agricultural
practices far more than their western counterparts, suggests a report last
week.
· Manufacturing a Food Crisis ( www.thenation.com/doc/20080602/bello )
How "free trade" is destroying Third World agriculture--and who's
fighting back. ... the World Bank toward export agriculture to generate foreign
exchange, ..
· Sustainable Farm Practices Improve Third World Food Production (www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/01/060123163315.htm)
Crop yields on farms in developing countries that used sustainable agriculture
rose nearly 80 percent in four years, ...
· Third World Network Information Service On Sustainable Agriculture (www.twnside.org.sg/susagri.archives.htm)
· Topics in Sustainable Agriculture (www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~tselby)
… The increase in yields would be coupled with a decrease in off farm inputs,
as well as an increase in the demand for labor. Chemical inputs are very hard
for many poor farmers to buy due to lack of foreign currency. The decreased
amount of off farm inputs needed would mean that farmers would no longer have
to sell their goods for foreign currency (i.e. produce cash crops) and could
focus instead on producing foodstuffs (which would work to increase food
security). …
BOOKS &
Lists on sustainable / organic food / living
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally
Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a
Raucous Year of Eating Locally” by Alisa Smith and J.B. Mackinnon
This Organic Life: Confessions of
a Suburban Homesteader,” by Joan Dye Gussow
Local Flavors: Cooking and Eating
From America’s Farmers’ Markets, by Deborah Madison
Coming Home to Eat: The Pleasures
and Politics of Local Foods, by Gary Paul Nabhan
Farmer John’s Cookbook: The Real
Dirt on Vegetables by Farmer John Peterson and Angelic Organics.
Holy Cows and Hog Heaven: The
Food Buyer’s Guide to Farm-Fresh Food, by Joel Salatin
The Habitat Garden Book : Wildlife Landscaping for the San
Francisco Bay Region, by Nancy Bauer
The Organic Gardener's Handbook of Natural Insect and Disease
Control by Barbara W. Ellis and Fern
Marshall Bradley
ListMania (Amazon reader lists)
My Favorite Green Living Books
Essential California Native Plant Books
Becoming Organic
Books for fledgling organic gardeners
Real Food Read List
This reading list
is for people who love to eat real food and understand why it is so satisfying