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Food Security Resources
DETROIT
Capuchin Soup Kitchen
The Capuchin Soup Kitchen has two locations in Detroit and serves 2,000 meals per day between the two kitchens. The Meldrum site hosts Earthworks Urban Farm.Gleaners Community Food Bank
Gleaners is one of the largest food banks in Southeast Michigan. Gleaners collects, warehouses, repacks and distributes many millions of pounds of food for more 400 local partners. Earthworks farms on Gleaners' land, adjacent to their food warehouse.SEED Wayne
SEED Wayne is dedicated to building sustainable food systems on the campus of Wayne State University and in Detroit communities.
MICHIGAN
The Fair Food Foundation
A Southeast Michigan-based foundation whose mission is to help create equity in access to healthy, fresh, and sustainably-grown food in our most vulnerable urban communities.
NATIONAL
Community Food Security Coalition
The Community Food Security Coalition is a North American organization of social and economic justice, environmental, nutrition, sustainable agriculture, community development, labor, anti-poverty, anti-hunger and other groupsFood First: Institute for Food and Development Policy
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy was founded in 1975 by Frances Moore Lappe and Joseph Collins. They do research on the root causes of hunger, and publish a wide range of materials used by activists, professors, the media and our members.Just Food
Detroiters aren't the only ones looking for a just food system. Check out this New York organization.
Detroit Resources
Back Alley Bikes
A community bike shop. Free/low-cost classes and bike repair daily in the Cass Corridor.Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
Detroit activist Grace Lee Boggs inspires us all to re-envision ourselves as active citizens and learners.Detroit Evolution Lab
A unique space in Detroit's Eastern Market dedicated to vegan and raw food, yoga, and bodywork.Eastern Market
The largest historic public market district in the United States. A huge market with produce from Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Canada, and beyond. Food stores and restaurants surround the vendor sheds.Great Lakes Bioneers Conference
The internationally acclaimed conference combining the visionary and the practical comes to Detroit.Model D
Your source for Detroit-area development news. You won't regret signing up for their weekly news digest.Recyclean
Drop off your recycling here.Sustainable Detroit
Sustainable Detroit is a loosely assembled group of people and organizations from the city and the 'burbs committed to promoting a sustainable Detroit region.
Agriculture and Food Resources
DETROIT
American Indian Health and Family Services
American Indian Health and Family Services promotes the survival of Native American families and individuals by providing quality health care, supporting the healing process, and encouraging, educating, and empowering their clients to seek and maintain wellness and enhance their quality of life. The host a garden at their center.Black Farmers' Association
The NBFA has been involved in advocacy, land retention, and rural development for black and other small farmers throughout the country since 1995. The organizations mission is to eliminate and reverse the causes of land loss by limited resources and socially/economically disadvantaged farmers while creating opportunities for small farmers to participate in the mainstream economy.Catherine Ferguson Academy
Catherine Ferguson Academy is a public high school in Detroit that serves teens that are pregnant or have children. It also has a comprehensive science program that includes an urban farm with a barn, goats, and vegetables.Detroit Agriculture Network
The Detroit Agriculture Network promotes urban food security, good nutrition, healthy land and communities.4-H
The Michigan 4-H Foundation supports Michigan 4-H Youth Development to prepare youth from all segments of society for meaningful and productive lives. The Detroit chapter hosts a youth garden.Garden Resource Program
The Garden Resource Program is a collaborative effort brought to you by the Detroit Agriculture Network, The Greening of Detroit, Capuchin Soup Kitchen's Earthworks Garden and Michigan State University Extension. They host the nine-week Urban Roots community gardening course designed to foster community gardening leaders through horticulture and community organizing training.The Greening of Detroit
The Greening of Detroit aims to improve the quality of life in Detroit by guiding and inspiring the reforestation of Detroit's neighborhoods, boulevards and parks through tree planting projects and educational programs.Grown in Detroit
Grown in Detroit fruits and vegetables are grown by families and youth in community gardens and urban farms throughout Detroit, Highland Park and Hamtramck. Find them at your neighborhood farmers market and Eastern Market.
MICHIGAN
Food Systems Economic Partnership
Looking to buy directly from a farmer in Southeast Michigan? Visit the FSEP page to view their map of local food resources. FSEP provides research, education and outreach, with urban and rural partnerships, resulting in agricultural development opportunities, sustainable communities and healthy local economies.Michigan Farmers' Market Association
A resource for consumers, growers and market managers in Michigan.Michigan Organic Food and Farm Alliance
MOFFA teaches eaters to value and choose organically grown food produced in their own locales.Michigan State University Extension
Contact an Extension representative with questions about Michigan agriculture, environment and your home garden.Michigan State University Student Organic Farm
The Michigan State University's Student Organic Farm offers an organic farming certification program.Midwest Permaculture
What to learn more about permaculture and live in the Midwest? Look no further.
NATIONAL
Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural America
Boring name for one of the best sites for organic and sustainable agriculture; has the best nationwide list of internships in organic farming.Capuchin Justice, Peace & Ecology
Since Francis' day his followers have always sought to serve the marginalized and outcasts of their times. Social justice ministry is one way of continuing this Franciscan tradition.City Farmer
Your one-stop source for urban agriculture information. Plenty of content.Food Routes
Food Routes is a national nonprofit organization that provides communications tools, technical support, networking and information resources to organizations nationwide that are working to rebuild local, community-based food systems.Life Cycles Food Calculator
The Life Cycles Food Calculator determines the distance and amount of green house gases saved if a certain food product is bought locally as opposed to imported.Master Gardeners
Training and volunteering program for green thumbs, or those who want to develop a green thumb.The New Farm
From our friends at the Rodale Institute, updates on all sorts of organic issues.Plants For A Future
Most of us only eat plants from 30 species. Maybe it's about time we expand it a little.Sustainable Table
The Sustainable Table celebrates the sustainable food movement, educates consumers on food-related issues, and works to build community through food.
Urban Agriculture Programs
Gateway Greening
Gateway Greening has been working in St. Louis, MO since 1984, focusing on community development through community gardening.Growing Home
Growing Home's mission is to provide job training and create employment opportunities for homeless and low-income people in Chicago, IL within the context of a non-profit organic agriculture business.Growing Power
Growing Power is a Milwaukee, WI and Chicago, IL based farm project, inspiring communities to build sustainable food systems that are equitable and ecologically sound, creating a just world, one food-secure community at a time.Homeless Garden Project
This garden provides homeless men and women job training and transitional employment by teaching traditional organic growing methods in Santa Cruz, CA.Nuestras Raices
Nuestras Raíces is a grass-roots organization that promotes economic, human and community development in Holyoke, Massachusetts through projects relating to food, agriculture and the environment.The Food Project
The Food Project's goal is a sustainable, local food systems that bridge race, class, age, and more to ensure food security for all. They are located in the Boston, MA area and have a well developed youth farming program.People's Grocery
People's Grocery, of Oakland, CA, promotes healthy eating through education, peer mentoring, cooking classes, and community potlucks.