Links

Agriculture

• Agriculture in the Classroom
  Features "sustainable" lesson plans.
• PEW report
  Explores industrial animal feeding practices.
• Institute for Ag and Trade Policy
  Food and health bulletins.
• Kellogg Foundation Sustainable Food Framing
  How to frame the sustainable food message.
• Cornucopia Institute
  Organic dairy report and scorecard.
• Wisconsin Local Food Network
  

Food Safety

• Dirty Dozen wallet card
  A chart explaining pesticide residue for a variety of fruits & veggies.
• The Organic Center
  Information on food safety.

Growing & Cooking

• White House Organic Garden
  
• Bon Apetit low carbon diet calculator
  A calculator developed to help you design your own low carbon diet.
• Field to Plate
  A comprehensive listing of seasonal foods by region.
• Home Food Preservation
  National Center for Home Food Preservation Homepage.
• University of Wisconsin Extension
  Purchase or download bulletins on growing and preserving vegetables and fruits.
• USDA Complete Guide To Canning
  2009 Revisions to the USDA Complete Guide to Home Canning.

Health

• Antibiotics keep them working
  
• Antibiotic resistance
  
• Health care without harm
  Connects health care to local, sustainable food.
• School Meals: Building Blocks for Healthy Children
  Institute of Medicine report.
• A Health Sector Guide to Food System And Agricultural Policy
  A Fall 2009 Brief from the Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy.

Miscellaneous

• Grist
  
• Growing Power Manifesto
  
• New York State Council on Food Policy
  
• Institutional Food Market Coalition
  
• FRAC News Digest
  Weekly digest of food security news.
• USDA Publication
  Research article on food insecurity in households with children.

Books

• Fields of Plenty: A farmer’s Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It, Michael Ableman
  Features several farms in Wisconsin.
• This Organic Life, Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, Joan Dye Gussow
  
• Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket, Brian Halweil
  Local buying better for health, local farmers and the planet.
• Animal, Vegetable Miracle, Barbara Kingsolver
  A journal of growing ones own food for one year.
• Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen, Anna Lappe & Terry Bryant
  Recipes.
• From Asparagus to Zucchini, A Guide to Cooking Farm Fresh Seasonal Produce, MACSAC
  Includes a list of seasonal produce and recipes for preparing all types of local produce.
• Hope’s Edge, Francis Moore Lappe
  Raising food around the world.
• Coming Home to Eat, the Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods, Gary Paul Nabham
  A journey of one year of local food.
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, Michael Pollan
  
• In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
  
• Fast Food Nation, Eric Schlosser
  
• Wisconsin Local Food Marketing Guide
  Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection. Can be found online at datcp.state.wi.us (search "Buy Local").

Dvds

• True Cost of Food
  
• Food, Inc.
  Filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies.
• Fresh
  Produced and Directed by Ana Sofia Joanes. Features farmers and business owners, including Will Allen and Joel Salatin, on the topic of re-inventing the food system.
• King Corn, Independent Lens
  Aaron Woolf, Ian Cheney, & Curt Ellis. Two recent college grads grow one acre of corn and follow from planning to harvest. In the process they learned about modern industrial agriculture, the US food supply and government subsidy programs.
• The Meatrix
  Diane Hatz, Sustainable Table. A series of animated films that illustrate the difference between industrial meat production and local, sustainable meat production.