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We recommend the following resources to aid in your search for information and guidance on what's happening with food and agriculture, food products and technology, nutrition education, veganism and animal welfare, sustainability, food policy and food justice. Be sure to check out the listings for good food training and jobs!

Good Food News Sources:

• Grist
• The Counter
• Food and Tech Connect
• Food Safety News
• Eater
• Veg News
• Change Food
• Stone Pier Press

Good Food Think Tanks:

• Food Tank
• Eat Retreat
• Slow Food
• Sustainable Food Trust

Food Policy:

• Food First
• Food & Water Watch
• Food Democracy Now!
• FoodPrint
• Food Politics
• World Resources Institute: Creating a Sustainable Food System

Education and Training for Good Food Jobs:

• Growing Minds (North Carolina training for dietitians)
• Sterling College (Vermont)
• University of California (Davis)
• Sustainable Food (UMass Amherst)
• Ecogastronomy (University of New Hampshire)
• Food Studies at Chatham University (Pittsburgh)
• Organic Farmer Training (Michigan State University)
• Farmer Training Program (University of Vermont)
• Organic Agriculture Certificate (University of Georgia)
• Sustainable Agriculture Entrepreneurship Certificate (Austin Community College)

Also see:

• Good Food Jobs Education
• Brigade (chef training on healthy school lunches)

Good Food Jobs Listings:

• Food and Tech Connect
• Good Food Jobs
• Feeding America Jobs
• Food Corps Jobs
• Beginning Farmers

Improving Food Distribution:

• Feeding America
• Amp Your Good
• reFED

Farms and Farmers:

• Plant Chicago
• Farm Aid
• Annie's Project: Farming for Women
• Square Roots
• Up Top Acres
• Association for Vertical Farming

Foodservice Workers:

• Unite Here (foodservice workers rights)
• Food Chain Workers Alliance
• Coalition of Immokalee Workers (farmworkers rights)

Animal Welfare:

• Farm Sanctuary
• The Humane Farming Association
• The Humane Society of the United States
• Animal Outlook

Good Food Films:

• Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones
• Kiss the Ground
• Gather: The Fight to Revitalize Our Native Foodways
• Our Food Chain
• Harvest of Shame
• Food Chains
• A Place at the Table
• Farmer's Footprint
• The Game Changers
• In Our Hands
• Sustainable
• A Failure of the Imagination
• Wasted! (with Anthony Bourdain)
• King Corn
• Food Inc.
• Super Size Me
• Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!
• Bite Size
• Hungry for Change
• Soul Food Junkies
• Farmageddon
• Cooked
• Caffeinated
• Darwin's Nightmare
• The Story of Plastic

Great Sources for Healthy Recipes:

• International Vegetarian Union
• Vegetarian Times
• Mediterranean Diet recipes
• More Mediterranean Diet recipes

Books on Food, Agriculture, and Planetary Health:

• Mottainai: A Journey in Search of the Zero Waste Life from FNR
• Farmlandia: The Many Lives of a Florida Farm from FNR
• The Overstory by Richard Powers
• Wilding by Isabella Tree
• Soil Not Oil by Vandana Shiva
• Hidden: Animals in the Anthropocene edited by Jo-Anne McArthur
• The Food Explorer by Daniel Stone
• This Organic Life by Joan Dye Gussow
• The Fate of Food by Amanda Little
• The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food by Dan Barber
• Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken
• Growing Perennial Foods by Acadia Tucker
• Growing Good Food by Acadia Tucker
• Diet for a Small Planet, 20th Anniversary Edition by Frances Moore Lappe
• The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture by Wendell Berry
• The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony by Will Tuttle
• An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature by Jim Mason
• The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer and Jim Mason
• Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups by Andrew Fisher
• Behind the Kitchen Door by Saru Jayaraman
• Meat Market: Animal Ethics and Money by Erik Marcus
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
• Miraculous Abundance: One Quarter Acre, Two French Farmers, and Enough Food to Feed the World by Perrine Hervé-Gruyer and Charles Hervé-Gruyer
• Seeds of Deception by Jeffrey Smith
• Genetically Engineered Foods: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers by Ronnie Cummins and Ben Lilliston
• Eat Your Genes by Stephen Nottingham
• The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka

Books for Kids on Gardens:

• Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman (teens)
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Farmer Will Allen and the Growing Table by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (ages 6-12)
• Our School Garden! by Rick Swann (ages 8-12)

Books for Educating on Food and Climate Change:

• A Garden on Top of the World from FNR
• Kiss the Ground: How the Food you Eat Can Reverse Climate Change by Josh Tickell
• Understanding Food and Climate Change: An Interactive Guide by Center for Ecoliteracy (grades 6-12)
• Understanding Food and Climate Change: A Systems Perspective by Center for Ecoliteracy
• Climate Change and Food Production by Jodie Mangor (grades 4-6)

Books on the Food System and Our Health:

• The Ninth Revolution: Transforming Food Systems for Good by Sayed Nader Azam-ali
• The End of Food by Paul Roberts
• Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives by Carolyn Sheet
• Sugar Salt Fat by Michael Moss
• Reclaiming Our Food: How the Grassroots Food Movement is Changing the Way We Eat by Tanya Denckla Cobb
• The Food Activist Handbook by Ali Berlow
• Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution by Jennifer Cockrall-King
• Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America by Wenonah Hauter
• Food Politics by Marion Nestle
• Unsavory Truth: How Food Companies Skew the Science of What We Eat by Marion Nestle
• Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture by Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En
• The Whole Foods Diet by John Mackey and Alona Pulde
• Integrative Nutrition by Joshua Rosenthal
• Farmacology: Total Health from the Ground Up by Daphne Miller
• The Rave Diet by Mike Anderson
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• Big Chicken by Maryn McKenna
• Vegan Freak: Being Vegan in a Non-Vegan World by Bob Torres and Jenna Torres
• The Complete Mediterranean Diet by Michael Ozner
• The Blue Zones series by Dan Buettner

Good Food Cookbooks:

• Sustainably Delicious by Michel Nischan
• Grub Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen by Anna Lappe and Bryant Terry
• The Real Food Daily Cookbook by Ann Gentry
• Good and Cheap by Leanne Brown
• Bounty from the Box: The CSA Farm Cookbook by Mi Ae Lipe
• Recipes to RAVE About by Laurie J. Mauro
• Veganomigon, by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Romano
• Vegetarian Times Cookbooks
• Vegan Deli: Wholesome Ethnic Foods by Jo Stepaniak
• The Everyday Vegan by Dreena Burton

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