RESOURCES
Policy Issues:
Books/Publications:
Montana Food System Council Book Recommendations:
Omnivore’s Dilemma : An Eaters Manifesto, Michael Pollan.
This book proposes an alternative way of eating that is informed by the traditions and ecology of real, well-grown and unprocessed food.
In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan
Renewing America’s Food Traditions, Saving and Savoring the Continent’s Most Endangered Foods; By Gary Paul Nabhan, Foreward by Deborah Madison
The Unsettling of America, Agriculture and Culture, By Wendell Berry
Stolen Harvest, The Hijacking of the Global Food Supply, By Vandana Shiva
Enduring Seeds, Naïve American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation, By Gary Paul Nabhan
Artisan Farming, Lessons, Lore, and Recipes, By Richard Harris & Lisa Fox
This Organic Life, Confessions of a Suburban Homesteader, By Joan Dye Gussow
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, A Year of Food Life, By Barbara Kingsolver
Real Food, What to Eat and Why, By Nina Planck
Deep Economy, The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, Bill McKibben
Four Seasons Harvest, By Eliot Coleman
Fields of Plenty, A Farmer’s Journey in Search of Real Food and the People Who Grow It, By Michael Abelman
The Atlas of American Artisan Cheese, By Jeffrey P. Roberts
Begging for Change: The dollars and sense of making non-profits efficient and responsive, Robert Egger
Cultivating the Web: High Tech Tools for the Sustainable Food Movement, available as a free download at www.eatwellguide.org.
Cultivating the Web highlights how new media is supporting the agrarian revival and also includes a comprehensive list of web resources for all sorts of good food fighters, from farmers to foodies to activists.
Montana Food System Council Magazine Recommendations:
Organic Gardening
Small Farmer’s Journal
Cooperative Grocer
Touch the Soil – a magazine out of Idaho that tell the story of farmers, community organizations, industrial agriculture.
Zone 4 – Gardening in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, & Northern Utah
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Food Related Grants:
Michigan State University, C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems
The C.S. Mott Group promotes community engagement and scholarly activity focused on community-based food systems. www.mottgroup.msu.edu
Iowa State University, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
The research and education programs at the Leopold Center support statewide programs to develop sustainable agricultural practices that are profitable and conserve natural resources. www.leopold.iastate.edu
University of California Davis, Center for Agro-Ecology and Sustainable Food Systems, Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP)
SAREP provides leadership and support for scientific research and education in agricultural and food systems that are economically viable, conserve natural resources and biodiversity, and enhance the quality of life. www.sarep.ucdavis.edu
University of Minnesota, Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture (MISA)
MISA is a partnership between the University of Minnesota College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences; Extension and the Sustainers’ Coalition with a mission to develop and promote sustainable agriculture. www.misa.umn.edu
University of Vermont, Center for Sustainable Agriculture
The mission of the UV Center for Sustainable Agriculture is to bring people with a diversity of interests together to foster an understanding of agricultural issues leading to personal, institutional, organizational, and community decisions that encourage farming in Vermont. www.uvm.edu/~susagctr
University of Wisconsin, Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems (CIAS)
The mission of CIAS is to build sustainable agriculture research programs that respond to farmer and citizen needs and involve them in setting research agendas. www.cias.wisc.edu
Washington State University, Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources (CSANR)
CSANR promotes healthy farms, food and people and works with communities to foster food system approaches that are economically viable, environmentally sound, and socially responsive.
