Links and recommendations

Sustainable Agriculture is a hot topic these days. Oregon is a model for helping to promote sustainable food systems where the food is produced with methods that are healthy for the workers who produce it, the consumers who eat it and the earth that sustains its production.  Explore some of the links below to follow the good work these and other national organizations are carrying out.

Oregon

Oregon Farmers Markets

Oregon Community Supported Agriculture programs

Friends of Family Farmers

Center for Small Farms and Community Food Systems - Oregon State University

Portland Fruit Tree Project

Book recommendations

Hidden Half of Nature by David R. Montgomery & Anne Biklé

The One-Straw Revolution: An Introduction to Natural Farming by Masanobu Fukuoka

The North American Maria Thun Biodynamic Almanac by Maria Thun

The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan

National

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture 

The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)

Educational programs

Center for Sustainability – California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Cornell University College of Agricultural and Life Sciences – Cornell University

Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture – Iowa State University

Sustainable Agriculture Program, Central Carolina Community College – Central Carolina Community College

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program – University of California at Davis

Sustainable Food and Bioenergy Systems Program – Montana State University

Sustainable Food Systems – College of the Atlantic