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3 | Grassroots International | International | Grassroots International works to create a just and sustainable world by building alliances with progressive movements. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Rural Coalition | International | Rural Coalition is an alliance of farmers, farm workers, indigenous, migrant, and working people from the United States, Mexico, Canada, and beyond, working together toward a new society that values unity, hope, people, and the land. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Agarian Trust | National | Agrarian Trust protects farmland for sustainable agriculture and preserves its affordability for new and disadvantaged farmers, by buying, holding and permanently protecting farmland in communities across the country through our unique ‘commons-based’ approach. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs | National | https://afop.org | The Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs is a nonprofit that advocates for migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the United States | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Black Church Food Security Network | National | Black Church Food Security Network utilizes an asset-based approach in organizing and linking the vast resources of historically African American congregations in rural and urban communities to advancing food and land sovereignty. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Black Farmers & Agriculturalists Association | National | Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association is a member-based grassroots organization committed to securing justice for black farmers and all small producers around the world. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | Black Urban Growers | National | Black Urban Growers is an organization committed to building networks and community support for growers in both urban and rural settings. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Community Alliance of Family Farms | National | Community Alliance of Family Farms aims to build sustainable food and farming systems through policy advocacy and on-the-ground programs that create more resilient family farms, communities, and ecosystems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | CATA (El Comite de Apoyo a los Trabajadores Agrícolas) | National | CATA is nonprofit organization focused on organizing and empowering the immigrant community as they fight for justice for themselves, their families and their communities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Climate Justice Alliance | National | CJA is a growing member alliance of 70 urban and rural frontline communities, organizations and supporting networks in the climate justice movement. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Family Agriculture Resource Management Services | National | Family Agriculture Resource Management Services is a nonprofit dedicated to reversing small farm land loss to ensure generational wealth and reducing hunger in rural low-income communities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Farm Aid | National | Farm Aid is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to keep family farmers on the land. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Farm Labor Organizing Committee | National | The Farm Labor Organizing Committee is a labor union that represents migrant farm workers in the Midwestern United States and North Carolina. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Farms to Grow | National | Farms to Grow is a nonprofit organization dedicated to working with Black farmers and underserved sustainable farmers around the country. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Farmworker Network for Economic & Environmental Justice | National | The Farmworker Network for Economic and Environmental Justice supports member organizations on the frontline of the movement to stop the poisoning of agricultural workers in the fields and to change environmental and economic policy in agriculture. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Food Chain Workers Alliance | National | Food Chain Workers Alliance is a national coalition of those who plant, harvest, process, pack, transport, prepare, serve and sell food, organizing collectively for the rights of all workers along the food chain. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | H2H Cooperative | National | H2H Cooperative aims to grow a large base of members who help finance those visions, particularly for communities that, historically, have been dispossessed of land. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | HEAL Food Alliance | National | HEAL Food Alliance is a multi-sector, multi-racial coalition building collective power to transform our food and farm systems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Immigrant Legal Resource Center | National | The Immigrant Legal Resource Center aims to work with and educate immigrants, community organizations, and the legal sector to continue to build a democratic society that values diversity and the rights of all people. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Indigenous Environmental Network | National | The Indigenous Environmental Network is an alliance of Indigenous Peoples empowering Indigenous Nations and communities towards sustainable livelihoods, environmental protection of our lands, water, and air and maintaining the Sacred Fire of our traditions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy | National | The Insitute of Agriculture and Trade Policy works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Intertribal Agriculture Council | National | The Intertribal Agriculture Council was founded to pursue and promote the conservation, development and use of our agricultural resources for the betterment of individual Indian producers and Tribal enterprises. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Just Transition Alliance | National | Just Transition Alliance is a coalition of environmental justice organizations and labor unions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Migrant Clinician Network | National | The Migrant Clinician Network is a nonprofit organization that enables clinicians to provide quality health care, increased access, and reduced disparities for people who need ongoing care but are experiencing outside forces that exacerbate their vulnerability. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Migrant Legal Action Program | National | The Migrant Legal Action Program provides legal representation and a national voice for migrant and seasonal farmworkers, the poorest group of working people in the United States. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | National Black Farmers Association | National | National Black Farmers Association is a nonprofit organization representing African American farmers and their families in the United States. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | National Black Food & Justice Alliance | National | National Black Food and Justice Alliance is a coalition of Black-led organizations, developing Black leadership, supporting Black communities, organizing Black self-determination, and building institutions for Black food sovereignty and liberation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | National Center for Farmworker Health | National | The National Center for Farmworker Health is a private, not-for-profit corporation located in Buda, Texas dedicated to improving the health status of farmworker families. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | National Family Farm Coalition | National | https://nffc.net | National Family Farm Coalition represents over 50,000 farmers and ranchers, and over 400,000 fishers across Rural America. | |||||||||||||||||||||
32 | National Farmers Union | National | https://nfu.org/ | The National Farmers Union works to protect and enhance the economic well-being and quality of life for family farmers, fishers, ranchers and rural communities. | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | National Immigrant Farming Initiative | National | NIFI strengthens the capacity of immigrant and beginners to farm successfully and to advance sustainable farming and food systems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | National Immigration Law Center | National | The National Immigration Law Center is one of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | National Latino Farmers & Ranchers Trade Association | National | The NLFRTA aims to organize, engage and empower Latino farm and ranching advocacy groups, farmworkers transitioning into farm ownership, and, generally, small producers, throughout the United States and beyond; and to promote sustainable farm and ranching policy for the improvement of farming operations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights | National | The National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights works to defend and expand the rights of all immigrants and refugees, regardless of immigration status. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | National Women in Agriculture Association | National | NWIAA is committed to providing equality and sustainable opportunities for women farmers and at-risk youth. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | New Economy Coalition | National | The New Economy Coalition is a network of organizations imagining and building a future where people, communities, and ecosystems thrive. Together, we are creating deep change in our economy and politics—placing power in the hands of people and uprooting legacies of harm—so that a fundamentally new system can take root. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Resist | National | Resist is a grant foundation that supports people's movements for justice and liberation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Restaurant Opportunities Center | National | Restaurant Opportunities Center is a nonprofit organization fighting to improve wages and working conditions for the nation’s restaurant workforce. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Rural Development Leadership Network | National | The Rural Development Leadership Network is a national multicultural social change organization that supports community-based development in poor rural areas through hands-on projects, education and skills building, leadership development and networking. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | Thousand Currents | National | Thousand Currents identifies, evaluates, and grows the best ideas to alleviate poverty & injustice, connecting passionate and engaged supporters to visionary local leaders & organizations around the world. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | United Farm Workers | National | https://ufw.org/ | The United Farm Workers of America is the nation’s first enduring and largest farm workers union. | |||||||||||||||||||||
44 | US Food Sovereignty Alliance | National | The US Food Sovereignty Alliance works to end poverty, rebuild local food economies, and assert democratic control over the food system. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Women Food & Ag Network | National | https://wfan.org | WFAN's mission is to engage women in building an ecological and just food and agricultural system through individual and community power. | |||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Midwest Environmental Justice Network | Midwest | The Midwest Environmental Justice Network unites environmental justice organizations across the Great Lakes region. MWEJN is founded by LVEJO in Chicago, Center for Earth, Energy and Democracy in Minneapolis, and the East Michigan Environmental Action Council in Detroit. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | RE-AMP | Midwest | RE-AMP is an active network of 160 nonprofits and foundations across eight Midwestern states working on climate change and energy policy with the goal of reducing global warming pollution economy-wide 80% by 2050. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Northeast Organic Farming Association | Northeast | The Northeast Organic Farming Association advocates for organic and sustainable agriculture, family-scale farming and homesteading in rural, suburban and urban areas, agricultural justice and other related policy issues. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | The Carrot Project | Northeast | The Carrot Project aims to foster a sustainable and diverse food system by supporting ecologically- and financially-sustainable small and midsize farms and food processors by expanding financing available to them and increasing their ability to use it. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Acres of Ancestry/Black Agrarian Fund | South | Acres of Ancestry/Black Agrarian Fund is a multidisciplinary, cooperative nonprofit ecosystem rooted in African Diasporic agrarian ethos and ecocultural traditions to regenerate Black custodial land ownership, stewardship, and material culture in the rural south. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Black Belt Justice Center | South | BBJC is a legal and advocacy nonprofit organization that serves African American farmers, landowners, and communities in the Black Belt region in efforts to retain and increase landownership; to create sustainable land-based cooperatives and entrepreneurial businesses; and to ensure intergenerational and community wealth. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund | South | The Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund is a nonprofit cooperative association of black farmers, landowners, and cooperatives. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Southern Migrant Legal Services | South | Southern Migrant Legal Services is a special project of Texas RioGrande Legal Aid based in Nashville, that provides free legal services to migrant and agricultural workers in Alabama, Arkansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust | AK | The Alaska Sustainable Fisheries Trust’s mission is to strengthen Alaskan fishing communities and marine resources through scientific research, education, and economic opportunity. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | TigerMountain Foundation | AL | TigerMountain Foundation empowers communities to better themselves from within through community gardens and landscaping initiatives. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Altar Valley Conservation Alliance | AZ | The Altar Valley Conservation Alliance is a watershed-based collaborative conservation organization that workers with ranchers and farmers to conserve healthy and productive working landscapes, promote a thriving agricultural economy, and sustain a resilient rural community enriched by the culture and history of the Altar Valley. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Waterock L3C | AZ | Waterock, L3C assists Native Americans living on Tribal lands to benefit from rainwater harvesting and stream erosion control techniques that were effectively used by their ancestors. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | African American Farmers of California | CA | African American Farmers of California is a nonprofit organization in the Central Valley that offers training for farmers, cultivates traditional African American crops, and empowers youth to learn about farming. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Agriculture & Land-Based Training Association | CA | Agriculture and Land-Based Training Association aims to create economic opportunity for limited-resource and aspiring organic farmers through land-based education in the heart of the Salinas Valley. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Alianza de Campesinas | CA | Alianza de Campesinas is committed to securing social, environmental, and economic justice; violence prevention; equality, and healthier workplaces, homes and communities for farmworker women and their families. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Black Earth Farms | CA | Black Earth Farms is a Black and Indigenous led agroecology collective and lighthouse organization that aims to nullify the industrial food system and further food justice and food sovereignty for low-income, Black, and Indigenous communities, families, and individuals in the Greater East San Francisco Bay Area. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | California Farmer Justice Collaborative | CA | California Farmer Justice Collaborative aims to ensure that farmers of color are empowered to directly participate and effectively lead in building a fair food and farming system in California. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | California FarmLink | CA | California FarmLink aims to link independent farmers and ranchers with the land, financing and information they need for a sustainable future. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | California Rural Legal Assistance | CA | California Rural Legal Assistance is a nonprofit legal service program created to help California's low-income individuals and communities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Community Alliance for Agroecology | CA | The Community Alliance for Agroecology works alongside the most impacted communities of the San Joaquin Valley to address the environmental injustices perpetuated by the food and farming system and to create solutions that foster ecological balance, public health, and economic equality in the region. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive | CA | The Cooperative Food Empowerment Directive is a QTPOC-led organization that partners with young folks of color to build food and land co-ops. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Food First | CA | Food First works to end the injustices that cause hunger through research, education and action. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | National Hmong American Farmers | CA | National Hmong American Farmers is a nonprofit, community based organization that provides direct services to limited resource and immigrant farmers in the Central Valley of California. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Organización en California de Líderes Campesinas | CA | The mission of Líderes Campesinas is to strengthen the leadership of farmworker women and girls so that they can be agents of economic, social and political change and ensure their human rights. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | Planting Justice | CA | Planting Justice is a grassroots organization with a mission to empower people impacted by mass incarceration and other social inequities with the skills and resources to cultivate food sovereignty, economic justice, and community healing. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Raised Roots | CA | Raised Roots is a black-owned urban farming company committed to providing superior produce, gardens, and farm education. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | Roots Rising | CA | Roots Rising is a food and economic justice project in West Oakland, California. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Sogorea Te Land Trust | CA | Sogorea Te Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led community organization that facilitates the return of Chochenyo and Karkin Ohlone lands in the San Francisco Bay Area to Indigenous stewardship. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Urban Tilth | CA | Urban Tilth hires and trains local residents to cultivate agriculture in west Contra Costa County to help our community build a more sustainable, healthy, and just food system. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Conejos County Clean Water | CO | Conejos County Clean Water aims to build public awareness and encourage advocacy and education around environmental, social, economic, and food justice issues in the Conejos Land Grant Region. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Love Fed Initiative | CT | Love Fed Initiative helps neighbors grow their own food at home and cultivates a growing community that actively works towards practicing food sovereignty while supporting personal wellness and environmental health through land stewardship, agricultural education and training, and culinary education. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Dreaming Out Loud | DC | Dreaming Out Loud aims to create economic opportunity within marginalized communities by building a healthy, equitable food system. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Farmworker Justice | DC | Farmworker Justice is a nonprofit organization that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration status, health, occupational safety, and access to justice. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | Soilful City | DC | Soilful City seeks to bring justice to communities and heal the sacred relationship between communities of African decent and Mother earth. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | Coalition of Immokalee Workers | FL | The Coalition of Immokalee Workers is a worker-based human rights organization that fights human trafficking and gender-based violence in corporate supply chains. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Farmworker Association of Florida | FL | The Farmworker Association of Florida is a statewide farmworker membership organization with over 10,000 Haitian, Hispanic, and African American members that aims to build power among farmworker and rural low-income communities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
82 | Florida Legal Services' Immigrant & Migrant Rights Project | FL | Florida Legal Service's Immigrant & Migrant Rights Project provides legal assistance to farmworkers and immigrant families working in Florida, including migrant or seasonal farmworkers and temporary agricultural workers under the H-2A visa program. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
83 | Gangstas to Growers | GA | Gangstas to Growers is a program focused on empowering at-risk youth and our formerly incarcerated through agriculture, employment, and entrepreneurship. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | Grow Where You Are | GA | Grow Where You Are is a social enterprise that is committed to providing Agro-Ecology training and life skills workshops to evolve urban dwellers into global stewards. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | Habesha | GA | Habesha is a Pan-African organization that cultivates leadership in youth and families through practical experiences in cultural education, sustainable agriculture, entrepreneurship, holistic health, and technology. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
86 | New Communities | GA | New Communities is a grassroots organization that has worked for more than 40 years to empower African American families in Southwest Georgia and advocate for social justice. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
87 | Truly Living Well | GA | Truly Living Well is committed to bringing good food, good health and well-being to Atlanta’s urban community. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
88 | Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement | IA | Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement is a member-driven organization taking collective action on issues important to people living and working in Iowa. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | Annie's Project | IL | Annie's Project is committed to empowering women in modern farm and ranch enterprises. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Black Oaks Center for Sustainable & Renewable Living | IL | Black Oaks Center for Sustainable and Renewable Living aims to create networks of micro-climates wherein the sacredness of life, nature is honored and our humanity evolves. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
91 | Urban Growers Collective | IL | Urban Growers Collective aims to build economic opportunity for youth and mitigate food insecurity and limited access to high quality, affordable and nutritionally dense food. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
92 | Indiana Black Farmers Co-op | IN | |||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | Kheprw Institute's Food Programs | IN | |||||||||||||||||||||||
94 | Community Farm Alliance | KY | CFA works to organize and encourage cooperation among rural and urban citizens through leadership development and grassroots democratic processes to ensure an essential, prosperous place for family-scale agriculture in our economies and communities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
95 | New Roots | KY | New Roots was founded on the belief that fresh food is a basic human right. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | Sustainable Agriculture Louisville | KY | Sustainable Agriculture Louisville is a community-led organization dedicated to advancing food sovereignty in Louisville, Kentucky. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
97 | New Orleans Food & Farm Network | LA | The New Orleans Food and Farm Network works with individuals, communities and growers to support sustainable growing practices and to ensure equal access to safe, nutritious, enjoyable food. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Collective | MA | Eastern Woodlands Rematriation Collective is a collective of Indigenous people restoring the spiritual foundation of our livelihoods through regenerative food systems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
99 | Equity Trust | MA | Equity Trust is a nonprofit organization that focuses on land ownership that balances the needs of individuals with the needs of communities, the earth, and future generations. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
100 | Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance | MA | The Northwest Altantic Marine Alliance is a fishermen-led organization building a broad movement toward healthy fisheries and fishing communities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
101 | Urban Farm Institute | MA | Urban Farm Institute aims to develop and promote urban farming to engage individuals in growing food and building a healthy community. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
102 | Black Dirt Farm Collective | MD | The Black Dirt Farm Collective is a collective of Black farmers, educators, scientists, agrarians, seed keepers, organizers, and researchers guiding a political education process through our cultivation of a Black agrarian education (Afroecology). | ||||||||||||||||||||||
103 | Black Yield Institute | MD | The Black Yield Institute aims to cultivate self-determination through Black land and food sovereignty | ||||||||||||||||||||||
104 | Bliss Meadow & Backyard Basecamp | MD | Bliss Meadow & Backyard Basecamp aims to inspire Black, Indigenous, and People of Color across Baltimore City to find nature where they are and empowering them to explore further. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
105 | George Washington Carver Urban/Small Farmers Coalition | MD | George Washington Carver Urban/Small Farmers Coalition is building an organizational structure that is primarily focused on connecting underserved rural farmers/landowners with with urban families and communities to address the food and economic disparities that exist within the service areas of our coalition. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
106 | Greenhorns | ME | Greenhorns works to create a welcoming and hospitable culture for new entrants in sustainable agriculture. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
107 | Detroit Black Community Food Security Network | MI | The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network was founded to ensure that Detroit's African American population participated in the food movement. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
108 | East Michigan Environmental Action Council | MI | |||||||||||||||||||||||
109 | Farmers on the Move | MI | Farmers on the Move is the only cooperative of Hispanic farmers in Michigan that is on a mission to provide locally grown, sustainable produce and preserve Michigan’s farmland. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
110 | TKO Farming | MI | TKO Farming is a land-based institution using traditional and organic farming practices to transform our local community. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
111 | Dream of Wild Health | MN | Dream of Wild Health aims to restore health and well-being in the Native community by recovering knowledge of and access to healthy Indigenous foods, medicines and lifeways. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
112 | Duluth Community Garden Program | MN | The Duluth Community Garden Program strives to cultivate healthy neighborhoods by providing access to land, resources, and community | ||||||||||||||||||||||
113 | Land Stewardship Project | MN | The Land Stewardship Project is a private, nonprofit organization committed to fostering an ethic of stewardship for farmland, to promote sustainable agriculture and to develop sustainable communities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
114 | Latino Economic Development Center | MN | |||||||||||||||||||||||
115 | Missouri Rural Crisis Center | MO | The Missouri Rural Crisis Center is a statewide farm and rural membership organization that aims to preserve family farms, promote stewardship of the land and environmental integrity and strive for economic and social justice by building unity and mutual understanding among diverse groups, both rural and urban. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
116 | Rural Community Workers Alliance | MO | Rural Community Workers Alliance is organizing meatpacking plant workers in rural Missouri to improve health and safety conditions, address wage theft, and other workplace issues. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
117 | Cooperation Jackson | MS | Cooperation Jackson aims to advance the development of economic democracy in Jackson, Mississippi by building a solidarity economy anchored by a network of cooperatives and other types of worker-owned and democratically self-managed enterprises. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
118 | A Growing Culture | NC | A Growing Culture aims to advance a culture of farmer autonomy and agroecological innovation through outreach, advocacy, and information exchange. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
119 | Black Family Land Trust | NC | Black Family Land Trust is one of the nation’s only conservation land trust dedicated to the preservation and protection of African-American and other historically underserved landowners assets. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
120 | Concerned Citizens of Tillery | NC | Concerned Citizens of Tillery envisions an empowered, sustainable community that builds on our natural, historic and cultural resources to promote economic independence, a healthy and environmentally sound life, the development of heritage and agricultural tourism that honors and celebrates the spirit and fortitude of Tillery and an enhanced quality of life through our own outside participation in conferences, retreats, seminars and other educational activities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
121 | Earthseed Land Cooperative | NC | Earthseed Land Cooperative is a center for community resilience through cooperative ownership of land and resources, committed to centering People of Color and other communities pushed to the margins. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
122 | Land Loss Prevention Project | NC | Land Loss Prevention Project provides legal support and assistance to all financially distressed and limited resource farmers and landowners in North Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||||||
123 | Legal Aid of North Carolina's Farmworker Unit | NC | The Farmworker Unit is a statewide project of Legal Aid of North Carolina that provides high-quality civil legal services to address the special legal needs of migrant and seasonal farmworkers in North Carolina. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
124 | NC FIELD | NC | NC FIELD is a nonprofit organization that works with migrant and seasonal farmworker youth and families utilizing grassroots organizing principles to teach leadership, promote education and facilitate opportunities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
125 | Operation Spring Plant | NC | Operation Spring Plant is a grassroot nonprofit organization made up of African-American and limited resource farmers and concerned urban citizens from Region K and surrounding counties of North Carolina. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
126 | Southern Minnesota Rural Legal Services' Agricultural Worker Project | ND & MN | The SMRLS’ Agricultural Worker Project assists agricultural workers with employment-related legal issues and aims to improve the working and living conditions of agricultural workers in Minnesota and North Dakota. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
127 | Center for Rural Affairs | NE | The Center for Rural Affairs aims to establish strong rural communities, social and economic justice, environmental stewardship, and genuine opportunity for all while engaging people in decisions that affect the quality of their lives and the future of their communities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
128 | Ironbound Community Corporation | NJ | Ironbound Community Corporation’s mission is to engage and empower individuals, families, and groups in realizing their aspirations and, together, work to create a just, vibrant and sustainable community. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
129 | Black Farmers & Ranchers of New Mexico | NM | |||||||||||||||||||||||
130 | Bueno Para Todos | NM | Bueno Para Todos is a farming cooperative in Northern New Mexico dedicated to growing locally, with traditional & organic practices. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
131 | Los Jardines Institute | NM | The Los Jardines Institute aims to build and support healthy and sustainable communities and spaces. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
132 | Southwest Organizing Project's Feed the Hood Project | NM | Project Feed the Hood is a food literacy and community gardening initiative of SWOP that aims to improve community health through education and revival of traditional growing methods. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
133 | Traditional Native American Farmers Association | NM & AZ | Traditional Native American Farmers Association represents 72 farming families from 17 different native communities in Arizona and New Mexico to revitalize traditional agriculture for spirtiual and human need. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
134 | East New York Farms! | NY | East New York Farms! aims to organize youth and adults to address food justice in our community by promoting local sustainable agriculture and community-led economic development. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
135 | Farm School NYC | NY | Farm School NYC trains local residents in urban agriculture in order to build self-reliant communities and inspire positive local action around food access and social, economic, and racial justice issues. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
136 | GreenRoots | NY | GreenRoots is a community-based organization dedicated to improving and enhancing the urban environment and public health in Chelsea and surrounding communities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
137 | Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming | NY | Groundswell Center engages diverse learners and empowers them with skills, knowledge and access to resources, so they can build sustainable land-based livelihoods and equitable local food systems. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
138 | Harlem Grown | NY | Harlem Grown is an independent, nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire youth to lead healthy and ambitious lives through mentorship and hands-on education in urban farming, sustainability, and nutrition. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
139 | Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust | NY | Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust works towards a collective vision of advancing land and food sovereignty in the northeast region through permanent and secure land tenure for POC farmers and land stewards who will use the land in a sacred manner that honors our ancestors dreams - for sustainable farming, human habitat, ceremony, native ecosystem restoration, and cultural preservation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
140 | Sierra Seeds | NY | Sierra Seeds aims to cultivate intimacy with the earth and ancestral food traditions through medicinal storytelling on seed songs and seed rematriation. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
141 | RID-ALL Green Partnership | OH | RID-ALL Green Partnership grows food, jobs, and green neighborhoods through urban agriculture, starting with an urban farm in Cleveland, Ohio. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
142 | Oklahoma Black Historical Research Project | OK | OBHRPI has been actively working to insure the sustainability of Oklahoma’s small farmers, rural landowners and rural business owners. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
143 | Black Food Sovereignty Coalition | OR | Black Food Sovereignty Coalition serves as a collaboration hub for Black and Brown communities to confront the systemic barriers that make food, place and economic opportunities inaccessible to Black and Brown people. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
144 | Ecotrust | OR | Ecotrust aims to foster a natural model of development that creates more resilient communities, economies, and ecosystems in Oregon and around the world. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
145 | PCUN (Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste) | OR | https://pcun.org | PCUN aims to empower farmworkers and working Latinx families in Oregon by building community, increasing Latinx representation in elections, and policy advocacy on both the national and state levels. | |||||||||||||||||||||
146 | Black Urban Gardeners & Farmers Cooperative of Pittsburgh | PA | The Black Urban Gardeners and Farmers Cooperative of Pittsburgh works with local black communities to grow food and to share black cultural traditions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
147 | Justice at Work (formerly Friends of Farmworkers) | PA | Justice at Work supports low-wage, immigrant workers by providing free legal representation to workers; advocating for policy change; and educating other organizations on the legal rights of farmworkers, mushroom workers, landscaping workers and food processing workers. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
148 | Soil Generation | PA | Soil Generation is a Black and Brown led coalition of growers in Philadelphia, building a grassroots movement through relationship building, honoring culture, community education, organizing, activism and advocacy. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
149 | Southeastern African American Farmers’ Organic Network | PA | Southeastern African American Farmers’ Organic Network is a regional network for Black farmers committed to using ecologically sustainable practices to manage their land and the natural systems on it in order to grow food and raise livestock that are healthy for people and the planet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
150 | Villanova University's Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic | PA | The Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic is a community lawyering legal clinic at Villanova University that represents low wage workers and their families, and provides legal support for organizations working to empower immigrant workers and end systemic injustices impacting these communities. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
151 | Center for Heirs' Property Preservation | SC | The Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation is a nonprofit that protects heirs’ property and promotes its sustainable use to provide increased economic benefit to historically under-served families. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
152 | Border Agricultural Workers Project | TX | The Border Agricultural Worker Project aims to help farmworkers who work in the US-México border region around El Paso, Texas. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
153 | Border Network for Human Rights | TX | https://bnhr.org | The Border Network for Human Rights is one of the leading immigration reform and human rights advocacy organizations in the United States, with a membership of more than 1,000 families in West Texas and Southern New Mexico. | |||||||||||||||||||||
154 | Southwest Workers Union | TX | SWU is a inter-generational, multi-issue community center focused on healing for the people and the planet. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
155 | Black Farmers Collective | WA | Black Farmers Collective is a group of urban food system activists dedicated to providing opportunities to improve the health of our communities through all aspects of the food system. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
156 | Columbia Legal Services | WA | Columbia Legal Services is a legal impact organization that advocates for laws that advance social, economic, and racial equity for people living in poverty. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
157 | Community to Community Development | WA | Community to Community Development is a women-led, placebased, grassroots organization working for a just society and healthy communities | ||||||||||||||||||||||
158 | Local to Global Advocates for Justice | WA | Local to Global Advocates for Justice is a group of individuals of Black African descent and organizations committed to grassroots community organizing to strengthen their collective power. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
159 | Northwest Justice Project's Farmworker Unit | WA | The Northwest Justice Project's Farmworker Unit, centered in Yakima, provides advocacy and individual legal representation to farmworkers and their families to ensure that they are afforded a full range of legal protections. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
160 | Family Farm Defenders | WI | Family Farm Defenders aims to create a farmer-controlled and consumer-oriented food and fiber system, based upon democratically controlled institutions that empower farmers to speak for and respect themselves in their quest for social and economic justice. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
161 | Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative | WI | The Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative is a new initiative aimed at dismantling racism and empowering low-income and communities of color through sustainable and local agriculture. |
1 | BIPOC FARMS, RANCHES & COMMUNITY GARDENS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3 | Fountain Heights Farms | AL | https://www.facebook.com/fountainheightsfarms | Fountain Heights Farms aims to improve the quality of life for the current residents of the historic Fountain Heights community of Birmingham, Alabama through long term land stewardship by community-led urban agricultural cooperatives focused on meeting the immediate and basic need for healthy fresh foods, and through culturally responsive community education programs that support and inform urban agricultural initiatives in historically under-served areas of Birmingham, Alabama. | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Hawkins Homestead Farm | AL | https://hawkinshomesteadfarm.com/ | Hawkins Homestead Farm specializes in organic poultry, eggs, and veggies. | |||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Bean Tree Farm | AZ | https://www.beantreefarm.com | Bean Tree Farm is located in Dancing Rocks Community, a residential development nested in 20-acres of lush Sonoran Desert food forest featuring Saguaro, Ironwood, Foothills Palo Verde, Mesquite, Prickly Pear, Cholla, Ocotillo, Acacia, perennial and annual herbs, vines and more. | |||||||||||||||||||||
6 | San Xavier Cooperative Farm | AZ | http://www.sanxaviercoop.org | The San Xavier Cooperative Farm is a tribally chartered organization of allottee landowners on the San Xavier Indian Reservation that is committed to healthy farming practices and growing traditional crops to support the cultural and environmental values, as well as support economic development within the community. The Farm acknowledge the usefulness of animals who pollinate crops, aerate the soil, and rejuvenate the mineral content of the land, and produces quality, chemical-free alfalfa hay and some traditional crops. | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Sante Fe Ranch | AZ | http://www.santaferanchfoundation.org | The Santa Fe Ranch is a working cow/calf ranch that is leading the way in demonstrating sustainable livestock production practices. | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Acta Non Verba's Youth Urban Farm Project | CA | https://anvfarm.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | City Slicker Farms | CA | https://www.cityslickerfarms.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | For the People Seed Farm | CA | https://www.facebook.com/seedsforthepeople/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | R. Kelley Farms | CA | https://www.rkelleyfarms.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Soul Flower Farm | CA | http://soulflowerfarm.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Sweeting Ranch | CA | |||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | Poudre Valley Community Farms | CO | Poudre Valley Community Farms aims to facilitate farmland succession, promote local food security, and foster economic growth. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Hidden Acres Farm | CT | http://hiddenacrestrc.org/ | . | |||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Three Part Harmony Farm | DC | http://threepartharmonyfarm.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | DoRay Ranch | FL | https://www.facebook.com/dorrayranchfla/ | DoRay Ranch uses Management Intensive Grazing principles to produce healthy grass fed only beef. | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Griffin Organic Poultry | FL | https://www.griffinorganicpoultry.com/ | Griffin Organic Poultry sells pasture-raised chickens, and organic eggs from pastured hens | |||||||||||||||||||||
19 | Comfort Farms | GA | https://www.facebook.com/comfortfarms2016/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Denmark Farms | GA | Denmark Farms raises cattle. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | Dollison Farm | GA | Dollison Farm provides fresh produce and swine; partners to produce Warrior Creek Premium Meats. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | High Hog Farm | GA | http://www.highhog.farm/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Hunter Farms Inc. | GA | Hunter Farms is an agriculture cooperative raising grass-fed cattle | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Local Lands | GA | https://www.locallands.net/ | Local Lands is a family owned and operated farm that produces grass-fed meat and pasture-raised poultry. | |||||||||||||||||||||
25 | Mayflor Farms | GA | https://mayflorfarms.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Mosley Farms Pastured Pork | GA | Mosley Farms produces all natural pasture pork with no antibiotics. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | Patchwork City Farms | GA | |||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Semente Farm | GA | https://www.sementefarm.com/aboutus | ||||||||||||||||||||||
29 | Swanson Family Farm | GA | https://www.swansonfamilyfarmllc.com/ | Swanson Family Farm is a 32 acre farm that specializes in grass-fed and pasture-raised beef, lamb, goat and pork. | |||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Urban Grange Farm | GA | https://www.facebook.com/UrbanGrange/ | Urban Grange Farm provides quality pork, chicken, eggs and produce grown using organic methods. | |||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Your Faith Farms | GA | https://www.facebook.com/yourfaithfarms/ | Your Faith Farms raise grass-fed beef, lamb, and goat. | |||||||||||||||||||||
32 | Barbour's Farm | KY | http://www.barboursfarm.harvesthand.com/ | Barbour's Farm is a family owned operation that consists of a small dairy, hogs, beef, pasture poultry, micro-processed goods, and mixed vegetables. | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | Flying Eagle Ranch | LA | Flying Eagle Ranch raises cattle, chickens, hogs; cuts and bundles hay. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | James Farm | LA | |||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Larry Charles Freeman Farm | LA | |||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Flats Mentor Farm | MA | https://www.worldfarmers.org/programs/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Strength to Love Farm | MD | https://s2l2.intersectionofchange.org | Strength to Love farm is a community based urban farm that provides hands-on agricultural training and job opportunities for citizens returning from incarceration while also addressing our neighborhood’s food apartheid issue | |||||||||||||||||||||
38 | D-Town Farm | MI | https://www.d-townfarm.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Foot Print Farms | MI | https://footprintfarmsms.com/about/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Diamond G Polled Herefords | MO | |||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Shire Gate Farm | MO | http://www.shiregatefarm.com | Shire Gate Farm produces humanely raised, antibiotic and hormone free, natural grass-fed beef. | |||||||||||||||||||||
42 | AM-PM Vegetable & Beef Farm | MS | AM-PM Vegetable & Beef Farm produces veggies and beef cattle. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | John H. Moody Farm | MS | https://www.johnhmoodyfarm.com | John H. Moody produces grass-fed beef. | |||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Lazy T Cattle Company | MS | https://www.facebook.com/LazyTCattleCo97/ | Lazy T Cattle Company raises heifers and sells bulls. | |||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Lovett Family Farm | MS | Lovett Family Farm produces poultry and beef cattle. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Shintri Hathorn Farm | MS | Shintri Hathorn Farm raises and sells beef cattle and milk. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | Tyrone Foote Beef Cattle Farm | MS | Tyrone Foote Beef Cattle Farm raises cattle and sells beef. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Golden Organic Farm | NC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Master Blend Family Farms | NC | www.masterblendfarms.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Oliver's Agroforest | NC | https://www.instagram.com/olivers.agroforest/?hl=en | ||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | Pine Knot Farms | NC | https://www.pineknotfarmsnc.com/ | Pine Knot Farms produces organic tobacco, pasture raised hogs and chickens, and organic produce. | |||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Sankofa Farms | NC | https://www.sankofafarmsllc.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | OKO Farms | NY | https://www.okofarms.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Rise and Root Farm | NY | http://www.riseandrootfarm.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Rocky Acres Community Farm | NY | https://www.facebook.com/rockyacrescommunityfarm/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Soil Fire Farm | NY | http://www.soulfirefarm.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Wild Seed Community Farms | NY | |||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Black Futures Farm | OR | https://blackfutures.farm/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Chalchi Farm | OR | |||||||||||||||||||||||
60 | Flying Dogheart Farm | OR | https://www.dogheart.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Mudbone Grown | OR | https://www.mudbonegrown.com/home | ||||||||||||||||||||||
62 | Scrapberry Farm | OR | https://scrapberryfarm.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Wapato Island Farm | OR | https://www.wapatoislandfarm.com | ||||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Hilltop Urban Farm | PA | https://www.hilltopurbanfarm.org/ | Hilltop Urban Farm is a nonprofit, community-centered farm in Pittsburgh’s Hilltop community. | |||||||||||||||||||||
65 | Movement Ground Farm | RI | https://movementgroundfarm.wordpress.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
66 | Fresh Future Farm | SC | https://www.freshfuturefarm.org/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | Morning Glory Homestead | SC | https://www.morninggloryhomestead.com/about-the-farm | Morning Glory Homestead produces organic produce and pasture raised poultry to help feed local families. | |||||||||||||||||||||
68 | Peculiar Pig Farm | SC | |||||||||||||||||||||||
69 | Crimson Farm | TX | Crimson Farm specializes in raising grass fed goats, cows, pigs and sheep. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | GriffinGalsGoods & Farm | TX | |||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | Jacobs Farm | TX | Jacobs Farm is a cow-calf operation and courier. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | S3 Legacy Ranch | TX | S3 Legacy Ranch raises and sells fresh beef meats and organic, fresh free range eggs; poultry coming soon. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | Seventy-Four Ranch | TX | Seventy-Four Ranch raises and sells beef cattle. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
74 | Sweetwater Farms | TX | |||||||||||||||||||||||
75 | Sylvanaqua Farms | VA | https://www.sylvanaqua.com/ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | Beyond Organics Farm | WA | Beyond Organic Farms raises grass fed cattle on an organic pasture without antibiotics or added hormones; heritage breed pastured pigs raised on over 160 acres of organic pastures. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
77 | Herban Farm NW | WA | |||||||||||||||||||||||
78 | Love Land Acres Farm | WI | https://www.facebook.com/lovelandacresfarm/ |
1 | RESOURCES & TOOLS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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3 | Native Land Map | Native Land provides a map of native nations occupied under settler colonial governments. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Black Farmer Network | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | Black Farmer’s Index | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | Black Farmer Directory | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
7 | Rural Development Leadership Map | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | Tribal Producer Directory |