From Goats to Gurus
- Adrian Bell Society Adrian Bell (1901-1980) was an English ruralist journalist and farmer who chronicled British rural life. His writings reflect a deep respect for the power of nature and the acknowledgement that personal relationships are essential to success in any endeavor.
- American Dairy Goat Association serving the needs of America’s dairy goat producers.
- The Berry Center is putting Wendell Berry’s writings to work by advocating for farmers, land conserving communities, and healthy regional economies.
- Carriage Association of America is the oldest and largest organization dedicated to the preservation, restoration, and use of horse-drawn carriages and sleighs.
- eatWILD Getting wild nutrition from modern food.
- Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund works for farmers and consumers defending the right to buy, and protecting the right to sell, nutritious food directly from the farm.
- Organic Seed Alliance Advancing ethical development and stewardship of the genetic resources of agricultural seed.
- Sanborn Mills Farm provides opportunities to learn old-fashioned ways and explore how they can be integrated into modern life. Using the model of a traditional New England diversified working farm (agricultural fields, managed forests, timber framed barns for animals, sawmill, grist mill and blacksmith shop), the farm serves as a place to apply the lessons learned from the past to current needs for sustainability and community.
- Seed Savers Exchange Keeping Heirloom seeds in our gardens and on our tables.
- Slow Food is a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.
- The Livestock Conservancy is a nonprofit membership organization working to protect over 150 breeds of livestock and poultry from extinction. Included are asses, cattle, goats, horses, sheep, pigs, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys.
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map
- US Ark of Taste is a catalog of over 200 delicious foods in danger of extinction – from Slow Food USA.
- Weston A. Price Foundation for Wise Traditions in food, farming and the healing arts. The foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. They support movements that encourage accurate nutrition instruction, organic and bio-dynamic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock, community-supported farms and honest and informative labeling.