You are supporting growers and their families whose homes and farms are within a few hundred miles or less of where you live and work, and whose farm practices help protect your family's drinking water, open space and air quality. Farms accredited with the CORE Values Northeast seal are maintaining the integrity and productivity of land and natural resources for our use today, and for our children's use tomorrow. Keeping a local agriculture vibrant is good for the whole region, not only to maintain our scenic landscapes and quality of life, but also to help keep our local economy thriving. The Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture is a national network of grassroots and national groups working to redirect federal policies to promote family farms, protect the environment and create a just and humane food system through policy development, organizing, networking, education and lobbying. Links A list of about 40 CSAs found through fairly extensive web searches are linked to this homepage.
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The trade association of the organic industry, OTA promotes organic foods, develops guidelines for organic standards and industry ethics, and represents the industry in the negotiations over the regulations for the national organic law. Urban Agriculture Offers many links to US and international urban agriculture resources. It will connect thousands of creative and compassionate groups working on hunger, food, nutrition, and agriculture issues. The vision is to affirm a commonality of goals and focus on constructive, community-based solutions to the problems of poverty and hunger within and between the public and private sectors. The program hopes to foster innovative approaches, bridge gaps, and identify new alliances among those groups who are striving to eliminate hunger, those who grow food, those who distribute it, and those who make policy.