GET INVOLVED There are many things you or your group can do to help build a more sustainable and secure regional food system. Here are a few you can do today! Become a NESAWG member. Join NEFOOD-L, a NESAWG-sponsored e-mail forum devoted to the topic of food systems in the Northeastern states Sign up for […]
USEFUL LINKS NESAWG Member organizations NESAWG’s Partners at Regional and National Level: National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture Other Regional SAWGs: Western, Midwest, Southern, California Eat Local: There are many reasons to buy local food. Here are 10 good ones, in case you’re not already convinced! Below are just a few of several websites that can […]
Billie Best Regional Farm and Food Project [email protected] Kate Duesterberg Cedar Circle Farm 802-785-4737 [email protected] Judith Gillan New England Small Farm Institute 413-323-4531 [email protected] Vern Grubinger Center for Sustainable Agriculture University of Vermont Extension 802-257-7967 [email protected] Jim Hanna New American Sustainable Ag Project Coastal Enterprises, Inc. 207-871-8266 [email protected] Liana Hoodes 845-744-2304 [email protected] Ruth Katz […]
NESAWG MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS Jump to: A B C E F G H I J M N O P R S T U V Y A Accokeek Foundation Ecosystem Farm Action of Church and Community Together Agriculture, Food and Environment Program, Tufts Univ. American Farmland Trust Back to Top B Berkshire Grown Biodynamic Farmland Conservation Trust […]
NESAWG trained twenty-four agriculture economic development practitioners from 12 Northeast. Strengthening ag development as an economic development activity is critical in our highly urbanized region. Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) originated in this country in the Northeast, and there are more CSA farms in our region than in any other. NESAWG led a four-year project to […]
WHO ARE WE? History: In 1992, a small group of people concerned about the full range of food system issues — from field to table — gathered in a farmhouse in western Massachusetts. From that meeting, the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group was born. Since that time NESAWG has grown to nearly seventy member organizations […]
