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Food and Agriculture Resources and Links
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This list compiled by
UUFA
soup lunch coordinator,
Helen D. Gunderson,
who is a gardener and
local foods
advocate.
Books
Other
Latest update
January 11, 2012. |
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UUFA
Gardening and Food Yahoo message board
Text from scrolls for UUFA 2008 Iowa-grown
soup lunch
Menu and produce sources for
the 2011 UUFA Iowa-grown brunch
Animal, Vegetable, Mineral The web site for Barbara Kingsolver's book
about her family's
year of trying to eat locally-grown food.
Berry Patch Farm near
Nevada, Iowa
Buy
Fresh, Buy Local project for the Greater Des Moines area
2008
directory
Farm
to Folk Community Supported Agriculture The
distribution site is on Tuesday afternoons from 4:30 to 6 pm at the
United Church of Christ in Ames, Iowa
Growing Against the Grain is a video about
the work and vision of the Audubon County Family Farms in southwest Iowa to
promote the use of locally-grown food.
High Hopes
Gardens A web site with blog by the Barnes-Runquist
family whose members
promote sustainable agriculture
and are active in the UUFA
Iowa Network of Community
Agriculture
Iowa State University Families Extension
Answer Line 1-800-262-3804
Iowa State University Extension Consumer
Horticulture Hotline 515-294-3108
John's
Natural Foods,
a retail store in Ames, Iowa
King Corn, a feature
documentary
(on order at the Ames Public Library)
Leopold Center for
Sustainable Agriculture
Local Harvest
Locavore Nation: Discovering the Food Close to Home,
a blog project of American Public Media program,
the Splendid Table program
Paul's
Grains of Laurel, Iowa
NPR interview with Michael Pollan,
author of The Omnivore's Dilemma, on the Fresh Air program
April 11, 2006
NPR interview with Michael Pollan,
author of In Defense of Food: an Eater's Manifesto
on the
Fresh Air program on
January 4, 2008
Picket Fence Creamery
near Woodward, Iowa
Practical Farmers of
Iowa
Small Potatoes Farm
near Minburn, Iowa
Turtle Farm Community
Supported Agriculture
near Granger, Iowa
Slow Food
Wheatsfield Cooperative,
a retail store in Ames, Iowa
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