The Ag Innovations Network is building a groundswell in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles basin of California to link rural stakeholders with urban planners, agricultural, food security and social justice advocates, civic leaders, and policy makers.

This CSA information resource is a cooperative effort between the Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service (CSREES) and the National Agricultural Library (NAL) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The specific programs involved are CSREES's Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and its Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN), and NAL's Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC). Several organizations also helped.

America's Second Harvest—The Nation’s Food Bank Network is the largest domestic hunger-relief organization in the United States. Founded in 1979, America's Second Harvest distributed 2.5 million pounds of food to a network of 13 food banks in its first year operation. Today, the national network is comprised of more than 200 regional food banks and food-rescue organizations in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico and receives nearly two billion pounds of donated food and grocery products.

Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights.

Ample Harvest is an online matching service that allows home and community gardeners and farmers to donate excess produce to local food banks and pantries to help provide fresh fruits and vegetables for the one in six Americans who are not earning enough to feed themselves and their families.

http://www.ampleharvest.org/index.php

Choose your favorite vegetable to plant in the virtual garden.

Beginning Farmers offers a variety of resources to help in starting a farming venture.

Bread for the World is a nationwide Christian citizens movement seeking justice for the world's hungry people by lobbying our nation's decision makers. BFW Institute seeks justice for hungry people by engaging in research and education on policies related to hunger and development.

Learn about their documentary, Meat World China.
http://brightergreen.org/brightergreen.php?id=17

Legal services in the area of housing eviction defense, unemployment, education, health benefits, TANF and SSI. People must be located in Tulare or Kern counties.