Links: Local Food

A Living and Learning centre in the heart of Brazil. The Ecocentre was designed and built as a reference centre for sustainable living in South America with focus on growing food, caring for water resources and building ecological structures to support an ecovillage. The Ecocentre offers a number of courses and internships and is a non profit organization with projects in several regions of Brazil and as far as Africa and Portugal.

Funky Raw publishes a quarterly magazine covering raw food, wild foods, permaculture, spirituality and ecology. We also have an annual festival and workshops where you can learn about raw and wild foods, yoga, etc.

Maya Mountain Research Farm is a small registered NGO working on issues of food security and biodiversity. Using agroforestry and ethnobotany, MMRF is a collection of hundreds of plant species of use to people. The farm is well developed. We do outreach, host interns and conduct training and courses. Our client base includes several universities and NGOs, Peace Corps, Government of Belize. Right now we are working on a vanilla project that is very exciting.

Midwest Permaculture is the outgrowth of decades of experience and preparation which culminated in the creation of a powerful Permaculture Design Certification Course held in Stelle, Illinois, in October of 2006. The course was delivered by Bill Wilson, Wayne Weiseman, and Mark Shepard and hosted in the unique community of Stelle, IL. Midwest Permaculture is a business created and owned by Bill and Becky Wilson of Stelle (30 year residents) with the goal of promoting more sustainable ways of living and providing quality permaculture education and training.

A great site for anyone interested in wild foods and useful plants and trees. Wild food and bushcraft courses can also be found here too!

A small family-run business selling fresh herbs online including herbs for wildlife and special collections for bees and companion planting.

'Herbs for healing, for food and for pleasure’ – Relaxed 2-day weekend courses run throughout the summer. The courses are held in a rural setting on a working farm in south east Wales, approximately halfway between Bristol and Cardiff. For dates, further information and booking: www.oakenwoods.co.uk Oakenwood’s current project is to help buy woodland to conserve and protect, or land to create woodland with native British trees.

We are building food-forest-theater-studios to create media. Our studios will research sacred poetry based on tree-lore and seasonal observation of life. They will also act as sanctuary to at risk life-forms Then we will produce media to get humans into the "Art of the Fugue" and have them re-fusing to Our Lady Gaia.

Organic Smallholding in Central Portugal

We are a small landscape architecture practice with a special interest in promoting and encouraging traditional orchards. We work with schools, community groups and voluntary sector organisations as well as commercial clients to increase awareness of the wildlife and biodivesity advantages of retaining and preserving old fruit varieties. We built an award winning straw bale walled orchard garden at Westonbirt Arboretum with the help of Common Ground and the Brogdale Trust (home of the national fruit collection) to highlight this issue. We work all over the south west and are based just north of Bristol and also in the Wye Valley where the Reckless Orchard once existed.

Networking and campaining orginisation, covering sustainable food chains, food poverty, agriculture and trade, and other issues.

Small chemical-free market garden on Cornwall's Roseland Peninsular, growing seasonal and unusual vegetables and herbs for taste rather than yield, without the use of harmful pesticides and other chemicals. Selling to local hotels, restaurants and visitors.

We are a small scale independent organic mixed market garden based at Gear Farm, St Martin on the Lizard Peninsula in West Cornwall and we produce a wide range of herbs, salad leaves and vegetables for local health food stores, farm shops, gastropubs, hotels, restaurants, box schemes and holiday accommodation. All our produce is grown without the use of insecticides, fungicides and chemical fertilizer and our entire process of production is accredited by the Biodynamic Agricultural Association of Great Britain. The great flavour of our produce comes from growing varieties which taste the best rather than perform well in terms of uniformity, yield or shelf life and we grow them in a well maintained healthy soil enriched with lots of natural fertility, liquid seaweed extracts and mineral rich comfrey juice.

Offers training and support to groups of women growing food in urban areas. Extensive links section and information on networking and Food Miles.