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Local
Massachusetts Department of Agriculture – including Massachusetts produce seasonality calendar
New England Grown – webzine devoted to New England agriculture and food
Edible Boston – magazine on local food producers
Northeast Organic Farming Association: Massachusetts Chapter
National
Chefs Collaborative – national group working with chefs to increase use of sustainably–farmed products
Slow Food USA – American arm of the international organization working to revive the culture of kitchen and table, and preserve culinary traditions and biodiversity.
Food Fight: A Teach–in On the 2007 Farm Bill – Prof. Michael Pollan of the UC Berkeley school of journalism moderates a panel with Dan Imhoff, the author of Food Fight: A Citizen's Guide to the Farm Bill; George Naylor, Iowa corn farmer and president of the National Family Farms Coalition; Ann Cooper, Director of Nutrition Services for the Berkeley school system, and other leaders in the effort to reform federal agricultural policies.
King Corn – a new documentary about the state of agriculture and food systems in America today. King Corn is about two friends, an acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast food nation. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, nitrogen fertilizers, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop. But when the follow that corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about what we eat and how we farm.
