RESOURCES
Food, Diet & Nutrition
www.westonaprice.org
Weston A. Price Foundation, advocating for nutrient-dense and traditional foods, as well as farmer and consumer rights.
www.wildfermentation.com
One of my heroes, Sandor Katz, and his Wild Fermentation site.
www.buylocalvirginia.org
Virginia’s official Buy Fresh Buy Local website.
www.rawmilk.org
Your #1 advocacy resource for natural, non-pasteurized dairy.
www.ethicurean.com
Chew the Right Thing.
www.sharonastyk.com
Another hero and one of my fave bloggers – don’t miss this!
www.themeatrix.com
Animated shorts on what really happens to our food (meat).
www.organicconsumers.org
Your “go to” source for almost everything related to organic and/or safe food and body products.
www.meetthefarmer.tv
Meet the Farmer television.
www.edibleblueridge.com
Edible Blue Ridge magazine.
www.inthekitchenonline.com
In the Kitchen magazine.
www.iyfoods.com
Integral Yoga Natural Foods in Charlottesville, VA.
www.andersoncarriagefoodhouse.com
A Charlottesville tradition of serving “always fresh, never frozen” seafood, meats and other delicacies. Best soup bar in town.
www.ducardvineyards.com
Virginia’s first “green” winery! Go Scott and Karen!
Plants, Herbs & Seeds
www.southernexposure.com
Southern Exposure Seed Exchange.
www.healingherbshoppe.com
One stop shopping for eastern and western herbal medicine and more.
www.sacredplanttraditions.com
Sacred Plant Traditions, a center for herbal studies.
www.greencomfortherbschool.com
Green Comfort Herbal Apothecary & School of Herbal Medicine.
www.ediblelandscaping.com
Edible Landscaping offers a wide variety of food-producing plants.
www.unitedplantsavers.org
United Plant Savers.
www.vnps.org
Virginia Native Plant Society.
Farming, Agriculture & Permaculture
www.permacultureactivist.net
Peter Bane’s wonderful Permaculture Activist magazine.
www.sharondalefarm.com
Sharondale Farm Mushrooms & Useful Plants, Cismont, Virginia.
www.vabf.org
Virginia Association for Biological Farming.
www.ssawg.org
Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group.
www.heritageharvestfestival.com
Southern Exposure’s annual agricultural celebration at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in Charlottesville, VA.
www.vicfa.org
Virginia Independent Consumers and Farmers Association.
www.nicfa.org
National Independent Consumers and Farmers Association.
www.localfoodhub.org
Albemarle County, Virginia’s local food aggregation/distribution facility extraordinaire.
www.backyardrevolution.com
The Backyard Revolution is a family-oriented celebration of our region’s cultural and agricultural heritage. The primary focus of this event is to offer a remembrance and a reskilling to the community by creating a bridge for the practical abilities, ingenuity and wisdom of our forebears, from the past into the present. By gathering people who are devoted to carrying on the traditions of our collective history and inviting the public to share and learn about their skills and knowledge, the Backyard Revolution supports and nurtures sustainable living practices applicable in the modern world while providing support and encouragement to those who keep our traditions alive.
www.luluslocalfood.com
Lulus Local Food is an on-line co-op program designed to connect family owned and operated farms with local customers in search of fresh food year round.
Relocalization & Community Building
(ie: challenges of and solutions to Peak Oil & Global Climate Destabilization)
www.postcarbon.org
Post Carbon Institute provides individuals, communities, businesses, and governments with the resources needed to understand and respond to the interrelated economic, energy, and environmental crises that define the 21st century. We envision a world of resilient communities and re-localized economies that thrive within ecological bounds.
www.permacultureactivist.net
Peter Bane’s wonderful Permaculture Activist magazine.
www.transitionus.org
The Transition Movement is a vibrant, grassroots movement that seeks to build community resilience in the face of such challenges as peak oil, climate change and the economic crisis. It represents one of the most promising ways of engaging people in strengthening their communities against the effects of these challenges, resulting in a life that is more abundant, fulfilling, equitable and socially connected.
www.backyardrevolution.com
The Backyard Revolution is a family-oriented celebration of our region’s cultural and agricultural heritage. The primary focus of this event is to offer a remembrance and a reskilling to the community by creating a bridge for the practical abilities, ingenuity and wisdom of our forebears, from the past into the present. By gathering people who are devoted to carrying on the traditions of our collective history and inviting the public to share and learn about their skills and knowledge, the Backyard Revolution supports and nurtures sustainable living practices applicable in the modern world while providing support and encouragement to those who keep our traditions alive.
www.livingeconomies.org
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies site advocating that local, independent businesses as our most potent change agents, uniquely prepared to take on the challenges of the twenty-first century with an agility, sense of place, and relationship-based approach others lack.
www.foodnotlawns.net
Grow food, not grass! Check it out!
www.culturechange.org
Jan Lundberg’s Culture Change site, always excellent reading.
www.richardheinberg.com
Richard’s insightful reflections on where we are, how we got here and what we can expect in the future given these uncertain times. Brilliant thinker.
www.sharonastyk.com
Another hero and one of my fave bloggers—don’t miss this!
www.thehavenatfirstandmarket.org
Charlottesville’s day haven, community kitchen and community garden advocating for social and food justice.
www.kunstler.com
Not for the faint of heart. Kunstler tells it straight up every Monday.
www.theoildrum.com
Discussions about energy and our future.
Books
Nourishing Traditions
by Sally Fallon-Morell
Wild Fermentation
by Sandor Katz
Full Moon Feast
by Jessica Prentice
Post Carbon Reader
by Post Carbon Institute
Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability
by David Holmgren
A Nation of Farmers
by Sharon Astyk
Depletion & Abundance: Life on the New Home Front
by Sharon Astyk
Transition Handbook
by Rob Hopkins
Many of these titles can be found here: www.permacultureactivist.net
Creative Folks
Balch Communications
Website design, photography, magazine design, brand identity, public relations, publicity, writing, editing, marketing communications.
www.balchcommunications.com
Cramer Photo
Photography services.
www.cramerphoto.com
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