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RESOURCES
Albany Community Resource Guide
The Laramie Soup Kitchen in consultation with several area non-profits developed this Guide in the hopes that all organizations and businesses offering assistance to residents or visitors throughout the Laramie community would adopt this resource. It is a reference guide of non-profit and government resources available in Laramie, WY and many throughout the surrounding region including Rawlins (Carbon County), Cheyenne (Laramie County), and Fort Collins, CO.
A Guide for Personal Vegetable & Fruits Gardening in Wyoming
Download a FREE PDF for growing vegetable and fruits in Wyoming.
Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative (GFJI) is an initiative aimed at dismantling racism and empowering low-income and communities of color through sustainable and local agriculture. Based in Milwaukee, WI.
How to Eat Ethically and Sustainably
Freelance writer Penny Williams offers a bounty of information to guide you in a quest to eat and buy food that will help rather than hurt the environment, visit her blog via the above link.
A Maine-based 501c3 nonprofit that is helping public food gardens to start and thrive by offering them grants, access to crowdfunding and technical assistance with garden planning.
POWER is a cash assistance program designed to help families with children become self-sufficient through intensive case management services. Contact Marguerite.Schaefer@wyo.gov for more info.
Harvesting Opportunity: The Power of Regional Food System Investments to Transform Communities, published as a partnership between the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's agencies of Rural Development and the Agricultural Marketing Service focuses on regional food systems as a means for enhancing economic opportunity.
Civil Eats is a daily news source for critical thought about the American food system. We publish stories that shift the conversation around sustainable agriculture in an effort to build economically and socially just communities.
"We have pretended that the problem is hunger and not poverty. We’ve pretended that the solution to hunger is charity, not ensuring the right to food or increasing the political power of the poor." -Andy Fisher, Author of Big Hunger.
Oregon Tilth makes our food system and agriculture biologically sound and socially equitable and requires us to find practical ways to tackle big challenges. We advance this mission to balance the needs of people and planet through focus on core areas of certification, conservation, social equity, policy, and the marketplace.
The Wallace Center at Winrock International
The Wallace Center supports entrepreneurs and communities as they build a new, 21st-century food system that is healthier for people, the environment, and the economy.