The Most Valuable Resources

Alabama

Arkansas

• Heifer USA
  Heifer USA focuses on closing the gap between healthy, nutritious food and the communities it can most benefit. Our project work supports strengthening sustainable community food systems—because healthy food should be accessible to everyone.

Florida

• Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers, Inc.
  Supports and promotes organic and sustainable agriculture. The organization educates consumers, farmers, youth, businesses, policy makers and the general public in ways that advance organic agriculture and healthy and just food systems.

Georgia

• Georgia Organics
  Georgia Organics' mission is to connect organic food from Georgia farms to Georgia families. Goals: to increase: sustainable and organic farms in Georgia; kids participating in farm to school programs; and Georgians eating local & organic food.
• Macon Roots
  Macon Roots promotes a diverse, sustainable, and local food system for Middle Georgia. We celebrate local food cultures, support food and garden education programs, create networking opportunities, and increase availability of locally grown food.

Kentucky

Louisiana

• Louisiana Environmental Action Network
  The purpose of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network (LEAN) is to foster cooperation and communication to assess and mend the environmental problems in Louisiana. LEAN's goal is the creation of a cleaner and healthier environment .

Mississippi

• Quitman County Dev. Org. Inc.

North Carolina

• Organic Growers School
  The Organic Growers School is a non profit organization supporting sustainable agriculture in the Southern Appalachians through education and outreach. Our programming assists everyone to understand their roles in creating safe and healthy food systems.

Oklahoma

• Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture
  The Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture is a non-profit educational foundation in southeast Oklahoma, focused on sustainable solutions to the economic, social and environmental challenges facing Oklahoma’s farmers, ranchers and rural communities.

Puerto Rico

South Carolina

• Greenville Organic Foods Organization
  To influence the local community on issues of nutrition, health, wellness and the environment through awareness of organic farming, healthy eating and active living, we educate on the benefits of foods grown organically and by sustainable methods.

Tennessee

Texas

• Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (TOFGA)
  TOFGA is a non-profit association whose members include anyone desiring to support the organic industry in Texas. Our primary mission is to promote organic agriculture as a sustainable systems approach in the production of food and fiber.
• C.A.S.A del Llano, INC
  CASA del Llano is a multifaceted rural outreach nonprofit organization that focuses on technical assistance to socially disadvantaged farmers and ranchers and classes and services for rural Latina women and youth.

U.S. Virgin Islands

Virginia

• Virginia Association for Biological Farming (VABF)
  VABF is Virginia's primary sustainable and organic farming and gardening organization. We do on-farm research, field days, and quarterly newsletter, and co-sponsor an annual conference with Virginia Cooperative Extension.

Outside the Southern Region

• National Center for Appropriate Technology
  NCAT helps people by championing small-scale, local and sustainable solutions to reduce poverty, promote healthy communities and protect natural resources. We help create livable, safe communities, renewable energy and sustainable food production.
• National Sustainable Agriculture Project (known as ATTRA)
  In 1987, NCAT launched the national sustainable agriculture information service project, also known as ATTRA, to research, assemble and disseminate technical information specifically related to sustainable agriculture and renewable farm energy.