Resources

San Francisco organizations working on food systems issues - Organized by which steps in the food system they address (many groups address multiple levels of the food system). You can also go to "Local Projects Improving the San Francisco Food System".

Production

• Agricultural Program of the SF Department of Public Health
• Clean City Coalition Tool Lending Library
• The Garden Project
• Greenbelt Alliance
• Green Schoolyard Alliance
• Garden for the Environment
• Hayes Valley Farm
• Kitchen Garden SF
• Quesada Gardens Initiative
• SF Gro
• Slow Food San Francisco
• Preparing the Ground
• Alemany Farm
• Urban Sprouts
• The San Francisco Victory Garden Program
• San Francisco School Garden Map
• San Francisco Community Garden Map
• San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance
• Shape Up Bayview
• San Francisco Victory Garden Registry online map and social networking tool

Distribution/Access

• Ample Harvest
• CUESA
• Farmers Markets in San Francisco (in English, Spanish, Chinese)
• Food Runners
• Free Farm Stand access to produce in the Mission District
• Girls 2000 project Somethin' Fresh Call Candice Pierson for more information (415) 822-8091.
• Literacy for Environmental Justice's Good Neighbor program.
• Om-Direct
• San Francisco Food Bank
• San Francisco Food, Nutrition and Agriculture Directory, 4th Edition, (pdf)
• San Francisco Food Security Task Force
• San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market
• San Francisco CSA Map
• SEFA: Southeast Food Access
• Veritable Vegetable
• Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)

Consumption

• Locavores
• Nextcourse
• Om Organics
• Slow Food San Francisco
• Feeling Good Project
• SFUSD School Nutrition Education Project 
• SFDPH Restaurant Scores- same data presented by sfscores.com
• San Francisco Food Retail Map
• Ecovian: Sustainable Food Resources
• Buy Fresh, Buy Local guide

Recycling

• Four Course Compost
• Garden for the Environment
• SF Recycling
• SF Gro

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Regional/California organizations working on food systems issues:

• Local Foods Wheel
• Om Organics: resource directory to learn about and find sustainable foods in the Bay Area
• Roots of Change: research and fundraising organization to assist food-related non-profits
• Community Alliance With Family Farmers
• Center for Ecoliteracy
• BANPAC: Bay Area Nutrition and Physical Activity Collaborative
• Californians for GE Free Agriculture
• Public Health Law and Policy
• California Center for Public Health Advocacy

National organizations working on food systems issues:

• Foodroutes - promotes eating locally produced food
• Healthcare Without Harm: promotes healthy practices in hospitals
• Local Harvest: national database to find farmers, markets, CSAs and more
• Community Food Security Coalition

International:

• Slow Food: promoting local, heritage foods
• World Hunger Year