It takes a village to win the battle against hunger, and help American families fill up on delicious, seasonal, sustainable meals in the meantime—that's why were so inspired by our friends and allies who are making big strides toward our common goals. We think you'll find them pretty inspiring too.

Nutrition Detectives

From Dr. David Katz, nationally renowned authority on nutrition, weight control, and the prevention of chronic disease, Nutrition Detectives is an exciting nutrition education program for elementary school children that is 'Teaching Kids to Make Healthy Choices.' They learn how to read food labels, detect marketing deceptions while simultaneously learning to identify and subsequently choose healthy foods.
http://www.davidkatzmd.com/nutritiondetectives.aspx

The Family Nutrition Foundation

The Family Nutrition Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping children and families develop healthy eating habits across the United States. The Foundation works with Scholastic (www.scholastic.com), to introduce its School Nutrition Toolkit™ to third grade teachers and over two million students in New York, Massachusetts, Minnesota and California.
http://familynutritionfoundation.org

Food Network

The healthy eating section at our own FoodNetwork.com offers a collaborative set of ideas, recipes and nutrition tips to inspire delicious and healthful cooking and entertaining.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/lf_health/

The Edible Schoolyard

Founded by Alice Waters, and the inspiration for our Good Food Gardens, the mission of the Edible Schoolyard at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School is to create and sustain an organic garden and landscape that is wholly integrated into the school's curriculum and lunch program. It involves the students in all aspects of farming the garden – along with preparing, serving and eating the food – as a means of awakening their senses and encouraging awareness and appreciation of the transformative values of nourishment, community, and stewardship of the land
http://www.edibleschoolyard.org

Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn

The Edible Estates project proposes the replacement of the domestic front lawn with a highly productive edible landscape. It was initiated by architect and artist Fritz Haeg in 2005, with the planting of the first regional prototype garden in the geographic center of the United States, Salina, Kansas.
http://www.fritzhaeg.com/edible-estates-book.html

Barbara's Bakery and Teaching Gardens

Barbara's Bakery has a health-friendly approach to food they extend into communities. "Barbara's for a Brighter Future" has donated more than a million dollars to local and national organizations that offer solutions to environmental, children's, and hunger issues, including a 10-year, $50,000 commitment to Sonoma County schools to develop teaching gardens.
https://www.worldpantry.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/ExecMacro/barbarasbakery/teachinggarden.d2w/report

Kitchen Gardeners International

Kitchen Gardeners International is a non-profit founded in Maine, USA whose mission is to empower individuals, families, and communities to achieve greater levels of food self-reliance through the promotion of kitchen gardening, home-cooking, and sustainable local food systems. In doing so, KGI seeks to connect, serve, and expand the global community of people who grow some of their own food.
http://www.kitchengardeners.org

The American Horticultural Society

The American Horticultural Society (AHS), founded in 1922, is an educational, non-profit organization that recognizes and promotes excellence in American horticulture. It is one of the oldest and most prestigious gardening organizations in the United States whose mission is to educate and inspire people of all ages to become successful and environmentally responsible gardeners by advancing the art and science of horticulture.
http://www.ahs.org

Teich Garden Systems School Gardens

Teich School Garden Systems are the builders behind our Good Food Gardens, and their gardens are specially designed to enrich the academic and healthy living experiences of children in nursery schools, elementary schools and at day care centers.
http://www.teichgardensystems.com/pdfs/TGS_School_Garden_Guide.pdf

The Growing Connection

The Growing Connection (TGC), developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), links people and cultures in a revolutionary campaign that introduces low-cost water efficient and sustainable food growing innovations, hand in hand with access to technology and information via existing and emerging technologies.
http://www.TheGrowingConnection.org

EarthBox

The patented EarthBox was developed by commercial farmers and proven in the lab and on the farm. Their maintenance-free, award-winning, high-tech growing system controls soil conditions, eliminates guesswork and more than doubles the yield of a conventional garden-with less fertilizer, less water and virtually no effort.
http://www.earthbox.com

Better School Food

Better School Food is a group of dedicated parents, educators and health professionals committed to working with local communities to improve meals and increase awareness of the connection between good food, good health and a student's ability to learn effectively. Their motto "Smarter Brains, Stronger Kids, Healthier Planet," says it all.
http://www.betterschoolfood.org

Lunch Lesson

Renegade Lunch Lady Anne Cooper's book and corresponding website supports her mission to change the way our children are eating. Her goal is to "tackle outdated district spending policies, commodity-based food service organizations, political platforms with no mention of school food or child health… to ensure that kids everywhere have wholesome, nutritious, delicious food at school."
http://www.lunchlessons.org

Cookshop Program:

Developed by Food Change in New York City and implemented in schools, after-school programs, and community-based organizations throughout NYC, Cookshop is designed to increase awareness and consumption of wholesome foods in the community, and improve the health and well-being of New York's low-income population.
http://www.foodchange.org/nutrition/cookshop.html

Days of Taste

Days of Taste brings ingredients from local farms and chefs to classrooms across America. A national interactive program, Days of Taste® activities bring chefs and farmers into fourth and fifth grade classrooms to teach students in an engaging way about the importance of fresh food and how ingredients weave their way through daily life, from farm to table.
http://www.aiwf.org/site/days-of-taste.html

The Healthy School Lunch Campaign

Sponsored by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), The Healthy School Lunch Campaign is dedicated to improving the food served to children in schools by educating government and school officials, food service workers, parents, and others about the food choices best able to promote children's current and long-term health.
http://www.healthyschoollunches.org

Laptop Lunches

Laptop Lunches are American-style bento boxes designed to help families pack nutritious, environment-friendly lunches for school, work, and travel. Their sustainable lunch containers – which come with a book of healthy lunch ideas and lunch-making recipes – are reusable, recyclable, dishwasher safe and do not contain phthalates, bisphenol A (BPA), or lead.

Veggie U

Veggie U, the not-for-profit organization at the Culinary Vegetable Institute is committed to fostering a synergy between educational, nutritional, and agricultural goals to combat the rising epidemic of childhood obesity. Veggie U has joined forces with top chefs, some of the area's finest educators, a nutritionist and a local physician to see how we can impact this challenge.
http://www.veggieu.org

Rethinking School Lunch Guide

From the Center for Ecoliteracy, the Rethinking School Lunch (RSL) program uses a systems approach to address the crisis in childhood obesity, provide nutrition education, and teach ecological knowledge.
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/programs/rsl.html

Two Angry Moms

From the women behind Better School Food, the companion site for documentary by filmmaker Amy Kalafa about fellow mom Susan Rubin's year-long crusade to improve school lunches.
http://www.angrymoms.org

Local Harvest

Local Harvest maintains a definitive and reliable "living" public nationwide directory of small farms, farmers markets, and other local food sources. Their search engine helps people find products from family farms, local sources of sustainably grown food, and encourages them to establish direct contact with small farms in their local area.
http://www.localharvest.org/csa/

Farmer's Market

The extensive, specialized directory of certified farmers markets, sources of organic food, Kosher food, and food-related sites across the U.S. since 1995. Use their state-by-state guide to find the farmer's market nearest you.
http://farmersmarket.com

Eat Well Guide

The Eat Well Guide is a free online directory of thousands of family farms, restaurants, markets and other outlets of fresh, locally-grown food throughout the United States and Canada. Visitors simply enter a zip or postal code to find good food and create free printable booklets.
http://www.eatwellguide.org/i.php?pd=Home

Local Fork

Local Fork is an online community providing the tools to stimulate grassroots local food networks. Local Fork is the first website where local food consumers, buyers, and producers can fully collaborate, network, buy, sell, advertise, and find needed services.
http://www.localfork.com/Default.aspx

FamilyFarmed.org

FamilyFarmed.org is a project of Sustain, one of the country's leading non-profit organizations working for a healthy environment. For the past few years one element of their work has been to support the growth of a regional food system in the Midwest by establishing markets for many organic and sustainable family farms.
http://www.sustainusa.org/familyfarmed/index.html

Just Food

Just Food is a non-profit organization that works to develop a just and sustainable food system in the New York City region by fostering new marketing and food-growing opportunities that address the needs of regional, rural family farms, NYC community gardeners, and NYC communities
http://www.justfood.org/jf/index.html

The Paradox of Hunger & Obesity

This article, posted by the Food Research and Action Center, explains how low-income households often have to rely on cheaper, high calorie foods to cope with limited food budgets, which can lead to over consumption of calories and a less healthful diet.
http://www.frac.org/html/hunger_in_the_us/hunger&obesity.htm

Center for EcoLiteracy

The Center for Ecoliteracy is dedicated to education for sustainable living. The Center provides tools, ideas, and support for combining hands-on experience in the natural world with curricular innovation in K–12 education, administers a grant program and donor-advised funds, offers resources, seminars, and technical assistance in support of systemic change.
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/publications/rsl/pam_koch.html

The LIFE Program from the Center for Food and the Environment

The LIFE Program (Linking Food and the Environment) is an inquiry-based science and nutrition program from The Center for Food & Environment at Teachers College, a national leader in the areas of food, food systems, and the diet-health connection. Its research leads to understanding why people make the food choices they do, and what types of interventions facilitate voluntary adoption of more healthful and ecologically sound food choices.
http://www.tc.edu/life/

Chef Anne Cooper's Meal Wheel:

A colorful, visual guide that helps kids envision what should be on their daily "plate."
http://www.lunchlessons.org/html_v2/meal_wheel.html#meal

Chef Anne Cooper's Healthy Kids Nutrition Report Card:

A printable "report card" for parents to record what their children are eating. It uses grades of Good, Better and Best to determine whether or not children are meeting the appropriate nutrition recommendations for their age.
http://www.lunchlessons.org/html_v2/ChefAnn_ReportCard.pdf