Weaving the Wise Food Web: Favorite Links

Jessica's Bay Area Projects

Three Stone Hearth (threestonehearth.com) is a worker-owned cooperative, offering nutrient dense foods to homes and families around the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Locavores (locavores.com) are a growing community of local eaters in the San Francisco Bay Area & beyond.

The Local Foods Wheel (localfoodswheel.com) is designed to help you identify what foods are grown in the San Francisco Bay Area, and what is in season at various times of the year.

Jessica's favorite websites for connecting to and learning about wise foods

Nourishing Our Children (nourishingourchildren.org) is a great website for information about traditional nutrition, especially as it relates to kids. It is so vital to get nourishment into growing children, and this website will help parents and others understand what that involves. Jessica is on the board of this organization, which also offers free presentations to parents groups in San Francisco.

WestonAPrice.org: The Weston A. Price Foundation is an organization that seeks to share with people the nutritional wisdom of traditional and indigenous peoples, backed up by independent scientific research, and to expose the folly of current corporate-controlled and influenced 'health products', dietary guidelines, and nutritional advice. Sally Fallon's work is priceless! Check out the best nutritional website ever.

The website of the San Francisco Chapter of Weston A Price is run by SF chapter leader Sandrine Hahn and has a wealth of information about Bay Area resources. I recommend joining Sandrine's chapter listserv to be kept informed about many events and to plug in to the community.

In the East Bay, we have a buying coop that you can join. There is a listserv and we hold monthly meetings. We purchase wise foods together, often at bulk discounts or with savings on shipping. I recommend joining the list to be kept informed of activities, meetings, and orders.

FourfoldHealing.com: Dr. Tom Cowan's website. I often collaborate with Dr. Cowan on workshops in the Bay Area, and will be doing the food for his upcoming conference in Oakland.

EatWild.com: learn about pasture-based complementary cattle-and-poultry ranching (as well as nationwide sources for pasture-fed eggs and other foods).

RealMilk.com: campaign for real milk.

TheMeatrix.com: Fight Factory Farms! Reform of the farming industry would mean significant gains in many of the areas Free Range fights for: health, food safety, economic justice, workers' rights, environmental integrity and animal rights.

WildFermentation.com: Sandor Katz's great site for information about fermenting foods and fomenting social change -- both in our foodsystem and in the world! also has great links for many culinary traditions including making cheese, beer, wine, sourdough, tempeh, vinegar, and more.

OmOrganics.org: lots of good information about local farmers and local produce.

RadiantLifeCatalog.com: lots of great products available for order.

ChelseaGreen.com: books for sustainable living. They are publishing my book, and also published Wild Fermentation.

VisionaryActivism.com: Caroline Casey seeks to wed compassionate conscious activism with spiritual traditions. She is an astrologer and student of the earth-based spiritual traditions of the world. She doesn't focus on food in particular, but has influenced my thinking on indigenous wisdom.

ThaiFoodAndTravel.com: Kasma Loha-unchit is a cookbook author and cooking teacher who focuses on traditional Thai cooking. She teaches in Oakland and leads trips to Thailand. She is a member of WAPF and her approach and philosophy are in keeping with wise food ways.

YourOwnHealthAndFitness.org: Layna Berman hosts a program on kpfa that is one of my favorites for information about health related issues. I first heard Sally Fallon on her show. She also has a new newsletter.

SoyOnlineService.co.nz: information on Soy Dangers.

LocalHarvest.org: a great resource for finding local, sustainable foods anywhere in the country.

NaturalGourmetSchool.com: natural, gourmet, vegetarian school and cooking. This is the chef's training program I attended. Both founder Annemarie Colbin and many teachers have been influenced lately by the work of Sally Fallon and Weston Price.

YogaOfEating.com: Charles Eisenstein wrote a great book called The Yoga of Eating: Transcending Diet and Dogma to Nourish the Natural Self. His approach to food, diet, community, and culture is much in line with mine.

NourishedMagazine.com.au: Wisdom to Thrive By. You know you can make a difference -- we agree! Nourished Magazine is powered by an online community of people like you, sharing experience, knowledge and passion for living well. Together we remember how to nourish our bodies, our children, our planet. Natural Health, Native Nutrition, Conscious Parenting, Green Living, it's all connected.

SiennaMoonfire.com: virtual home of the webster for Wise Food Ways. Pacific Coast picture stories, a seasonally inspired recipe box, & of course, web design.

Local and international organizations doing important work

AnimalWelfare.com: the Animal Welfare Institute is one of my favorite organizations working to protect animal welfare.

PeoplesGrocery.org: a community-based organization working to find creative solutions to the food needs of the residents of West Oakland by building a local food system and local economy.

SFFoodSystems.org: the San Francisco Food Systems Alliance is an alliance of people working towards making San Francisco food secure and food sustainable. Anyone can join. There is a listserv and there are meetings every other month.

CUESA.org: the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture. I worked there for a year & a half.

Ecoliteracy.org: The Center for Ecoliteracy and The Foodsystems Project do crucial work connecting students and others to their foodsystem.

EcologyCenter.org: the Ecology Center sponsors the Berkeley Farmers Market and has lots of good programs.

CAFF.org: the Community Alliance with Family Farmers is building a movement of rural and urban people to foster family-scale agriculture that cares for the land, sustains local economies and promotes social justice.

SlowFood.com: a movement for the protection of the right to taste.

PlantSavers.org: working to preserve endangered medicinal plants.

Headlands.org: the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin: a laboratory for creativity.

PredatorConservation.org: Saving a Place for America's Predators.

WolfHowl.org: Lupine Defense League.

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Full Moon Feast Food and the Hunger for Connection by Jessica Prentice Full Moon Feast invites us to a table brimming with locally grown foods, radical wisdom, and communal nourishment.