The American Lamb Board

The American Lamb Board represents all sectors of the American Lamb industry, from producers to feeders and processors. They strive to promote the freshness, flavor, nutritional benefits, and culinary versatility of American Lamb, while simultaneously emphasizing the importance of buying local and knowing your butcher. Overseen by the USDA, the American Lamb Board is comprised of a 13 member council and based out of Denver, Colorado.

Presidio Graduate School

Founded in 2003, the Presidio Graduate School is a pioneer in the field of sustainable management education. With a growing team of over 40 faculty and staff, and more than 500 alumni, Presidio is working to inspire a new generation of environmentally and economically responsible businesses. Through innovative programs and an applied approach to learning, Presidio Graduate School has become an epicenter of responsible, sustainable innovation.

Delicious Karma

Delicious Karma is a social shopping site and community that makes it fun and easy to discover, learn about, and buy exceptional artisanal foods, at great prices, while also supporting the artisanal food community. Delicious Karma’s mission is to help people eat better, to promote real, good food, and to support the artisanal food community via our philanthropic “Karma Kause” partners. Delicious Karma provides members direct access to exceptionally delicious, all-natural products made by passionate producers and growers. Members also enjoy access to daily specials, product review and recipe suggestions from our Taste Gurus, the ability to earn Karma Kredits for product discounts, and the chance to shop and share with friends online.

FoodHub

FoodHub is an online food community made up of retail grocers, schools, institutional buyers, caterers, restaurants, bakeries, food processors, manufacturers, farmers, ranchers, fishermen, vintners, artisan producers of specialty items. This comprehensive catalog of over 1,000 products allows buyers and sellers to find each other, connect and do business. Through detailed producer profiles, advanced search options, product updates, and messaging capabilities, FoodHub helps to facilitate the sale and purchase of regionally produced food.

Veritable Vegetable

Founded in 1974, Veritable Vegetable is the nation’s longest-lasting distributor of certified organic produce. Through their work with over 600 customers and vendors, Veritable Vegetable has become an integral part of change in the sustainable food system movement by stimulating an increased demand for fresh, organic fruits and vegetables, developing certification standards, working to pass food and agriculture legislation, helping to unify the produce community, and supplying healthy, fresh foods to communities all over California and beyond.

Williams Sonoma

Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of home furnishings and gourmet cookware in the United States. Their brands are among the best known and most-respected in the industry. They offer high-quality, stylish products for every room in the house: from the kitchen to the living room, bedroom, home office and even the hall closet. The first Williams-Sonoma store opened in 1956, selling a small array of cookware imported from France. Since then, the brand has expanded to hundreds of products from around the world, more than 250 stores nationwide, a direct-mail business that distributes millions of catalogs a year, and a highly successful e-commerce site.

Food Day

Food Day will be October 24—in 2011 and in years to come. Food Day seeks to bring together Americans from all walks of life—parents, teachers, and students; health professionals, community organizers, and local officials; chefs, school lunch providers, and eaters of all stripes—to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way. We will work with people around the country to create thousands of events in homes, schools, churches, farmers markets, city halls, and state capitals.

Roadside Food Projects

Roadside Food Projects was founded in 2010 in Washington, DC to grow innovative food initiatives. We are committed to authentic projects that further our vision for community development and create a more inclusive and dynamic food system. Roadside Food Projects identifies exciting opportunities across the gastronomic landscape. We provide our partners with sustainable strategies, technical support and creative resources that transform projects into successful ventures. Together, our diverse initiatives forge a comprehensive vision for a new future of food.

Heritage Foods USA

Heritage Foods USA was formed in 2001 as the sales and marketing arm for Slow Food USA, a non-profit organization founded by Patrick Martins and dedicated to celebrating regional cuisines and products. The Heritage Turkey Project, which helped double the population of heritage turkeys in the United States and upgraded the Bourbon Red turkey from “rare” to “watch” status on conservation lists, was Heritage Foods USA’s first foray into saving American food traditions. In 2004 it became an independent company. Heritage Foods USA exists to promote genetic diversity, small family farms, and a fully traceable food supply.

The Hub Bay Area

The Hub is located in SoMa San Francisco and Berkeley, CA. It is a place where non profit and for profit social change ideas build and scale into viable enterprises that address the complex problems we face, from poverty to climate change, for people and planet. From seed funding to professional services, from mentors to peers who understand what they are doing, the Hub is the platform that helps you make it happen. It’s where change goes to work.

Gamma Nine

Gamma Nine is a food-centric photography firm with roots firmly planted in San Francisco. Our thought approach is clean and harmonious, while still capturing diverse styles to evoke the essence of a dish, story, brand, or event through imagery. Add beautiful visual cues to your website/point-of-sale/marketing to bring your brand to life! We create intelligent imagery.

Edible SF

Edible Communities Inc. is a publishing and information services company that creates editorially rich, community-based, local-foods publications in distinct culinary regions throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Through our publications, supporting websites, and events, we connect consumers with family farmers, growers, chefs, and food artisans of all kinds.

Whole Foods Market

Whole Foods Market seeks out the finest natural and organic foods available, maintains the strictest quality standards in the industry, and has an unshakable commitment to sustainable agriculture.

Soil Association

The Soil Association was founded in 1946 by a group of farmers, scientists and nutritionists who observed a direct connection between farming practice and plant, animal, human and environmental health. We promote planet-friendly food and farming through education, campaigns, and community programs. Today, the Soil Association is U.K.’s leading organic organization, with over 200 staff based in Bristol and Edinburgh and working as certification inspectors across the country.

Noise 13

An organization’s success is determined by the power of its message, and its ability to communicate that message in a meaningful, appropriate way. We work with businesses to define soulful, memorable and captivating brands that reflect their goals and distinguish them within the marketplace.

The Seedling Projects website was generously donated by the creative folks at Noise 13.

Slow Food USA

Slow Food USA seeks to create dramatic and lasting change in the food system. We reconnect Americans with the people, traditions, plants, animals, fertile soils and waters that produce our food. We seek to inspire a transformation in food policy, production practices and market forces so that they ensure equity, sustainability and pleasure in the food we eat.

Slow Food San Francisco

Slow Food is an idea, a way of living and a way of eating. It is a global, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world that links the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.

Edible Communities

Edible Communities, Inc. is a publishing and information services company that creates editorially rich, community-based, local-foods publications in distinct culinary regions throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe. Through our publications, supporting websites, and events, we connect consumers with family farmers, growers, chefs, and food artisans of all kinds. We believe that every person has the right to affordable, fresh, healthful food on a daily basis and that knowing where our food comes from is a powerful thing.

La Cocina

The mission of La Cocina is to cultivate low-income food entrepreneurs as they formalize and grow their busi­nesses by providing affordable commercial kitchen space, industry-specific technical assistance and access to market opportunities. We focus primarily on women from communities of color and immigrant communities. Our vision is that entrepreneurs will become economi­cally self-sufficient and contribute to a vibrant economy doing what they love to do.

Bi-rite Market

Located in the city’s historic Mission District, Bi-Rite Market has become San Francisco’s premier neighborhood market. We have been family owned and operated since 1964, in a location that has been serving the neighborhood since 1940.

Bi-Rite Market is committed to providing great food and warm, friendly service to our customers. We actively foster a community of food, and support local farmers and purveyors for our grocery assortment, as well as for our prepared foods and catering offerings.

18 Reasons

18 Reasons is a non-profit engaging the community through food and art. We offer a year-round calendar of unique wine tastings, art shows, community dinners, food classes, interactive workshops, and more in our intimate community space in San Francisco.

Youth Food Movement

The Youth Food Movement is an international network of young chefs, students, farmers and food producers working to create food systems that are good, clean and fair. Based on the philosophy of Slow Food, groups of food passionate activists take local action, while supporting each other through global communication and opportunities for exchange.

Civil Eats

Civil Eats promotes critical thought about sustainable agriculture and food systems as part of building economically and socially just communities. In our efforts, we support the development of a dialogue among local and national leaders about the American food system, and its effects abroad. Civil Eats can be humorous, serious, academic, philosophical, conversational – its style of conversation is as diverse as its 40+ contributors – but it is always thought-provoking, innovative, and focused on food politics.