Alameda Point Collaborative (APC) is a supportive housing community providing residents with housing, services, and community programs to support residents and families so that they need never know the struggles of homelessness again.

Alemany Farm, a 4.5-acre community farm in the Alemany Housing Development empowers San Francisco residents to grow their own food, and through that process, encourages people to become more engaged with their communities. Alemany grows organic food and green jobs for low-income communities, while sowing the seeds for economic and environmental justice.

Amanda’s Restaurant is a feel-good fresh food restaurant in Berkeley, California. Amanda’s believes in serving quick meals and snacks that are delicious, convenient, affordable, familiar and wholesome.

Berkeley-based Center For Ecoliteracy provides information, inspiration, and support to the vital movement of K-12 educators, parents, and other members of the school community who are helping young people gain the knowledge, skills, and values essential to sustainable living.

City Farmer teaches people how to grow food in the city, compost their waste, and take care of their home landscape in an environmentally responsible way.

City Slicker Farms increases food self-sufficiency in West Oakland by creating organic, sustainable, high-yield urban farms and backyard gardens, and employing farming mentors to establish and help maintain food-producing plots in neighborhood yards. City Slicker Farms seeks to serve all West Oakland residents, prioritizing people who have least access.

The Edible Schoolyard, established in 1995, is a one-acre garden and kitchen classroom at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California. It is a program of the Chez Panisse Foundation , a non-profit organization founded by chef and author Alice Waters.

The Ella Baker Center is a strategy and action center working for justice, opportunity, and peace in urban America. Based in Oakland, California, the Center promotes positive alternatives to violence and incarceration through four cutting-edge campaigns.

Oakland-based Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy’s mission is to eliminate the injustices that cause hunger. Executive Director Eric Holt-Giménez is an advisor on Edible City.

Free Farm Stand, located in San Francisco’s Mission District, helps make locally grown, fresh, and nutritious organic produce accessible to all, especially those families and individuals on low incomes and tight budgets.

Founded in 1992, The Garden Project was founded with a mission unlike any organization in the country: to provide job training and support to former offenders through counseling and assistance in continuing education, while also impacting the communities from which they come.

Green For All, founded by Van Jones, is a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.

The HOPE Collaborative is a group of organizations, institutions and community residents that joined together to improve health and quality of life by transforming the food and fitness environments in Oakland neighborhoods suffering the most from health disparities.

In Search of Good Food, by Antonio Roman-Alcalá, is a documentary film tour of California’s emerging sustainable food system.

San Quentin Sate Prison’s Insight Garden Program rehabilitates prisoners through the process of organic gardening.

Mandela Foods Cooperative will be a locally-owned and operated, full-service grocery store and nutrition education center located in West Oakland, a community long underserved in grocery retail.

Monterey Market’s philosophy is to run a village-based business that supports both the local farmers as well as the local community. The market sells tasty and healthy organic foods at great prices.

Jim Montgomery has a degree in molecular biology and teaches calculus at Maybeck, an alternative high school. He also produces up to 80% of his yearly intake of produce, dairy, and meat in his backyard - a 6,000 square foot garden he calls Green Faerie Farm. Jim is an East Bay Native who began raising livestock - guinea pigs, rabbits, pigeons and chickens - at age 12 to feed his pet burmese python. A self-described eco-anarchist, Jim seeks to change the world by starting with himself and leading by example. In the “mini farm” that is his backyard, located on Bancroft Way near San Pablo Avenue, he teaches classes on goat husbandry and raising animals in the city.

Joy Moore, co-founder of Farm Fresh Choice, is a Berkeley resident and activist who has been fighting for food justice for over 10 years. When her daughter began having seizures in the early 1970s, doctors wanted to prescribe Ritalin - and so Joy began doing her own research. She found the seizures stopped when she cut out processed foods from her daughter’s diet. This, in turn, led to new challenge: finding good, healthy food for her daughter to eat, a challenge Joy found especially difficult at her daughter’s school. Ever since, Joy has been on a mission to transform the way that Berkeley schools nourish their students. Joy has shaped school lunch programs, with a focus on children from underserved neighborhoods. Today, Joy continues her work in the Berkeley Unified School District, teaching nutrition and gardening to students grades K through 12, and training food service workers on how to get kids to eat healthy food at schools that are making the effort to serve it.

The mission of Oakland-based Mo’ Better Food is to utilize agriculture as an educational tool to empower low-income communities to pool their resources together to increase ownership and self-sufficiency within the community.

MyFarm is a decentralized urban farm. MyFarm gardeners grow vegetables in backyard gardens throughout the city. By increasing local food production they are creating a secure and sustainable food system; using organic practices, they strive to grow the best tasting, most nutritious vegetables.

Oakland Food Connection is a non-profit organization with a mission to transform the food system in Oakland by expanding access to healthy food, providing nutritional education, and creating jobs in the sustainable food industry for some of Oakland’s most underserved kids. The OFC was founded by 29-year-old Jason Harvey. Born in East Oakland, Jason became an activist early on, inspired by the Black Panthers and others who worked to create positive change in African-American communities. Jason took the chance to escape his troubled neighborhood and joined the Air Force, serving for four years and deployed in the Middle East. After suffering the loss of his mother and brother, Jason returned home intent on embodying the change he wanted to see in his community, and started organizing around food. As OFC’s Executive Director, he has begun to sow the seeds of change: founding a farmer’s market, building school gardens and nutrition programs, and employing local youth to help run a catering business, a cafe, and a food delivery service.

The Oakland Food Policy Council (OFPC), a new organization being incubated at Food First, will promote an equitable and sustainable food system in Oakland, California.

Oakland Roots was founded in 2008 by Edible City’s Carl Grether and Leah Santa Lucia, a resident of Downtown Oakland who contacted the owner of a plot of land next to her apartment in the hopes of turning it into a community farm. Now in the building and planning stages, Oakland Roots will eventually become a non-profit urban farming training project and school. Oakland Roots is sponsored in part by Edible City.

OBUGS (Oakland Based Urban Gardens) builds healthy communities through programs offered to children, youth, and families in a network of school and neighborhood gardens, green spaces, and farmers’ markets.

OPENrestaurant is the project of a collective of restaurant professionals - Stacie Pierce, Jerome Waag and Sam White, all part of the Chez Panisse restaurant staff - who sought to move their environment to an art space as a way to experiment with the language of their daily activities.

People’s Grocery is a community-based organization in West Oakland that develops creative solutions to the health problems in our community that stem from a lack of access to and knowledge about healthy, fresh foods.

About 98% of the time, Oakland restaurant Pizzaiolo buys locally grown, organic, seasonal meat and produce. They buy produce from small, local farmers, and whole animals from local ranchers they know and trust.

Ploughshares Nursey is an environmentally sustainable retail and wholesale nursery located in Alameda, California, specializing in locally grown, native, drought tolerant, and edible plants.

Quesada Gardens Initiative builds community, connecting across differences, and strengthening local systems in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco through strategies that have emerged from the grassroots: community and backyard gardens, public art projects, events, and more.

Roots Of Change is a collaborative of diverse leaders and institutions unified in common pursuit of achieving a sustainable food system in California by 2030.

Willow Rosenthal, founder of City Slicker Farm, was born to a pair of upright hippies, and as a college student, she planned to devote herself to agricultural reform in South America. But when she returned home from her studies, she realized that people needed help right here in the Bay Area. She eventually founded the highly successful City Slicker Farms in West Oakland. Willow is now leaving the project after almost a decade, and now with her involvement in the recently established Oakland Food Policy Council, she’s embarking on the path to scale up the City Slicker model so that it serves not just a few underprivileged neighborhoods, but, potentially, a whole city. Willow has been a strong ally to Edible City and has offered advice on getting Oakland Roots off the ground.

Slow Food is a response to the prevalence of fast food around the world. Organizers of 2008’s Slow Food Nation event, Slow Food USA is part of 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.

SOL (Sustaining Ourselves Locally), founded by Deepa Iyer, resides in a mixed-use building in East Oakland. In the Oakland neighborhood of Lower San Antonio they are transforming an urban space into a center for sustainable living. By growing organic food, conserving and recycling resources, and organizing community events and workshops, SOL is exploring ways to make the city more healthy and liveable for all its inhabitants.

Berkeley’s Spiral Gardens, which began as a guerrilla gardening project to grow produce in community gardens on vacant lots, now creates healthy sustainable communities by promoting a strong local food system and encouraging productive use of urban soil.

In the fall of 2009, Terrain Restaurant will open its doors at the David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley. Featuring a bar, café, and salad bar, Terrain will serve 100% sustainable organic cuisine.

Berkeley’s Three Stone Hearth, the nation’s first - and only - community-supported kitchen, heals our community, our planet, and ourselves by building a sustainable model for community-scale food preparation and processing that honors culinary traditions and provides nutrient-dense foods for local households and beyond. Three Stone Hearth’s founder (and coiner of the word “locavore”) Jessica Prentice is an advisor on Edible City.

Urban Ecology was founded in 1975 by visionary architects and activists who believed that cities should serve both people and nature. From the beginning, Urban Ecology has used urban planning, ecology, and public participation to help design and build healthier cities.

The Urban Youth Harvest Program, a project of PUEBLO (People United for Better Living in Oakland), employs young people - on bikes - to harvest the extra produce offered by many homeowners and deliver it to low-income seniors – usually within an hour or less of its being on the tree. Employed through the Mayor’s Summer Jobs Program, these young people not only harvest the fruit but also learn about health and nutrition and the need for a sustainable food system.

Veritable Vegetable, based in San Francisco, is the nation’s oldest distributor of certified organic produce. Founded in the early 1970’s, Veritable Vegetable was part of a movement that sought to bring low cost, nutritious food to neighborhood co-ops and community storefronts.

Victory Gardens 08+ is a pilot project funded by the City of San Francisco to support the transition of backyard, front yard, window boxes, rooftops, and unused land into organic food production areas. The SF Victory Garden program builds on the successful Victory Garden programs of World War I and II but redefines “Victory” in the pressing context of urban sustainability.

Berkeley’s Zatar Restaurant uses only naturally-raised meats, organic milk, and eggs for its house-made yogurt and pastries; and hand-selected, organic fruits, herbs and vegetables – many harvested daily from its own organic garden.