Food leaders and Organizations we love
DREAM OF WILD HEALTH
Restoring health and well-being in the Native community by recovering knowledge of and access to healthy Indigenous foods, medicines and lifeways. Listen here to learn more about Dream of Wild Health
APPETITE FOR CHANGE
Using food as a tool to build health, wealth, and social change in North Minneapolis. We bring people together to learn, cook, eat, and grow food, creating change that lasts.
BRIGHTSIDE PRODUCE
Making it easy for small stores to offer high-quality, low-cost fruits and vegetables to their customers. Brightside Produce buys bulk, wholesale produce and makes weekly deliveries to community-based businesses.
North country food alliance
Taking action to strengthen food sovereignty in the Twin Cities Metro Area. Sharing healthy, culturally appropriate food with people denied access due to systemic oppressions, building community gardens, and reducing commercial and local food waste. Listen to this to learn more.
Marnita Schroedl + Marnita’s table
Seeking to close gaps across difference through making Intentional Social Interaction the new pattern for society where people of color, the disenfranchised, the poor, the unheard, the fragile, the LGBTQ+ and anyone who is normally left out of community decision making are automatically included and valued at the policy-making and resource-sharing table. Watch this to learn more.
Chef Sean Sherman + the sioux chef + natifs + indigenous food lab
Revitalizing Native American Cuisine and,
in the process, re-identifying North American Cuisine and reclaiming an important culinary culture long buried and often inaccessible.
Hmong American Farmers Association
HAFA is dedicated to advancing the economic and social prosperity of Hmong farmers through cooperative endeavors, capacity building and advocacy. HAFA was started and is led by family farmers. Organizing is in their DNA.
Chef Brian Yazzie + Gatherings Cafe
Chef Yazzie focuses on bringing together hyper-local indigenous ingredients from the streams, rivers, and forests to revitalize healthy indigenous cuisine. He brings creativity to ancestral knowledge through modern techniques.
Cornercopia Student Organic Farm at the University of Minnesota
Giving students opportunities to learn firsthand what it takes to plan, grow and market food through coursework, internships, volunteer work, and otherwise.
moses momanyi + Kilimo minnesota
An organic incubator farm in Cambridge, Minnesota with a mission to empower African immigrant farmers, socially and economically by training beginning farmers, increasing their access to farmland and creating community.
leaff program
LEAFF is not a grant, but a guarantee to buy up to $7,500 of produce from each accepted farm during the 2020 season. For emerging and BIPOC farmers within 200 miles of the Twin Cities.
Shared Ground Farmers cooperative
Making environmentally sustainable farming a living wage job for any who chose to pursue it, especially for minority, immigrant, and beginning farmers. A way for farmers with limited resources to gain more stable income and build their leadership skills through participation in a member-owned and member-governed enterprise.
CHEF YIA VANG + UNion HMONG KITCHEN
+ VINAI
Chef Yia Vang honors the past, present, and future of Hmong cooking with a strong sense of hospitality and abundance. Yia uses food to tell a story and believes that every dish has a narrative. Through sourcing what’s in season and combining local traditions with those from his family and cultural traditions, Yia invites people to change how they think about food by considering the influences in each bite.
chef heather jansz + the curry diva
Bringing the exotic and tropical spices, flavors and tastes of Sri Lanka to the rest of the world. Sharing the magic of spices and their ability to stimulate the senses, heal the body, the mind and the spirit, and satisfy the soul.
chef eddie wu + cook st paul
Hosting pop-up events for chef residencies and supporting the growth of the local food community.
land stewardship project
LSP believes that by working together, culturally and racially diverse rural and urban people can take practical steps that result in greater stewardship of the land, more family farmers, healthy food for all and resilient, racially just communities.
sustainable farming association
Protect and enhance our food-producing resources—water, land, air and people—by advancing regenerative agriculture principles.
mn schoolyard garden coalition
Working together so that every student can have a garden and every garden team has the support and resources they need to optimize student learning