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HELP WITH CRISIS PREGNANCY & BEYOND: FOOD & NUTRITION

Food Assistance & Relief
Nutritious, Nonviolent, Eco-Friendly, & Low-Cost Eating
Nutritional Needs of Pregnant, Postpartum, & Breastfeeding Women and Their Children

Nutritious, Nonviolent, Eco-friendly, Even Tasty & Low-Cost Eating

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Community Gardens & City Farms. People all over the planet are looking for alternatives to heavily processed, pesticide-ridden, environmentally damaging, health-sabotaging, and overly expensive food for themselves and their children. Many--even among the world's poorest, most land-squeezed human beings--are taking matters into their own hands and growing their own food. These resources can educate you about community gardens and city farms, and how to join or even start one in your area.

Worldwide:
CityFarmer's Urban Agriculture Notes. Based in Canada, but covers Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America, Southeast Asia & Oceania, and South Asia. A bit disorganized--you will need to make thorough acquaintance with the search box! But a wealth of how-to and why-to wisdom is here for your consideration and use.
Community Gardens Meetup. Opportunities for online networking.
Food for the Cities. (English, French, Spanish.) Initiative of the United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization.
Kokopelli Seed Foundation. (English, Portuguese, Spanish.) Nonprofit that gathers donations of open-pollinated, heirloom plant varieties and distributes them to people in the Two-Thirds World.
RUAF Foundation: Resource Centres for Urban Agriculture.

By Country or Region:
Australia (& some New Zealand contacts)--Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network.
Canada & USA--American Community Garden Association.
Caribbean & Latin America--IPES Agricultura Urbana. (Spanish; some materials in Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese, French.)
China (Hong Kong & South)--Kadoorie Farm & Botanic Garden. (English, Chinese.)
Europe---European Federation of City Farms (English) and Office International du Coin de Terre et des Jardins Familiaux (English, French, German), which has member groups in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, & Switizerland.
The Gambia--Gambia Agro-Ecological Village.
Great Britain--Federation of City Farms & Community Gardens.
Russia--Rooftop Gardening. (English, Russian.)
Southern Africa--Food Gardens Foundation.

Cold Season Gardening. Food growing need not stop with frost and winter--and it doesn't necessarily require expensive heating systems. Check out 14 Ways to Extend Your Gardening Season, Four Seasons Farm, Season Extenders, and What to Do in Winter.

Container Gardening. It is possible to garden without even a scrap of yard or vacant lot. See ContainerGardeningTips.com, Guide to Container Gardening, and even Houseplant Harvest.

Disabled-Accessible Gardening. Accessible Gardening Forum, Accessible Gardening for the Physically Challenged, Accessible Gardening for Therapeutic Horticulture, Planters, Containers, and Raised Beds for Accessible Gardening, and Way to Grow: The Accessible Gardener.

Ecology Action/Grow Biointensive. (English-only website, but has learning materials for purchase in Arabic, Czecho-Slovak, French, German, Hindi, Hungarian, KiSwahili, Russian, & Spanish here.) US-based nonprofit that since 1972 has researched, developed, and globally spread its GROW BIOINTENSIVE method, a simple, inexpensive, self-sustaining, and eco-friendly way to grow incredible yields of vegetables, fruits, herbs, grains, or fiber plants on small plots of land in city or rural areas. Much more easily than you might imagine, a family of four in the US could grow a year's supply of produce on an average-sized front lawn of a house. GROW BIOINTENSIVE has been adapted to a wide variety of climates and cuisines. The Ecology Action site describes the basics of GROW BIOINTENSIVE, offers scholarship-based training programs for farmers and gardeners throughout the world, and runs online and in-person stores that sell seeds, gardening supplies, and multilingual print materials and videos on small-scale gardening and farming.

Eat Well for Less/Coma Mejor por Menos. (English, Spanish.) Learn online at your own pace about nutritious food choices, food safety, and stretching your food dollars. At no charge from the Oregon State University Extension Service.

Slow Foods International. (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish.") "Our Philosophy: We believe that everyone has a fundamental right to pleasure and consequently the responsibility to protect the heritage of food, tradition and culture that make this pleasure possible. Our movement is founded upon this concept of eco-gastronomy, a recognition of the strong connections between plate and planet."

Sustainable Table. US nonprofit that "celebrates the sustainable food movement, educates consumers on food-related issues, and helps build community through food." From the producers of the cartoon "The Meatrix," which addresses the problems involved in industrial meat production.

Talk About Nutrition. Factsheet on healthy eating for people with HIV/AIDS. From the Treatment Literacy series of South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), a strong fighter for the lives and well-being of HIV/AIDS-affected persons.

Vegetarian Resource Group. Practical and delicious information on going and staying vegetarian or vegan--and enjoying & sharing the tremendous health, environmental, ethical, culinary, and pocketbook benefits. The website & other VRG publications cover--among just about every other topic--veg nutrition during pregnancy and breastfeeding, and raising veg kids. At minimum "vegetarian" means not eating animal flesh, even that of fish and fowl. A "vegan" is a kind of vegetarian who also refrains from other animal products, most notably eggs and dairy. Veg diets can be not only nourishing, but culturally wideranging and pleasing to the palate.

Veg Recipes & Other Info for Free Online. How about... African; All Recipes.com Everday Veg Cooking; Andean; Bed & Breakfast Favorites; Brazilian; Caribbean/Latin American; Celiac/Gluten-Free; Chilies; Chinese; Diabetic; East Asian; Egyptian; Ethiopian; European; Filipino; French; Halal; Holiday Celebration or Holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas); Kosher; Lentil Mania; Low-Fat; Low-Fat Asian Indian; Low-Fat Jewish; Low-Income; Greek; Greek/Middle Eastern; Indian/South Asian; Italian; Italian Pasta; Japanese; Middle Eastern Soups; Native American; New Mexican; North American; Passover Seder Ideas; Polish; TexMex; Thai; Turkish; the VeggieTable collection; VegSource Best of the Net; the VegWeb.com collection; Vietnamese; Wheat-Free Pancakes.....

Need to convert to or from metric measurements and Celsius temperatures? Please try Online Cooking Converters.

World's Healthiest Foods. A practical guide to the most nutrient-packed foods, with prep tips and recipes. (US-oriented, but may be useful elsewhere.)