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- Acres U.S.A: A Voice for Eco-Agriculture
- AgBiz Tiller - "Monitoring the Activities of Corporate Agribusiness"
- AgNIC: Agriculture Network Information Center - "is a guide to quality agricultural information on the Internet as selected by the National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant Universities, and other institutions."
- AgricultureB2B.com - "Comprehensive listing of all things agriculture in the North America and worldwide, including listings in thousands of categories - from companies to farms and feed suppliers to training and transportation and everything in-between. Also covers related issues in areas of animals, environment, and food. The latest agricultural news can also be read via the site."
- Agrigator: Worldwide Agricultural Site Index -- from the University of Florida
- The Alternative Farming Systems Information Center - An Information Center at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Agricultural Library
- The Alliance for Bio-Integrity: Protecting the Right to Eat Genetically Unaltered Food (Fairfield, Iowa)
- American Farmland Trust (AFT) - "Works to stop the loss of productive farmland and to promote farming practices that lead to a healthy environment."
- The Anarchist Teapot Mobile Kitchen (Worthing, Sussex, UK)
- Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
- Biological Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North America (Cornell University)
- The Canadian Federation of Agriculture
- Carl Hayden Bee Research Center (Tuscon, Arizona)
- The Center for Rural Affairs (Walthill, Nebraska) - "a private, non-profit organization, is working to strengthen small businesses, family farms and ranches, and rural communities."
- Community Farm Alliance (CFA) (Frankfort, Kentucky) - "is a statewide grassroots organization of persons committed to family-scale farming as the most efficient and sustainable form of producing the best quality food, while protecting the environment and strengthening rural community life."
- Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) - "Campaigning to end the factory farming of animals and long distance transport through hard-hitting political lobbying, investigations and high profile campaigns."
- Consumers Union: Food Safety Issues
- Cuba Organic Support Group (CSOG) Gardening Brigades (UK)
- Dairy Action!: Milk Producers Activism Online
- Don't Panic Eat Organic - "An organic growers' homepage!"
- EliteFarmer.com - "Aims to disseminate information of use to people with small farms or rural property. Topics include farm, food, seeds, crops, plants, vegetables, flowers, fruit, nuts, garden, horticulture, pest control and much more. Most documents are in pdf format."
- Environmental Working Group (EWG) (Washington, D.C.) - "is a not-for-profit environmental research organization dedicated to improving public health and protecting the environment by reducing pollution in air, water and food."
- Factory Farming Home Page - "Factory farming is an attitude which regards animals and the natural world merely as commodities to be exploited for profit. In animal agriculture, this attitude has lead to institutionalized animal cruelty, massive environmental destruction and resource depletion, and animal and human health risks."
- Families Against Rural Messes (F.A.R.M.) (Elmwood, Illinois) -- organizing against industrial hog farms.
- Farm Aid: The Official Web Site - "This is the place to join Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp to fight for family farmers. Since 1985 these three artists and thousands of activists like you have raised their voices on behalf of family farmers."
- FarmCrisis.net
- Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. - "A nonprofit law center dedicated to providing legal services to family farmers and their rural communities in order to help keep family farmers on the land."
- Farmers' Market Directory (AMS at USDA) - organized by state.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
- Foodcrops and Shortages - "Issued 6 times a year by FAO's Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture."
- Food First: Institute for Food and Development Policy (Oakland, California) - "A member-supported, nonprofit peoples think tank and education-for-action center." They have excellent publications.
- Food Not Bombs Archive and Current Events - anarchism and food direct action.
- ForFarmers.com - "is a marketplace for buying and selling new and used farm machinery, equipment, seeds, crops, vegetables, flowers,horticulture, fruits, medicinal herb, ag products, chemicals, farm animals, real estate, livestock and a wide range of services including job opportunities."
- Foundation for Rural Living (Ontario)
- The Garden Gate - "offers gardeners and nature lovers a carefully-selected and well-organized collection of links to informative and interesting horticulture sites around the world."
- Garden Mart -- Online Gardener's Resources
- Garden Net: The Premier Gateway to Gardening on the Internet
- GardenWeb: The Internet's Garden Community
- Hiefer Project International (Little Rock, Arkansas)
- Henry A. Wallace Center for Agricultural & Environmental Policy (Greenbelt, Maryland)
- Henry Doubleday Research Association (HDRA) (UK) - "is Europe's largest organic membership organisation. It is dedicated to researching and promoting organic gardening, farming and food."
- How to Become a Fruitarian
- HungerWeb - "The aim of this site is to help prevent and eradicate hunger by facilitating the free exchange of ideas and information regarding the causes of, and solutions to, hunger. It contains primary information, made available by the World Hunger Program -- the prime sponsor of this site -- and its partners, as well as links to other sites where information of relevance to hunger can be found."
- INFACT's Tobacco Industry Campaign
- The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (Minneapolis) - "Our mission is to create environmentally and economically sustainable communities and regions through sound agriculture and trade policy."
- Institute of Agriculture (University of Tennessee)
- InterGarden: Biological Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Permaculture and Bioregionalism
- The Internet Apiculture and Beekeeping Archive - "Here you will find the articles from the Usenet newsgroup sci.agriculture.beekeeping, the logs from the listserv bee-l, FAQ files, and pointers to other beekeeping and apicultural resources, on and off the Internet."
- Mad Cow Info - "7,651+ articles on mad cow and new variantCreutzfeldt-Jakob disease, prions, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, scrapie, BSE, CJD, CWD, TME, and TSE. . . a project of the Sperling Biomedical Foundation."
- Maine Organic Farmers & Gardeners Association (MOFGA)
- McSpotlight -- keeping the heat on McDonalds.
- The Minnesota Farmers Union
- My Garden
- National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture (Pine Bush, NY) - "is dedicated to educating the public on the importance of a sustainable food and agriculture system that is economically viable, environmentally sound, socially just, and humane."
- National Council of Farmer Cooperatives (NCFC)
- The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) - "was founded in 1986 to serve as a national link for grassroots organizations working on family farm issues. Our membership currently consists of 33 grassroots farm, resource conservation, and rural advocacy groups from 33 states. NFFC brings together farmers and others to organize national projects focused on preserving and strengthening family farms."
- National Farmers Organization (NFO)
- National Farmers Union (Canada)
- National Farmers Union (U.S.)
- Nebraska Farmers Union
- Newfoundland & Labrador Federation of Agriculture
- North Dakota Farmers Union
- Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT)
- The Official Mad Cow Disease Home Page
- Ontario Federation of Agriculture
- Organic Alliance (St. Paul, Minnesota) - "The mission of the Organic Alliance is to encourage an ecologically and socially responsible agriculture which reflects humankind's obligation to protect the health of the planet for future generations. The Alliance promotes the environmental and economic benefits of certified organic food production to farmers, processors, distributors, retailers, and consumers."
- Organic Consumers Association (Little Marais, Minnesota) - "Campaigning for Food Safety, Organic Agriculture, Fair Trade & Sustainability"
- Organic Trade Association
- Oxfam America
- Oxfam Canada
- The Permaculture Activist
- Permaculture in Cuba
- Pesticide Action Network -- North America - "works to replace pesticide use with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives.
- Plants for a Future: A Resource and Information Centre for Edible and other useful plants
- Progressive Farmer
- The Progressive Populist
- RACHEL's Environment & Health Weekly
- Rodale Institute
- Rot Web Home Composting Information Site - "meant to make basic information about home composting available to a large number of people."
- Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) - "an international non-governmental organization headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada) with affiliate offices in Pittsboro, North Carolina (USA). RAFI is dedicated to the conservation and sustainable improvement of agricultural biodiversity, and to the socially responsible development of technologies useful to rural societies. RAFI is concerned about the loss of genetic diversity - especially in agriculture - and about the impact of intellectual property rights on agriculture and world food security."
- Rural America - an In Motion Magazine column co-edited by the Missouri Rural Crisis Center.
- Rural FAQs - lambing, haying, pasture, and predator FAQs from the former owners of Maple Lawn Farm, a working sheep farm in Stonington, Connecticut.
- The Science and Engineering of Composting (Cornell University)
- Seeds of Hope...Harvest of Pride! - "a resource for community vegetable gardeners by Cultivating Our Community, Ohio State University Extension's Urban Gardening Program in Cuyahoga County"
- The Small Farm Resource - "created to help disseminate information of use to people with small farms or rural property."
- Soil Association (UK) - "the home of organic food, farming and sustainable forestry."
- The Solar Cooking Archive -- news, plans, reports, etc. from around the world.
- Sustainable Farming Connection - "Where farmers find and share information"
- Texas Rural Communities, Inc. (Austin) - "is a nonprofit organization serving rural Texas communities, individuals, groups and support organizations through rural economic development, educational loan and grant programs."
- Union des Producteurs Agricoles (Quebec)
- Union of Concerned Scientists: Agriculture - "Our goal is to create a food system that encourages innovative and environmentally sustainable ways to produce high-quality, safe and affordable food, while ensuring that citizens have a voice in how their food is grown."
- United Farm Workers (UFW)
- Vegetarian Pages - "intended to be an independent, definitive Internet guide for vegetarians, vegans and others."
- Veggies Unite! - "All about going Vegan and Vegetarian"
- Web Garden (Ohio State University) - "provides a growing collection of resources for beginning and professional gardeners, students, teachers, professional agronomists and horticulturists."
- Weekend Gardener - "Your Weekly Electronic Gardening Guide: Practical Horticulture for Busy People"
- The Weston A. Price Foundation - "for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts"
- Wholesome Food Association (UK)
- Wild Ones Handbook: A Voice for the Natural Landscaping Movement
- Wildflowers Page - "This page offers links to the various resources GardenWeb has relating to wildflowers and native plants."
- Women, Food & Agriculture Network (WFAN) - "to link and amplify women's voices on issues of food systems, sustainable communities, and environmental integrity."
- WWW Virtual Library: Sustainable Agriculture
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