Food Justice Resources

There are many ideas for getting involved with local, regional, and food justice communities in Colorado:

• Organize a site visit at a local organization where students can hear from local/regional experts and learn how to extend the ideas in The Color of Food to their own lives.
• Participate in local advocacy events like CSU’s Cans Around the Oval or the Fort Collins annual Thanksgiving Day walk/run in support of the Larimer County Food Bank.
• Visit a local food market such as one of the farmer’s markets in the region. Walk through twice. Notice which foods and stands are most popular with consumers. Walk through again with an eye toward representation. Who has a place in this market? Who is missing? Talk with vendors about their production methods and open a conversation. Before you leave, be sure to try out a new food.
• Volunteer with a local CSA to contribute labor to a local farm (and often receive discounted produce).
• Visit Fort Collins botanical gardens: The Gardens on Spring Creek, just south of our CSU main campus. Check out the vegetable gardens (all produce donated to Food Bank of Larimer County).
• Set up a farm tour with CSU’s teaching agriculture site Ag Research Development & Education Center(ARDEC) and the CoBank Center for Agricultural Education
• Cook or eat something featuring a new food, spice, or set of ingredients.  Reflect on your assumptions about the foods, their source, and the impact of using them.
• Encourage intentional conversations about the relationship between food, race, and justice in your everyday interactions with family, friends, local business owners, church groups, recreational groups, etc.

CSU/Fort Collins/Larimer County

• CSU Extension, Fort Collins
• Rams Against Hunger, Fort Collins
• Cans Around the Oval, Fort Collins
• FoCo Café, Fort Collins
• Food Bank for Larimer County, Fort Collins, Loveland
• The Growing Project, Fort Collins/Loveland
• Larimer County Farmers’ Markets, Fort Collins, Loveland, Berthoud, Wellington, Estes Park
• Poudre Valley Community Farms, Fort Collins

Denver/Longmont/Boulder

• East Denver Food Hub, Denver
• Ekar Farm, Denver
• First Nations Development Institute, Longmont
• Food Rescue Alliance, Boulder, Denver
• Front Line Farming, Denver
• Mile High Farmers, Denver
• Mo’ Betta Green MarketPlace and Seeds of Power Unity Farm, Denver
• Project Worthmore (Delaney Community Farm), Denver
• Re:Vision, Denver
• SAME Café, Denver
• Sprout City Farms, Denver
• The GrowHaus, Denver

Southern Colorado

• Food to Power, Colorado Springs
• The Acequia Institute, San Luis
• The Four Corners Collaborative, Mancos

State-wide Organizations

• Colorado Grain Chain
• Colorado Food and Farm Alliance,
• High Plains Food Co-op
• Hunger Free Colorado,
• Project Protect Food Systems Workers,
• Rocky Mountain Farmers Union
• Spirit of the Sun
• Uproot Colorado