Food Systems and Food Security

Selected Readings and Content

UMaine Extension Bulletins & Factsheets

• Five Steps to Food Safe Fruit and Vegetable Gardening [Word]
• Food for ME: Citizen Action for Community Food Recovery
  • A Donor’s Guide to Vegetable Harvest, Bulletin #4303
  • A Food Pantry Wish List, Bulletin #4304
  • Food for Your Community: Gleaning and Sharing, Bulletin #4301
  • Food Safety for Food-Pantry Donations, Bulletin #4302
  • Steps to Organizing Your Community Garden, Bulletin #4300
• Storing Fresh Garden Produce (Word)

UMaine Extension Videos

• How Farmers’ Markets Can Donate Food to Maine Harvest for Hunger
• How to Donate Food to Maine Harvest for Hunger
• Maine Harvest for Hunger
• Maine Harvest for Hunger: IDEXX Adopt a Garden Program
• Maine Harvest for Hunger: Yarmouth Community Gardens
• Maine Harvest for Hunger: York County
• What is Maine Harvest for Hunger?

Websites

• Maine Harvest for Hunger
• Good Shepard Food Bank Hunger in Maine
• The Maine Hunger Dialogue Resources

Additional Resources

• Maine Policy Review, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center
  • Getting What We Pay For: http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/vol20/iss1/13/ and click download for the pdf
  • Hunger in Maine: http://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/vol20/iss1/21/ and click on download for the pdf
• Maine Food Atlas
• Maine Food Councils
• Maine Network of Community Food Councils

Food Systems Tools, courtesy of the Nourish Initiative, www.nourishlife.org

• Nourish Food System Map: 18” x 24” poster (PDF), 11″ x 14″ poster (PDF),  8.5″ x 11″ poster (PDF)

• Food Systems Diagrams (PDF)