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

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

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 
  • Hunger in Maine
• 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)