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The University of Massachusetts works with many diverse Non
Governmental Organizations (NGO's) that have an interest in agriculture.
These include regional groups that focus on buying local and local production,
such as CISA in the Connecticut Valley, Berkshire Grown in Berkshire County,
and SEMAP in southeastern Massachusetts. We work with food banks and community
organizations working in urban areas, such as the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts
and Nuestras Raicas in Holyoke. We partner with other institutions, such
as the New England Small Farms Institute in Belchertown and the Agriculture,
Food & Environment Program at Tufts University. We also work with groups
interested in preserving farms and farmland, such as the American Farmland
Trust and the Conservation Law Foundation. Focusing our efforts on these
issues will be critical to agricultural programming at UMass in the future.
- American
Farmland Trust
- Berkshire Grown
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA)
- Food Bank of Western
Massachusetts
- New England Small Farms Institute
- Northeast Community Supported Agriculture
Network
- Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
- Nuestras Raicas (Holyoke
Community Agriculture)
- Pioneer Valley Plan for Progress
- Southeast Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership
- Tufts University, Agriculture,
Food and Environment Program
- VanEn Center for CSA Resources
- Audubon Society
- Conservation Law Foundation
- Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group
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