By joining Full Circle you are becoming a member of the Good Food Movement. Whether you are joining to increase your health, support local farms, help heal our broken food system by eating organic or just enjoy the freshness and exceptional quality of our organic fruits, vegetables and artisan groceries, we thank you for your support.
At Full Circle we are believers in the importance of participating in our community and take every opportunity to contribute and support the many efforts of the Good Food Movement. We are a steadfast presence in a variety of projects ranging from education and research to land preservation and food donation. Learn more about some of our partners and how you can get involved in your food community.
Puget Sound Food Network
Mount Vernon, Washington
The mission of the Puget Sound Food Network (PSFN) is to increase the production, distribution, and consumption of regionally produced food. The Puget Sound Food Network enables real-time communication between food producers, consumers, and other participants in the Puget Sound regional food system—and facilitates online food-related transactions. It allows consumers and producers to foster education and direct interaction, creating a vital support system for local producers and eaters.
Wallyhood Neighborhood Blog
Wallyhood is the Wallingford, Seattle neighborhood blog. Our goal is to foster community and communication between Wallingford residents by creating a voice and storyline for residents to follow and to participate in. We cover local personalities, events, daily life…anything and everything relevant to our neighbors.
Stewardship Partners
Seattle, Washington
Stewardship Partners is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that helps private landowners restore and preserve the natural landscapes of Washington State. They collaborate with diverse interest groups to build bridges and find solutions that achieve mutual goals of environmental protection, economic health, and community well being. Stewardship Partners’ projects restore fish and wildlife habitat, improve water quality, protect open space, and “green up” the built environment while maintaining working landscapes of farms, forestland, and livable communities throughout the State.
PCC Farmland Trust
Seattle, Washington
PCC Farmland Trust is a 501(c)(3) land trust whose mission is to secure, preserve and steward threatened farmland in the Northwest, ensuring that generations of local farmers productively farm using sustainable, organic growing methods. The Farmland Trust takes its mission one step further than most land trusts by working to place farmers on rescued property, actively producing food for the local community.
By preserving land for organic farming, PCC Farmland Trust is not only safeguarding local organic farms and conserving wildlife habitat, but is also supporting the continued livelihood of local farmers and the farming community, and increasing the availability of local, fresh organic foods. The Farmland Trust helps create community and fosters a sense of partnership between the people who grow food and the people who eat it.
Tilth Producers of Washington
Seattle, Washington
Tilth Producer is a non-profit alliance of growers first formed in the 1970s to establish a set of organic standards.In 1985, As part of the Tilth Producer’s efforts Washington become the second state in the country to enact state organic labeling legislation. Today, members of Tilth producers continue to work with other agriculture activists and organizations to complete national certification standards for organic food and fiber. Because of the early work by the Tilt Producers Washington remains a leader in these efforts.
King County Department of Natural Resources
As of 2010, owners of one-third of the land zoned Rural and Agriculture demonstrate stewardship with a farm plan, forest plan and/or enrollment in conservation incentive programs. These land development and planning programs are designed by the KCDNR to help land owners best steward their land and its natural resources. King County works together to preserve our agricultural history and maintain a vibrant local food system.
Slow Food Seattle
Seattle, Washington
www.slowfoodseattle.wordpress.com
Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization with supporters in 150 countries around the world who are linking the pleasure of good food with a commitment to their community and the environment.
A nonprofit member-supported association, Slow Food was founded in 1989 to counter the rise of fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions and people’s dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.
Today, Slow Food has over 100,000 members joined in 1,300 convivia – their local chapters – worldwide, as well as a network of 2,000 food communities who practice small-scale and sustainable production of quality foods. Established in 2001, Slow Food Seattle is the largest of twelve chapters in Washington state with roughly 250 memberships (individuals, families and businesses). Local chapters of Slow Food USA, like Slow Food Seattle, are 100% volunteer run.
Cascade Harvest Coalition
Seattle, Washington
Cascade Harvest Coalition is a nonprofit organization dedicated to “re-localizing” the food system in Washington State by more directly connecting consumers and producers. Through their many programs and activities, they accomplish this by:
Supporting farmers. A healthy food system requires healthy farmers. That means providing farmers with access to land, information, training, markets and the resources they need to help them be sustainable.
Educating consumers. Everyone eats. But what we eat has a profound impact on the world around us. Providing consumers with information on the many economic and environmental benefits of local agriculture, and helping them identify where and how to buy locally, gives consumers the tools they need to make informed choices.
Building healthy communities. Re-localizing the food system requires a community. Developing partnerships with a broad diversity of food system constituents, sharing information and resources, and collaborative action provide increased opportunities for creating effective change that benefits all of us.
Seattle Chefs Collaborative
Seattle, Washington
Chefs Collaborative works with chefs and the greater food community to celebrate local foods and foster a more sustainable food supply. The Collaborative inspires action by translating information about our food into tools for making knowledgeable purchasing decisions. Through these actions, Chefs Collaborative members embrace seasonality, preserve diversity and traditional practices, and support local economies.
One Pacific Coast Bank
Seattle, Washington
One PacificCoast Bank, FSB, focuses on economic and environmental sustainability and takes a triple-bottom-line approach to community and environmental banking. They believe that a healthy environment is necessary for economic prosperity. They also believe that One Pacific Coast Bank can be a catalyst for positive change in our communities by providing fair, transparent, and sustainable banking products and services.
Community P-Patch Gardens
Seattle, Washington
www.seattle.gov/Neighborhoods/ppatch
The P-Patch Community Gardening Program, in conjunction with P-Patch Trust, a nonprofit organization, oversees 75 P-Patches distributed throughout the city, equaling approximately 23 acres, serving 4,400 gardeners. Gardeners throughout the city contributed 17,000 hours maintaining the common areas of the garden in 2010.
Fairview Gardens
Goleta, California
The Center for Urban Agriculture at Fairview Gardens is a California non-profit organization that was established in 1997 to preserve and operate Fairview Gardens, the historic farm where our products are grown. Founded in 1895, Fairview Gardens is considered by some to be the oldest organic farm in southern California, and is now preserved in perpetuity through an agricultural conservation easement.
Go Go Green Garden
Seattle, Washington
Go Go Green Garden was started by a girl-on-the-go in Seattle who loves to garden. Without a backyard of her own she was approached by a busy city couple asking her to keep an organic vegetable garden. That was three years ago. Now, with several gardens in full bloom, and a trunk-full of seeds, shovels and trellis, she’s the go go green gardener. She can help you grow beautiful and tasty vegetables to have fresh all season (all year even!) long. You’d be surprised with how little space you need. Take local food to a whole new level when it’s grown in your own backyard. With rare and flavorful herbs, heirloom beans and fruity tomatoes in your garden, you can feed your belly, just by walking out your back door.
With a focus on regional and native foods, crop rotation to replenish all the good nutrients in your soil and healthy eco-friendly eating, GO GO GREEN GARDEN is one of life’s little luxuries.
Lettuce Link
Seattle, Washington
Lettuce Link (an innovative food and gardening program growing and giving since 1988) creates access to fresh, nutritious and organic produce, seeds, and gardening information for families with lower incomes in Seattle. We work to educate the community about food security and sustainable food production.
Puget Sound School Gardens
Seattle, Washington
www.pugetsoundschoolgardens.org
Located in the Seattle neighborhood of South Park, Marra Farm is more than 4-acres of historic preserved farmland. Stewarded by the Marra Farm Coalition and owned by the Seattle Parks Department, the goals of the Coalition are to engage the community in sustainable agriculture and education while enhancing local food security. The Coalition is comprised of community members, Seattle Youth Garden Works, the P-Patch Program, the Mien Community Garden, Lettuce Link, and the South Park Area Redevelopment Committee.
Initially, the site was owned and farmed by the Marra Family, Italian truck farmers who grew produce and transported it to Pike’s Place Market from the early 1900’s until the 1970’s, when they sold the land to the King County Parks System. In 1997, a group came together as the Marra Farm Coalition to act as stewards of the land and expand the farm’s role in the community.
Seattle Tilth
Seattle, Washington
Seattle Tilth is a nationally recognized non-profit educational organization dedicated to inspiring and educating people to garden organically and conserve natural resources.
Seattle Urban Farm Co
Seattle, Washington
The Seattle Urban Farm Company designs, builds and maintains food gardens. They work with homeowners, restaurants, businesses and property managers to set up beautiful, productive, edible landscapes. If you want to get started growing your own fresh vegetables, fruits and herbs, they can help you get started!
Farmer’s Markets
Cascade Harvest Coalition is a non-profit organization dedicated to “re-localizing” the food system in Washington State by more directly connecting consumers and producers. Through their many programs and activities, they accomplish this by:
The Washington State Farmer’s Market Association provides support and technical assistance to farmer’s markets throughout Washington state. They believe, to have a thriving and sustainable farmers market within reach of every resident of Washington state will help to develop healthy communities and a sustainable local food system. ESFMA is a national leader in teh movement to increase access to local foods through farmers markets.
Seasonal Cornucopia
Becky Selengut is a graduate of William Smith College and the Seattle Culinary Academy where she was awarded the Outstanding Culinarian of the Year. Selengut has worked on two PBS cooking shows, cheffed on a yacht tour of the Inside Passage, and taught cooking to immigrants and refugees and found them work in the food industry. Selengut has had stints at La Medusa and La Spiga; spent three years at the nationally acclaimed restaurant The Herbfarm in Woodinville, Washington and currently teaches cooking for PCC Natural Markets. In 2004 she started Cornucopia and in January 2006 she founded the website Seasonal Cornucopia . Selengut is a co-author of The Washington Local and Seasonal Cookbook , a freelance writer for Seattle Homes and Lifestyles and Edible Seattle, and runs the blog Chef Reinvented . Good Fish – a cookbook on sustainable seafood – is Selengut’s second book.
Foodista
Slow Food is a global, grassroots organization with supporters in 150 countries around the world who are linking the pleasure of good food with a commitment to their community and the environment.
Foodista is the food encyclopedia that everyone can edit. Discover new recipes, foods, tools, techniques and Q & A. Contribute, add a recipe, ask a question, or help us edit. Share your favorites with friends through Facebook and Twitter and invite your friends to join!
Find Local
The best organic food is what’s grown closest to you. Local harvest offers and easy to use website to find farmer’s markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other local goodies.
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