Sprouting Hope Competitors

Since our founding in 1991, The Food Project has grown into a nationally-recognized organization that works at the intersection of youth, food, and community. Each year we hire 120 teens to steward our farms, because we believe that food is a unique vehicle for creating personal and social change. We believe that everyone should have access to fresh, local, healthy, affordable food regardless of age, gender identity, socio-economic background, or the color of your skin. Over the past 25 years, we have grown from a single two-acre farm in Lincoln, Mass., to an organization that now maintains 70 acres of both urban and suburban farms in five towns on the North Shore and in Greater Boston. The Food Project aims to transform our food system into an equitable and inclusive model that is community-controlled and supports food justice for all. Working in partnership, we can realize the vision of a more sustainable and just food system.

Seed Savers Exchange is a nonprofit organization leading in preserving and distributing heirloom vegetables, herbs, flowers and plants. Seed Savers Exchange is a member supported organization of gardeners and plant collectors who save and share heirloom seeds, thereby preserving our garden heritage. At the 890-acre Heritage Farm near Decorah, Iowa, we maintain one of the largest collections of open-pollinated heirloom varieties in the United States.

Slow Food USA is part of the global Slow Food network of over 100,000 members in more than 150 countries. Through a vast volunteer network of local chapters, youth and food communities, we link the pleasures of the table with a commitment to protect the community, culture, knowledge and environment that make this pleasure possible. Our mission as an international grassroots membership organization is good, clean and fair food for all.