Based in Boston, Massachusetts, The John Merck Fund (JMF) was established in 1970 by the late Serena Merck and is now in its third generation of family leadership. Starting in 2012, The John Merck Fund will spend all of its...
The John Merck Fund
Food System Focus Area: Farm Preservation and Land Access
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
As part of its strategy to promote Environmental Stewardship in the Tri-State Area, DDCF makes grants to support a sustainable agriculture system in the Tri-State area that benefits people and wildlife. Grants support a local, sustainable food system in the...
Karen Washington – ‘Queen of Urban Gardening’
Karen Washington is a NYC-native who has been gardening in the Bronx for decades. She has become a sought after voice and leader for food justice in urban areas. Civil Eats recently featured her in their Faces and Visions of the...
Breakfast Series on Risk and Resiliency in the Food System
By the spring of 2013, our regional food system had been tested to its max with historic storms the previous two years. Hurricane Irene in 2011 devastated countless acres and farms in the Hudson Valley and surrounding areas, damaging crops...
Report – A New England Food Vision
Food Solutions New England (FSNE) announced the release of A New England Food Vision, a collaborative report and bold vision outlining how New England can locally produce at least 50 percent of clean, fair, just and accessible food for all citizens by...
Copake Agricultural Center
Northeast Farm Access (NEFA) is a farm consulting organization in New Hampshire that works with investors and farm clients to make sure an investment in agriculture yields results that are good for the investor, the farmer and the land. Their...
