Food Sovereignty Network

Community Partners

Our program offerings are rooted in building relationships and networks for social change. We promote bio-regional networks aligned with social movements around the world, who defend the formation of cooperatives, the promotion of popular education, and increased autonomous land access. We partner with farmers, educators, cooperatives, and grassroots organizers.

Farm Partners

We are grateful to collaborate with gifted and dedicated farmers throughout the region, to be able to offer programming such as the Bay Area Farmer-to-Farmer Training Program and the Farmer Mobilization Paid Apprenticeship Program.

  • Feral Heart Farm

    Feral Heart Farm is a 3-acre certified organic market farm in Sunol, California that grows annual and perennial Pan-Asian vegetables, culinary and medicinal herbs and flowers.

  • Scott Family Farms

    Scott Family Farms is located in Fresno, CA and grows a diversity of fruits and vegetables, featuring crops of the African Diaspora

  • Red H Farm

    Red H Farm is a 1.2-acre agroecological vegetable farm located on the unceded territory of the Coast Miwok people, outside of the town of Sebastopol, California. Red H Farm is grounded in the agroecological ethics of growing soil, conserving water, fostering biodiversity, cultivating community and building equity.

  • Raised Roots Farm

    Raised Roots is a farm that envisions a healthier future. A food system centered around farmers and producers, and their relationship with those we nourish.

  • Cultural Roots Nursery

    Cultural Roots mission is to heal the connection between Asian American diaspora and our ancestral foodways by increasing the availability and abundance of culturally important heritage plants.

  • Goat Wild Collective

    Goat Wild is a cooperative goat and sheep herding collective modeled after a community food sovereignty model.

  • Soul Flower Farm

    Soul Flower Farm is a small organic farm located in the San Francisco, East Bay Hills of California. Sould FLower Farm strives to incorporate biodynamic farming methods and permaculture design to be self-sustaining. Farming on just under 3 acres, they raise sheep, chickens, ducks, bees and bunnies and grow an abundance of vegetables, fruit, and herbal medicine.

  • Berkeley Basket CSA

    Berkeley Basket grows hyper-locally, producing organic vegetables and flowers out of residential backyards in Berkeley, to provide a local CSA.

  • Yagi Sisters Farm

    Yagi Sisters Farm is a small-scale vegetable and herb farm in Sebastopol, CA that centers ecology, diversity, and localization in serving our community. We like to remember our roots, serve roots (on a plate and in tending), and root for others who are in aligned missions of care, quality and community well being.on goes here

  • Three Feathers Farm

    As stewards of the land, the farmers of Three Feathers Farm recognize their responsibility to uphold the principles of agroecology and environmental stewardship. Through practices such as crop rotation, composting, and water conservation, we strive to minimize our ecological footprint and to promote the health and vitality of the land for future generations. In doing so, we honor the teachings of our ancestors, who understood the importance of living in harmony with the natural world.

  • Ujamaa Farmers Collective

    Ujamaa Farmer Collective’s mission is to secure access to resources for the success of Black farmers in the greater Sacramento, CA region. We envision an equitable society where Black farmers can collectively steward symbiotic systems that work for the earth and people. Land is a home for our healing, abundance, and sovereignty to create an ecological legacy for future farmers to thrive.

  • Planting Justice

    Planting Justice's Mother Farm is a 4-acre orchard in El Sobrante next to Gerrity Creek. Our farm is the mother source for many of the plants we grow and propagation materials for our, Sobrante Park Nursery. Over a dozen formerly incarcerated staff members helped build this ecosystem, which also serves as a sanctuary for people getting out of prison to come home to living wage jobs, connected to the land and the abundance of life it supports. We are home to over 1600 varieties across many plant species.

  • Catalán Family Farm

    Catalán Family Farm is preserving the cultural and ancestral origins of organic agriculture to feed the local community and empower migrant farm workers.

  • Gill Tract Farm

    The Gill Tract is a community farm where we grow food, share knowledge, and care for the land together. It's a place to dig your hands into the soil, learn from each other, and cultivate a strong sense of connection with the earth and those around you. 

  • Huitlaco

    Huitlaco is a worker-owned urban farm transforming local agricultural waste into high-quality, delicious mushrooms. We specialize in cultivating gourmet, organic mushrooms such as Shiitake, Lion's Mane, Pioppino, Black Pearl, and Tree Oyster. We aim to restore the balance between food, people, and land by producing fungal-rich compost that help regenerate soils and support local farmers.

Our Funders

We are grateful to the100+ individuals that believe in and contribute to Agroecology Commons. We could not do it without you! We also thank our present and past public funders and private foundations that help make our work possible, including:

  • CDFA Beginning Farmer and Farmworker Training and Workforce Development Program

  • USDA Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program

  • Urban Agriculture and Innovation Program

  • Western Sustainable Agriculture, Research, and Education

  • USDA Community Food Projects

  • Patagonia Foundation

  • Bay Area Climate Council

  • Shot Fund

  • Stupski Foundation

  • Food and Farming Communications Fund

  • Rising Foundation

  • Clif Bar Family Foundation

  • Fruit Guys Foundation

  • Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation

  • Mighty Arrow Foundation

  • Planet Bees Foundation

  • Xerces Society

  • EFOD Fund