Groups & Clubs (Food Access)

There are so many exciting opportunities to connect and network with others in DC!  Check out the groups below for opportunities to plug into the food access scene.

A Vegan Life

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A Vegan Life’s mission is to hold local events (DC area) that foster and widen our vegan circle while having fun and enjoying the company of others who share that vision.

A Vegan Life

CFN Food Waste and Recovery Group

Chesapeake Foodshed Network’s Food Waste and Recovery Work Group, (Formerly Food Recovery Work Group) is a working group of the Chesapeake Foodshed Network which focuses on improving our food systems food recovery strategies and activities toward that end.

CFN Food Waste and Recovery Group

Chesapeake Foodshed Network

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The Chesapeake Foodshed Network catalyzes connections and collaborations that build a sustainable, resilient, inclusive, and equitable regional food system in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Chesapeake Foodshed Network

Creative Community Builders, LLC

Creative Community Builders is a Civic & Social organization facilitating community engagement and creative strategic planning. We are rooted in supporting the development of sustainable communities through creative relationship building and mindful resource connections. We aim to build a network of communities that co-create thriving, sustainable support systems through community-led initiatives, sustainable practices and intentional community building practices.

Creative Community Builders, LLC

DC School Food Project

The D.C. School Food Project’s mission is to support and accelerate the school system’s progress toward ensuring quality, improving access, and inspiring demand for healthy food in and out of schools in our nation’s capital. We believe making school food healthy involves the entire community and our goal is to foster and enhance collaborative efforts to that end.

DC School Food Project

DC Vegan Drinks

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DC Vegan Drinks is a monthly social networking event for people interested in promoting veganism and advocating for animal rights.

DC Vegan Drinks

Good Soil Events

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GoodSoil Events is an events + media platform that celebrates and promotes healthy food, sustainable agriculture, and advocates healthy soil through food-focused experiences. One of their main programs is Food Talks which records people’s “food story” who are working to improve local food systems.

Good Soil Events

Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network

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The Gleaning Network links farmers who have crops that are edible but not marketable with those who distribute food to the needy through the work of volunteer gleaners. Their staff organizes teams of people to go to local farms to harvest fresh nutritious fruits and vegetables to be given to low income individuals, families, as well as agencies or communities that serve the hungry.

Mid Atlantic Gleaning Network

Prince George’s County Food Equity Council

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The mission of the Prince George’s County Food Equity Council is to significantly improve public health and community well-being of all who live, work, study, worship and play in the County. It will develop and support policies, approaches, procedures, practices and initiatives to create systemic change to the local food system.

Prince George’s County Food Equity Council

Slow Food DC

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Slow Food DC is the DC chapter of Slow Food USA. Slow Food is an educational organization dedicated to stewardship of the land and ecologically sound food production.

Slow Food DC

The Emergence Community Arts Collective

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The ECAC builds on the strengths of the community by providing informal and formal gathering space, capturing neighborhood history, engaging new and old residents in civic discourse, and reconnecting the generations of residents.

The Emergence Community Arts Collective

Vegetarian Society of DC

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VSDC has monthly all-vegan events that may be of interest to those in the vegetarian community. VSDC organizes restaurant visits; book club discussing fiction and non-fiction; singles events; LBGT Veg Out group; African-American Networking Group; Children’s Play Group; vegan potluck picnics and our annual vegan life affirming Thanksgiving dinner. The calendar of events is hosted by VSDC on the vegan Meetup at http://www.meetup.com/Vegan-DC-MD-VA/

Vegetarian Society of DC

Wild Fermentation Uncensored

Closed Facebook group that discusses fermentation topics openly even when they are controversial, and polite differing opinions are welcomed. We are a community and we like to connect on a human level.

Wild Fermentation Uncensored - Specific Information on Groups & Clubs

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