What is the FSLN?
The FSLN is a national peer learning community that connects current and emerging leaders, strengthens individual and collective leadership capacity, and fosters collaboration across communities. The goal of the network is to accelerate the realization of a just, equitable, and sustainable food system that generates good food, health, and opportunity for all. Click here to learn more.
The FSLN is facilitated by the Wallace Center at Winrock International to serve and support the growing community of organizations, businesses, and public agencies involved in building a good farming and food system in the United States.
Connect
The FSLN provides many ways for you to discover and build relationship with hundreds of other food systems leaders across the country.
Learn
Dive deep into the resource library filled with online courses, webinars, toolkits, and hundreds of learning resources on topics ranging from food safety, to nonprofit management and ops, to value chain coordination.
Grow
Explore opportunities to grow as a leader and change-maker through FSLN Systems Leadership Retreats, Mentorship Programs, Technical Trainings and Peer Learning opportunities.
It’s so nice to be in a room with shared values and understanding that this work is bigger than food. It’s nice to have a group of people who are working on food and social justice across the country – I feel comfort in knowing we’re all out there doing the work.
FSLN Features
Online Community
Connect with thousands of other current and emerging food systems leaders from across the country.
Resources
Explore hundreds of food systems learning resources, tools, and webinars in the resource library.
Discussion groups
Join discussion groups with peers to ask questions, share information, and connect on a diversity of system food topics.
New & Upcoming
Information Sharing Call: Opportunities and Challenges in the LFPA
The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service established the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement (LFPA) initiative last year — a $400 million investment in local and regional food systems. As a…
Featured Leader: Aryn Blumenberg
In this Featured Leader piece we hear from Aryn Blumenberg who joined the Wallace Center’s Food Systems Leadership Team as the Network Development Lead VISTA in July 2022. We’re excited…
Making Grants Ours: Colonial Origins of Federal Grants and Strategies to Subvert Them
Does it feel like lots of federal and foundation grants look like they should be perfect for your initiative at first glance, but when you dig into the guidelines and…
Donation Station Cultivation 101: An Innovative Program to Support Food Security
FSLN members Reggie Morrow, Susie Huser, and Maribeth Saleem-Tanner with Community Food Initiatives share their innovative program for developing the local economy, supporting local farmers, and alleviating food insecurity that…
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