Farmer-to-farmer networks:
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Farmer-to-farmer
networks are thriving in Wisconsin as a way for farmers
to pool ideas, exchange perspectives, and learn from each
other. Some 20 Wisconsin networks focus on management
intensive rotational grazing, weed and pest management,
soil fertility, herd health, or the economics of farming
sustainably.
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www.worldhungeryear.org
WHY
is a leading advocate for innovative, community-based
solutions to hunger and poverty. WHY challenges society
to confront these problems by advancing models that
create self-reliance, economic justice, and equal access
to nutritious and affordable food.
Genetically engineered foods, sold in most food stores in the
US and in many other countries may be hazardous to the
health and may harm the environment.
The
Benefits for Organic Farming
Protects
future generations
Prevents soil erosion
Protects ground water quality
Saves energy - Modern conventional farming uses more
petroleum than any other single industry, consuming 12%
of the country's total energy supply. Organic farming is
more labor intensive.
Keeps chemicals out of our food chain - Many pesticides
approved by the E.P.A were registered before there was
extensive research which links these chemicals to cancer
and other diseases.
Helps small family farmers
Supports a farm economy without government handouts -
Modern conventional farmers received billions in federal
subsidies this year alone.
Promotes bio-diversity with crop rotations and
sustainable farming practices.
Better tasting products.
Organic Farming
Organic
Gardening techniques, topics and selected links to other
Organic Farming information. Organic farming is vital to
our Health and Prosperity.
Acres U.S.A: Voice for
Eco-Agriculture
AgBiz
Tiller -
Monitoring the Activities of Corporate
Agribusiness
Agriculture Network
Information Center - a guide to quality agricultural
information on the Internet as selected by the
National Agricultural Library, Land-Grant
Universities, and other institutions.
AgricultureB2B.com
-
Comprehensive listing of all things agriculture
in the North America and worldwide, including
listings in thousands of categories - from
companies to farms and feed suppliers to training
and transportation and everything in-between.
Agrigator:
Worldwide Agricultural Site Index -- from the University of
Florida
The
Alternative Farming Systems Information Center - An Information Center
at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA)
National Agricultural Library
The
Alliance for Bio-Integrity: Protecting the Right
to Eat Genetically Unaltered Food (Fairfield,
Iowa)
American Farmland Trust
(AFT) -
"Works to stop the loss of productive
farmland and to promote farming practices that
lead to a healthy environment."
The Anarchist Teapot
Mobile Kitchen (Worthing, Sussex, UK)
Biodynamic Farming and
Gardening Association
Biological
Control: A Guide to Natural Enemies in North
America (Cornell University)
The Canadian Federation
of Agriculture
Carl
Hayden Bee Research Center (Tuscon, Arizona)
The Center for Rural
Affairs (Walthill, Nebraska) - "a private,
non-profit organization, is working to strengthen
small businesses, family farms and ranches, and
rural communities."
Community
Farm Alliance (CFA) (Frankfort, Kentucky) - "is a statewide
grassroots organization of persons committed to
family-scale farming as the most efficient and
sustainable form of producing the best quality
food, while protecting the environment and
strengthening rural community life."
Compassion in World
Farming (CIWF) - "Campaigning to end the
factory farming of animals and long distance
transport through hard-hitting political
lobbying, investigations and high profile
campaigns."
Consumers
Union: Food Safety Issues
Cuba
Organic Support Group (CSOG) Gardening Brigades
(UK)
Dairy Action!: Milk
Producers Activism Online
Don't
Panic Eat Organic - "An organic growers'
homepage!"
EliteFarmer.com - "Aims to
disseminate information of use to people with
small farms or rural property. Topics include
farm, food, seeds, crops, plants, vegetables,
flowers, fruit, nuts, garden, horticulture, pest
control and much more. Most documents are in pdf
format."
Environmental Working
Group (EWG) (Washington, D.C.) - "is a
not-for-profit environmental research
organization dedicated to improving public health
and protecting the environment by reducing
pollution in air, water and food."
Factory
Farming Home Page - "Factory farming is an
attitude which regards animals and the natural
world merely as commodities to be exploited for
profit. In animal agriculture, this attitude has
lead to institutionalized animal cruelty, massive
environmental destruction and resource depletion,
and animal and human health risks."
Families Against Rural
Messes (F.A.R.M.) (Elmwood, Illinois) -- organizing against
industrial hog farms.
Farm Aid: The Official
Web Site -
"This is the place to join Willie Nelson,
Neil Young and John Mellencamp to fight for
family farmers. Since 1985 these three artists
and thousands of activists like you have raised
their voices on behalf of family farmers."
Farmers' Legal Action
Group, Inc. - "A nonprofit law center
dedicated to providing legal services to family
farmers and their rural communities in order to
help keep family farmers on the land."
Farmers'
Market Directory (AMS at USDA) - organized by state.
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the UN (FAO)
Foodcrops
and Shortages - "Issued 6 times a year by
FAO's Global Information and Early Warning System
on Food and Agriculture."
Food First: Institute for
Food and Development Policy (Oakland, California)
-
"A member-supported, nonprofit peoples think
tank and education-for-action center." They
have excellent publications.
Food Not
Bombs Archive and Current Events - anarchism and food
direct action.
ForFarmers.com
Foundation for Rural
Living (Ontario)
The
Garden Gate - "offers gardeners and
nature lovers a carefully-selected and
well-organized collection of links to informative
and interesting horticulture sites around the
world."
Garden Mart -- Online
Gardener's Resources
Garden Net: The Premier
Gateway to Gardening on the Internet
GardenWeb: The Internet's
Garden Community
Hiefer Project
International (Little Rock, Arkansas)
Henry A.
Wallace Center for Agricultural &
Environmental Policy (Greenbelt, Maryland)
Henry
Doubleday Research Association (HDRA) (UK) - is Europe's largest
organic membership organisation. It is dedicated
to researching and promoting organic gardening,
farming and food.
How to
Become a Fruitarian
HungerWeb
The Institute for
Agriculture and Trade Policy (Minneapolis)
Institute
of Agriculture (University of Tennessee)
InterGarden:
Biological Agriculture, Renewable Energy,
Permaculture and Bioregionalism
The
Internet Apiculture and Beekeeping Archive
Mad Cow
Info
Maine Organic Farmers
& Gardeners Association (MOFGA)
McSpotlight - keeping the heat on
McDonalds.
The Minnesota Farmers
Union
National
Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture (Pine Bush,
NY)
National Council of
Farmer Cooperatives (NCFC)
The National Family Farm
Coalition (NFFC)
National Farmers
Organization (NFO)
Newfoundland &
Labrador Federation of Agriculture
North Dakota Farmers
Union
Northeast Organic Farming
Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT)
Ontario Federation of
Agriculture
Organic Alliance (St.
Paul, Minnesota)
Organic Consumers
Association (Little Marais, Minnesota) - Campaigning for Food
Safety, Organic Agriculture, Fair Trade &
Sustainability
Organic Trade Association
Oxfam America
Oxfam Canada
The
Permaculture Activist
Permaculture
in Cuba
Pesticide Action Network
-- North America
Plants
for a Future: A Resource and Information Centre
for Edible and other useful plants
Progressive
Farmer
The Progressive Populist
RACHEL's
Environment & Health Weekly
Rodale Institute
Rot Web
Home Composting Information Site
Rural Advancement
Foundation International (RAFI)
Rural
America -
an In Motion Magazine column co-edited by the
Missouri Rural Crisis Center.
Rural FAQs
The
Science and Engineering of Composting (Cornell
University)
Seeds of
Hope...Harvest of Pride!
The Small Farm Resource - "created to help
disseminate information of use to people with
small farms or rural property."
Soil Association (UK) - "the home of
organic food, farming and sustainable
forestry."
The Solar Cooking Archive
-- news,
plans, reports, etc. from around the world.
Sustainable
Farming Connection - "Where farmers find and
share information"
Texas Rural Communities,
Inc. (Austin)
Union des Producteurs
Agricoles (Quebec)
Union of
Concerned Scientists: Agriculture
United Farm Workers (UFW)
Vegetarian Pages - "intended to be an
independent, definitive Internet guide for
vegetarians, vegans and others."
Veggies Unite! - "All about going
Vegan and Vegetarian"
Web Garden (Ohio State
University)
Weekend Gardener - "Your Weekly
Electronic Gardening Guide: Practical
Horticulture for Busy People"
The Weston A. Price
Foundation - "for Wise Traditions in
Food, Farming and the Healing Arts"
Wholesome
Food Association (UK)
Wild
Ones Handbook: A Voice for the Natural
Landscaping Movement
Wildflowers Page - "This page offers
links to the various resources GardenWeb has
relating to wildflowers and native plants."
Women, Food &
Agriculture Network (WFAN) - "to link and
amplify women's voices on issues of food systems,
sustainable communities, and environmental
integrity."
WWW
Virtual Library: Sustainable Agriculture
Stop Bear Poaching and Bear Bile
Farming
You
don’t need to be an animal activist or advocate to
oppose bear farming; bear bile farming is brutal, cruel
and unnecessary. Right now, most Americans have no
idea that bear poaching and the domestic sale, as
well as export, of bear gall bladders is an active black
market in the United States. This American black
market works with the Asian bear bile market, and this
global trade affects our black, brown (grizzly) and polar
bear populations. What is bear bile - Why is it obsolete - What is bear farming - What is HR 3029 - Why should I care - What Can I do
MAD COWBOY
Plain Truth From
the Cattlerancher Who Won’t Eat Meat
by HOWARD LYMAN with Glen Merzer
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