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To
empower and inspire farmers, individuals, and communities in the South
to create an agricultural system that is ecologically sound,
economically viable, socially just, and humane. Because sustainable
solutions depend on the involvement of the entire community, Southern
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Practical Tools and Solutions for Sustaining Family
Farms Conference
January 21-24, 2009
Chattanooga Convention Center
Chattanooga, TN
Southern SAWG's exceptional conference will provide you
with the practical tools and solutions you need to be successful
in your farming enterprise, your community foods projects
and your advocacy and outreach work. It will provide sustainable
production and direct marketing information for horticultural
and livestock producers, enterprise management lessons,
farm policy education, community food systems development
information, plus the opportunity to meet and learn from
peers from across the region. With 1,200 participants, this
event draws the most forward-thinking people in the field.
Come see why so many participate in this conference year
after year!
Complete details at http://www.ssawg.org/conference-.html
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Will Allen
Growing Power, Milwaukee, WI
receives MacArthur Fellowship
Allen, a former professional basketball player in the ABA, founded Growing Power in 1993 in Milwaukee to help teach inner-city kids about the origins of their food. It has expanded to include satellite-training sites in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Massachusetts and Mississippi.
Full Story from MacArthur Foundation website
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For gifts that keep on giving season after season, consider giving your favorite producers or community food organizers…
…A registration to our popular conference — the largest gathering of the most innovative farmers, researchers and advocates in the South. Around 1,200 flock to this conference every year because it provides such practical information that participants can put to use right away! Click here for more information.
… Our new CD ROM Organic Vegetable Production and Marketing in the South, with Alex Hitt of Peregrine Farm — a first of its kind, all-in-one tool packed with production and marketing information, great photos and Alex Hitt showing “How it Works at Peregrine Farm.” Click here to learn more.
…Any of the nine DVDS in our Natural Farming Systems in the South series — virtual farm tours featuring some of the South’s most successful sustainable farms. Enterprises featured include organic vegetables, cut flowers, pastured chickens, pastured turkeys MIG beef, meat goats, cheese making, and pastured-based dairy. Click here to learn more. |
Sequatchie Cove Farm
— Tenn.
The 300-acre Sequatchie Cove Farm is a highly diversified farm producing meats, eggs, vegetables, fruits, native nursery plants and mushrooms. The farm is also in the process of opening a small farmstead cheese dairy using the rare American Milking Devon cow.
Learn more about the pre-conference field trip to Sequatchie Cove Farm.
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Please
share with us photos of your farm. Send electronic versions
to info@ssawg.org
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Southern Sustainable
Agriculture
Working Group, Inc.
(Southern SAWG) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization
formed in 1991 to promote sustainable agriculture in the Southern
United States.
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