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The Patrick Madden Award
for Sustainable Agriculture
2004 Winners
2004 Award Booklet
(online PDF- 6.6 mgs) | 2004 Honorable
Mentions
SARE is pleased to announce that Jean-Paul
Courtens, Peter Kenagy and Ron
Macher are the winners of SARE's 2004 Patrick Madden Award contest.
SARE Director Jill Auburn presented the awards, which included a $1,000
cash prize and an expenses-paid trip to SARE's biennial sustainable agriculture
conference, on Oct. 20 in Burlington, Vt.
The Patrick Madden award recognizes producers who are not only profitable,
but also value the environment and their communities. more
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Jean-Paul
Courtens of Kinderhook, N.Y., became a community-supported
agriculture producer after civic groups approached him in 1990
with what was then a novel idea. For Courtens, who was raising
organic vegetables on his Roxbury Farm near Albany and selling
them wholesale or to restaurants, CSA made eminent sense. more |
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Peter Kenagy
of Albany, Ore., raises wheat, snap beans, sweet corn and strawberries
on 325 tillable acres. He has planted other commodities to achieve
a slew of profitability and conservation goals. For example,
where the farm meets the banks of the river, he's planted a
mix of nut and cottonwood trees both for timber and as a buffer
to sop up nutrients. more
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Ron
Macher of Clark, Mo., is known for his diversity - he raises
Hair Sheep, hogs and vegetables, formulated high-protein chicken
feed and developed an open-pollinated corn variety. A tireless
advocate for small-scale farmers, he publishes the quarterly,
Small Farm Today, and founded the National Small Farm Trade
Show and Conference. more |
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