Discussion
Forums
and Listservs
Discussion
forums and listservs both offer opportunities for farmers to take
part in online conversations among other farmers and agriculture
professionals. Both are free, but may require registration
to participate in the discussions or to post questions or information.
Discussion forums require logging on to a website to join a conversation,
while listservs automatically send messages to your email address
when someone posts a comment.
Below
are links to some relevant discussion forums and listservs for sustainable
producers.
Discussion
Forums
Rodale's
New Farm website offers forums on over 30 sustainable agriculture
topics, including Marketing, Value-Added Products, Cut Flowers,
Vegetables, Poultry, Beef, Hogs, etc.
http://www.newfarm.org/talk/
Yahoo
EGroups also offers a variety of discussion groups and
listservs on farming and agriculture, including more specialized
groups such as the grazing and pasture poultry (below), listed at
http://dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Science/Agriculture_and_Farming
Pasture
Poultry and Grazersedge discussion groups
-- Share tips with fellow graziers and pasture poultry producers.
Scan archives or receive individual or digest email
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PasturePoultry/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/grazersedge/
Farm
and Garden includes 67 sustainable agriculture and rural
living topics.
http://forums.farm-garden.com/
Garden
Web has over 90 discussion forums on a variety of farming
and gardening interests
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/
...including
a forum for professionals
http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/profind/
Sustainable Farming Connection hosts several discussion
forums for professionals:
http://www.ibiblio.org/farming-connection/forums.htm
SSB
Tractors offers a discussion of tractors and farm machinery
http://www.ssbtractor.com/wwwboard/farm_tractors.html
Listservs
Sustainable
Agriculture Network hosts SANET-MG, a sustainable agriculture
listserv with over 600 subscribers from around the globe.
http://lists.sare.org/archives/sanet-mg.html
Ibiblio
is an online public library and resource center. Provided on this
site are links to a variety of farming and gardening sites that
host discussion forums and listservs, which can be found online
at
http://www.ibiblio.org/collection/collection.php?second=60
MarketFarming.Net
hosts a list on direct marketing
http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/market-farming
Community
Food Security Coalition hosts COMFOOD,
an electronic mail list created to link individuals and organizations
involved with or interested in all aspects of community food security
https://elist.tufts.edu/wws/info/comfood
Usenet
provides links to several agricultural discussion forums and mailing
lists, including sustainable agriculture newsgroups
http://www.oneglobe.com/agriculture/newslist.html
Community
Supported Agriculture list, send the message:
"subscribe
CSA-L Your Name" to listproc@prairienet.org
Grazing
and pasture management list, send the message:
"subscribe
GRAZE-L Your Name" to
listserv@taranaki.ac.nz
Very active Sheep discussion group, send the message:
"subscribe
SHEEP-L Your Name" to listserv@listserv.uu.se
Vegetable
production and marketing, send the message:
"subscribe
VEG-PROD-MG Your Name" to almanac@esusda.gov
If you have other discussion forums or listservs to suggest, please
let us know: info@ssawg.org
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