CALENDAR OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EVENTS
SARE/ACE CALENDAR FOR FY 1993
Sponsored by the Sustainable Agriculture Network
If you would like us to include your events please send
the event name, place, contact, and sponsor, to Alternative Farming
Systems Information Center, ATTN: SAN/AFSIC Calendar, Room 304,
National Agricultural Library, 10301 Baltimore Boulevard,
Beltsville, Maryland 20705-2351. FAX: (301) 504-6409.
INTERNET: ghegyes@nalusda.gov
* Events added since last edition
June 1-September 30, 1993.
Event: Tours of Heritage Farm. Heritage Farm is the home
of Seed Savers Exchange which has been collecting and
storing Heirloom varieties from all over the world.
Contact: Kent Whealy, Seed Savers Exchange, RR 3, Box 239,
Decorah, IA 52101.
August 30-September 2, 1993
Event: First Biomass Conference of the Americas:
Energy, Environment, Agriculture, and Industry.
Place: Radisson Hotel Burlington, Burlington, Vermont.
Contact: NREL conferences Group, National Renewable Energy
Laboratory, 1617 Cole Blvd.,
Golden, CO 80401. (303)231-1158.
September 2, 1993
Event: Agronomy Day
Place: Agronomy-Plant Pathology South Farm,
University of Illinois.
Time: 7:00am-2:00pm
Contact: Sharon Conatser, (217) 333-4424.
Sponsor: University of Illinois
September, 1993
Event: Sustainable Agriculture in the North and in the
South.
Place: Germany or the Netherlands (to be announced).
Contact: European Ecumenical Organization for Development
(EECOD), 174 rue Joseph II, B-1040 Brussels, Belgium.
September, 5-13 1993
Event: International conference on "The Experience of
Integrated Resource Management (IRM) for Sustainable
Agriculture"
Place: Beijing, P.R. China
Contact: Professor Cheng Xu, Vice President, Beijing
Agricultural University, Beijing, P.R. China, Phone:
86-1-258-2244 (Ext. 271).
FAX: 86-1-258-2332 or Professor Shu Geng,
Department of Agronomy
and Range Science, University of California,
Davis, CA 95616-8515,
Voice: (916) 752-6939. FAX: 916-752-4361.
A limited number of brochures are available from
Jill Auburn through Internet: jsauburn@ucdavis.edu
September 7-9, 1993
Event: The 3rd International IFOAM Conference: Trade in
Organic Foods
Place: Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, Maryland
Contact: New Hope Communications/IFOAM Conference, ATTN: Expo
Registration Department, 1301 Spruce Street,
Boulder, CO 80302.
(303) 939-8440.
Sponsors: The International Federation of Organic Agriculture
Movements, The Organic
Foods Production Association of North America and
New Hope Communications.
September 9, 1993
*Event: Committee for Sustainable Agriculture Rice
Transition Conference
Place: To Be Announced
Contact: Mariposa Guido, (916) 756-6967.
September 9, 1993
Event: Thompson On-Farm Research Field Day
Place: Thompson Farm, between Boone and Ames, Iowa, 4 miles
north of United Community School or ISU Agronomy
Farm (Hwy 30) or 1.5 miles east of Hwy
17 on 190th Street (E26).
Contact: Dick or Sharon Thompson, 2035 190th Street,
Boone, IA 50036. (515) 432-1560.
September 11-25, 1993
Event: Ohio River Valley Permaculture Course
Place: Far Valley Farm, in the folds of the Appalachian
Foothills near Athens, Ohio
Contact: Mark Cohen, 12788 New England Road, Amesville,
OH 45711.
(614) 448-2044. OR Friends of the Trees, PO Box
1064, Tonasket, WA 98855. (509) 485-2705.
September 14-16, 1993
Event: 13th Long Ashton International Symposium
"Arable Ecosystems for the 21st Century"
Place: Long Ashton Research Station, University of Bristol,
Long Ashton, Bristol, BS18 9AF, England.
Contact: Mr. H.M. Anderson, Scientific Liaison, Long Ashton
Research Station, Long Ashton, Bristol, BS18 9AF,
England.
Voice: +44-275-392181. FAX: +44-275-394007.
Sponsors: UK Agricultural and Food Research Council
University of Bristol
September 14-18, 1993
Event: The Sixth National Urban Forest Conference
Place: Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
Contact: NUFC, P.O. Box 2000, Washington, DC 20013-2000
September 15-22, 1993
*Event: Ranching for Profit School
Place: Alburquerque, New Mexico
Contact: Elaine Kelly, 7719 Rio Grande Blvd., NW,
Albuquerque, NM 87107. (505) 898-7417 or
(505) 821-4214.
September 18, 1993
*Event: Northeast Organic Farming Association/New Jersey's
3rd Organic County Fair
Place: Pennington, New Jersey
Contact: NOFA/NJ, 31 Titus Mill Road, Pennington, NJ 08534.
(609) 737-6848.
September 20-October 1, 1993
*Event: Plant Nutrient Management for Sustainable Agriculture
Place: Muscle Shoals, Alabama
Contact: IDFC, P. O. Box 2040, Muscle Shoals, AL 35662.
September 20-24, 1993
Event: 1st International Conference on Diffuse (nonpoint)
Pollution: Sources, Prevention, Impact and Abatement
Place: Chicago, Illinois
Contact: IAWPRC, c/o Dr. Vladimir Novotny, Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering, Marquette
University, 1515 W. Wisconsin Ave.,
Milwaukee, WI 53233
Sponsor: International Association for Water Pollution
Research and Control (IAWPRC)
September 25, 1993
Event: COLDFRAMES, Learn how to extend your growing
season by building a mini-greenhouse. $5.00 per
person.
Place: Fox, Arkansas.
Contact: Meadowcreek Project, PO Box 100, Fox, AR 72051
(501) 363-4500 VOICE.
September 27-October 1, 1993
Event: International Symposium on Nitrogen Utilization and
Losses in Ecological Agriculture.
Place: The Agricultural University of Copenhagen
Contact: The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University
Dept. of Agricultural Sciences, Ecological
Agriculture, Thorvaldsensvej 40, DK-1871 Copenhagen.
Voice: +45 3528 3456.
FAX: +45 3528 3468.
Sponsor: Danish Ministry of Agriculture
October 1-2, 1993
*Event: "Legal Aspects of Organic Agriculture and Product
Regulation"
Place: The Claremont Resort located in the hills above
Oakland, California.
Contact: Mimi Luebbermann at 510-654-8419.
Sponsor: The Organic Farming Research Foundation
October 1-3, 1993
Event: New England Eco-Expo and Green Business Conference,
Place: Boston, Massachusetts. Now being organized.
Contact: Eco-Expo, 14260 Ventura Boulevard, Suite 201,
Sherman Oaks, CA 91423. (818) 906-2700.
October 3-7, 1993
*Event: Water Environment Federation Annual Conference &
Exposition
Place: Anaheim, CA
Contact: (703) 684-2464.
October 3-8, 1993
*Event: First International Congress of Vector Ecology
Place: Hanalei Hotel, San Diego, California
Contact: Society for Vector Ecology, P. O. Box 87, Santa Ana,
CA 92702
(714) 971-3940.
October 5-7, 1993
Event: 3rd International Kyusei Nature Farming conference,
"Nature Farming for a Sustainable Agriculture".
Place: Santa Barbara, California.
Contact: Assistant Conference Coordinator, Nature Farming
Research & Development Foundation, 6495 Santa Rosa
Rd., Lompoc, CA 93463. Or Susan Randall,
(805) 737-1536.
October 7-11, 1993
*Event: 8th Annual Eastern North American Permaculture
Conference: "Building Sustainable Communities"
Place: Camp Lutherlyn, Prospect, Pennsylvania
Contact: EPC8 Coordinator, John Irwin, 104 Gaywood Dr., St.
Clairsville, Ohio 43950.
(614) 695-3008.
October 9-10, 1993
*Event: Sorghum Cooking Days, held in Conjunction with the
Grape of Wrath Festival
Place: The Overstreet-Kerr Living History Farm, 10 miles
south of Sallisaw, Oklahoma
Contact: Jim Combs, RR 2, Box 693, Keota, OK 74941. (918)
966-3282 or 966-3396.
October 12-16, 1993
Event: North American Symposium, Association for Farming
Systems Research-Extension.
Place: University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida
Contact: AFSRE/NA Symposium, University of Florida, PO Box
110240, Gainsville, FL 32611-0240.
Voice: 904-392-5830. FAX: 904-392-8634.
October 15-17, 1993
*Event: 5th Annual Conference of Seeds of Change
Place: Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, San Francisco,
California
Contact: Diane Joy Goodman, 1755 Chestnut Street, San
Francisco, CA 94123. (415) 922-2356.
October 21-24, 1993
*Event: Canadian Health Foods Association, Fall 1993 Show
Place: Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre, Vancouver,
British Columbia
Contact: Donna Sheehan, (604) 885-0914. FAX: (604) 885-0961.
October 24-26, 1993
Event: Conference on Science and Sustainability:
Reshaping Agricultural Research and Education.
Place: Seattle, WA.
Contact: Norma Fuentes-Scott, (509) 335-2921, Colette
DePhelps, (509) 335-2887.
October 25-26, 1993
*Event: Substituting Legumes for Fallow in the US Great
Plains
Place: Howard Johnson Lodge, Rapid City, South Dakota
Contact: NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center, Box 219,
Carrington, ND 58421. (701) 652-2951.
FAX: (701) 652-2055.
Sponsor: North Central SARE Program, Michael Fields
Agricultural Institute,
North Dakota State University, South Dakota
State University, University of Nebraska, Kansas
State University, USDA Soil Conservation Service.
November 5 & 6, 1993
*Event: Third Annual NAU Graduate Student Interdisciplinary
Symposium
Place: Northern Arizona University
Contact: Andy Harper or Hugh Bartling, Department of History
Northern Arizona University Box 6023 Flagstaff,
Arizona 86011. (602)
523-6167. E-Mail: Bartling@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu
Harper@Nauvax.ucc.nau.edu.
Sponsor: The Graduate Students of Northern Arizona University
November 6, 1993
*Event: Shiitake Mushroom Workshop
Place: Poteau, Oklahoma
Contact: Lara Ervin, KCSA, P. O. Box 588, Poteau, OK 74953.
(918) 647-9123.
Sponsor: Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Inc.
November 5-7, 1993
Event: Small Farm Today Seminar & Trade Show
Place: Columbia, Missouri
Contact: Small Farm Today. 1-800-633-2535.
November 10-17, 1993
*Event: Ranching for Profit School
Place: Alburquerque, New Mexico
Contact: Elaine Kelly, 7719 Rio Grande Blvd., NW,
Albuquerque, NM 87107. (505) 898-7417 or
(505) 821-4214.
November 12-14, 1993
Event: The 8th Annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference
Place: Mission Valley Inn, Raleigh, North Carolina
Contact: For information about tradeshow space reservations,
call Tom Sabel,
(919) 836-8944. For more informatation about the
conference, contact Dr. Richard McDonald, North
Carolina Department of Agriculture (919) 733-3610,
or Keith Baldwin, North Carolina Cooperative
Extension Service (919) 542-8202.
Sponsor: The Carolina Farm Stewardship Association.
December 1-4, 1993
*Event: First International Symposium and Third National
Conference on Sustainable Agriculture:
Place: CEICADAR, (Center for Teaching, Research and
Training for Agricultural Regional Development),
Colegio de Postgraduados Puebla, Puebla, MEXICO
Contact: CEICADAR, Km. 125.5 Carretera Federal Mexico-Puebla,
Apdo. Postal I-12
Colonia La Libertad C. P. 72130 Puebla, Pue. MEXICO
Tel. (91) (22) 48-00-88 or 48-09-78, 48-05-42 Fax
(91) (22) 49-39-95
Attention: M.C. J. Francisco Escobedo Castillo or
M.C. Filemon Parra Inzunza
December 8, 1993
*Event: Kerr Center Open House
Place: Poteau, Oklahoma.
Contact: Lara Ervin, KCSA, P. O. Box 588, Poteau, OK 74953.
(918) 647-9123.
Sponsor: Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Inc.
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1994
January 5-12, 1994
*Event: Ranching for Profit School
Place: Alburquerque, New Mexico
Contact: Elaine Kelly, 7719 Rio Grande Blvd., NW,
Albuquerque, NM 87107. (505) 898-7417 or
(505) 821-4214.
January 7-8, 1994
*Event: The Oklahoma Horticulture Industries Show
Place: Northeast Campus of Tulsa Junior College, Tulsa,
Oklahoma
Contact: Lara Ervin, KCSA, P. O. Box 588, Poteau, OK 74953.
(918) 647-9123.
Sponsor: Kerr Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Inc.
January 20-23, 1994
*Event: 14th Annual Ecological Farming Conference
Place: Asilomar Conference Center, Montery, California
Contact: Committee for Sustainable Agriculture, (916)
756-6967.
January 30-February 1, 1994
*Event: Midwest Regional Grape and Wine Conference.
Place: Tan-Tar-A, Lake of the Ozarks, in Missouri.
Contact: Missouri Department of Agriculture. (314) 751-6807
February 4-6, 1994
*Event: Farm Conference, '94
Place: Doubletree Hotel, Ventura, California
Contact: Lynn Bagley, Marin County Farmers' Market, 1114
Irwin Street San Rafael, CA 94901. (415) 456-3276.
February 18-19, 1994
Event: 6th Annual Farming for Profit and Stewardship
Conference.
Place: Columbia River Red Lion Hotel, near Jantzen Beach,
Portland, Oregon.
Contact: John Luna, Oregon State University Horticulture
Department, AGLS 4017, Corvallis, OR 97331-7304.
(503) 737-5430.
April 19-22, 1994
*Event: Second National IPM Symposium/Workshop
Place: Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada
Contact: Ronald J. Kuhr, Department of Entomology, Box 7613,
North Carolina State University,
Raleigh, NC 27695-7613.
September 6-8, 1994
*Event: Second National Symposium, "Allelopathy in
Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry and Environment"
Place: J. N. Vyas University, Jodhpur-342 001, Rajasthan,
India
Contact: Dr. Shamsher S. Narwal, Organizing Secretary,
Department of Agronomy, CCS Haryana Agriculture
University, Hisar-125 004, Haryana, India.
Voice: 91-1662-73721, ext. 4268.
FAX: 91-1662-73552.
Sponsor: Indian Society of Allelopathy
November 21-25, 1994
*Event: Systems-Oriented Research in Agriculture and Rural
Development
Place: Montpellier, France
Contact: Ms. Ann Lichens-Park, NBAP. Voice: (202) 401-4892.
FAX: (202) 401-4888. OR Ms. Anne-Marie
Seng-Sourinho, Direction Scientifique, CIRAD-SAR.
Voice: 67617185. FAX: 67617186.
November/December 1994
*Event: 3rd International Course on Fodder Tree
Legumes-Multipurpose Species for Agriculture
Place: Queensland, Australia
Contact: Dr. R.C. Gutteridge or Dr. H.M. Shelton, Fodder Tree
Legumes, Department of Agriculture, University of
Queensland, Queensland, 4072 Australia.
Voice: (61-7) 365-2062. FAX: (61-7) 365-1188.
Sponsor: Department of Agriculture, The University of
Queensland.
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APPENDIX
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program
Regional Research Grants Schedules
The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
program is a continuation of what was formerly known as LISA.
Grants are awarded on a competitive basis for research and
educational projects in sustainable agriculture.
Administration of the program takes place through four
regional centers, each of which has a separate schedule for
its call for proposals and other deadlines. The schedules
will be included in this calendar as they become available.
Following are the addresses of the Regional centers:
North Central Region Western Region
Steve Waller, Coordinator David Schlegel, Coordinator
Agriculture Hall Office of the Vice Pres., DANR
Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln University of California
Lincoln, NE 68583-0704 Oakland, CA 94612-3560
(402) 472-2973 (510) 987-0029
Internet: agdn009@unlv. Internet: danrdsx@uccvma.ucop.edu
unl.edu
Northeast Region Southern Region
Frederick R. Magdoff, Gerald F. Arkin, Coordinator
Coordinator Agriculture Experiment Station
Dept. of Plant & Soil Griffen, GA 30223-1797
Science (404) 228-7263
University of Vermont Internet: dirgrf@gaes.griffin.peachnet.edu
Burlington, VT 05405
(802) 656-2630
Internet: bholtzma@moose.uvm.edu
NORTH CENTRAL REGION
April 5-7, 1993: Call for FY-94 Preproposal by
Administrative Council
May 1, 1993: Farmer grant proposal mailed to
producers, others
June 10-11, 1993: National Sustainable Agriculture
Advisory Council (NSAAC)
July 2, 1993: Preproposal request sent to
individuals interested in the SARE
Program
July 15, 1993: Farmer grant deadline
August 14-18, 1993: North Central Region Administrative
Council Workshop, Columbus, OH
September 10, 1993: Preproposals recieved by Regional
Coordinator
October 15, 1993: Review of preproposals completed
November 18-20, 1993: Combined Administrative
Council/Technical Committee meeting,
St. Louis, MO
November 25, 1993: Invitation to submit full proposal
January 17, 1994: Deadline for receiving full proposal
March 7-11, 1994: Combined Administrative
Council/Technical Committee meets to
evaluate proposals
WESTERN REGION
August 9, 1993 Call for Proposals was sent out. to
October 8, 1993 Deadline for submission
Week of January 10, 1994 Technical Review Panel to meet
February 22-24, 1994 Administrative Council to meet
August 22 -26, 1994 Strategic Planning Meeting
NORTHEAST REGION
Proposed Schedule for FY 1994
Early October 1993: Request for Proposals sent to people
interested in the SARE Program.
Middle January, 1994: Deadline for submitting proposals to
the regional coordinator's office.
March 20-25, 1994: Technical committee meets to evaluate
(approx.) proposals for
recommendation to the administrative
council.
Early April, 1994: Grant applicants will be notified
about funding decisions.
SOUTHERN REGION
Proposed Schedule for FY-1994
July 28, 1993: 1994 Call for Proposals Released
1994 Call for Producer Grants released
September 15, 1993 Preproposals Due
October 31, 1993 Producer proposals due
November 8, 1993 Project investigators notified of
status of Preproposals/
Invitations to submit jull proposals
December 10, 1993 Full proposals due
January 24-28, 1994 SARE/ACE Administrative
Council/Technical Committee Meeting
February 28, 1994 Investigators notified of status of
proposals
Producers notified of status of
proposals