Sponsored by the Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN)
*Events added since last edition
*June 26-September 30, 1995
Event: Organic On-Farm Workshops
Place: Throughout Vermont
Contact: Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont
(NOFA-VT)
NOFA-VT Summer Workshops, PO Box 697, Richmond, VT 05477
(802) 434-4122
June 26-August 31, 1995
Event: "Sustainable Agriculture: Principles & Practices",
a summer course.
Place: Student Experimental Farm, University of CA,
Davis, California
Contact: Mark Van Horn, Student Experimental Farm,
Department of Agronomy,
University of California, Davis, CA 95616.
Phone: (916) 752-7645
*July 17-September 16, 1995
Event: OEFFA's 13th Annual Farm and Garden Tour Series
Place: Various locations in Ohio
Contact: Sean McGovern (614) 294-3663
Sponsor: Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA)
*July 22-September 16, 1995
Event: Summer Organic Tours in Idaho and Washington
Place: Various locations
Contact: Nancy Taylor (208) 882-1444
Sponsor: Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute
*August 3-October 29, 1995
Event: Sustainable Agriculture Field Days
Place: Throughout Wisconsin
Sponsor: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer
Protection
"Call your local extension agent and watch or listen to
local news media and statewide agricultural media for
other notices or further information."
July 27-30, 1995
Event: HERBS `95
Place: Chicago, Illinois
Contact: IHA HERBS `95 Program Committee, 1202 Allanson Road,
Mundelein, IL 60060. FAX: (708) 566-4580
Sponsor: International Herb Association
July 27-29, 1995
Event: Alternative Livestock Conference
Place: University of Minnesota, St. Paul, St. Paul, MN
Contact: Center for Alternative Plant and Animal Products
Phone: (612) 624-4217
July 28-30, 1995
Event: "Coming Home: Awakening Community Resourcefulness"
Place: Shades of Harmony Farm, Kingston, Nova Scotia
Contact: Institute for Bioregional Studies,
449 University Ave., Suite 126,
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada C1A 8K3.
Phone: (902) 892-9578. Or: Michael Pilarski c/o Friends
of the Trees Society, PO Box 1064
Tonasket, Washington 98855. Phone/FAX: (509) 485-2705
*August 3-September 12, 1995
Event: ISAN Field Days
Place: Throughout Illinois
Contact: Barbara Hill Nowack (217) 476-3332
Sponsor: Illinois Sustainable Agriculture Network (ISAN)
*August 5, 1995
Event: Center for Rural Affairs Annual Meeting
Place: Seward, NE
Sponsor: Center for Rural Affairs, Walthill, NE 68067-0406
(402) 846-5428
*August 5-9, 1995
Event: Natural Resources Information Council
5th Annual Conference
Place: University Inn, Utah State University
Contact: Anne Hedrich, (801) 797-2165; annhed@cc.usu.edu
Sponsor: Natural Resources Information Council
August 6-9, 1995
Event: 50th Annual Meeting, Soil and Water Conservation Society
Place: Des Moines, Iowa
Contact: Lloyd Wright, Program Committee Chair,
Soil and Water Conservation Society
7517 NE. Ankeny Rd., Ankeny, IA 50021
Phone: (800) THE-SOIL
August 6-19, 1995
Event: "Sustainable Development for the World",
14-day intensive course.
(see related course: July 1-13)
Place: In the mountains of Tlaxala, central Mexico
Contact: Ianto Evans or Michael Smith, Zopilote Association,
Box 123, Cottage Grove, OR 97424.
Phone/FAX: (503) 942-3021
August 9-11, 1995
Event: Management Intensive Grazing School
Place: Forage Systems Research Center, Linneus, Missouri
Contact: Jim Gerrish. Phone: (816) 895-5121
*August 9-11, 1995
Event: Holistic Resource Management Conference
Place: Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, Canada
Contact: Peter Hoven (403) 746-3484 phoven@supernet.ab.ca
August 11-13, 1995
Event: NOFA 21st Annual Summer Conference
"Organic Farming: Rooted in the Dirt"
Place: Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
Contact: Julie Rawson, 411 Sheldon Road, Barre, MA 01005.
Phone: (508) 355-2853
Sponsor: Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA)
August 12, 1995
Event: PASA Summer Harvest Festival
(Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture)
Place: Walnut Acres Organic Farms, Penns Creek, PA
Contact: PASA, Box 419, Millheim, PA 16854. Phone: (814) 349-9856
*August 16-18, 1995
Event: "Holistic Resource Management in Practice: An On-Farm
Introductory Seminar in Whole Farm Planning &
Decision-making"
Place: Dan and Muriel French Farm, Mantorville, MN
Contact: Audrey Arner, (612) 269-2105
Sponsor: Land Stewardship Project
2200 4th St., White Bear Lake, MN 55110
August 17, 1995
Event: 1995 Sustainable Agriculture Tour
Place: Agriculture Research & Development Center
University of Nebraska
Contact: Pam Murray. Phone: (402) 472-2056 FAX: (402) 472-4104
csas001@unvm.unl.edu
Sponsor: Center for Sustainable Agricultural Systems, Institute of
Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Nebraska
August 18-20, 1995
Event: Eighth Annual Women's Herbal Conference
Place: Sargeant Camp, Peterborough, NH
Contact: Women's Herbal Conference, c/o Sage, P.O. Box 420,
East Barre, VT 05649 Phone: (802) 479-9825
August 30-September 9, 1995
Event: NGO Forum_Fourth UN Conference on Women,
"Women in Livestock Development"
Place: Beijing, China
Contact: Dr. Beth Miller, Heifer Project International,
1015 S. Louisiana St.,
Little Rock, AR 72203
Phone: (501) 376-6836; FAX: (501) 376-8906
Sponsor: WiLD
September 11-12, 1995
Event: "Food and Fiber Strategies for the 21st Century",
44th annual meeting of the Agricultural Research
Institute
Place: Hyatt Regency Hotel, Bethesda, Maryland
Contact: ARI, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Phone: (301) 530-7122; FAX: (301) 530-7007
*September 12-15, 1995
Event: Soil and Water Management for Urban Development
Place: Sydney Hilton, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Contact: Alison Frost, Hawkesbury Technologies Ltd., NSW 2753,
Australia 61-45-701-690; FAX: 61-45-701-686
Sponsor: Australasia Chapter of IECA,
Australian Stormwater Industry Association
*September 13-14, 1995
Event: National Teleconference on Sustainable Communities
Place: "At a downlink site near you"
Contact: Sustainable Communities Teleconference
U.S. Department of Commerce
14th and Constitution , Room 5222, Washington, DC 20230;
1-800-734-2235
Sponsor: U.S. Department of Commerce
*September 15, 1995
Event: Organic Day at Expo East
and Organic Trade Association Annual Meeting
Place: Baltimore Convention Center and Hyatt Hotel
Baltimore, MD
Sponsor: Organic Trade Association, 20 Federal St., Suite 3,
Greenfield, MA 01301 (413) 774-7511 ota@igc.apc.org
*September 16-18, 1995
Event: Natural Foods Products Expo East
Place: Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD
Contact: New Hope Communications (303) 939-8440
*September 17-18, 1995
Event: NJ Organic Country Fair
Contact: Jennifer Morgan (609) 737-6848
NOFA-NJ, 31 Titus Mill Rd., Pennington, NJ, 08534
Sponsor: Northeast Organic Farming Association-New Jersey
*September 17-19, 1995
Event: "Alligators, Organics and You: Replacing Pesticides and
Advancing Alternatives"
Place: Menlo Park, CA
Contact: Adam Kirshner, (415) 541-9140; FAX: (415) 541-9253;
panna@panna.org
PANNA, 116 New Montgomery, Suite 810
San Francisco, CA 94105;
Sponsor: Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
*September 18-22, 1995
Event: "First North American Workshop on Monitoring for
Ecological Assessment of Terrestrial and Aquatic
Ecosystems."
Place: near Mexico City
Contact: Michael J. Munster, EMAP-Agricultural Lands
1509 Varsity Drive, Raleigh, NC 27606
Sponsor: Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP)
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
The agricultural and environmental Secretariats of Mexico
Environment Canada
September 19-26, 1995
Event: International Symposium on Biodiversity of Agriculture -
for a sustainable future
Place: Beijing, China
Contact: Sandra Bukkens, Organizing Secretariat, Instituto
Nazionale della Nutrizione, Via Ardeatina 546, 00178
Rome, Italy. Phone: 39-6-50 32 421; FAX: 39-6-51 95 70 31
Giampietro@IN8800.INGRM.IT
*September 22-29, 1995
Event: Introduction to Biodynamics for Beginners in Agriculture
Place: Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
W2493 County Road ES, East Troy, WI 53120
Contact: Walter Goldstein, (414) 642-3303
Sponsor: Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
*September 29-October 1, 1995
Event: Fall Harvest Organic-Biodynamic Gardening & Food
Preserving Workshop
Place: Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
W2493 County Road ES, East Troy, WI 53120
Contact: Gail Kahovic (414) 642-3303
Sponsor: Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
October 7-8, 1995
Event: "The Politics of Sustainable Agriculture"
Place: Eugene, Oregon
Contact: Stuart Shulman, Dept. of Political Science
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1284;
stu@gladstone.uoregon.edu
October 9-10, 1995
Event: "The Summit and Beyond": NGO PrepCom for the FAO 50th
Anniversary and World Food Summit
(tentatively scheduled for March 1996 in Rome)
Place: Quebec City, Canada
Contact: Secretariat, The Summit and Beyond
c/o Canadian Hunger Foundation
323 Chapel Street, Ottawa, Canada K1N 722.
FAX: (613) 237-5969 chfott@web.apc.org
October 9-16, 1995
Event: Food and Agriculture Association (FAO) 50th Anniversary
and World Food Day, October 16.
Place: Quebec City, Canada
Contact: Symposium `95 FAO 65, Rue Sainte Anne, Bureau 100 Quebec,
Canada 61R3X5.
Phone: +418 691-7849, FAX: +418 691-7815
*October 10-11, 1995
Event: "The Next Generation of Legal, Regulatory and Marketing
Issues Facing the Organic Products Industry."
Second national business and regulatory conference on the
term organic.
Place: Claremont Resort, Oakland, CA
Contact: OFRF, P.O. Box 440, Santa Cruz, CA 95061
(408) 426-6606 FAX: (408) 426-6670
Sponsor: Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF)
October 14-15, 1995
Event: The Future Harvest Festival:
A sustainable agriculture/sustainable living fair
Place: Carroll County Fairgrounds, Westminister, Maryland
Contact: Marty Rice, Festival Coordinator,
Maryland Organic Food and Farming Association
Phone: (301) 371-4814; FAX: (301) 371-8923
October 22-25, 1995
Event: Third National Symposium, "New Crops: New Opportunities,
New Technologies"
Place: Adam's Mark Hotel, Indianapolis, Indiana
Contact: Continuing Education, Business Office, Purdue University,
1586 Stewart Center, Room 110, West Lafayette, Indiana
47907-1586. Phone: (317) 494-7220; FAX: (317) 494-0567
Sponsor: Indiana Center for New Crops and Plant Products, Purdue
University; numerous agencies and societies co-sponsors
*October 27-29, 1995
Event: MFAI's 5th Annual Urban-Rural Conference
Place: Southeastern Wisconsin (to be announced)
Contact: Gail Kahovic (414) 642-3303
Sponsor: Michael Fields Agricultural Institute (MFAI)
November 6-8, 1995
Event: "Linkages among Farming Systems and Communities",
North American Symposium, AFSRE
Place: Iowa State University
Contact: North Central Regional Center for Rural Development
317 East Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
50011-1070. Phone: (515) 294-8321. FAX: (515) 294-2303.
Sponsors: Association for Farming Systems Research-Extension
(AFSRE);
North Central Regional Center for Rural Development;
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
November 6-8, 1995
Event: 1995 International Research Conference on Methyl Bromide
Alternatives and Emissions Reduction
Place: Red Lion Inn, San Diego, California
Contact: Methyl Bromide Alternatives Outreach, P. O. Box 5377,
Fresno, California 93755.
Phone: (209) 244-4710 FAX: (209) 224-2610
Sponsor: Methyl Bromide Alternatives Outreach; co-sponsors: The
Crop Protection Coalition; USDA; EPA
*November 10-11, 1995
Event: CropKing 12th Annual Hydroponic Grower Conference
Place: Delta-Orlando Resort, Orlando, FL
Contact: Dan Brentlinger, President, P.O. Box 310
Medina, OH 44258 (216) 725-5656; FAX: (216) 722-3958
Sponsor: CropKing Inc.
November 12-14, 1995
Event: "Research and Practice: Learning to Build Sustainable
Industries for Sustainable Societies"
Place: Toronto, Canada
Contact: Greening of Industry Network Conference
Prof. Nigel Roome, Haub Program in Business and the
Environment, Faculty of Administrative Studies,
York University, 4700 Keele St.,
North York, Ontario M3J 1P3, Canada.
Phone: (416) 736-5809
*November 12-14, 1995
Event: Community Supported Agriculture Conference
Place: Fort Mason, San Francisco, CA
Contact: CSA Conference 1995, c/o CASFS, 1156 High Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
November 16-17, 1995
Event: "Environmental Enhancement through Agriculture"
Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Contact: William Lockeretz, School of Nutrition, Tufts University,
Medford, MA 02115.
Phone: (617) 627-3223; FAX: (617) 627-3887
wlockeretz@infonet.tufts.edu
Sponsor: Tufts University, Center for Agriculture, Food and
Environment; American Farmland Trust;
Henry A. Wallace Institute for Alternative Agriculture
*November 30-December 2, 1995
Event: "Celebrating 25 Years of Eco-Agriculture"
Place: Stouffer Airport Renaissance Hotel, St. Louis, MO
Contact: Acres U.S.A., P.O. Box 8800, Metairie, LA 70011-8800
(800) 355-5313; (504) 889-2100; FAX: (504) 889-2777;
acresusa@aol.com
Sponsor: Acres U.S.A.
December 12-15, 1995
Event: National Agricultural Ecosystem Management Conference
Place: New Orleans, Louisiana
Contact: Conservation Technology Information Center, 1220 Potter
Drive, Room 170, West Lafayette, Indiana 47906
Phone: (317) 494-9555 FAX: (317) 494-5969
January 19-21, 1996
Event: 1996 Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
(SAWG) Annual Conference
Place: Radisson Plaza Hotel, Lexington, Kentucky
Contact: Keith Richards, P. O. Box 324, Elkins, Arkansas 72727
Phone: (501) 292-3714; HN3551@handsnet.org
*January 24-27, 1996
Event: Ecological Farming Conference
Place: Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA
Contact: CSA, P.O. Box 838, San Martin, CA 95046
(408) 778-7366; FAX: (408) 778-7186
Sponsor: Committee for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA)
*July 8-11, 1996
Event: The First Australian New Crops Conference
New Crops, New Products, New Opportunities
Place: The University of Queensland Gatton College
Contact: Sally Brown, New Crops Conference Secretariat,
The University of Queensland, Brisbane, 4072 Australia
Ph: (07) 365 6360 (int + 617 3657099) Sally@ceu.uq.oz.au
*August 11-15, 1996
Event: 11th IFOAM Scientific Conference & 1st Organic World
Exhibition
Place: Copenhagen, Denmark
Contact: Secretariat: ifoam'96, Blegdamsvej 4,
DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark.
45 3537 2096; FAX: 45 3537 4096; ifoam96@login.dknet.dk
Sponsor: Danish Association of Organic Agriculture
International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements
(IFOAM)
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 Calendar,
Room 304, National Agricultural Library, 10301 Baltimore Boulevard,
Beltsville, MD 20705-2351; FAX: (301) 504-6409 san@nalusda.gov
APPENDIX
Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program Regional
Research Grants Schedules
The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program
awards grants on a competitive basis for research, education, and
extension training projects in sustainable agriculture. Grants are
also available to agricultural producers (farmers, ranchers, etc.)
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 included here are for
the 1995 grant year. Schedules for 1996 will be similar, and will
be listed as they become available. Following are the addresses of
the Regional centers:
North Central Region Western Region
Steven S. Waller, Coordinator Phil Rasmussen, Coordinator
13-A Activities Bld Ag Systems Technology
Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln Utah State University
Lincoln, NE 68583-0704 Logan, UT 84322-2300
(402) 472-7081 (801) 797-2230
FAX: (402) 472-0280 FAX: (801) 797-4002
Internet: agdn009@unlvm.unl.edu Internet: soilcomp@cc.usu.edu
Northeast Region Southern Region
Frederick R. Magdoff, Gerald F. Arkin, Co-Coordinator
Coordinator Contact Paula Ford, Program Mgr.
Dept. of Plant & Soil Science University of Georgia
University of Vermont Agriculture Experiment Station
Burlington, VT 05405 Griffin, GA 30223-1797
(802) 656-2630; F:(802) 656-4656 (404) 412-4787; F:(404)412-4789
msimpson@moose.uvm.edu sareace@gaes.griffin.peachnet.edu
NORTH CENTRAL REGION: IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD
and WI
January 23, 1995 Deadline for receiving full proposal
February 1, 1995 Producer Grant applications available
from the Regional Office
March 8-10, 1995 Administrative Council meets to evaluate
proposals
March, 8-10, 1995 Technical Committee meets to evaluate
proposals
April 3-5, 1995 Recommendation for project funding by
Administrative Council
May 1, 1995 Producer Grant Applications are due
July, 1995 Producer Grant awards to be announced
Fall, 1995 Call for Proposals Issued
SOUTHERN REGION: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, OK, PR, SC, TN,
TX, VA and VI
January, 1995 Full Proposal due at the Host Consortium
Producer-Initiated Grants due at Host
Consortium
Feb.27-March 1, 1995 Technical Committee meets to evaluate
proposals
March 13, 1995 Administrative Council reviews proposals
and approves for funding
June, 1995 Call for proposals for: research grants,
producer initiated grants and training
grants goes out in Region's newsletter.
(Anyone wishing this notification, who is
not already on the mailing list, should
call the Southern Region office)
WESTERN REGION: AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, NM, OR, UT,
WA, WY and the Island Protectorates
January 9, 1995 Distribution of Producer Initiated Grants
Calls for Proposal (CFP)
January 10, 1995 Deadline for Submission of Chapter 3
proposals
March 6-7, 1995 Chapter 1 Technical Review Committee meets
March 8-9, 1995 Chapter 3 Technical Review Committee meets
(Tentative)
March 27-28, 1995 Administrative Council Meets to consider
Chapter 1 & 3 proposals
August 21-24, 1995 Administrative Council Strategic Planning
Retreat (will also consider
Producer-Initiated-Grants)
Fall, 1995 Call for Proposals Issued
NORTHEAST REGION: CT, DE, ME, MD, MA, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, WV
January 2, 1995 SARE Training (Extension) Proposals due
January 13, 1995 SARE/ACE Research & Education Proposals
due
January 20, 1995 Farmer/Grower Grants due
January 26, 1995 Northeast SARE Administrative Council
meets, Elizabeth, NJ
February 24, 1995 Northeast SARE Extension Coordinators
meet, Syracuse, NY
March 19-21, 1995 Northeast SARE Technical Committee meets
March 21-23, 1995 Northeast SARE Administrative Council
meets
Early April, 1995 Funding decisions for all Northeast SARE
& ACE Competitive Grants will be released.
Fall, 1995 Call for Proposals Issued