NEWS AND RESOURCES FROM THE FIELD
To encourage light summer browsing, this issue is composed almost entirely of quicklinks. May your summer be pleasant and uneventful..especially our friends in the midwest!
June 25, 2008
IN THIS ISSUE
EVENTS
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Many events are featured on the website calendar of our partners at ATTRA
http://www.attra.org/calendar/index.php
FUNDING
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Funding Opportunities Listed on the ATTRA Website
http://attra.ncat.org/funding/
IN THE NEWS
2008 Farm Bill Wrap Ups
- Summary of Farm Bill Wins from the National Campaign
http://tinyurl.com/4t762c - Farm Bill Analysis by Annette Higby, National Campaign’s Policy
Coordinator
http://tinyurl.com/3wbkz8 - Outcomes for the Sustainable Agriculture Coalition's Policy
Platform in the New Farm Bill
http://tinyurl.com/3kvvfo - Update from Michael Pollan
Featuring a summary from Deb Eschemeyer, Marketing & Media Manager of the National Farm to School Network and the Center for Food & Justice.
http://tinyurl.com/6578ke - Why we need the Farm Bill, by Gus Schumacher
http://tinyurl.com/5ed9yz
Presidential Politics
- Barack's Chili
Talking farm and food politics with the candidate
http://tinyurl.com/57zt9o - Will the Food Crisis Finally Get the Attention of Presidential
Candidates?
http://www.agmatters.net/attachments/Presidential.doc
Acting Locally
- San Francisco Breaks Ground on July 1 for Slow Food Nation
Victory Garden
http://tinyurl.com/648tb2 - Seattle Hospitals Purchasing Local, Sustainable Food
http://tinyurl.com/5a3zss - On the Trail of a Sustainable Feast in Sonoma
http://tinyurl.com/5wgbfd
RESOURCES AND OPPORTUNITIES
- The White House Organic Farm Project (WhoFarm)
This project is modeled on the Edible Schoolyard, with kids and people with physical/mental disabilities tending. A massive Petition, along with an open-source, creative commons liscensed farm development and operating manual will be delivered to our 44th President-elect in early November. They are seeking volunteers in NYC from July 2-July 13 for the kickoff.
www.TheWhoFarm.org - Fulbright Scholar Program: Deadline Approaching
The August 1 deadline for Fulbright Scholar Program grants in the traditional program is approaching.
www.cies.org. - Pew Commission Report on Industrial Farm Animal Production in
America
Summary: http://tinyurl.com/6yuzar
Full Report: http://tinyurl.com/4kutwh - IATP Fact Sheet: 10 Myths From the Mainstream Media About U.S.
Farm Policy
http://tinyurl.com/5ua2rz - The New Agritourism: Hosting Community and Tourists on your Farm
shows how farmers who are succeeding operate their successful agritourism enterprises, and how other farms can, also.
http://www.nwpub.net - Guide to Funding Healthy Food Retail Outlets
Planning for Healthy Places introduces “Funding Sources for Healthy Food Retail,” a new online searchable guide to California and federal funding programs
http://www.healthyplanning.org/foodretailfunding.html - Assessing fuel efficiency and CO2 emissions of two local food
distribution options in Iowa
A study comparing energy efficiency of farmer delivery or customer pick-up of food products for an Iowa Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) enterprise.
http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs/staff/files/fuel0608.pdf - Family Farmer Organization
Al Schmitz of the Family Farmer Organization invites all interested in their work to contact him.
http://www.agmatters.net/attachments/1.zip - Fueling Disaster: A Community Food Security Perspective on
Agrofuels
http://foodsecurity.org/Fueling_Disaster.pdf and http://www.worldhungeryear.org/fslc/pubs/fueling_disaster.pdf - The World According to Monsanto
Journalist Marie-Monique Robin takes on a farm industry supervillain
http://wideeyecinema.com/?p=105
Interview with the filmaker:
http://www.montrealmirror.com/2008/052208/film1.html - Do food miles matter?
The benefits of eating locally grown food may not extend to curbing global warming, according to a comprehensive study of greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. food.
http://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/journals/esthag-w/2008/apr/science/ee_foodmiles.html - Follow That French Fry: Food Miles and Roadway Damage
A report from the Texas Department of Transportation
http://www.dot.state.tx.us/publications/government_and_public_affairs/french_fry.pdf - "Getting a Grip" New Book by Frances Moore Lappe.
http://www.smallplanet.org/ - Rodale's LaSalle urges expansion of organic farming to mitigate
impacts of warming
Could organic farming help to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the United States? Timothy LaSalle, CEO of the Rodale Institute, discusses research conducted by Rodale that shows significant declines in greenhouse gas emissions when organic farming practices are used. LaSalle responds to critics who say organic farming is unsustainable and produces smaller crop yields. He discusses the impact rising food prices may have on the future of the organic farming industry and explains what, he believes, needs to be done legislatively to help promote organic farming. see
http://www.eenews.net/tv/video_guide/796
QUICKLINKS
- Organic Farming Research Foundation Grantmaking Tops $2 Million
http://tinyurl.com/6m4bf2 - Shoppin' in the Label-Free World
Dan Sullivan, eco-activist and online editor (check out www.newfarm.org), sings about the dangers of genetically modified foods and the USDA's tepid response
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OiDgejbUSHA - Banking on Gardening
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/11/dining/11garden.html?_r=1&oref=slogin - The Rise of the 'Locavore'
How the strengthening local food movement is reshaping farms and food retailing
http://tinyurl.com/6n8ups - American Companies Expanding Farming in Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/6lsnlp - Genetic engineering – a crop of hyperbole
http://tinyurl.com/64dspg
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