ONGOING
The Alabama Cooperative Extension System offers
workshops on a wide variety of topics.
Check
their calendar.
The Sustainable Agriculture
Research and Education Program now offers an online continuing
education program for agricultural educators.
http://sare.org/coreinfo/ceprogram.htm
eOrganic offers regular webinars on
organic production. Visit
http://www.extension.org/article/25242 to register for new
workshop topics or access archived webinars. Featuring topics
such as: Using NRCS Conservation Practices to
Transition to Organic, Planning for Flexibility in Crop
Rotations, and Planning Your Organic Farm for Profit.
The National
Good Food Network hosts monthly interactive webinars the
third Thursday of every month that give you the opportunity to
learn and connect with on-the-ground practitioners and experts.
Past webinars are available through the archives.
ngfn.org
Jones Valley
Urban Farm hosts regular workshops for urban farmers,
community gardeners, and eaters. Visit their calendar to see
what is happening.
jvuf.org/calendar.php
JANUARY
January
10-11. Manchester, TN. Direct Marketing Sense.
Two-day workshop for farmers
interested in direct marketing products to consumers. For more
information contact mlbruch@utk.edu or 931-486-2777.
January
20-21. Little Rock, AR. Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working
Group annual conference.
www.ssawg.org
January 23.
Meridian, MS. Alabama/Mississippi Grass-Fed Beef Value Chain
Exploration Workshop.
Space is limited – contact Andrew Williams at 334-216-1344 or
Andrewwilliams66@yahoo.com to reserve a space.
January 26. Mobile, AL. Gulf
Coast Fruit and Vegetable Conference. 251-574-8445.
January 26-27. Nashville,
TN. Tennessee Horticulture Expo.
www.tnthe.com/THE/Home.html
FEBRUARY
February 4.
Auburn, AL. 17th
Annual Auburn University Beekeeping Symposium.
Contact 334-844-4450 or
mahrodo@auburn.edu
February
10-11. Auburn, AL. Alabama Fruit and Vegetable Growers
Association annual conference.
www.aces.edu/afvga
February 24-25. Columbus, GA. Georgia Organics Annual
Conference. ASAN is jointly sponsoring this year's meeting!
More details are in
our latest
newsletter or visit
www.georgiaorganics.org.
If you’ve ever attended a Georgia Organics conference, you’ll
know to expect really useful workshop sessions and farm tours,
and at least a thousand people like you (this time from both
Alabama and Georgia) to learn from and network with. Plus great
local/organic food. Keynote speakers will be Will Allen, founder
and CEO of Growing Power, Inc., a farm and community food center
in Milwaukee, and Chef Michel Nischan, food policy advocate and
founder of the non-profit Wholesome Wave. Plus –
you’ll get a deep discount on registration if you are a paid-up
ASAN member! All current paid ASAN memberships at $25 or more
will count as 2012 memberships.
The conference will include Alabama farm tours, Alabama
presenters (including ASAN board members Sherry Johnson and
Edwin Marty), and two specifically Alabama-centric workshop
sessions, one on food policy work in Alabama and the other an
all-Alabama call to energize a naturally-grown/organic and local
food movement where we live. For more info go to
georgiaorganics.org.
If you are an ASAN member in good standing we’ve arranged for
you in the next week or two to get a special edition of the
Georgia Organics print newsletter, The Dirt, presenting more
conference details.
Also, please – if you live within reasonable commuting distance
of Columbus and would like to offer hospitality to farmers
coming from afar and unable to afford hotel rates, please let us
know. Email
info@asanonline.org.
MARCH
March 6-7.
Raymond, MS. 2012 Greenhouse Tomato Short Course.
greenhousetomatosc.com/
March 30.
Huntsville, AL. Alabama Cattlemens Association Annual
Conference.
www.bamabeef.org
BEYOND
April 19.
Chattanooga, TN. George T. Hunter Lecture Series presents
Michael Pollan.
www.benwood.org
July 27-29.
Kissimmee, FL. Florida Small Farms and Alternative Enterprises
Conference.
conference.ifas.ufl.edu/smallfarms/
