WHAT IS PEACEFUL PASTURES? Peaceful Pastures is a direct market, all natural, grass fed, meat business producing and selling beef, lamb, goat, pork, duck and turkey. All of the species are pastured in the 300 acre scenic valley where we live. In addition, we maintain and manage an additional 2200 acres and over 400 cow/calf […]
Month: February 2012
Open Invitation to Online Discussion of Sustainable Agriculture
ASAP has been working with a group affiliated with the Inter-institutional Network on Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems ( (INFAS) http://asi.ucdavis.edu/programs/infas) to engage folks in a cross cutting discussion of agriculture. This is an educational experiment that will be run as a Massively Open Online Course or MOOC. We are launching this experiment Feb 21 […]
Champaign Policy Workshop
The Central IL Policy Workshop is this Sunday! We will learn some state policy basics and discuss hydraulic fracturing, Tenaska coal gasification, DNR fees, and other environmental bills currently before our General Assembly this year. We will prepare for our annual lobby day on March 29 by role playing, eating chocolate, and playing policy bingo. Sounds fun, right? I think […]
Bloomington-Normal Co-op Development – Public Meeting on March 6th
Would you like to see a cooperative grocery store that sells healthy, locally grown foods here in Bloomington-Normal? If your answer is “YES,” please join us for a community organizing meeting to learn more about cooperative grocery stores — and what it will take to open a community-owned co-op in Bloomington-Normal. COMMUNITY CO-OP MEETING WHEN: […]
eOrganic Weed Control Webinar TOMORROW
There’s still time to register for the webinar tomorrow on Cultivation and Seed Bank Management for Improved Weed Control by Eric Gallandt, of the University of Maine. The presenter will discuss tools and techniques that can improve cultivation efficacy, as well as practices that can reduce the weed seedbank and thus the initial density of […]
REU program at Alabama A&M University
Alabama A&M University is pleased to announce to invite applications from undergraduate students to participate in a National Science Foundation supported summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program. The REU site at Alabama A&M University (AAMU) is an international program which will provide a ten-week research experience to undergraduates beginning May 16-July 21, 2012. Students […]
Rural Economic Development Conference
March seventh and eighth is the twenty-third annual Rural Economic Development Conference in Peoria, IL. This years event is structured with four topics: Rural Illinois in a Different Economic Climate, Successful Community Development Strategies, Innovative Community Practices, and Workshops on Community and Economic Development. Each section has five to six presentations. The link below will take you […]
CENTRAL ILLINOIS SMALL GARDEN GRANT PROGRAM
2012 REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS The Central Illinois office of Faith in Place is pleased to announce a competitive grants program to support community gardens in Central Illinois. These small grants are intended to help new community gardens get established in the counties of Champaign, Vermilion, Douglas, Coles, Edgar, Piatt, Moultrie, Macon, DeWitt and Sangamon. Grants […]
Are benefits of berries pie in the sky?
Kaume et al. provide tremendous insight to the biochemical properties of the blackberry and their medical application. The phenolic properties have potential to be implicated in range of manners including: anitobesity, antidiabetic, antimicrobial, and anti-inflammatory. As Kaume et al. mention, little research is underway concerning these properties. If the appropriate research was undertaken,it seems health […]
GRANT SIREN: USDA Rural Energy Systems and Energy Efficiency Improvements
The USDA grant is geared towards Agriculture producers as well as the small farmer/business owner that has 50 % or more of their gross income from agriculture operations. Specifically, the award is geared towards renewable energy and energy efficiency upgrades. See below: Grant $iren Below you will find information regarding an exceptional grant funding opportunity that Resource […]