Next week The Agricultural Watershed Institute invites you to celebrate the 8th Annual Sangamon Watershed Celebration at Shilling Center at Richland Community College. Taking place on the 27-28, with a buffet on the 27th, a Friday, starting at 6. There will also be exhibits and auctions, with the band Switchback taking the stage at 7:30. […]
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House Prepares to Discuss Farm Bill
One in a continuing series of posts concerning the 2012 Farm Bill In the last two weeks the Farm Bill has passed from the Senate to the House, with the latter preparing to take the bill to the House Agriculture Committee later this week for deliberations that might decide whether the bill is passed before […]
Monday Funday
Howdy everybody, hope your week’s getting off to a good start. I bring to you, for your viewing pleasure, a neat little tool put out by LocalHarvest.com, which you can use to look up farmers markets, grocery co-ops and other such things of the like in your area. I tooled around with it for a […]
NSAIS Field Day in Sidney, Illinois
The Central Illinois Sustainable Farming Network will be hosting a workshop focusing on pasture management, animal health, and livestock production in Sidney, IL (very close to C-U!) on June 9th. The workshop will feature a tour of Bane Family Meats and Rush Creek Farms, led by Jennifer and Andrew Miller of Rush Creek Farms. I […]
Check Out the Food Environment Atlas
New from our friends at the United States Department of Agriculture is the Food Environment Atlas, a very interesting tool that allows the comparison of dozens of variables, such as the availability of farmers markets, the rate of diabetes and even the price of milk on as detailed as a county-by-county level. Not only is […]
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 […]
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 […]
EBI External Seminar – TODAY
EBI External Seminar “Perspectives on BP’s Commitment to Energy Biosciences and the EBI” Steve Pietsch BP 612 IGB 3:00 pm The seminar should shed interesting light on BP’s outlook and future goals for the Energy Biosciences. This could give foresight to where alternative energy research initiative will be in the coming years. Reception to follow
Peaceful Pastures Internships
Peaceful Pastures is offering summer internships in three different disciplines. Two to four inters will be hired for each position. Large Animal/Pre-Vet Internships Hands on Learning Our longest standing internships offer hands on experience with beef cattle, sheep, meat goats and pigs. In addition, students can continue to build their veterinary […]
Stone Barns Center (Tarrytown, NY) – Growing Farmers Initiative department
Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is a non-profit farm and education center located just 25 miles north of Manhattan in Pocantico Hills, New York. Stone Barns operates an 80-acre four-season farm and is working on broader initiatives to create a healthy and sustainable food system. Through our Growing Farmers Initiative, children¹s education programs, […]