From london@calypso-2.oit.unc.eduTue Feb  6 21:00:14 1996
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 14:31:09 -0500 (EST)
From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <london@calypso-2.oit.unc.edu>
To: london@sunsite.unc.edu
Subject: 1996 sustag calendar


From: Andy Clark, SAN Coordinator <san@nal.usda.gov>
To: sanet-mg <sanet-mg@amani.ces.ncsu.edu>
Cc: Sustainable Agriculture Network <san@nal.usda.gov>,
    Wallace INST <hawiaa@access.digex.net>
Subject: Alternative Agriculture News, 2/96

                         Alternative Agriculture News
                                February, 1996

                        Henry A. Wallace Institute for
                            Alternative Agriculture
                           9200 Edmonston Road, #117
                             Greenb elt, MD 20770
                                (301) 441-8777
                        E-mail: hawiaa@access.digex.net

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If You Are Interested in Sustainable Agriculture...
      In addition to this monthly newsletter, the Henry A. Wallace
Institute for Alternative Agriculture publishes the American
Journal of Alternative Agriculture, a quarterly, peer-reviewed
journal of research on alternative agriculture.  It is a
scientific forum for disseminating technical, economic, and
social research findings about the character and requirements of
alternative agriculture systems.  
      Articles in the last issue covered the Wisconsin integrated
cropping systems trial; farmers' markets and the local community;
the compatibility of domestic birds with a nonchemical
agroecosystem; Minnesota extension agents' knowledge and views of
alternative agriculture; Sweden's sustainable alternatives for
swine production; and transition from conventional to alternative
agriculture in Pakistan.  
      Annual subscriptions to AJAA are $44, institutions; $24,
individuals; and $12, students.  For more information or a single
copy, contact the Wallace Institute, 9200 Edmonston Road, #117,
Greenbelt, MD 20770; (301) 441-8777; e-mail
hawiaa@access.digex.net

UPCOMING EVENTS
      March 4-5, "Consumers, Industry and Government: Shifting
Responsibility for Food Policy," the 19th Annual National Food
Policy Conference, will be held in Washington, D.C.; contact
Public Voice for Food and Health Policy, 1101 14th St., NW, #710,
Washington, D.C. 20005; (202) 371-1840.
      March 6-8, "Composting/Recycling...50% and Beyond" will be
held in Seattle, WA; contact BioCycle, 419 State Ave., Emmaus, PA
18049; 1-800-661-4905.
      March 7, Sustainable Cotton Conference will be held in
Bakersfield, CA; contact Committee for Sustainable Agriculture--
Cotton, P.O. Box 2371, Davis, CA 95617-2371; (916) 756-6967.
      March 7-December 7, workshops and activities will be held on
teaching skills for working oxen or draft horses, low-capital
farming, blacksmithing, woodworking, and overseas applications;
for a catalog, contact Tillers International, 5239 South 24th
St., Kalamazoo, MI 49002; (616) 344-3233.
      March 7-10, Bio Fach '96 will be held in Frankfurt, Germany;
contact Sunder & Rottner, Von-Vollmar-Str.4, D-91154 Roth,
Germany; phone +49 (0) 9171-4011.
      March 9, "Sustaining the Vision," the Northeast Organic
Farming Association of New Jersey's Winter Conference, will be
held in New Brunswick, N.J.; contact NOFA-NJ, 31 Titus Mill Road,
Pennington, N.J. 08534; (609) 737-6848.
      March 10-13, National Conference on Rural Assistive
Technology will be held in Indianapolis, IN; contact Breaking New
Ground Resource Center, 1146 Agricultural Engineering Building,
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 48907-1146; 1-800-825-4264.
      March 15 is the deadline for paper and posters for "Changing
Agricultural Opportunities: The Role of Farming Systems
Approaches," to be held November 11-16, Colombo, Sri Lanka;
contact Symposium Coordinator Secretariat, 14th International
Symposium on Sustainable Farming Systems, P.O. Box 42, Socio
Economic and Planning Centre, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka; phone 94-8-
88798; e-mail Sympo@deptag.ac.lk
      March 15 is the deadline for presentation proposals for
"Branching Out: Linking Communities through Gardening," to be
held in Montreal, Canada, September 26-29; contact American
Community Gardening Association Conference, c/o San Francisco
League of Urban Gardeners, 2088 Oakdale Ave., San Francisco, CA
94124; (415) 285-7584.
      March 16-17, "It's Simple...Farms=Food" will be held in New
Concord, OH; contact Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association,
P.O. Box 82234, Columbus, OH 43202; (614) 294-3663.
      March 18-20, "Connecting Our Farms and Gardens with Urban
Growth" will be held in Rockbridge County, VA; contact Tomorrow's
Farms Conference, Sedalia Center, Route 1, Box 687, Big Island,
VA 24526-9735; (804) 299-5080.
      March 20-23, "Composting Makes Compost" will be held at Olds
College, Alberta, Canada; contact Tom Clark, (403) 556-4644; Kim
Ayrton, (403) 556-4745, at Olds College, 4500 50 Street Olds,
Alberta T4H 1R6 Canada.
      March 22-27, 61st North American Wildife and Natural
Resources Conference will be held in Tulsa, OK; contact the
Wildlife Management Institute, 1101 14th St., NW,
#801,Washington, D.C. 20005; (202) 371-1808.
      November 14-17, "Seeds of Hope in a Changing Agriculture," a
farmers dialogue on healing conflicts and solving problems, will
be held in St. Paul, MN; the dialogue, featuring farmers from
North and South America, and Europe, is the fourth in a series of
international conferences; contact The Farmers Dialogue, 661
Western Ave., St. Paul, MN 55103; (612) 698-7382.

