Calendar

* SAREP WEB CALENDAR

SAREP offers a regularly updated sustainable agriculture calendar on our World Wide Web site at: www.sarep.ucdavis.edu (click on “Outreach/Calendar”). Please feel free to add sustainable agriculture events.

* NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL CALENDAR

The National Agricultural Library maintains a calendar as part of AgNIC at www.agnic.org It links to more than 1,200 major national and international agricultural conferences.

* MONTHLY MEETINGS

Lighthouse Farm Network The Community Alliance with Family Farmers Foundation sponsors informal monthly meetings for growers to discuss issues related to pesticide use reduction. Contact: Reggie Knox, CAFF, (831) 457-1007, reggie@cruzio.com.

SEPTEMBER

19 School Gardens Workshop Series: Insects & Other Critters, UC Davis Plant Science Teaching Center & Student Farm, 3:30 p.m.-6 p.m. For teachers, parents, volunteers working with school gardens to enhance elementary school garden projects/integrate them into curriculum. Contact: Carol Hillhouse, (530) 752-7655. $10.

OCTOBER

2 School Garden Workshop Series: Gardens for Good Nutrition, UC Davis Plant Science Teaching Center & Student Farm, 3:30 p.m.-6 p.m. See Sept. 19 listing.

2-3 Living on the Land: A Conference for Agricultural and Natural Resource Educators, Reno, Nevada. Aimed at ag & natural resource educators from extension, NRCS, resource conservation districts who work with small landowners. Includes educational resource package/curriculum aimed at helping small acreage landowners manage their land more sustainably. Contact: Holly George, (530) 283-6262, hageorge@ucdavis.edu.

6-9 Taking Back the Food System: Strategies for Healthy Food, Farms & Communities, Community Food Security Coalition's 5th Annual Conference, Washington, D.C. Coincides with legislative process of US Farm Bill. Focus is on policy at all levels to build healthy farms, communities, food systems. Congressional reception, keynotes, workshops, field trips. Speakers include Gus Shumacher, Michelle Mascarenhas, Mohammed Nuru, Julie Paradis, Mark Ritchie. Discount for registration by Sept. 14; limited scholarships. Information: www.foodsecurity.org , or CFSC, PO Box 209, Venice CA 90294, fax (310) 822-1440.

19-21 Bioneers Conference: Revolution from the Heart of Nature—Improving the Environment by Changing the World. Marin Center, San Rafael, Calif. Workshops include: restaurants as agents of change, investigative reporting, preventing breast cancer, saving biodiversity's treasures, thyroid & environmental poisons, medicinal herbs, art/gardening in prisons, African-American horticultural heroines. Contact: Bioneers, 901 W. San Mateo Rd., Ste. L, Santa Fe, NM; Tel (toll free): (877) 246-6337 or (505) 986-0366; Fax: (505) 986-1644; info@bioneers.org, www.bioneers.org

23-25 Oaks in California's Changing Landscape, Bahia Resort Hotel, San Diego. 78 papers at concurrent sessions on oak woodland ecology, oak restoration, wildlife relations, oak conservation policy, urban forestry, grazing relations, fire relations, damaging agents, genetics, monitoring. General session with 9 papers on sudden oak death; poster session/reception. Registration: contact Joni Rippee, (510) 642-0095; rippee@nature.berkeley.edu. Web site: http://danr.ucop.edu/ihrmp/symposium.html

29 USDA SARE presentation/poster applications due for the October 2002 “On The Road to Sustainable Agriculture” conference, Raleigh, NC. Web site: http://www.griffin.peachnet.edu/sare/

NOVEMBER

1 UC SAREP Organic Farming Research Workgroup meeting, Davis. New research information, funding initiatives, conferences, potential partnerships will be discussed. To participate contact: Sean Swezey, SAREP, (530) 752-7556 or 752-2379, findit@cats.ucsc.edu

DECEMBER

7-9 Northeast Community Supported Agriculture Conference III, Frost Valley Environmental Education Center, Claryville, New York. To strengthen existing CSAs, help new ones. Workshops, tools, resources, display area, trade show, youth programs, regional food. Cost: $150-$280. Contact: Robyn Van En Center for CSA Resources, Wilson College Center for Sustainable Living, 1015 Philadelphia Ave., Chambersburg, PA 17201; (717) 261-2880; info@csacenter.org, www.csacenter.org