Calendar
SAREP offers a regularly updated sustainable agriculture calendar on our World Wide Web Site at: http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/ (clic on "events"). Please feel free to add sustainable agriculture events to our Web site calendar.
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: Jill Klein, CAFF, (530) 756-8518.
October
19-24 2nd International Congress for Vector Ecology, Orlando, FL. Contact: Gilbert Challet, PO Box 87, Santa Ana, CA 92702; Tel: (714) 971-2421, ext. 148; Fax: (714) 971-3940.
November
2-5 Food & Natural Resource Systems: Integrating Diversity, Inquiry, Action & People, 3rd North American Conference of the Assoc. for Farming Systems Research & Extension, in collaboration with Oregon State Univer. & Washington State Univer., Welches, Ore. Sessions on crop & livestock production, community food systems, watersheds, farming the urban fringe. Whole systems research featured in posters, displays, stories, town meeting facilitated discussion. Field tours. Contact: OMIT Agricultural Research Foundation, Stefan Seiter, Horticulture Dept., OSU, ALS 4017, Corvallis, OR 97331; (541) 737-5442; or Ray William, (541) 737-5441.
3-5 Annual Internat'l Research Conference on Methyl Bromide Alternatives & Emissions Reductions, San Diego. Sponsors: Methyl Bromide Alternatives Outreach, The Crop Protection Coalition, US-EPA, US Dept. of Agriculture. Contact: Methyl Bromide Alternatives Outreach, (209) 447-2127.
14-15 1997 Conference on Urban/Rural Environmental, Food, Population and Agricultural Issues. Kellogg West Conference Center, California State University, Pomona. Contact: Ardith Barr (909) 869-2212, email: ajbarr@csu.pomona.edu.
14-16 12th Annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference, Carolina Farm Stewardship Assoc., Hendersonville, North Carolina. Contact: Carolina Farm Stewardship Assoc., PO Box 448, Pitttsboro, NC 27312; (919) 542-2402; cfsa@sunsite.unc.edu.
January 1998
7 42nd Annual Tomato Day, UC Davis. 8:30 a.m.-noon. Covers many aspects of tomato production. Information: (530) 754-9618.
9-10 17th annual Oklahoma Horticulture Industries Show, Northeast Campus, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK. Educational programs/trade show activities for Oklahoma & surrounding states producers. Contact: Dean McCraw, Dept. of Horticulture & L.A., OSU, Tel: 405-744-5409.
21-24 18th Annual Ecological Farming Conference, Asilomar, CA. Bus tour Wed.; workshops, speakers Thurs.-Sat. Contact: Committee for Sustainable Agriculture, 406 Main St., Ste. 313, Watsonville, CA 95076; Tel: 408-763-2111, Fax: 408-763-2112.
28-Feb. 1 3rd Annual Herb Business Winter Getaway Conference, San Antonio, TX. Sponsor: Herbal Growing & Marketing Network. Contact: The Herbal Connection, PO Box 245, Silver Spring, PA 17575; (717) 393-3295; HERBWORLD@aol.com.
March
5-6 Building on a Decade of Sustainable Agriculture & Education: Sharing Experiences to Improve our Agriculture, conference, Austin, TX. Sponsor: USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE) program. Poster session, presentations, discussion groups, speakers, field trips, exhibitors. Contact: SARE, 0322 Symons Hall, Univer. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-5565; (301) 405-5270; email: vberton@wam.md.edu; Web site: http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/san/.
June
4-7 Joint Annual Meeting Agriculture, Food & Human Values Society, & Assoc. for the Study of Food & Society, San Francisco. Topics: food, dietary, nutritional behaviors; food & ag practices; ethical & values issues in food & ag; public policies. Papers, posters, panels sought (deadline Mar. 1). Contact: Jacqueline Newman, Queens College, CUNY, Dept. of Family Nutrition and Exercise Science, 6530 Kisssena Blvd., Queens, NY 11367; tel: (718) 997-4150; fax: (718) 997-4163; email: newman@qcvaxa.acc.qc.edu.
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