Monday, January 7, 2008

History of Organic Farming

Organic Farming Background: Sir Albert Howard, Louis Bromfield etc., an excellent article

Liebzig: "Law of the minimum"
Howard: "Law of return"

The Organic Movement


International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements (IFOAM)

The IFOAM Organic Training Platform

The Rodale Institute
- 10 ways to support organic agriculture

MOSES Organic Fact Sheets

Assignment #1: Where have you been, where are you at, and where are you going.

Due: Thursday, Jan 17th

Write at least two pages, single spaced, and no longer than four pages, addressing the above as it relates to you and organic farming.

Spend no more than 2 paragraphs on where you have been; the question to answer is “why are you here today”.

The object is for you to give serious thought to this; and will be graded not for grammar or penmanship, and not so much on organization, but for sincerity and thoughtfulness of ideas. The benefit to you should be that many find that the actual writing down of ideas means looking at things in a different way than from the “internal dialog” of thinking about things.

These will be kept confidential.