SARE Resources:

• ​What is sustainable agriculture? Website and downloadable report​

• SARE Cover Crops Videos, featuring local North Central Florida producers 

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UF/IFAS Resources:

• NEW! Easy as PIE Webinar on the GMO Food labeling bill 

• UF/IFAS has a course to help you promote your products as local food to your consumers. To take the course, contact your local Extension office. Related press releases: 

  • UF/IFAS helps local farmers break into the local food movement

  • "Local food opinion leaders" can help bridge gap between farmers, consumers

• UF/IFAS Sustainable Living

  • Agriculture

    • Organic Production

      • Making the Transition from Conventional to Organic Farming Using Conservation Tillage in Florida

      • Natural Products for Insect Pest Management

• UF/IFAS Agricultural Best Management Practices.

  • Their resource library: http://lyra.ifas.ufl.edu/LIB

• Moving Nurseries toward Sustainability (video series)

• UF/IFAS Center for Public Issues Education, Agriculture Section: http://www.piecenter.com/issues/agriculture/

• UF/IFAS Public Issues and Education (PIE) Center: Promoting Specialty Crops as Local (video)

• Gulf Coast Research & Education Center Vegetable Production Handbook for Florida

• Berry Vegetable Times Newsletter

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Other Farmer's Markets Resources:

• Beginner Farmer and Rancher Development Program

• Community Food Projects

• Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive program (FINI)

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Other Websites:

• Duval County Food Policy Council

• Field to Market - Features a Sustainability “Fieldprint Calculator” to “ visualize and assess how efficiencies and environmental impacts fluctuate based on various management decisions”: https://www.fieldtomarket.org/

• Keystone Policy Center - Projects highlighting “collaboration and coalition-based work [which] are essential to finding solutions to the complex and vexing problems facing modern agriculture”: https://www.keystone.org/our-work/agriculture/

• Florida Small Farms: www.floridasmallfarms.org

• eXtension Resource Areas

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Other Webinars:

• Webinars by eOrganic on eXtension.org

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Other Reports and Documents:

• Center for a Livable Future: benefits and barriers to increased institutional procurement of regionally and sustainably produced food.       

• USDA Marketing- Economics of Local Food Systems toolkit.

Agrilinks Pocket Guides for Smallholder farms for adapting to climate change (Note: these were written for Extension professionals but serve as a good resource for all):

• Extension Practice for Agricultural Adaptation: 

• Managing Water Resources 

• Managing Soils – to be released

• Managing Crops – to be released

NC State Unversity Publications and Resources:

• Adding Value to Local Food: https://content.ces.ncsu.edu/adding-value-to-local-food

• NCState Tourism Extension: https://tourism.ces.ncsu.edu/

• NCState Fork2Farmer partnerships with local chefs initiative and video series: https://localfood.ces.ncsu.edu/local-food-marketing-markets/fork2farmer-initiative/

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Other Conferences:

• Annual Urban Food Systems Conference: http://www.urbanfoodsystemssymposium.org/

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Other Tools:

• Calculate your water footprint using AgroClimate’s calculator: http://agroclimate.org/tools/Water-Footprint/

• New Business Planning Manual for Organic Transition: http://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Books/Organic-Transition​

• Building Local Food Systems Topic Brief Now Available: http://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Topic-Rooms/Farm-to-Table-Building-Local-and-Regional-Food-Systems

• Siskiyou Sustainable Cooperative CSA App: https://mobile-csa.herokuapp.com/

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