Agricultural Resources Center
The Agricultural Resources Center advocates for alternatives to toxic pesticides in North Carolina by empowering people to make sound decisions about their health and environment. Visit our site to get more informed about pesticide and toxic chemical issues, to take action on these issues in NC, or to get more involved!
Agricultural Resources Center & Pesticide Education Project
The Agricultural Resources Center advocates for alternatives to toxic pesticides in North Carolina by empowering people to make sound decisions about their health and environment. The website contains information on why pesticides are harmful, and many ways to take action.
ARC / Pesticide Education Project
The Agricultural Resources Center advocates for alternatives to toxic pesticides in North Carolina by empowering people to make sound decisions about their health and environment. Our website provides the public with a wide array of information about pesticide hazards and alternatives, in English and Spanish.
EcoLandTech
An enormous collection of all things pertaining to ecology and farming: aquaculture, beekeeping, biocontrol, biodynamics, bioremediation, botany,certification, communications, community gardening, companion planting, composting, cover crops, csa, new crops, aquaponics, biocontrol, discussion groups, ecology, education, soilfoodweb, internships, entomology, environment, faqs, farmers markets, fruit, gardening, greenhouses, health, horticulture, biointensive regenerative agriculture, beekeeping, composting, entomology, botany, ponds, self-sufficiency, survival, energy alternatives, greenbuilding, plant preservation, architecture, vermiculture, hydroponics, ipm issues, news, landscaping, literature, livestock tools, market gardening, marketing science, soil quality, herbs, plants, microfarm coops, mycology, nitrogen fixation, nuts, organizations, permaculture, remineralization, tillage, soil science, subscription farming, symbiosis tools, vermiculture, weather, wildlife, rural life & skills, herbalism, community homesteading, rhizosphere.
Henriette's Herbal Homepage
Medicinal and culinary herbs: Articles and classic texts, faqs, pictures, newsgroup archives, plant names. An extraordinary resource!
InterGarden
InterGarden is a website with archives of information, active discussion forums and extensive collections of links, all developed for and co-evolving with an international community interested in biological, regenerative, ecologically-and-socially-oriented agriculture, permaculture organic gardening, market farming, landscaping, forestry, farmscaping, renewable energy, the environment, community, pesticide education, rural living and skills, simple living, sustainable communities, urban and rural homesteading, herbs, nutrition and alternative healthcare.
Internet Apiculture and Beekeeping Archive
Archive for beekeeping information. Search newsgroup sci.agriculture.beekeeping and listserv bee-l simultaneously. Images, notes, how-to documents, and historical internet beekeeping items found here.
Millennium Village Project
The Millennium Villages™ Project: * Developed by a team of scientific experts at The Earth Institute at Columbia University and the UN Millennium Project * A science-based, bottom-up approach to eradicate extreme poverty in an African village * A comprehensive strategy that includes investments in health, food production, education and gender equality, access to clean water, and essential infrastructure * Community-led interventions that will put our village on the path to self-sustaining economic growth * Accountable $1.5 million dollar investment, with $300,000 per year distributed over a five year period The project began with one research village in each of the 12 agro-ecological zones in Africa. The project expanded to 78 Millennium Villages™ through Millennium Promise™, a NY-based NGO that ensures the direct investment of funds in the villages. The location of the 78 Millennium Villages™ in different ecological and agricultural regions proves that the Millennium Development Goals can be achieved in most settings, and precedes the spread of successful strategies in each different region. The interventions are detailed on the Millennium Promise™ website at www.millenniumpromise.org. The Millennium Villages™ are developed based on an innovative strategy that is straight-forward, low-cost, thorough and proven to succeed.
North American Fruit Explorers
The North American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX) is a network of individuals throughout the United States and Canada devoted to the discovery, cultivation and appreciation of superior varieties of fruits and nuts. Founded in 1967 by a small group of pomological hobbyists, NAFEX has grown to an organization of more than 3,000 members, and is chartered as a nonprofit organization in the state of Illinois. Although the ranks of our membership include professional pomologists, nurserymen, and commercial orchardists, NAFEX members are all AMATEURS in the truest sense of the word; they are motivated by their LOVE of fine fruit. NAFEX members typically work together to help each other by sharing ideas, information, experiences, and propagating material. We communicate with each other through the pages of POMONA, a quarterly journal assembled largely from articles submitted by the membership. A diverse assortment of interests and approaches are represented. While many of us are involved in collecting and growing well-known fruit like apples and pears, others are specialists in so-called "minor" fruit such as mayhaws, kiwis, persimmons, and pawpaws. A number of members are primarily variety collectors, and some experiment to breed new cultivars. Others labor to produce good fruit crops under marginal conditions. Different, often contradictory, methods of horticulture are advocated; organic practitioners share a forum with growers applying chemical management systems. Despite this lively divergence of focus and opinion, NAFEX members are bound together by the spirit of fellowship and cooperation in a common quest for excellence in fruit.
Online Burma/Myanmar Library
Annotated and classified links to thousands of full text documents on Burma. The Online Burma/Myanmar Library also holds the 17MB archive of the Burma Press Summary (1987-1996) compiled and edited by Hugh C. MacDougall and the 200MB archive of the reg.burma list (1993-2001).
Orange County North Carolina Beekeepers Association
The Orange County Beekeepers Association meets every second Thursday of the month at 7:30pm at the County Extension Office in Hillsborough, NC (306 Revere Road - Enter through side door on the right side of the building). We discuss a variety of aspects of beekeeping in Orange County, North Carolina including: * colony management * beekeeping and honey bee problems and their solutions * the development of markets for beekeeping products. We are a local chapter of the North Carolina State Beekeepers Association and we have members of all ages that are very active at both the state and local levels.
Permaculture Activist
The Permaculture Activist celebrates its 13th year of promoting the design of sustainable community. The Activist is expanding its outreach to link students to teachers and information, homeowners to designers and consultants, homeseekers to villages, organisms to habitats, life to soil, and hope and help for all who dream of a culture that cares for the Earth AND people.
Permaculture Online
Practical information on permaculture, self-sufficiency, organic farming and gardening, alternative energy. The emphasis is on practical, positive steps we can all take to improve our world.
A collaborative effort by subscribers of the alt.permaculture newsgroup, which commenced in October 1999.
Permaculture.info
The Permaculture Information Web is a collaborative project to provide a comprehensive resource of permaculture related information. Includes wiki.
Rec.Gardens.Ecosystems
Homepage of rec.gardens.ecosystems, a moderated newsgroup dedicated to discussions of the ecosystems of the home garden. A basic knowledge of these ecosystems is needed to make gardening a joint enterprise of man and nature. The page features the group's archive on a newsspool, and various links to web-based newsreaders. The FAQ of rec.gardens.ecosystems is also available at the page, both as a plain text document and as a set of HTML files. The FAQ provides a growing body of info on the group and on (the backgrounds of) organic gardening.
SlowFoodPT
This is an email forum for our convivium members and other interested parties to share information about our enjoyment of good tasting food, the care of the land and our regional biodiversity, and the protection of traditional foods, markets, and rural communities at risk of disappearing in the Piedmont Triad North Carolina region.
Stewards of the Land
Stewards of the Land is a multimedia documentary project that was completed in North Carolina’s Central Piedmont Region—an area known as The Triangle.
The focus of Stewards of the Land is six small-scale farmers who are profiled using photographs, audio documentary, and short pieces of writing. In addition, their work is contextualized through a series of articles examining sustainable agriculture in the area, the state of North Carolina, and the country as a whole.
The Triangle—anchored by the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill—is known for its vibrant network of organic and sustainable farms that supply the community with locally grown food nearly year-round.
Sustainable Farming Connection
Where farmers find and share information, Sustainable Farming Connection helps farmers cut costs, protect the environment, build healthy soil, add value to what they sell, and stay abreast of the latest news and farm policy info of interest to the sustainable farming community. Includes features, discussion groups, links, news releases and more.
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