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Many farm related businesses and educational outreach programs focus on as broad an audience as possible. Goals range from bringing in additional income, to effectively serving a wide community, or to implement an advocacy driven agricultural mission for as many people as possible.



Yet people with physical, cognitive or psycho/social disabilities frequently are overlooked as a potential core audience and may even be intimidating to some groups who otherwise look for creative…

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Learning Garden Educator 2012

Waltham Fields Community Farm

Waltham Fields Community Farm is looking for a Learning Garden Educator for our spring 2012 Children’s Learning Garden after-school programs.  Waltham…

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Learning Garden Assistant 2012

Waltham Fields Community Farm

Waltham Fields Community Farm is looking for a Learning Garden Assistant for our spring 2012 Children’s Learning Garden after-school programs.  Waltham…

Urban Adamah, based in Berkeley, CA, is a three-month intensive residential leadership training program for young adults ages 20-29, that integrates urban organic farming, social justice work and progressive Jewish living and learning. Twelve Urban Adamah Fellows are selected each season to operate an organic farm and educational center, intern with community organizations addressing issues at the intersection of poverty, food security and environmental…

 On November 5th, at the 5th Farm-Based Education Conference at Shelburne Farms in Vermont, the FBEA announced the 2011 Farm-Based Educator of the Year award.  The award was given to:…

White Oak Farm

Children’s Education Program Coordinator

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White Oak Farm & Education Center is a non-profit organic farm located in the beautiful Siskiyou Mountains of Southern Oregon.  We are a working farm as well as a sustainable-living education center located on 62 acres of farm and forest land in rural Williams, Oregon.  The farm provides a wide diversity of…

On summer weekends we invite local children to attend our annual forest walk. Our invitation is always received with a great deal of attention from schools and children's nature programs.…

More than 150 Local Resources to Help Educators and Students Explore Farms and Food



“Farms & Food,” an educational guide featuring more than 150 local farms, agriculture-related places, and organizations, along with media and other resources, is now available free in Teaching the Hudson Valley’s new…

Jeff Piestak posted a link to this webpage from the Cornell Library, which has a wealth of information and data sources:

http://guides.library.cornell.edu/content.php?pid=84833&sid=631485#data

Here's the list of Educational/ Curriculum materials:

• Ag in the Classroom USDA Agriculture in the Classroom…

Age and Source Verification: The essential prerequisite for Animal Identification.



A recent research project that was conducted by the University of Illinois, demonstrated how cattle ranchers could receive higher premiums per head of cattle. The research and proposed system call “The Processed Verification Program” or (PVP) for Age and Source verification of livestock.

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A portion of this article will appear in the Conservation Council's December Newsletter. The Conservation Council is a giving society of the Trustees of Reservations. The farms of the Trustees of Reservations are organizational members of the FBEA and Wayne Castonguay, General manager of Appleton Farms (a Trustees farm) is a founding board member of the FBEA.

Two retrospectives, traveling exhibits, and a new…

Javier C. Hernandez's October 20, 2009 New York Times article A Moo-Moo Here, and Better Test Scores Later features Harlem Success Academy, a chain of charter schools in New York whose educators have drawn the connections between field trips and the test taking results of school-aged children. One emphasis is on connecting urban children with the…