I am looking back at some of the conferences & I am astounded at what I see. There is an incredible motherload of information available. I was listening to an Eliot Coleman half day workshop again. This is absolutely inspiring stuff. How can I not be wildly excited about the coming growing season? Thank you, Eliot, you made me forget the disappointments of 2010. I feel like palnting some seeds!!
Turning backyards into gardens
For the past eighteen years, from 1992 to present, Barry George and his wife Judy, have been recording and collecting oral histories from a number of North America’s most prominent leaders and teachers of the Organic farming and Sustainable agriculture community.
The stories, memories and farming experiences captured on these mp3 recordings are fast becoming an important aspect of America’s unique heritage in Organic farming and Sustainable agriculture. The oral histories of our best Organic farming teachers like Eliot Coleman, Elizabeth Henderson, Shannon Hayes and Dr. Alan Greene are now
being captured for our benefit now and for the generations to come.
Organic Voices is the product of the dedicated passion and labor of Barry and Judy George to capture these important oral histories of Organic farming and Sustainable agriculture.
This movement toward sustainable organic agriculture has emerged during the past twenty years to reevaluate the harsh results of conventional agriculture and the practices that contribute to the social problems these old methods create.
Today this movement for farming organic is gathering increasing support and momentum within mainstream agriculture. Not only does sustainable ag address many common environmental and social concerns, but it also offers unique and economically viable opportunities for organic farmers, organic gardeners, laborers, consumers, policymakers and many others in the entire food production system.
Organic Voices is an effort to identify and capture the ideas, methods and experiences that form our understanding of sustainable agriculture by preserving the authoritative voices of this monumental movement.
We do this for three reasons:
1) to preserve the oral history and experience of the pioneers who lead us and teach us the methods of organic farming and sustainable agriculture
2) to offer the agricultural community practical steps that may be taken in moving toward sustainable development and
3) to make available an easy method for new organic farmers and gardeners to gain the whole experiences of two decades worth of practical organic methods in a time saving learning platform.
Sustainable agriculture is still evolving, and for this reason we intend these oral history recordings to be an invitation to continue the preservation of this dynamic movement toward a better and more secure future that will benefit and bless all who join us.
Our continuance in this project is dependent on your support.
Here are 7 easy ways you can support the Organic Voices oral history project.
1. Join us now by subscribing to our RSS feed (on top right of screen) to receive the latest news on our newest recordings.
2. Sign up for a free mp3 download of Designing an Organic Farming System by Gary Zimmer. You will be asked to confirm by email and your link and password for the FREE MP3 will be sent to your email address. Check your spam folder if you have not received it.
3. “Like” us on our Facebook button in the sidebar.
4. Look through the Organic farming mp3 pages by and purchase these amazing oral history mp3 packages.
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7. Link to us on your website.
Thank you for joining us in this sustainable and historical preservation project!
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