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    Drainage water management demonstration day Aug. 21 in Windom (26)  Aug 19, 2009
    on Friday, Aug. 21, 2009, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., as part of the Willow Lake Farm Agroecology Summit. Managing the water table under agricultural cropping systems with gated control structures and well-planned patterned tile systems delivers a variety of benefits, according to Leonard Binstock, executive director of the Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition (ADMC), including. (Minnesota Farm Guide, MN)

    Sustainable agriculture at the ESA Annual Meeting  Aug 4, 2009
    San Miguel, ACC Rebecca Chaplin-Kramer: COS 34 - Agroecology, Agroforestry, and Biofuels I. Tuesday, Aug. 4, 3:40 p.m., Taos room, ACC Shashi Kumar: PS 42 - Agricultural Landscapes. Wed. (EurekAlert!)

    Letter: Thank you for making outreach program a success  May 8, 2009
    With the excess funds we will make a donation to Heifer International in Puno, Peru to fund a Biodiversity and Agroecology for Food Security project. We were 41 travelers total and everyone checked an additional suitcase and carried as much as possible in their carry-on bags. (Hamilton Wenham Chronicle, MA)

    Taming the tap  Mar 16, 2009
    Jim Leap, the farm manager at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, began dry- farming Early Girls 19 years ago, a technique he learned at Molino Creek Farm in Davenport (Santa Cruz County). He's been teaching his students how to do it ever since, and has more recently experimented with beds of winter squash, dry beans and grain corn, as well as apple and apricot trees. (San Francisco Chronicle)




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