Check out these different workshops, conferences, webinars and other events featured at our website:
- Webinar: The One Page Business Plan and One Page Financial Plan
- Webinar: Tropical and Semi Tropical Organic Crop Production
- FAMU Farm Fest 2012
- Beginning Farmer Training
- Organic Fruit 2012: From Research to Practice
- Spanish Core Pesticide Training and Exam
- IPM Training: Vegetable Pest, Disease, and Nutrient Workshop
- Spanish Private Applicator Pesticide Training and Exam
- Florida Small Farms and Alternative Enterprises Conference
- 6th National Farm to Cafeteria Conference: Digging In!
- Sustainable Agriculture Education Association Annual Conference
- ACES Community, Ecosystem Markets Conference
National Farmers Market Directory –Update by June 5!
Time is Running Out… to Add or Update Your Farmers Market in the 2012 USDA National Farmers Market Directory. Do you manage a farmers market? Want to make sure that your market gets maximum visibility with minimal effort? Come join the more than 7,100 farmers markets across the U.S. that are currently listed in USDA's National Farmers Market Directory. Monday, June 5 is the deadline for submitting your market's information to make sure you're included in the official 2012 farmers market count. Even if you listed your market in previous years, you'll want to resubmit your market listing to make sure your latest market information gets picked up by consumers & mobile app developers. It's also easier than ever to get listed. Click here http://www.usdadirectoryupdate.com/ and in less than 10 minutes you're done. That's all it takes!
Sustainable Ag News from Southern SARE: Common Ground May 2012
For the latest SARE news and research, take a look at the attached email message that contains the May 2012 edition of Common Ground Newsletter delivered by Southern SARE.
Discover On-the-Ground Results with From the Field
From the Field profiles are a gateway to the SARE research portfolio, telling the story behind the research, emphasizing the results and highlighting the impacts. For readers who want to dig deeper, each profile ends with a link to the grantee's official project reports in the SARE database. These reports contain a wealth of detail on the grantee's research methods and results, and any educational resources they might have created with the grant. Profiles are organized by SARE region. They can easily be shared via social media, email or as printed hard copies. With the more than 5,000 projects SARE has funded since 1988, From the Field represents one more way you can stay in touch with innovative sustainable agriculture research!
Grant Opportunities:
| Extension Integrated Pest Management Coordination and Support Program | 5/29 | http://www.nifa.usda.gov/fo/extensionipmcoordinationandsupportprogram.cfm |
| Smith-Lever Special Needs Program | 6/1 | |
| SARE Graduate Student Grants | 6/4 | |
| SARE Professional Development Program | 6/4 | |
| AFRI- Childhood Obesity Prevention | 6/5 | |
| SBIR Phase I Commercialization Assistance Program | 6/15 | |
| Farm Business Management and Benchmarking Program | 6/15 | |
| *Farm to School Program Grants | 6/15 | http://www.fns.usda.gov/cnd/f2s/pdf/F2S_Grant_RFA_04172012.pdf |
| Common Bean Productivity Research for Global Food Security | 6/27 | http://www.nifa.usda.gov/fo/commonbeanproductivityresearch.cfm |
| Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) FY 2012 Phase I (Release 3) | 7/3 | |
| *Research in Biomedicine and Agriculture Using Agriculturally Important Domestic Species | 9/20 | http://www.nifa.usda.gov/fo/researchinbiomedicineandagricultureafri.cfm |
| Innovations in Gender Equality to Promote Household Food Security | 10/31 |
*These grants require a letter of intent be submitted before the due date listed. Refer to the RFA on the website to find the due date for letters of intent as they vary by program area.
Kelly Monaghan
Program Assistant, Florida SARE Program, UF/FAMU
3031 Mc Carty Hall D, PO Box 110310, Gainesville, FL 32611
Ph:(352)273-3508; Fax: (352)392-8196
kmon913@ufl.edu; www.southernsare.org/florida
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