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In June 2007 OFRF co-sponsored The
Organic Summit in Boulder, Colorado,
with New Hope Natural Media. "Renewing the Organic Conversation"
was the theme of the event, and 200 organic industry leaders gathered
to address where organic has come from, where it stands, and where
its leaders and advocates want to take it. Click here
for the audio of keynote addresses given by Fred Kirschenmann of the
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, and Walter Robb, President
of Whole Foods Market
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Jose
Torres, OFRF's IT specialist, created this map showing the
distribution of certified organic operation from
the USDA National Organic Program's most recent (2007) organic producer
list.
You can also view this map with Google Earth. USOrganicOperation.kmz
If you don't have Google earth, you can download it for free here. |
Books
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| For 20 years, Farm Aid has galvanized
the movement for family farms and good food. Farm
Aid: Song For America chronicles the story of Farm
Aid artists Willie Nelson, Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Dave
Matthews cause-related concerts. Includes essays by by such
diverse writers as Wendell Berry, Howard Zinn, Robert F. Kennedy,
Jr., Eric Schlosser, Michael Pollan, and OFRF's own Executive
Director Bob Scowcroft. Click the following link to read Bob's
excerpt, Organic Farming:
A Solution Story. |
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Inc., Natural Foods and How they Grew describes the growth
of the organic food and farming cultural movement. Author Samuel
Fromartz pursues the historical cultural origins of organic
food (which he traces to 19th century Romantics) and follows
the story through the development of the "industrial"
organic. |
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Community
OFRF's "food
for thought" pages for the community of people who support
organic farming and sustainable food systems
Organic
in the Media:
OFRF's Bob Scowcroft looks at the history
of organic and the industry today in the Winter 2006/2007 edition
of Green Money Journal:
The Organic Conversation Begins Anew (Again).
The Nation magazine takes on
the food issue by publishing "The
Food Issue." The weekly magazine's September 11 edition,
under the editorial counsel of Alice Waters, is dedicated almost
entirely to essays about food and how we eat, with contributions
from over 15 notable food writers, including Michael Pollan, Vandana
Shiva, Frances Moore Lappe, and Wendell Berry. |
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