July
15-17, 2011 - Kissimmee Florida
The website for the 2011 Florida Small Farms and Alternative Enterprises Conference is now live! To access the website, click here. For past conference materials, click here.
Florida Small Farms Hydroponics Now On Facebook
Join others involved in hydroponics to share your ideas, join discussions, see upcoming events, more...
August 29, 2011 Deadline for Farm Value-Added Grants
USDA
has invited applications for Value-Added Producer Grants
(VAPG). Two years of funding totaling more than
$37 million will be awarded. The agency estimates
it will make about 250 awards, announced by the end of
November 2011 and that the average size grant award will
be $116,000. In the last round of awards, 41
percent of total awards were under $50,000.
Applicants may propose any time frame for the project
provided it does not exceed three years.
The complete application package will be available from
the USDA
Rural Development site. The agency has also
provided an application
template. If you are an agricultural producer
or producer-controlled entity interested in applying,
you can learn more at NSAC’s summary of the VAPG
program and read this
guide to applying from the University of Wisconsin’s
Agricultural Innovation Center. Also see these
example templates
for applications available from the University
of Nebraska’s Food Processing Center.
Feature Farmer - Bobbie Golden
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Golden are the proud owners of Golden Acres Ranch located in Monticello, Florida in Jefferson County 10 miles east of Tallahassee. The couple moved to Monticello ...more.
Document
Collection
The Organic Agriculture Information Access is an electronic collection of historic United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) publications related to organic agriculture. In this collection, there are currently 186 documents published before 1942 (before synthetic chemicals became widely used) that contain state-of-the-art information and data that is still very pertinent for today's agriculture. You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the documents.
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Making an Alternative Enterprise Work for You
Florida’s unique growing condition provides an abundance of opportunities and challenges for producers to grow and sell many specialty products. To showcase this diversity, we are visiting with some farmers. More...
Small Farmers Networks
Extension Agents and Small Farmers working together to share information. More...
Farm Pocket Notebook
This Farm Pocket Notebook 
contains record forms and information. More...
Virtual Field Day
The Virtual Field Day is a web site that allows visitors to see first hand new crops and alternative enterprises featured at field days & workshops. More...
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