Take a look at the video invitation to the MOSES Organic Farming Conference . Page down until you see the video player. can't wait to see all of you in LaCrosse!
This blog is to promote the awareness and importance of the oral history of Organic farming in the Sustainable agriculture community.
Monday, February 13, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
a test, experiment, a learning curve
You can benefit from my learning curve. Join me on my journey!
Tom Stearns "Now is the Time to Rebuild Our Healthy Food System"
The organic voice of Tom Stearns
Barry George
the OrganicVoices scribe
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Voices of the Land vol. 1
About ten years ago, I was looking back over the great people we had recorded. I selected 16 to include in a kind of "best of" collection. It was primarily selected from keynotes at a variety of conferences. It was back in the cassette tape days so when we switched to the digital world, it started collecting dust on a shelf. As I was cleaning out a basement storage room, it surfaced. I looked at it & knew it had to be updated into the digital world. So I dug out my old cassette recorders & began the conversion to digital. As I was in the process, I wondered if others would find these keynotes as amazing & frankly as visionary as I did. So let's find out. I am going to ask Mary Janis, the Organic Voices webmaster, to get this on the website. Here is a list of the recordings:
Wes Jackson The Struggle for Sustainability
Fred Kirschenmann Feed the Village First
Joel Salatin Economics, Environment, Emotion
L. T. Bhramdat The Health of Our Nation
C. R. Lawn The Control of Our Seed Supply
Gene Logsdon Wild Eyed Wanderer
Ann Clark GMOs & the Global Backyard
John Ikerd New Farmers for a New Agriculture
Allan Nation Your Unfair Advantage
Kathy Lawrence Agriculture, Justice, Sustainability
Lynn Byczynski It's More than Produce
Sally Fallon The Oiling of America
Alan Savory The New Agriculture
Ronnie Cummins Driving Genetically Engineered Foods & Crops Off the Market
Michael Abelman The Next Agriculture
Cheryl Long Agriculture, Nutrition, Hunger
Barry George
OrganicVoices scribe
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
MOSES Organic Farming Conference
The van is loaded & fueled (that hurt... it has a 36 gal tank). This is our 19th year. Watch OrganicVoices for the downloads... or call us. Take a look at Unlimited Access... for $99 you get all the conferences from 2011. Organize a discussion group & split the cost... 5 people, $20 each... 10 people $10 each... Organize your own OragnicVoices discussion group... Let's get all the value out of 2011. Learning from others experience is THE only short cut in the learning process... you don't have to experience the problems yourself. Just adopt the lessons learned from other growers. Ideas change lives but only if you let them... listening may be the greatest life skill you can adopt.
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Gold Mine of Organic information
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!!
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Decide the Future of OrganicVoices
We need your help. We wish to expand the reach of OrganicVoices. We would like to see more conferences recorded around the country but time & travel limit our reach. We have been talking to people at the conferences we attend about finding regional affiliates to record conferences that are close to home for them. We had several people express interest while we were at the NOFA-NY conference. If fact, NOFA-NJ found some volunteers to record their winter conference. We have been impressed by the quality they achieved on their first attempt. They were disappointed because they missed a few sessions. We thought they did a remarkable job considering the only training they had was over the phone.
Someone also suggested we lower the cost of Unlimited Access from $99 to under $50. That would be fine if we could dramatically increase the membership. So here is the challenge, we need your help! We will lower the Unlimited Access to under $50 if we have 1000 people email us expressing interest in joining Unlimited Access if the membership was lowered. So, here is how you can be an active participant in OrganicVoices Oral History Preservation Project. Spread the word through email, facebook, twitter or whatever form of communication you use. You can also extend the offer of a free digital download from OrganicVoices. If someone wants a personalized selection based on their area of interest, they can email me directly with their request. Listening to the many OrganicVoices over the past 19 years has made a tremendous difference in our growing experience... two absolute truths have become evident to us in this preservation endeavor:
1. Ideas change lives!
2. There is Magic in the human voice!
Help us in the OrganicVoices Preservation Project!
I look forward to having a conversation with you.
Barry George
www.heritagegardens.shutterfly.com (for those who wonder if we dig in the dirt)
952-432-3079
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