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Local Farm & Fishing Blogs

  • Matt's Fresh Fish - Matt's Blog - Marinkovich's San Juan/Alaska Commercial Fishing Family. Fish, environment, Alaska, Puget Sound, oil(?!!). Don't miss this blog!
  • Thousand Flower Farm - Margaret's Blog (Thousand Flower Waldron - Margaret & Joel Thorson)
  • San Juan Community Co Op - Adventures of Eleanor & Anna
  • EcoFarm Blog | Organic, Sustainable, Local Agriculture
  • Imagine Organics Recipes and Cooking Videos (SJI chef and farmer Hobbes Buchanan)
  • An American Abroad in America - Zac's (farmworker, amazing cook) Blog with recipes!
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Buying Seeds? Organic, Non-GMO, Heirloom, Flowers, Vegetables, Fruit, Grain, Herbs, Cover Crops

  • Family owned Uprising Seed, Washing State's 1st Certified Organic Seed Company
  • Seed Savers Exchange
  • High Mowing Seeds
  • Salt Spring Seeds - Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada
  • Join the Fedco Seed Cooperative
  • Baker Creek Seeds
  • Fedco Seeds Cooperative -
  • Annie's Heirlom Seeds
  • Wood Prairie Farm - potatoes, Dorinny Sweet Corn, and more

OUR MISSION

Supporting and advocating for Clean, Fair, Healthy Food and Sustainable Agriculture, and supporting local farmers and producers, with an emphasis on directly supporting emerging farmers and farm workers, with the understanding that local foods produced sustainably are:

  • Good for our health

  • Good for our Mother Earth

  • Good for a strong local economy



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Blog Archive

Genetically Modified Food / Bioengineered Food

  • Seeds of Deception - bookstore and website
  • Very informative GMO info site - Say No To GMO's - '08 Update
  • '09 Update
  • The World According to Monsanto - video
  • History - read posts 7/08-10/08. Worth the time.
  • Owners of the world's seed supplies

Our Neighbors—Slow Food Convivium Links

  • Fourth Corner Slow Food - Bellingham and Whatcom County
  • Salish Sea Fidalgo Island/Anacortes
  • Slow Food Whidbey Island
  • Slow Food Seattle
  • North Olympic Peninsula
  • Slow Food Greater Olympia
  • Slow Food Okanogan
  • Slow Food Port Susan
  • Slow Food Vancouver, B.C.
  • Slow Food Eugene, Oregon
  • Slow Food Southeast Alaska
  • Slow Food Canada
  • Slow Food USA Blog
  • Slow Food USA
  • Slow Food International

WATER

  • Our water - Beautiful, engaging, much honored film "Flow"

MILK - Great Information

  • Fresh, Untreated (Raw) Milk Facts
  • Real Milk - Washington state fresh, untreated milk/cheese/yogurt retailers guide
  • RealMilk.com
  • Weston A. Price Foundation
  • If you buy "organic" milk from off-islands, you might want to check this Cornucopia Institute up to date scorecard
  • Organic Pastures
  • CREMA
  • the Bovine blog - up to date info on milk in US and Canada

Land & Sea Resource Pages

  • Related Sites & Publications
  • Recipes
  • Staycation/One-Tank Traveling?
  • Permaculture
  • No Till Gardening/Mulching
  • Look Out!
  • Very Fun Local Blogs & Publications
  • Buying Seed?
  • Bees
  • Wild Salmon
  • Local Farm and Fishing Blogs
  • Apprenticeships, Internships, & Jobs

The WSU San Juan County Extension Office!

  • Here Are Just Some of the Amazing Programs We Have (4-H, County Extension Workshops, Master Gardener, etc.) Because of WSU Extension (and check out the "What's Happening" sidebar)
  • Here Are the Great People Who Make This Office and All These Programs Happen. Call our local Extension director, Tom Schultz, at 370-7667 to get the scoop.

Followers

Info About Lopez Island Farm Education Program (LIFE)

  • 2006-2007 info:
  • pdf Lopez Island Farm Education Brochure

Local and Sustainable Associations

  • Skagitonians to Preserve Farmland - Skagit Valley
  • Agricultural Resources Committee
  • Islands Certified Local
  • Northwest Agribusiness Center (NABC)
  • San Juan Islands Agricultural Guild
  • Island Grown Farmers Coop (local grass fed meat - USDA certified )
  • WSU Extension - Friday Harbor
  • Lopez Community Land Trust Sustainable Agriculture & Rural Development page
  • Orcas Island Farm to Table

ALTERN. ENERGY - WIND, SOLAR, GEOTHERMAL, BIOMASS / ALCOHOL FUEL - FROM SUGAR AND FROM GARBAGE!

  • Journey to Forever - based in China, simply amazing!
  • List-Currently operating garbage to ethanol plants
  • CA Science fair - Trash into Fuel
  • Make your own fuel with easily available materials = clean burning, for internal combustion engines
  • Alcohol Can Be a Gas
  • Ethanol - Artichokes, sugar, and good practices
  • US map - Solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal potential.
  • Getting a (Firm) Grip on Renewables
  • Ag. Industry Today - Alt. Energy News
  • Keith Bolin and Wind Power
  • Wind Power: A Research Primer
  • ENERGY FARMS NETWORK
  • "It runs on water" documentary film. Curious?

Blogs & Inspiration for Students & Others

  • Journey to Forever - Great, great, great!
  • Yale Sustainable Food Project
  • Evergreen College programs- Olympia
  • organic on the green
  • Sparkseed!
  • lavidalocavore
  • foodjunta
  • YALE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
  • Yale Tropical Resources Institute

SOIL HEALTH

  • "From the Oil Age to the Soil Age" - wonderful, accessible Powerpoint presentation. (Growing grass well = recapturing carbon = reducing global warming big time)
  • Carbon Farmers of America - Growing Grass/reducing Global Warming - "powerful stuff " - SJI farmer Bruce Gregory
  • Soil Carbon Coalition - EXCELLENT links to info about soil carbon capture. We can do it! - Thanks for all the info, Bruce!
  • Tom Philpott/Grist post on Vandana Shiva, healthy soil info/ Terra Madre 2008 - great article!
  • Vandana Shive - Navdanya International - Seeds, Food Security & Sustainability
  • Terra Madre - MANIFESTO ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE FUTURE OF FOOD - Go here for pdf download

Marinkovich's FISH FOR TEETH

  • Halibut helps non profit children's dental assistance in the San Juan Islands

Local PTA's

  • Friday Harbor Elementary PTA Blog

EXTRA! EXTRA!

  • Please endorse the DECLARATION FOR HEALTHY FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
  • Union of Concerned Scientists - Urge the USDA to Support Modern Agricultural Methods
  • Prevent the Organic Label from Greenwashing. Ask the USDA to Protect Consumers, Not Industrial Fish Farmers

To read more about Farm to Institution & other programs:

  • Lopez Island Farm Education (L.I.F.E.) program:
  • Seattle PI - Farmed Out

New Friends from Slow Food Nation Event 2008

  • American Corn Grower's Association - very much a friend to farmers
  • celebration of the exceptional taste of good, clean and fair food. San Francisco CA

Organic Certification

  • Oregon Tilth
  • Organico de Mexico
  • California Certified Organic Food (CCOF)
  • Organic Certification - Large Retailers and Fake Organic Products

Tilth

  • Washington Tilth Producers
  • Washington Tilth Association
  • Oregon Tilth

Things you might want to know : GATT Treaty, WTO, and Codex Alimentarius

  • Codex Alimentarius - Wikipedia
  • Codex info - Alliance for Natural Health
  • Codex A. info on positive and negative effects
  • History of GATT
  • GATT - Environment Versus Trade
  • GATT Treaty - Info on Uruguay Treaty, the WTO, and small farmers
  • GATT - Agreement on Agriculture
  • GATT and Agriculture
  • How GATT undermines food safety regulations
  • Rural Women the WTO and Globalization
  • Indian Farmers Rally Against GATT, Bio-Patents
  • Background on Cargill Inc - the Transnational Business Giant
  • Who Owns What in the Organic Food Industry
  • Cyber Help for Organic Farmers
  • Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE)

Renewing America's Food Traditions Alliance (RAFT)

  • alliance to maintain the incredible food diversity of North America

Slow Food - University of Gastronomic Sciences

  • located in Parma and Bra, Italy
 

Our wonderful friend farmer Keith Bolin, at Biordi Imports in San Francisco with Gianfranco Savio

Our wonderful friend farmer Keith Bolin, at Biordi Imports in San Francisco with Gianfranco Savio
Keith Bolin (right), life-long farmer and Pres. of the American Corn Growers Association (click photo for link), a leading voice in the pursuit for renewable energy sources, as well as farm and trade policy, issues such as seed patent law, GMO policies and other issues that affect farmers. The ACGA is a voice representing the interests of farmers without the influence of agribusiness interests. Keith, and his friend Illinois farmer Jim Braun, inspired us, and we hope to have these brave men as guests to our island someday soon. (And Biordi Import owner Gianfranco Savio is from the same region of Italia as Slow Food founder Carlo Petrini, rides a bike to work, and was very kind and helpful during our visit to the Slow Food Congress/Nation!)

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Friday Harbor, WA, San Juan Island, United States
Local Slow Food Convivium
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