Other Links to Online Resources
Links to other online resources which cover topics from regenerative agriculture and soil science to animal husbandry.
Thank you to everyone who has shared many of these links with us. This is often the place I park links to resources that are particularly interesting or that I want to be able to find in the future.
Soil and Regenerative Agriculture
- The Soil Story video, created by Kiss the Ground and narrated by Larry Kopald
- The Ground Beneath our Feet, NPR 1A show on soil
- How to reverse desertification and reverse climate change. TED talk with Allan Savory.
- Living Soils Symposium Montreal : Restore the Climate, Feeed the World
House and Outbuilding Construction
Canning and Food Preservation
Various other links
- Permaculture Voices. Has a number (even daily) podcasts and links. Really good information, curated by Diego Footer.
- Gravel Road Maintenance
- How Antiobiotics Changed the Way the World Eats. audio, which talks a lot about chickens.
- One Hundred Thousand Beating Hearts. video, about a farm in Georgia transitioning to regenerative, grass-fed agriculture. ( Part of the Soil Carbon Cowboys video series )
IFAS, State and Federal Sites (many with grants or cost shares)
- Alachua County Extension Office Calendar of Events
- Small Farms and Alternative Enterprises. IFAS. ( link to loans and grants page )
- Florida Organic Growers.
- National Resource Conservation Service. A part of the USDA and a source for grants. In Alachua county, district conservationist is Monica Jones, (448-2303).
- Farm Service Agency. Another part of the USDA and a source for grants, for organic certification as well as other things. In Alachua county, our executive director is Donna Hough ( 376-7414 ).
- Rural Development. A third part of the USDA which also has grants sometimes. (732-7534)
- Florida Department of Agricultural and Consumer Services. Sometimes a source of funding for equipment. (463-4093).
- Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education. Another possible funding source and some very informative pages in general.