permaculture

[Cory Brennan <cory8570@yahoo.com>]

Amy, I've forwarded this to one of my students who is mid a USDA grant, 
putting a 22 acre permaculture farm and training program together near Miami. 
The permaculture contigents connected to Universities also might be 
interested or helpful. Sustainable Urban Agriculture Coalition in St Pete is 
still a new organization but is interested in these issues, for sure. We also 
have some extension service people who are pretty darn enlightened that might 
be interested - from the viewpoint of translating things to down here, and 
supporting the overall movement. 
 
Koreen Brennan

www.growpermaculture.com
www.facebook.com/growpermaculturenow
www.meetup.com/sustainable-urban-agriculture-coalition


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 From: Amy Little <amylittle@hvc.rr.com>
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Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 5:44 PM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Policy and Permaculture - Northeast Food System
 
So far I have 2 responses from permaculture folks interested in federal
policy advocacy: Scott and Cory. Anyone else?

To answer some of Scott's questions: The roundtable is focused on the
Northeast food (and forest) system, and the federal policy applications,
needs, opportunities, strategies etc... for improving it.  I am organizing
it for NESAWG as the policy organizer and for New England Farmers Union. We
have about 50 organizations and farmers participating. Our focus this year
was Congressional action on writing the new Farm Bill.

Scott, I need to look to a group of Permaculture -focused folks who are
interested in this irritating, but resource-rich aspect of food system
support -federal policies. WHO in the permaculture leadership community
would be interested in participating?  

We are bound to a process that includes a diversity of approaches - from
migrant farmworkers to big city school systems and food stamps, to farmers
markets, commodity program reform, conservation and energy, research, forest
management, etc... Our intention to respond the current legislative
opportunities to defend and/or improve good programs, and take a longer term
approach to making bigger changes.  (While we all know the system is broken,
we are clearly going after federal money to do good things with, as well as
looking for ways Congressional policy making can change things.  In
addition, there are people at USDA, some very excellent, who are in a
position to change things in the field. )

While the roundtable's focused constituency is the Northeast, these are U.S.
programs and changes to them are wrought-out and played out on the national
level. 

If you are still interested I can send you more, off list. And anyone else
still interested, let me know. 
Amy
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Amy Little, Organizer
NESAWG,  The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
http://www.nesawg.org
845-255-0822 home office
845-853-3440 cell
amylittle@hvc.rr.com




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[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Scott Pittman
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 9:34 PM
To: 'permaculture'
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Policy and Permaculture - Northeast Food System

Hi Amy,
I am definitely interested but this is the first I've heard of this
roundtable.  Could you send me more information?  I am currently teaching a
teacher training course on permaculture in British Columbia but will be back
in New Mexico in a week.

Best,
Scott Pittman
Director
Permaculture Institute
www.permaculture.org

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. 
On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." 
~Arundhati Roy

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[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Amy Little
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2012 8:45 AM
To: 'Northeast Permaculture'; 'permaculture'
Subject: [permaculture] Policy and Permaculture - Northeast Food System

Hi Everyone,

I am organizing a policy roundtable for farmers and organizations working on
federal food and ag policies.  This is a diverse mix of food sector
interests and includes cooperative associations, farmer groups, nutrition,
urban, rural, worker justice, research and conservation interests, among
others.  We are developing policy options and strategies for federal
policies to address the local and regional needs of the Northeast farm and
food system.  Some of the participants practice permaculture in some
expression. 



I am reaching out more directly to the permaculture community - Who among
you would like to get more involved in helping shape federal policies and
focus federal dollars that will boost permaculture practices and local food
systems?  You will be participating with other farm and food sector folks
and wanting to participate in a little advocacy. We will be having a meeting
and strategy session early in 2013 (was last month but got rescheduled due
to hurricane sandy). Even if you can't come to the meeting, we can work
together in other ways.



Amy

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Amy Little, Organizer

NESAWG,  The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group

http://www.nesawg.org <http://www.nesawg.org/> 

845-255-0822 home office

845-853-3440 cell

amylittle@hvc.rr.com







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On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 5:44 PM, Amy Little <amylittle@hvc.rr.com> wrote:

> So far I have 2 responses from permaculture folks interested in federal
> policy advocacy: Scott and Cory. Anyone else?
>

I would not be able to attend any meetings but would be willing to help in
these ways: write letters to individuals, organizations and agencies,
government officials
and newspapers, email to the same groups and make limited phone calls
(cellphone 450m/mo). I have been doing this sort of thing over the past
five
years on issues such as fracking and food safety and other regulations
affecting small farmers. I have contributed effective work in this area.
I am a small scale market farmer growing vegetables for local sales. Along
the way I attempted to 1) start my own farmers market and 2) form a non
profit corporation for local organic farmers; neither went anywhere for 1)
lack of location and 2) ability to maintain contact between members during
pre - public access to the internet days.

You are welcome to use this permaculture list as a forum for news and
discussion. If you require other resources such as mailing lists, blogs,
websites
and Google+ pages, I can create these and maintain them for you using free
Google resources. If you go to the homepage for this list you will see
examples
of what these consist of.

Your project is very important and I wish it one hundred percent success.
If I can help in any way please let me know.