Web pages of interest:

New! British Columbia Seed Database: the BC Seed Security Project, led by a small group of BC-based farmers and organizers, has created a website to disseminate their results and to foster access to locally grown seeds. The website contains a continually growing database of BC Grown seeds as well as informative articles on seed growing. BC seed growers who wish to list their seeds on the website may do so free of charge.

Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada in Nova Scotia. If you are interested in viewing their on-line course offerings as well as the current draft of the Canadian National Standards, this is the place to go.

Our own COABC's website with links to the Standards as well as the new Cyber-Help for Organic Farmers which has links to product specific production sites, animal welfare and marketing intelligence.

Click on the poultry link for everything you ever wanted to know about poulty from terminology to rare breeds of all sorts of poultry.

Dr Elaine Ingham's Soil Food Web site. Everthing you ever wanted to know about soil. Includes an option to subscribe to a free monthly e-zine on improving the life of your soil as well as the real "dirt" on compost tea!

A web page devoted to bugs! Full of beautiful images of bugs of all sorts, it also has an extensive listing of links to other bug sites for those of you trying to learn to farm in the world of bugs.

The Vegetable Research and Extension Unit of Washington State University. Lots of great links to loads of information from marketing to pest management to on-farm research.

The Sustainable Ag and Rural Development program of the Lopez Community Land Trust. An amazing islands-wide project aimed at supporting local production and consumption of farm product. The project includes a mobile abattoir, regional food guide and the development of small-scale agricultural infrastructure.

The Vegetable and Research Information Center of the University of California at Davis, has links to vegetable-specific infomation where you can search by crop, by topic and by postharvest info.

Ramshorn - The website of an almost monthly newsletter by Cathleen and Brewster Kneen. If you want to better understand the forces behind the industrial food system, this is the ultimate and current reference.

Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA). - probably the best and most comprehensive web resource when it comes to sustainable farming practices, this web site has lots of downloadable resources on anything you could think of, from permaculture to rotational grazing from compost to biological pest controls.

The Sustainable Farming Connection has links to lots of great info, particularly in the production and marketing section.

For a view from across the Atlantic, the web site of the Alliance for Better Food and Farming has a range of sections devloted to various aspects of food production including a review of the current reforms to the European Common Agriculture Policy.