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Michigan
Organic Farmers’ Listserv
Dec 1-8th-News
and Calendar of Events
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1. Oregon
Tilth Recognizes Organically Grown Company’s Sustainability Program
2. Glyphosate-resistant
pigweed a nightmare for some cotton producers
3.
Mixed Greens
seeking AmeriCorps VISTA volunteers
4. The
Food System Economic Partnership (FSEP)
5.
Great Lakes Fruit and Vegetable Organic Session was a hit!!
6 Film Series: Food, Farming, Healthy, Education &
Native Culture
Wednesdays, 7 p.m
7.
Michigan Senate Hearing on NAIS
8. Want to Find your Start in
Sustainable Farming? Join us!
9. Farm It Forward, January 5-6 and February 2-3
10. Fourth Annual Michigan Family Farms Conference
January 13
11. Northern Michigan
Small Farm Conference January 27, 2007
Grayling, Michigan
12. Seeds of Prosperity Conference February 8, Lansing
Center, Lansing
13.
Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference
February 23-25.
14. MOFFA Fundraiser
March 2, 2007
15. Michigan Organic
Conference March 2-3. Kellogg Center, East Lansing.
16. Choices: Take it Slow
March 6-7, 2007
1. Oregon
Tilth Recognizes Organically Grown Company’s Sustainability Program
EUGENE, Ore. –
December 5, 2006 — Organically Grown Company (OGC) was named
“Outstanding Visionary of the Year” during the recent Oregon Tilth
Fall Conference "Feeding the Future.” Eugene-based OGC is the
largest organic produce wholesaler in the Pacific Northwest.
The award recognized
OGC’s dedication to become a more earth-friendly company, and its work to
encourage the organic-foods industry to collaborate on major issues, from
global warming to social equity.
“OGC is a company
who, for almost three decades, has consistently pioneered innovative practices
based on their core values: health, sustainability, partnerships and
integrity,” said Dr. Joe Snyder, President of the Oregon Tilth Board of
Directors.
OGC’s leadership
role began in the 1980s, when the company was a primary force in the
development of Oregon’s innovative organic certification standards, which
became a model for the national organic standards. OGC also recently initiated
the Organic Produce Wholesalers Coalition’s efforts to ensure that the
National Organic Program supports transparency and integrity in the organic
produce trade.
"We affect culture
through agriculture and I am proud to work at a company that takes its
commitment and responsibility to its employees, business partners, and planet
seriously,” said David Lively, co-founder of OGC. “We constantly
reinvent and challenge ourselves to react to an ever-changing world that needs
the innovations and resources that healthy business can contribute."
In 2006 OGC doubled the
size of its Eugene and Portland warehouses to accommodate surging demand;
year-to-year sales climbed 35percent during
the first eight months of
2006, and the company added 24 new staff. Both
facilities feature
state-of-the-art energy-efficiency measures.
OGC’s
sustainability program won other awards in 2006, including Fred
Meyer’s
“Vendor of the Year 2005”, Provender Alliance’s “The Yellow
Eco- Brick Award”, the City of Eugene’s “Community
Sustainability Recognition”, and awards from Business Recycling Award Group,
Food for Lane County and Oregon Food Bank.
About
Oregon Tilth
Oregon Tilth is a
nonprofit research and education membership organization dedicated to
biologically sound and socially equitable agriculture. Oregon Tilth was formed
in 1974, as an agricultural organization with a unique urban-rural outlook.
Primarily an organization of organic farmers, gardeners and consumers, Oregon
Tilth offers educational events throughout the state of Oregon, and provides
organic certification services to organic growers, processors, and handlers
internationally. www.tilth.org.
About
Organically Grown Company
Organically Grown Company
is the largest organic produce distributor in
the Pacific Northwest.
From its warehouses in Portland and Eugene, Oregon
and Kent, Washington,
OGC serves over 200 natural and fine foods stores
and restaurants located
throughout western Oregon and Washington, and retail and wholesale accounts in
other western states and Canada. Over 90
percent of their product
line comes directly from the growers. OGC’s
trademarked Ladybug brand
represents 34 growers in Oregon, Washington and
British Columbia, to
markets throughout the U.S. www.organicgrown.com
Contact: David Lively
Organically Grown Company
541.689.5320
Hmmm… Big surprise
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2. Glyphosate-resistant pigweed a
nightmare for some cotton producers
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3. Mixed Greens seeking AmeriCorps VISTA
volunteers
Currently recruiting applicants to fill (5) AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer
positions for 12-month terms of service to begin in February 2007 and run
through February 2008. The three areas of focus of these positions are Program
Development (3), Marketing/Fundraising (1), and School Garden Network and
Resource Development (1). This is a great opportunity for those
interested in working on the ground-level to grow the capacity of Mixed Greens.
It's a real hands-on learning experience. Note the closing date for
applications is November 20. Please visit http://www.mixedgreens.org/ for more
information.
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Vicki Morrone
Organic Vegetable and Crop Outreach Specialist
Michigan State University
C.S. Mott Sustainable Food Systems
303 Natural Resources Bldg.
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-353-3542
517-282-3557 (cell)
517-353-3834 (fax)
http://safs.msu.edu/
http://www.mottgroup.msu.edu/
