Michigan Organic Event

   Information Group for the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) Webinars.

Notice of an online educational program on collection of publications that are on organic ag. This session is open to anyone with access (internet) but may be more useful to those studying organic ag. I will attend and report back to this listserve of anything of exceptional notice.

Please feel free to share this information with folks who may be interested.

The Digital Information Group for the American Distance Education Consortium (ADEC) cordially invites you to participate in some upcoming webinars. Mark you colander today!

May 27, 11:00, EST.  Bill Thomas hosted by Bill Thomas of NAL, giving an overview of the < http://quod.lib.umich.edu/n/nal/>Organic Agriculture Information Access Center.

The Organic Agriculture Information Access is an electronic collection of historic United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) publications related to organic agriculture. In this collection, there are almost 200 documents published before 1942 (before synthetic chemicals became widely used) that contain state-of-the-art information and data that is still very pertinent for today's agriculture. Access to this data is intended to provide growers with new ideas on crop production without chemicals, as well as help researchers conserve scarce resources by avoiding unintended duplication. This collection is provided by the < http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/>Alternative Farming Systems Information Center (AFSIC), a part of the < http://www.nal.usda.gov/>National Agricultural Library (NAL), with funding from the USDA National Organic Program and Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. This effort is part of the AFSIC "Organic Roots" project.

Address for the May program: < http://breeze.msu.edu/adecmay09/>