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To
empower and inspire farmers, individuals, and communities in the South
to create an agricultural system that is ecologically sound,
economically viable, socially just, and humane. Because sustainable
solutions depend on the involvement of the entire community, Southern
SAWG is committed to including all persons in the South without bias. |
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Start Chatting It Up!
Our 2009 Practical Tools and Solutions
for Sustaining Family Farms Conference will be held
January 21-24, 2009 at the Chattanooga Convention Center
in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Mark your calendar and plan to
participate in this popular event. Learn
more...
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Unique New Educational
CD-ROM Now Available
Organic Vegetable Production and
Marketing in the South, with Alex Hitt of Peregrine Farm
A first of its kind
all-in-one tool, the CD-ROM (Windows Only) is a
comprehensive interactive resource designed to give organic farmers and
educators in the South the technical information they need.
The CD-ROM (Windows Only) was produced in
partnership with the USDA Risk Management Agency (RMA).
Learn
more...
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2008
Southern Region
Madden Award Winners
Terry and LaRhea Pepper
O’Donnell, Texas
Terry and LaRhea Pepper not only saved
their family farm and pioneered organic cotton in
Texas, they went on to help create a global partnership
of organic cotton growers. For this they are being honored
with Southern SARE’s 2008 Patrick Madden Award for
Sustainable
Agriculture.
Full
Story from Southern SARE website
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Celebration of Farming, Food,
and Community
Saturday, September 20
3:00-8:00 pm
Dayspring Farm in King and Queen County, VA
A fun fundraiser for Southern SAWG
For more details on this exciting event,
click
here
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Please
share with us photos of your farm. Send electronic versions
to info@ssawg.org
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Ruth Peebles, President of the INS Group delivers community
food systems training in Nashville, TN
To read more about this training, click
here
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Southern Sustainable
Agriculture
Working Group, Inc.
(Southern SAWG) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization
formed in 1991 to promote sustainable agriculture in the Southern
United States.
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