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Introduction
Introduction
Education comes in many forms. Some include certification programs, online classes, local or far-away courses, as well as programs where trained professionals come to your land and help design a plan using data such as soil tests and land topography.
Certification Programs
Certification Programs
Certification generally comes with a certain amount of education, followed by certification that the information was gained and is being applied to the land and the practices used to care for it.
International
International
Bee Better Certified® "producers have made a commitment to protecting and expanding habitat for pollinators, meaning the products you buy help protect bees, butterflies and other pollinators."
Online Courses
Online Courses
Europe
Europe
Self-Study Course: Sustainable Soil Management Practices "CABI is now offering a free online course on Sustainable Soil Management Practices, available worldwide. The course, created by experts in soil health and management, provides users with essential knowledge and tools to assist farmers in tackling current soil health issues.
Soil health is essential to many functions that ecosystems support, including providing clean air and water, and it also underpins agricultural productivity. Pressures on soil health threaten the maintenance of these functions and can greatly reduce yields.
However, specific soil management practices can enhance soil resilience, ultimately leading to higher crop yields and sustainable agricultural productivity."
North America
North America
USA
USA
Regenerative Ocean Farming Hub "With more than 7,100 users, the Hub is a free seed-to-sale training program designed by and for ocean farmers"
Soil
Soil
Europe
Europe
Self-Study Course: Sustainable Soil Management Practices "CABI is now offering a free online course on Sustainable Soil Management Practices, available worldwide. The course, created by experts in soil health and management, provides users with essential knowledge and tools to assist farmers in tackling current soil health issues.
Soil health is essential to many functions that ecosystems support, including providing clean air and water, and it also underpins agricultural productivity. Pressures on soil health threaten the maintenance of these functions and can greatly reduce yields.
However, specific soil management practices can enhance soil resilience, ultimately leading to higher crop yields and sustainable agricultural productivity."
Water
Water
Self-Study Course: Introduction to Water Management "CABI is now offering a free online course “Introduction of Water Management” that teaches the fundamental principles of promoting the efficient use of water.
Water holds a key role in agricultural productivity as one of the main resources that crops need. The intensification of the pressure on water resources makes efficient water management techniques more crucial than ever.
Understanding the water needs of various crops, optimizing irrigation methods to reduce waste, and employing innovative strategies to capture and conserve rainwater; these are key practices in water management.
So, by refining water management in agriculture, you can enhance crop yields and build a more resilient food system."
Weeds
Weeds
While you may have been raised to believe that all "weeds" need to be killed, removed, and protected against, this isn't always what's best for the land. In fact a weed is only defined as 'a plant that is growing where it is not wanted', which can refer to grass, trees, vines, and even aquatic plants.
Native Allies vs Invasive Enemies
Native Allies vs Invasive Enemies
Some weeds are simply misunderstood plants, while others are aggressive invasives that can in fact do a lot of ecological and economic damage, so it is important to learn which are which, as well as how to best handle each type.
"Reading Weeds"
"Reading Weeds"
Weeds offer us a wide range of important information IF we take the time to learn what they are telling us. Some species only show up on freshly disturbed land, while others love poor or rich soil, some will only grow in acidic soils or soils with other properties. Some species only grow in consistently dry/well-draining soil, while others enjoy wet feet and can warn you about repeated flooding before you buy a new piece of land.
Uses for Weeds
Uses for Weeds
Weeds can help accumulate certain nutrients that may lie too deep in the soil for standard crop roots to reach on their own. Weeds have complex relationships with beneficial fungi, other plant species, and microorganisms, which can benefit our crops when using organic practices instead of costly chemical fertilizers, pesticides herbicides, and fungicides.
Weeds as Mulch and Soil Amendments
Weeds as Mulch and Soil Amendments
Bracken as a Peat Alternative (PDF) "Trials using bracken harvested mainly in the autumn from the New Forest have shown that this material can be successfully composted and used as a potting medium for hardy ornamental nursery stock. The high temperatures that are attained during composting break down ptaquiloside, the carcinogen that bracken contains, and the end result is a material with a high content of fine fibres. On its own bracken compost can be used for mulching, or in combination with peat it can provide a low pH mulch or potting medium, suitable for growing calcifuge plants."
Green Mulch
Pests & Disease
Pests & Disease
Kenya
Kenya
Infonet Biovision: Natural Enemies "Natural enemies are animals that attack and feed on other animals such as an insect (e.g ladybird beetle), bird or spider feeding on pest insects."
Low-Impact Forestry
Low-Impact Forestry
Low-Impact Forestry Workshops "The LIF program hosts workshops year round covering all sorts of forestry-related topics from logging with draft animals to home firewood production. The LIF staff also participate in collaborative logging projects that explore creative forest management and contracts that benefit both landowner and logger. Learn more about our chainsaw safety courses."
Organizations
Organizations
International
International
International Food Policy Research Institute "provides research-based policy solutions to sustainably reduce poverty and end hunger and malnutrition in developing countries. Together with our partners, we generate needed evidence for country- and region-led policies that contribute to poverty reduction and help ensure that all people have access to safe, sufficient, nutritious, and sustainably produced food. Through multisectoral research and engagement with stakeholders, IFPRI informs effective policies, programs, and investments that contribute to productive livelihoods and sustainable, resilient, and equitable agriculture and food systems."
Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation "is an international nonprofit organization that protects the natural world through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitats. As a science-based organization, we both conduct our own research and rely upon the most up-to-date information to guide our conservation work. Our key program areas are: pollinator conservation, endangered species conservation, and reducing pesticide use and impacts."
Africa
Africa
Kenya
Kenya
Infonet "a channel of the Biovision Farmer Communication Programme (FCP), provides scientific and practical validated information and knowledge related to plant (crop), animal, human and environmental health.
The resource gives farmers, trainers, students, and extension workers quick access to up-to-date and locally relevant agricultural information and related topics. Infonet-Biovision’s aim is to increase human and animal welfare and health, improve regional and local food security and at the same time conserve the environment and biodiversity."
Europe
Europe
UK
UK
England
Norfolk Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) "is a not-for-profit organisation that is run by farmers and conservation specialists. We are dedicated in supporting Norfolk farmers and landowners to manage their land for the enrichment of wildlife. Our farming advisory work is steered by our ongoing projects and our farmer members; our services have been created specifically with Norfolk farmers and landowners in mind."
North America
North America
USA
USA
GreenWave "is a nonprofit dedicated to training and supporting new seaweed farmers in the U.S." "GreenWave replicates and scales regenerative ocean farms to create jobs and protect the planet. We train and support ocean farmers in the era of climate change, working with coastal communities around the world to create a blue economy - built and led by farmers."
The National Black Food and Justice Alliance "represents hundreds of Black urban and rural farmers, organizers, and land stewards based nationwide working together towards an intergenerational, urban/rural movement to map, assess, train and deepen the organizing, institution building and advocacy work protecting Black land and work towards food sovereignty.
Together, we are designing, building and protecting the nourishing, safe and liberatory spaces our communities need and absolutely deserve."The Transfarmation Project "Our mission is to build collective power sufficient to realize a just and sustainable food system. Transfarmation does this by helping farmers transition from industrial animal agriculture operations to raising crops for human consumption. By creating models of alternative economic opportunities, building solidarity with other movements, and shifting societal narratives to change culture, we will realize a just and sustainable food system."
Illinois
ISAP (Illinois Sustainable AG Partnership) "envisions Illinois as a sustainable agriculture system that results in improved soil health, water quality, profitable and resilient agriculture systems, and thriving communities."
Maine
The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA): Learn "For 50 years MOFGA has been the premier resource for all things organic and sustainable living. We’re here to help you learn why organic is important, find organic foods, grow organic and then enjoy the harvest."
South Dakota
Siċaŋġu Food Sovereignty Initiative "The ability to produce our own food and nourish physically, spiritually, and mentally healthy people is essential in building a strong and sovereign tribal nation.
The Siċaŋġu Food Sovereignty Initiative, 2019 winner of a prestigious international food system vision prize, is a community-based effort to Indigenize our food system and build wicozani (the good way of life) for the Siċaŋġu people—now, and for future generations.
From Seed Sovereignty, to Keya Wakpala Farms, farmer & rancher education, the Siċaŋġu Harvest Market, and health & cooking classes, we are transforming and revitalizing Siċaŋġu Lakota foodways."
South America
South America
Brazil
Brazil
We Forest: Reversing Deforestation in Apuí "Engaging local farmers in protecting the Amazon"
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