Dear Work Group members,
I received the same email as Anil. Here are some suggestions to get the
ball rolling. We would be happy to organize a day with him here at Davis,
allowing him to visit interested faculty, the LTRAS/SAFS project and the
Student Farm.
He would probably enjoy a visit to UCSC and the agroecology project there.
There are several organizations representing or working with organic
farmers in California like the Organic Farming Research Foundation, CAFFs
and others that may be willing to help organize a tour. Perhaps SAREP can
help or be the organizing entity?
I suggest that an important part of a tour would be visits with some large
scale growers as well as market gardeners and specialty producers. For
example, I know that the Driscoll Company grows a lot of organic
strawberries along the Central Coast, and there are some large-scale
lettuce and other produce companies both on the coast and in the San
Joaquin Valley.
Steve Kaffka
At 08:28 AM 6/16/2006, Shrestha, Anil wrote:
>A professor from Hungary (Chair of the Department of Ecological and
>Sustainable Production Systems, Corvinus University of Budapest) is
>interested in visiting organic farms in California. He will be here from
>August 8-21. I was wondering if anyone would be interested in showing him
>some places or letting me know of some places he could visit. I will
>prepare a list of places and pass the info to him.
>Thanks
>Anil
>
>----------------------------------------------------
>Anil Shrestha
>IPM Weed Ecologist
>University of California
>Statewide IPM Program
>9240 S. Riverbend Ave.
>Parlier, CA 93648
>Phone: 559-646-6534/559-646-6528
>Cell: 559-790-9789
>Fax: 559-646-6593
>Email: anil@uckac.edu
>Web: www.weedbiology.uckac.edu
>
Stephen R. Kaffka
Director, Center for Integrated Farming Systems
Extension agronomist
Department of Plant Sciences
Mail Stop 1
University of California
One Shields Avenue
Davis, California 95616-8780
tel: 530-752-8108
fax: 530-752-4361
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