6/19/06 (9:40 am)
Hi Anil
I can take the visitor around the 11, 17, or 18 to visit a couple of
operations in Hollister, San juan Bautista, Morgan Hill and I'll
arrange to take him to the Agroecology Center in Santa Cruz.
He may need to be in the area the evening before the day of the tour.
Please let me know as you're finalizing the schedule so i can
accommodate competing requests.
PS: August 7-9 is the International Conference on The Future of
Agriculture: Science, Stewardship, and Sustainability in Sacramento.
He may already know about it.
Aziz
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On Jun 16, 2006, at 9:22 AM, Mario S. Moratorio wrote:
> I can take him to visit a couple of the organic/CSAs in Capay Valley,
> such
> as Full Belly Farm, Eatwell Farm and possibly Capay
> Organics/Farmfreshtoyou
> It all depend on the dates.
>
> Regards
>
> Mario
>
>
>
>
> On 6/16/06 9:04 AM, "Stephen Kaffka" <srkaffka@ucdavis.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> --
> Mario Moratorio
> UC Cooperative Extension
> Urban Horticulture and Small Farms Advisor
>
> 501 Texas St. 70 Cottonwood St
> Fairfield, CA 94533 Woodland, CA 95695
>
> (707) 784 1325 (530) 666 8143
> (707) 429 5532 FAX (530) 666 8736
> (707) 310 9083 cell.
>
>
>
Aziz Baameur, UCCE Farm Advisor
azbaameur@ucdavis.edu
408-282-3127
1553 Berger Dr. Bldg 1
San Jose, CA 95112
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