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About Us
A coalition of land grant universities, USDA, and nonprofit organizations in the Mid-Atlantic region is dedicated to helping small and emerging farmers improve their financial success. With funding from the USDA's IFAFS (Initiative for Future Agricultural Food Systems) program, the coalition developed an initiative entitled, The Small Farm Success Project, to help farmers:
- effectively use consumer research and direct marketing techniques.
- develop sustainable and profitable crop rotation strategies.
- adopt financial strategies that enable farmers to remain viable.
The coalition includes Maryland Cooperative Extension, Future Harvest/CASA, Accokeek Foundation, Wallace Center for Agricultural and Environmental Policy at Winrock International, USDA Beltsville Agriculture Research Center, Farm to City, Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, and Penn State Cooperative Extension. Contact information follows:
| Maryland Cooperative Extension, University of Maryland | |||
| Jim Hanson | jhanson@arec.umd.edu | ||
| Dale Johnson | dmj@umd.edu | ||
| Susan Schoenian | sschoen@umd.edu | ||
| Pennsylvania Cooperative Extension, Penn State University | |||
| John Berry | jwb15@psu.edu | ||
| USDA-Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) | |||
| John Teasdale | teasdale@ba.ars.usda.gov | ||
| Mark Davis | davism@ba.ars.usda.gov | ||
| Leslie Gilbert | gilbertL@ba.ars.usda.gov | ||
The Accokeek Foundation blends history, ecology and economics, educating people of all ages about responsible land management--past, present and future (Accokeek, Maryland). | |||
| Skip Kauffman | cskauffman@accokeek.org | ||
| Shane LaBrake | ecofarm@accokeek.org | ||
Farm to City connects farmers in southeast Pennsylvania and New Jersey to markets in the Philadelphia area through farmers' markets, services to CSA farms, and its Winter Harvest Program (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). |
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| Bob Pierson | phillymarkets@aol.com | ||
Founded in 1998, Future Harvest- a Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (Future Harvest-CASA) is dedicated to supporting profitable and sustainable food and farming systems in the Chesapeake Bay region (Stevensville, Maryland). |
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| Bruce Mertz | bm103@umail.umd.edu | ||
Established in 1992, The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) promotes profitable farms which produce healthy food for all people while respecting the natural environment (Millheim, Pennsylvania). |
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| Lamonte Garber | lgarber@paonline.com | ||
| Ruth Sullivan | ruth@pasafarming.org | ||
The Henry A. Wallace Center for Agricultural & Environmental Policy at Winrock International uses its expertise in research, policy analysis, and development to foster sustainable and equitable agricultural and food systems. Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to increase economic opportunity, sustain natural resources, and protect the environment (Arlington, Virginia). |
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| Lydia Oberholtzer | loberholtzer@winrock.org | ||
| Kate Clancy | kclancy@winrock.org | ||
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