MOFGA's Links Page is under development. Our goal is to provide an annotated bibliography for the sites that our staff members frequent. We provide free links to organizations with missions related to ours. We provide links to commercial web sites of MOFGA Business Members only.

• Agricultural Education
• Environmental News & Policy
• Farm & Food Policy
• Farmland
• Food, Health, Nutrition
• Genetic Engineering
• Government & Cooperative Extension Offices
• Organic & Sustainable Agriculture Associations
• Organic Crops
• Organic Gardening
• Organic Livestock
• Organic/Local Food Marketing
• Organic Seeds
• Pesticides
• Publications
• Tools/Technology

Agricultural Education (Back to Top)

Formal

• Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems: UC Santa Cruz http://socialsciences.ucsc.edu/casfs
• College of the Atlantic http://www.coa.edu/html/home.htm
• Sterling College http://www.sterlingcollege.edu/sas.html
  
• Unity College http://www.unity.edu
• University of Maine Sustainable Agriculture program http://www.maine.edu/sag

Informal

• MOFGA's Apprenticeship Program
• Falls Brook Centre (New Brunswick, Canada) Apprenticeship Program
  
• NESFI: New England Small Farm Institute http://www.smallfarm.org
• Organic Volunteers http://www.organicvolunteers.com
• SOIL (Stewards of Irreplaceable Land) http://www.soilapprenticeships.org
• Sustainable Farming Internships & Apprenticeships (ATTRA) http://www.attrainternships.ncat.org
• WWOOF (Willing Workers on Organic Farms) http://www.wwoof.org

K-12

• Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems Curriculum for High School Educators (WI) http://www.cias.wisc.edu/archives/cat_education.php
• City Farmer: School Gardens (Canada) http://www.cityfarmer.org/schgard15.html
• Community Alliance with Family Farmers-Guide for Farmers Hosting School Groups http://www.caff.org/programs/f2sManual.shtml
• Community Seeds: A project of Mount Desert Island High School http://www.mdihs.u98.k12.me.us/community_seeds/index.htm
• Dig In: Hands-On Soil Investigations (USDA-NRCS) http://soils.usda.gov/education/resources/k_12/dig_in
• Garden Mosaics: Garden Science for Education http://www.gardenmosaics.cornell.edu
• Kids Gardening (National Gardening Association) http://www.kidsgardening.com
• Life Lab Science Program - University of California Santa Cruz http://www.lifelab.org
• Maine Agriculture in the Classroom http://www.mainefarmbureau.com/aginclass
• Seed Stewards http://www.growseed.org/seedstewards.html
• Sustainable Agriculture Resources for K-12 Youth http://www.sare.org/publications/edguide/k12ed_guide.pdf
• Sustainable Agriculture Resources for Teachers http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/AFSIC_pubs/k-12.htm
• The Food Project (MA) Curriculum http://www.thefoodproject.org/buy/internal1.asp?ID=144

Environmental News & Policy (Back to Top)

• Environmental Health Strategy Center http://www.preventharm.org
• Maine Environmental Policy Institute http://www.meepi.org
• Rachel's Environmental News http://www.rachel.org/home_eng.htm

Farm & Food Policy (Back to Top)

• Family Farmer.org http://www.familyfarmer.org
• Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy http://www.iatp.org
• Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture http://www.leopold.iastate.edu
• National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture http://www.sustainableagriculture.net
• National Family Farm Coalition http://www.nffc.net
• Organic Trade Association http://www.ota.com/index.html
• Sustainable Agriculture Coalition http://www.msawg.org
• The Ram's Horn (Brewster & Cathleen Kneen's analyses of the food system http://www.ramshorn.ca

Farmland (Back to Top)

• American Farmland Trust http://www.farmland.org
• Maine Farmland Trust http://www.mainefarmland.org
• Maine Farmlink http://www.mainefarmlink.org
• Maine Land Trust Network http://www.mltn/org

Food, Health, Nutrition (Back to Top)

• Better school lunches: Community Food Security Coalition www.foodsecurity.org or http://www.foodsecurity.org/farm_to_school.html
• Eat the Seasons (U.K. site) http://eattheseasons.co.uk/index.htm
• Food Navigator (European research on food additives) http://www.foodnavigator.com
• Local Harvest http://www.localharvest.org
• Mission Organic http://www.mo2010.org
• Raw Milk http://www.realmilk.com
• Soil & Health Library (Online library of studies of links between organic farming and health) http://www.soilandhealth.org
• Soil Association (most comprehensive review of studies about organic food and health) http://www.soilassociation.org/web/sa/saweb.nsf/library?openform
• Virginia Worthington: Is Organically Grown Food More Nutritious? http://www.mindfully.org/Food/Organic-More-Nutritious-WorthingtonNov01.htm
• Weston A. Price Foundation http://www.westonaprice.org/index.html
http://www.rawmilk.org

Genetic Engineering (Back to Top)

• GE Free Maine http://www.gefreemaine.org
• Institute for Science in Society http://www.i-sis.org.uk
• Organic Consumers Association http://www.organicconsumers.org
• The ETC Group http://www.etcgroup.org
• Union of Concerned Scientists http://www.ucsusa.org

Government & Cooperative Extension Offices (Back to Top)

• AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library) http://agricola.nal.usda.gov
• Census of Agriculture (Maine) 2002 http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/census02/volume1/me/index1.htm
• Heart of Maine RC&D (Business Planning) http://www.heartofmaine.org
• Maine Department of Agriculture http://www.maine.gov/agriculture
• Maine Government http://www.maine.gov
• Maine Laws http://janus.state.me.us/legis/statutes
• University of Maine Agricultural Center http://www.mac.umaine.edu
• University of Maine Cooperative Extension http://www.umext.maine.edu
• US Department of Agriculture http://www.usda.gov
• USDA-National Agricultural Statistics Service (New England http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_by_State/Maine/index.asp
• USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service http://www.me.nrcs.usda.gov/contact/directory/fieldoffices.html

Organic & Sustainable Agriculture Associations (Back to Top)

U.S.

• California Certified Organic Farmers http://www.ccof.org
• Carolina Farm Stewardship Assn. http://www.carolinafarmstewards.org
• Center for Rural Affairs http://www.cfra.org
• Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CA) http://www.caff.org
• Connecticut http://www.ctnofa.org
• Hawaii Organic Farmers http://www.hawaiiorganicfarmers.org/index.html
• Land Institute http://www.landinstitute.org
• Land Stewardship Project http://www.landstewardshipproject.org
• Massachusetts http://www.nofamass.org
• Minnesota Institute for Sustainable Agriculture http://www.misa.umn.edu
• New Hampshire http://www.nofanh.org
• New Jersey http://www.nofanj.org
• New York http://www.nofany.org
• NOFA (Northeast Organic Farming Association) http://www.nofa.org/index.php
• Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association http://www.oeffa.org
• Oregon Tilth http://www.tilth.org
• Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) http://www.pasafarming.org
• Rhode Island http://www.nofari.org
• Small Farm Center (UC Davis)http://www.sfc.ucdavis.edu
• Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (TOFGA) http://www.tofga.org
• The Food Project (Massachusetts) http://www.thefoodproject.org
• Vermont http://www.nofavt.org

International

• ACORN-Atlantic Canada Organic Regional Network http://www.acornorganic.org
• Canadian Organic Growers http://www.cog.ca
• Ecological Agriculture Project (Quebec) http://eap.mcgill.ca
• Elm Farm Research Center (UK) http://www.efrc.com
• IFOAM: International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements http://www.ifoam.org
• Soil Association (UK) http://www.soilassociation.org

Organic Crops (Back to Top)

• ATTRA - National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service http://www.attra.ncat.org
• Ecological Agriculture Project http://www.agrenv.mcgill.ca/EXTENSION/EAP/index.htm
• Healthy Farmers, Healthy Profits http://bse.wisc.edu/hfhp
• New England Vegetable Management Guide http://www.nevegetable.org
• New Farm http://www.newfarm.org
• Organic Agriculture Info: Scientific Research http://www.organicaginfo.org
• Organic Farm Research Foundation http://www.ofrf.org
• Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE, research reports and grants for farmers http://www.sare.org
• University of Maine Cooperative Extension's IPM programs http://www.umext.maine.edu/topics/pest.htm
• University of Maine Cooperative Extension's IPM programs - Potatoes http://www.umaine.edu/umext/potatoprogram
• Vegetable MD (vegetable diseases) http://vegetablemdonline.ppath.cornell.edu/Home.htm

Organic Gardening (Back to Top)

• Grow Organic (UK): Henry Doubleday Research Foundation http://www.organicgardening.org.uk/index.php
• Kitchen Gardeners International http://www.kitchengardeners.org

Organic Livestock (Back to Top)

• American Grassfed Association http://www.americangrassfed.org
• American Livestock Breeds Conservancy http://www.albc-usa.org
• American Pastured Poultry Association (APPPA) http://www.apppa.org
• Eat Wild http://www.eatwild.com
• Hay Directory http://www.umaine.edu/livestock/hay.htm
• Healthy Animals Newsletter (USDA) http://ars.usda.gov/is/np/ha/index.html
• Livestock/Carnivore Conflict Prevention List-Serve - to subscribe, send email to abigail.breuer@keystoneconservation.us
• Maine Cheesemakers' Guild http://www.mainecheeseguild.org
• Maine Grass Farmers' Network http://www.umaine.edu/umext/mgfn
• Maine Micro-Dairy Project http://www.mainemicrodairy.org
• No NAIS (National Animal Identification System) http://nonais.org
• NODPA (Northeast Organic Dairy Producers Alliance) http://www.organicmilk.org
• Penn Dutch Cow Care (Dr. Hugh Karreman) http://www.penndutchcowcare.org
• Stop Animal ID http://www.stopanimalid.org/index.php
• USDA's Agricultural Research Service http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/index.html
• USDA-APHIS, on Animal ID http://animalid.aphis.usda.gov/nais/index.shtml
• Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy Farmers http://www.cias.wisc.edu/dairysch.html

Organic/Local Food Marketing (Back to Top)

• CSA's: Robyn Van En Center (Robyn sparked the CSA movement in the U.S. http://www.wilson.edu/wilson/asp/content.asp?id=804
• Eat Local Foods Coalition http://www.eatmainefoods.org
• Eat Well Guide http://www.eatwellguide.org
• Equiterre (Quebec-working on food and energy issues) http://www.equiterre.org/en
• Food Routes-Local Food Marketing support http://www.foodroutes.org
• Growing for Market: Newsletter targeted to market gardeners http://www.growingformarket.com
• Just Food (NYC-multi-farm, large consumer base CSA system) http://www.justfood.org
• Maine Department of Agriculture Marketing Information http://www.getrealmaine.com
• Maine Federation of Farmers' Markets http://www.mffm.org
• Slow Food US http://www.slowfoodusa.org
• OFARM (marketing grains) http://www.ofarm.org
• Slow Food Italy http://www.slowfood.com
• USDA's Daily Price Reports from Across the Country http://www.ams.usda.gov/fv/mncs/fvwires.htm
• USDA's National Agricultural Library Resource on CSA's http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/csa
• Vermont Fresh Network http://www.vermontfresh.net

Organic Seeds (Back to Top)

• Organic Seed Alliance http://www.seedalliance.org
• Restoring Our Seed http://www.growseed.org
• Seed Saver's Exchange http://www.seedsavers.org

Pesticides (Back to Top)

• Beyond Pesticides http://www.beyondpesticides.org/index.html
• Inert Ingredients Lists http://www.epa.gov/opprd001/inerts/lists.html
• Maine Board of Pesticides Control http://www.maine.gov/agriculture/pesticides
• PANNA (Pesticides Action Network of North America) http://www.panna.org
• Pesticide Labels http://www.cdms.net/pfa/LUpdateMsg.asp
• University of Maine Integrated Pest Management (IPM) http://www.umext.maine.edu/topics/pest.htm

Publications (Back to Top)

• Bulletin: Producing Potatoes Organically in Maine (University of Maine Cooperative Extension)
• Northeast Farmer: Regional news, opinions & comments http://www.northeastfarmer.com
• Organic Facts http://www.organicfacts.net
• Resurgence magazine http://www.resurgence.org
• The Ecologist http://www.theecologist.org

Tools/Technology (Back to Top)

• Centre for Alternative Technology (UK) http://www.cat.org.uk
• Farming-magazine with much from Ohio Amish community http://www.farmingmagazine.net/index.htm
• National Center for Appropriate Technology http://www.ncat.org
• Small Farmer's Journal-with a draft horse focus http://www.smallfarmersjournal.com
• Tillers, International-low technology, oxen, workshops http://www.tillersinternational.org