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To
empower and inspire farmers, individuals, and communities in the South
to create an agricultural system that is ecologically sound,
economically viable, socially just, and humane. Because sustainable
solutions depend on the involvement of the entire community, Southern
SAWG is committed to including all persons in the South without bias. |
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Mark Your Calendars!
Next year’s Practical Tools and Solutions for Sustaining Family Farms Conference, will be held at the same location, Chattanooga Convention Center, January 20-23, 2010. If you would like to suggest a session, please complete this form. Click here to download form. If you would like to serve on the session advisory committee, please
click here.
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Great DVDs & CD Available
Our new CD ROM Organic Vegetable Production and Marketing in the South, with Alex Hitt of Peregrine Farm is a first of its kind, all-in-one tool packed with production and marketing information, great photos and Alex Hitt showing “How it Works at Peregrine Farm.” Click here to learn more.
The nine DVDs in our Natural Farming Systems in the South series offer virtual farm tours of some of the South’s most successful sustainable farms. Enterprises featured include organic vegetables, cut flowers, pastured chickens, pastured turkeys MIG beef, meat goats, cheese making, and pastured-based dairy. Click here to learn more.
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Now Available:
"Pricing and Profits"
Course Materials
Couldn't make it to the 1 ½ day "Pricing and Profits: Making the Right Decisions for Small-Scale Farmers" finance short course during the 2009 Southern SAWG conference? Now have the next best thing — three crucial presentations from this course are now available on our website. Jim Munsch and Alex Hitt took participants through a step-by-step process in order to make better informed financial decisions. The three presentations — The Beef Cost Model, The Vegetable Cost Model, and Figuring the Cost to Own and Operate Farm Machinery — presented the critical first step in developing a complete farm financial plan. Click here to download these and additional materials from other short courses developed by Southern SAWG.
This course and materials were developed, in large part, through support from the USDA RMA Small Sessions program. |
Black Hollow Dairy — Virginia
Blair and Kim Sanders, owners of Black Hollow Dairy near Dublin, VA, switched from a conventional system to a pasture-based seasonal grazing system. The switch made it possible for them to stay in business, be profitable, and enjoy a high quality of life. To learn more about this operation, click here for links to a video clip, video guide and the farm profile.
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Please
share with us photos of your farm. Send electronic versions
to info@ssawg.org
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Southern Sustainable
Agriculture
Working Group, Inc.
(Southern SAWG) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization
formed in 1991 to promote sustainable agriculture in the Southern
United States.
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