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This Toolkit shares innovative and effective actions that are being taken in British Columbia, Canada, and elsewhere to promote sustainable food production. It offers tools and advocacy ideas to help regional board members, area directors, municipal councillors, and local government staff and planners create a favorable environment for local and sustainable food production.

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Very short essay by Robert F. Sayre, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture Advisory Board Member and professor emeritus of the University of Iowa Department of English.

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Aldo_Leopold_on_Agriculture.doc

Curriculum resources for secondary schools. Five-part print series (downloadable, 39 pages total).  Content is excellent and thorough. Covers wide spectrum of food security issues, from local to global, from hunger to sustainable agriculture. Includes teacher background, in-class activities, resource lists, glossaries, and links to provincial curriculum (1996).  Produced by Lifecycles Project Society & Victoria International Development Education Association (VIDEA).
 

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teacher_gram.pdf

Plan (16 pages). Various authors (collaboration), Jan 2008.
 

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SSI_FarmPlan_Booklet_Jan08.pdf

Q&A document (9 pages). British Columbia Farm Industry Review Board, Oct 2005.

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specialty_review_qa.pdf

Guide (23 pages). Organic Seed Alliance & Oregon State University, June 2007
Full of high-quality references and weblinks.
 

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OVTguide.pdf

Article (20 pages) Laura Sayre, Sustainable Agriculture Network (SARE).

See www.sare.org for a tremendous wealth of other helpful resources for farmers.

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marketing_strategies_for_farmers_and_ranchers.pdf

Guide  (16 pages)
First five pages contain price information that is obviously out of date, but latter part of article is still relevant, and end includes many references.

NOTE: this is just one of HUNDREDS of documents offering valuable guidance to farmers on the ATTRA websiite

Written by Holly Born, ATTRA (National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service), 2005.
 

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marketingorganicgrains.pdf

Fact sheet (20 pages). Comprehensive source of information on permitted industrial hemp cultivation, history, growing requirements, lab testing, applicable Canadian legislation etc.

Produced by the BC Ministry of Agriculture and Food, 1999.
 

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hempinfo.pdf

How-to Guide with photos (8 pages).
Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service, 2007 (just one of MANY fact sheets available from this source)
 

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Home_Beef_Slaughter_HowTo.pdf