[FLPERMACULTURE] New Free SARE Publication Available: SARE 20/20

[Michael Burns]

From:    "Sean McGovern" <outreach at SARE.ORG>

SARE announces the release of its newest title, "SARE 20/20: Celebrating Our
First 20 Years, Envisioning the Next." This special 20th anniversary edition
chronicles 20 years of agricultural innovation-from SARE's beginning in 1988
to present-day stories of farmers, ranchers, researchers and educators working
across America to develop and implement sustainable marketing and production
practices.

Please consider helping SARE promote this title by forwarding the promotional
message below to interested parties. As always, SARE publications are
available to educators in quantity at no cost for tours, workshops, and
conferences. Visit http://www.sare.org/webstore to order.

As always, please feel free to contact me with any SARE resource needs you may
have.

Regards,

Sean McGovern
SARE National Outreach Office
Phone: 614/306-6422
Fax: 614/268-7544
http://www.sare.org
outreach at sare.org

SARE 20/20: Sustainable Innovations Are Revitalizing American Agriculture

Perched at the edge of the Sonoran desert in New Mexico, Don Bustos' family
farm is endowed with ample sunshine- but cool temperatures limit the growing
season to only four or five months. When rising fuel costs threatened his farm
and family, Bustos tapped nature's own energy source: the sun. With the help
of a grant from the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE)
program, Bustos tested a new system that uses solar heated fluid to warm
greenhouse beds -- cutting annual heating costs from $2,000 to zero and
increasing his growing season and sales

SARE 20/20 features a wide range of farmers, ranchers, researchers and
educators working in collaboration with SARE to advance sustainable
innovations to the whole of American agriculture.

* A nonprofit uses innovative marketing strategies to open new markets for
more than 40 produce farmers, resulting in a tenfold increase in sales over
six years.
* Researchers in the South develop a toolbox of low-input strategies to detect
and target parasites in goats and sheep, reducing the use of costly chemical
dewormers.
* Minnesota researchers find success using reduced tillage and rotations to
bring corn rootworm under control.

Download SARE 20/20 for free at
http://www.sare.org/publications/highlights.htm. To order print copies, visit
http://www.sare.org/WebStore, call 301/374-9696 or write to Sustainable
Agriculture Publications, PO Box 753, Waldorf, Maryland 20604-0753. (Please
specify SARE 20/20 when ordering by mail.) Allow 3-4 weeks for delivery.

SARE 20/20 was published by the national outreach office of the Sustainable
Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and based upon work
supported by the Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service
(CSREES), USDA. SARE's nationwide research and education grants program
advances farming systems that are profitable, environmentally sound and good
for communities. The national outreach office operates under cooperative
agreements with the University of Maryland and the University of Vermont to
develop and disseminate information about sustainable agriculture.

For more information about SARE grant opportunities and other SARE
publications, visit www.sare.org.

Visit the SANET-MG archives at: http://lists.sare.org/archives/sanet-mg.html.
Questions? Visit http://www.sare.org/about/sanetFAQ.htm.
For more information on grants and other resources available through the SARE
program, please visit http://www.sare.org.


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