Resources

British Columbia

“Cyber Help for Organic Farmers”

Links to a wide range of information relevant to organic farmers

Part of the Certified Organic Associations of B.C website

http://www.certifiedorganic.bc.ca/rcbtoa/index.html

Farm Folk/City Folk

Projects include Seed Security, Grain Chain, and Community Farms Project

http://www.ffcf.bc.ca/

B.C Food Systems Network

Information on Food Policy, Food Security in B.C.

Also some agriculture information links

www.fooddemocracy.org

B.C. Food Security Gateway

Web resource for B.C. food practitioners, with a focus on healthy eating as a strategy for achieving food secure communities

http://bcfoodsecuritygateway.ca

B.C Ministry of Agriculture and Lands Info Basket

http://infobasket.gov.bc.ca/portal/server.pt

Metro Vancouver Small Farm Resource Manual

A project of the Richmond Food Security Society, this manual is offered as a dynamic online resource to small-scale and urban farmers to help them source supplies, services, markets, and knowledge.

http://www.smallfarmer.ca/

Ministry of Agriculture and Lands  Resource Management Publications Page

Very useful source of information.

Downloadable Factsheets and publications on a range of topics including waste management, composting, water, irrigation, farm practices, fencing, conceptual building plans.

http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/resmgmt/publist/Publ_List_Home.htm

UBC Botanical Garden Horticultural Extension

For gardening and plant-related questions, the UBC Botanical Garden offers both a free “hortline” as well as online discussion forums.

http://www.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/education/hortline.php

Canada

Bits & Bytes

A resource for collaboration and sharing innovations in food security across Canada

http://bitsandbytes.ca/

Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada

www.organicagcentre.ca

Canadian Organic Growers

National Advocacy Organisation.

www.cog.ca

Canadian Farm Business Management Council

www.farmcentre.cam

Canadian National Organic Standard

You can access this link via the COABC websites “standards” section.

http://www.pwgsc.gc.ca/cgsb/on_the_net/organic/032_0310_2006-e.pdf

United States

US Organic Extension Website

http://www.extension.org/

Rodale Institute Webpages for farmers

http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/new_farm

National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service  (ATTRA)

Not specifically information about strictly organic systems, but lots of useful articles

www.attra.org

SARE Sustainable Agriculture Research and Extension

Not an Organic Site.  Well known for it’s publications,  such as “Steel in the Field” some of them downloadable

http://www.sare.org/

Washington State University Extension

http://extension.wsu.edu/default.aspx

“Oregon small Farms”

An Oregon State Extension Service website for Small Farms.  Includes this section for  beginning farmers, also a cover crop calculator.

http://smallfarms.oregonstate.edu/beginning-farmers

International

International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements

http://www.ifoam.org/

Website of the Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Switzerland, Germany and Austria

http://www.fibl.org/en/homepage.html

Soil Association (U.K)

Farmers & Growers Pages

http://www.soilassociation.org/Farmersgrowers/tabid/80/Default.aspx

Garden Organic (U.K)

Farming, growing and research pages

http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/research/index.php