[Pollinator] News from Wild Farm Alliance - Biodiversity, Conservation Easements, etc.

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Food, Farming and the Wild 
News from the Wild Farm Alliance 
February 2006 
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in this issue
-- Biodiversity Conservation Guides for Organic Farmers and Certifiers
-- Farming with the Wild Forever: Using Agricultural Easements to Support 
Biodiversity
-- WFA Presentations This Winter Throughout the Country
-- Interview, Article, and Paper Posted to WFA Website
-- Case Study of California Farmer Who Catches the Hedgerow Bug
Greetings!
Welcome to the Wild Farm Alliance (WFA) e-Newsletter, a publication advancing 
an agriculture that protects and restores wild Nature.

Biodiversity Conservation Guides for Organic Farmers and Certifiers 
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 While providing a range of farming practices that maintain and enhance 
biodiversity conservation on the farm and in the larger landscape, these 
downloadable guides offer assistance on how organic farmers and certifiers can address 
requirements in the USDA National Organic Program Rule. Although the guides are 
set up to parallel the recent biodiversity additions WFA helped place in the 
National Organic Standards Board’s Organic System Plan Template, they are 
useful for all farmers who want to conserve biodiversity as they integrate nature’
s benefits into their operations. 
Read on... 

Farming with the Wild Forever: Using Agricultural Easements to Support 
Biodiversity 
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 The latest in WFA’s series of briefing papers, this downloadable piece 
covers new ground, focusing specifically on ways to support biodiversity on farms 
and ranches, and in the surrounding landscape, by using conservation easements 
designed to promote and sustain active management of land for various 
agricultural purposes compatible with wild nature. 
Read on... 

WFA Presentations This Winter Throughout the Country 
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 WFA staff and board members have joined a chef, farmers, researchers and 
others to address farming with the wild, food, organics and biodiversity, 
hedgerow plantings, soil microbiology, and native bee conservation at numerous 
meetings and conferences across the country. We’ve been at the Quivira Coalition's 
Conference in Albuquerque, NM; the Southern Sustainable Agriculture Working 
Group's Conference in Louisville, KY; the Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners 
Association's Conference in Kerrville, TX; the Ecological Farming Association's 
Conference in Pacific Grove, CA; the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable 
Agriculture's Conference in State College, PA; the Northeast Organic Farming 
Association-Vermont's Conference in Randolph, VT; and the California Certified 
Organic Farmers Conference in Sacramento, CA. 
Upcoming presentations will be made at the Independent Organic Inspectors 
Association's Advanced Training and the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference 
both in La Crosse, WI; and the New Mexico Organic Commodity Commission 
Conference in Albuquerque, NM. 
Read on... 

Interview, Article, and Paper Posted to WFA Website 
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– Interview with WFA’s Jo Ann Baumgartner and Yale Creek Ranch Manager Tim 
Franklin... – A Food Monolith (USDA Food Pyramid) Gets a Face-Lift. Commentary 
by Dana Jackson.. – Agroecology Versus Ecoagriculture: Balancing Food 
Production and Biodiversity Conservation with Social Equity. Commentary by Miguel 
Altieri. 
Read on... 

Case Study of California Farmer Who Catches the Hedgerow Bug 
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 My friend Lou Preston has caught the “hedgerow bug.” Lou is a winemaker and 
diversified organic farmer of substantial renown. He lives on a 125-acre 
vineyard in Sonoma County’s Dry Creek Valley that he and his wife Susan and their 
daughters have built into something extremely special over the past 30 years. 
Read on... 

What We Do 
Together with farmers, conservationists and communities, we are creating more 
landscapes where farms use sustainable methods to grow healthful food and 
fiber while promoting biodiversity and protecting habitat for a broad range of 
native species. By farming with the wild, agriculture can provide wildlife 
habitat within its borders, and connections to wildlands beyond – through the 
creation of buffers and corridors that are permeable to the movements of animals 
and that help to link people with the land. 
Read on... 

Take Up the Cause, Make a Donation to WFA 
With your support, we can keep doing what we do best: serving as a voice for 
critical issues intersecting agriculture and conservation. 
Read on... 


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