Online Resources
Looking for ways to learn more about pasture-based farming or the food you eat?
Here's some wonderful online resources.
ATTRA provides information and other technical assistance to farmers, ranchers, Extension agents, educators, and others involved in sustainable agriculture in the United States. Nearly every critical aspect of a sustainable farm is explained in great detail from specific enterprises such as pastured livestock and crops to other farming considerations such as energy alternatives and business management.
Soil and Health Library provides access to out-of-print books in the Radical Agriculture, Health and Personal Sovereignty categories. This includes books from William Albrecht, Edward Faulkner, Masanobu Fukuoka, George Henderson, Sir Albert Howard, J.I. Rodale, Andre Voisin, and others. There are many unique books on topics ranging from home construction to worms!
The Biodiversity Heritage Library is a consortium of 12 natural history and botanical libraries that cooperate to digitize and make accessible the legacy literature of biodiversity held in their collections and to make that literature available for open access and responsible use as a part of a global “biodiversity commons.” BHL also serves as the foundational literature component of the Encyclopedia of Life. BHL content may be freely viewed through the online reader or downloaded. Take advantage!
The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy (ALBC) is a nonprofit membership organization working to protect over 180 breeds of livestock and poultry from extinction. Included are asses, cattle, goats, horses, sheep, pigs, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys.
Each U.S. state and territory has a state office at its land-grant university and a network of local or regional offices. These offices are staffed by one or more experts who provide useful, practical, and research-based information to agricultural producers, small business owners, youth, consumers, and others in rural areas and communities of all sizes.
Some of our favorites are: University of Tennessee, Cornell University, University of Vermont, University of Wisconsin, North Carolina State University
Dr. Weston Price research on isolated, nonindustrialized peoples demonstrated that humans achieve perfect physical form and perfect health generation after generation when they consume nutrient-dense whole foods and vital fat-soluble activators found exclusively in animal fats.
The Foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. It supports a number of movements that contribute to this objective including accurate nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies.
The Greenhorns is a grassroots non-profit organization made up of young farmers and many collaborators. Greenhorns mission is to recruit, promote and support the new generation of young farmers in this ample and able 21st century America. You can find resources for beginning farmers, acquiring land, seed saving and lots of other topics on their site.