Project Overview
FNC08-734
Project Type: Farmer/Rancher
Funds awarded in 2008: $17,981.00
Projected End Date: 12/31/2011
Region: North Central
State: Minnesota
Project Coordinator:
Annual Reports
Commodities
- Agronomic: peanuts, potatoes
- Vegetables: sweet potatoes, beans, cabbages, carrots, cucurbits, eggplant, garlic, greens (leafy), peppers, tomatoes
- Additional Plants: tobacco
Practices
- Crop Production: food product quality/safety
- Education and Training: demonstration, display, farmer to farmer, networking, workshop
- Farm Business Management: whole farm planning, new enterprise development, budgets/cost and returns, community-supported agriculture, cooperatives, marketing management, farm-to-institution, agricultural finance, value added
- Natural Resources/Environment: biodiversity, habitat enhancement
- Pest Management: botanical pesticides, competition, cultural control, field monitoring/scouting, integrated pest management, physical control, mulching - plastic, sanitation
- Production Systems: organic agriculture, permaculture
- Soil Management: earthworms, organic matter
- Sustainable Communities: ethnic differences/cultural and demographic change, infrastructure analysis, leadership development, local and regional food systems, new business opportunities, partnerships, urban agriculture, urban/rural integration, analysis of personal/family life, employment opportunities, social networks
Proposal summary:
The Minnesota African Women Sustainable Backyard Farming Project will work with women of African backgrounds on beginning backyard farms and related businesses in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Metropolitan Area. The project is a collaborative of the three Backyard Farmers and three community organizations working together to help African Women become farmers and/or agriculturally based business owners.
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