RE: arkansas

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Judy Tiger & Friend:

Some Arkansas Organic Food Co-Ops:

1) Arkansas

                            Ozark Cooperative Warehouse
                            1601 Pump Station Road, PO Box 1528
                            Fayetteville, Arkansas 72702
                            Phone: 501-521-4920 Fax: 501-521-9100
                            E-mail: ozarkcoop@aol.com 

                            Ozark Natural Foods Co-op
                            205 W. Dickson
                            Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
                            Phone: 501-521-7558 

                            Cove Creek Cooperative
                            General Delivery Main Street
                            Leslie, Arkansas 72645
                            Phone: 501-447-2724 

2) A list of Arkansas farmers markets. Some of these farmers have to be
organic:

http://www.ams.usda.gov/farmersmarkets/states/arkansas.htm

3) Here is a USDA page on sustainable agriculture: 

http://www.nal.usda.gov/afsic/index.html

4) Did you know that the "Don't Panic, Eat Organic" website emanates from
the University of Arkansas? Some good leads can be found here:

http://www.rain.org/~sals/my.html

5) The Organic Trade Association:

http://www.ota.com/news.htm

6) This is a CSA farm in Arkansas that you might want to contact:

Wildfire Farm
 Marcie Brewster, Diane Schumacher
 4059 CR 516
 Huntsville, AR 72740
  870-545-3120
 Wildfirefarm@mailcity.com
  Serves: Carroll, Madison and
  Washington Counties

7) This link may give you some CSA farms in nearby states that might be
helpful:

http://www.biodynamics.com/usda/

8) An Arkansas sustainable energy and technology company that services
sustainable agriculture: 
Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA)  
P.O. Box 3657 
Fayetteville, AR 72702 
1-800-346-9140 
M-F 8:30am-4:30pm CST 

 http://www.attra.org/

9) American Culinary Federation:

http://www.acfchefs.org/subindex.html

10) National Restaurant Association with Arkansas link:

http://www.restaurant.org/about_us/join/restaurant.html

11) Virgina may have graduated from either the Culinary Institute of America
or Johnson and Wales ( she certainly knows folks who went to either
restaurant school.) At any rate, contact either school for alumni living in
Arkansas, and fish around for purveyor contacts.

12) The Yellow pages is always a great resource. Let your fingers do the
walking...

Good luck, let us know how it works our for you. 

Adam Honigman

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Grow19@aol.com [SMTP:Grow19@aol.com]
> Sent:	Sunday, February 11, 2001 1:24 PM
> To:	community_garden@mallorn.com
> Subject:	[cg] arkansas
> 
> Hi All,
> My friend Virginia Dec is moving to Little Rock to co-run a newly opening 
> restaurant.  A few questions:
> 1.They hope to buy as much as possible from local organic farmers and
> would 
> like to know what mechanisms are already in place for doing this (farmers'
> 
> co-op, direct purchasing).
> 2. In the long run she would also like to farm and would like to start 
> meeting organic farmers to get to know the region, etc.  Any
> introductions?
> 3. In the short run she'd like to grow on land close in.  Are there
> community 
> garden plots?  Any farmers really close in that would like a helper or 
> willing to rent a bit of land?
> 4. I know she'd like to meet other chefs (anyone around from the Chefs' 
> Collaborative?).
> 5. Any good sized composting programs going on so they can compost they 
> kitchen  waste?
> Mmm.  Good food soon.   Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge.
> Judy Tiger, Washington DC
> 
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