The Food Alliance is an independent nonprofit organization that endorses farms that meet their strict requirements. You can look for The Food Alliance Seal of Approval when you shop, and know you are buying healthy food, and supporting farmers who protect the environment and provide safe and fair working conditions for their employees. Approximately 150 students are enrolled in the undergraduate program. Currently there are 30 students in the graduate program. Their primary focus at this time is education on crops, farming methods, marketing, business practices, and any other subject that will help small farmers to bring in sufficient income both to keep themselves and their families on their farms and to keep those farms productive.
Little things run the world.
This is especially true when it comes to getting plants established. Under natural conditions plants live in close association with soil organisms called mycorrhizal fungi. These fungi colonize plant roots and extend the root system into the surrounding soil. Mycorrhizal Applications in Grants Pass is dedicated to producing and marketing beneficial fungi to promote plant growth and disease resistance and to reduce the plant s need for fertilizer, pesticides and water. 1000 Friends of Oregon is a nonprofit charitable organization, founded in 1975 by Governor Tom McCall and Henry Richmond as the citizens' voice for land use planning that protects Oregon's quality of life from the effects of growth.