*CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable production intensification* Dear Subscribers, I am forwarding herewith a message from Manny Reyes regarding his work on Conservation Agriculture in an urban setting. Manny would like to hear from anyone in the CA-CoP who has been involved in Conservation Agriculture in urban and peri-urban settings. Manny is aware of the message of 16 August from Frank Kutka about no-till gardening in North Dakota (see below). Please reply directly to Manny with a copy to me. *Amir Kassam* *Moderator* * * Plant Production and Protection Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome Italy e-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Manuel Reyes <[log in to unmask]> Date: Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:32 PM Subject: Conservation Agriculture in Urban Deserts To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]> Hello Amir, Good afternoon. I remember your email below (shaded, scroll down). We presented this poster about: ‘Conservation Agriculture in Urban Deserts’ at the recently concluded ‘ASA, CSSA, and SSSA International Annual Meetings,’ October 21-24, 2012, Cincinnati, Ohio (https://www.acsmeetings.org/). This is research supported from multiple projects funded by USDA, US-EPA, USAID and North Carolina A&T State University. We have installed four more of this ‘32-plot study’ in four high school campuses in North Carolina. High school students are responding to conservation agriculture technology. We also installed these (fewer beds) in a middle and an elementary school at NC. Below is the link to the abstract, http://scisoc.confex.com/scisoc/2012am/webprogram/Paper74783.html. The pdf file in that abstract link can be clicked to access the poster. I hope you can share to the Conservation Agriculture community. We think this is the first study of this kind in the world. Am I right? Take care, Manny ____________________________________ Manuel R. Reyes, Ph.D. Professor, Biological Engineering North Carolina A&T State University Sockwell Hall, 1601 E. Market St Greensboro, NC, 27411 Voice: 336-285-3832 (I seldom check voicemail) [log in to unmask] *From:* Global Community of Practice on Conservation Agriculture [mailto: [log in to unmask]] *On Behalf Of *Amir Kassam *Sent:* Thursday, August 16, 2012 9:12 AM *To:* [log in to unmask] *Subject:* No-till garden in southern North Dakota coming along very well *CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable production intensification* Dear Subscribers, Please see an interesting communication on no-till garden in southern North Dakota (with a hyperlink to the photo) from Frank Kutka, North Dakota SARE Coordinator and Dickinson Research Extension Center Assistant Director, North Dakota State University. I understand that no-dig or no-till gardening involving mulch and diversified crop associations is being practiced in many parts of the world, illustrating that CA principles work just as well at small or micro scales. *Amir Kassam * *Moderator* * * Plant Production and Protection Division Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00153 Rome Italy e-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: *Kutka, Frank* <[log in to unmask]> Date: Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:12 PM Subject: no-till garden in southern North Dakota coming along very well To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Dear Amir: Please note this lovely vegetable no-till garden in Selfridge, ND<ftp://ext-ftp.fao.org/ag/data/agp/Friedrich/CA-CoP-L-message/DSC_0302%20%282%29.JPG>. Corie Lund and the others at the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service office there sprayed out a poor quality lawn this spring and then poked seeds and a few transplants into the ground. They did add extra water too, but this is clearly a huge leap forward from bindweed and dandelions without the expense of turning the area into dust and mud first. It has come a long way since the first photos I sent back in June and local folks are very impressed to see that no-till can be adapted to small acreages too. Peace, Frank Frank Kutka North Dakota SARE Coordinator and Dickinson Research Extension Center Assistant Director *NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY* Room 205 1041 State Ave Dickinson ND 58601 phone: 701-483-2348, Ext 113 fax: 701-483-2073 [log in to unmask] www.NDSARE.info <[log in to unmask]> www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu/dickinso/ <[log in to unmask]> “We Hidatsa women were early risers in the planting season; it was my habit to be up before sunrise, while the air was cool, for we thought this the best time for garden work… weeds at this season are apt to have seeds, so that it was my habit to bear such weeds off the field, that the seeds might not fall and sprout the next season… When, therefore, we had a year of good crops, we put away seed enough to last for two years; then, if the next year yielded a poor crop, we still had good seed to plant the third season.” Maxi'diwiac (Buffalo Bird Woman) 1917 ------------------------ To *subscribe* to the CA-CoP-L list, send an e-mail to [log in to unmask] leaving the subject line blank and placing only the one-line message: ‘*SUBSCRIBE CA-CoP-L Name Surname*’ in the message part without any further text such as an address, etc. ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF); <http://&*TICKET_URL%28CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF%29;> ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: https://listserv.fao.org/cgi-bin/wa?TICKET=NzM0NzYxIG1hbm55cmV5ZXNATkMuUlIuQ09NIENBLUNPUC1MIKHlapFOqGCH&c=SIGNOFF ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);