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News From the Wild Side - January 2018

Posted on Latest News by Shelly Connor · March 05, 2018 12:10 PM · 1 reaction

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News From the Wild Side - January 2016

Posted on Latest News by Shelly Connor · January 12, 2016 11:55 AM

fs-ComanagingStewardship.jpgHappy New Year! Wild Farm Alliance is excited for 2016, and we are so grateful to begin this new year with you. 

Your support is the backbone of our work. Because of you, we are starting off 2016 stronger than ever. Last year, you helped strengthen the capacity of farmers to adapt to the impacts of climate change through regenerative agriculture. You also helped to educate consumers about the impact on biodiversity that their food choices have. And finally, your support in 2015 helped finalize the new food safety rule that encourages wildlife habitat on the farm. 

 

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Highlights of How FDA's Produce Rule Affects Diversity on the Farm and the Surrounding Landscape

Posted on Latest News by Shelly Connor · December 29, 2015 3:27 PM

With our encouragement, the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) written by Congress sought to make sure that conservation mandates would be addressed in these regulations, and that no conflicts or duplication would occur with the National Organic Program. While we don't like everything in this Produce Rule (there was no attempt to rein in misguided buyer requirements), we feel FDA heard our concerns about conservation.  

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Letter from Dana Jackson

Posted on Latest News by Shelly Connor · September 21, 2015 1:24 PM

dana9.21.15.jpgFifteen years ago I helped found the Wild Farm Alliance with other sustainable agriculture and wildlands advocates alarmed that agriculture was recklessly disrupting natural ecosystems and destroying native species of plants and animals. 

We knew that the sacrifice of complex, sustainable natural systems for sterile fields of high producing crops was not the best way to produce food for humans. We devised a positive mission for the new Wild Farm Alliance: to promote a healthy, viable agriculture that helps to protect and restore wild nature.

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News from the Wild Side - August 2015

Posted on Latest News by Shelly Connor · August 24, 2015 9:37 AM

illustration8.24.15.jpgWhile summer’s bounty and our farmers are churning out an abundance of food for us humans and non-humans (think insect pollinators and beneficial birds), we are keeping our eye on research and policies that benefit conservation-minded farmers and the wider landscape.

 

 

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New Study Points to Benefits of Conservation for Food Safety

Posted on Latest News by Shelly Connor · August 20, 2015 12:00 PM

fs-PNAS_study_farm_image.jpgOn August 2015, the journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, released the findings from a study that revealed that the elimination of natural vegetation surrounding farm fields failed to reduce the presence of foodborne illness-causing pathogens in fresh produce grown in those fields. The study, titled "Comanaging fresh produce for nature conservation and food safety," found not only that the absence of natural vegetation did not contribute to pathogen reduction, but also that cleared land resulted in increased pathogen prevalence over time.

 

 

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Research in California's Central Coast Region

Posted on Latest News by Shelly Connor · August 01, 2015 12:00 PM

Piled_Trees_Food_Safety_.jpgIn 2006, an outbreak of E. coli O157 from spinach was traced back to a farm on California's Central coast, the home of our nation's fresh-cut salad industry. While it was never determined how the spinach became contaminated, non-native feral pigs were considered possible culprits. This resulted in ALL wildlife being viewed as a source of food-borne pathogen contamination, even though research so far indicates that NATIVE wildlife generally pose a low risk of carrying human pathogens (although certain localized populations have increased risk).

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News From the Wild Side - August 2014

Posted on Latest News by Jo Ann Baumgartner · August 05, 2014 2:44 PM

8.5.14News_VegetativeBuffer_NRCSCA00010_small.jpgWild Farm Alliance (WFA) is excited to announce some great up-coming events. If you'll be near Salinas, California in late August, join us at this year's Food Safety and Water Quality Forum and get the latest on co-managing food safety and conservation. Later in October, WFA will be hosting two field tours at our on-farm habitat restoration project sites near Watsonville and Hollister, CA. 

Photo courtesy of NRCS

 

 

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News from the Wild Side - April 2014

Posted on Latest News by Jo Ann Baumgartner · April 02, 2014 9:27 AM

News_Hedgerow_Spinach_Small4.2.14.pngLearn about co-managing food safety and conservation on produce and specialty-crop farms in a webinar hosted by Wild Farm Alliance, Oregon Tilth and USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service.

 

 

 

 

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News From the Wild Side - February 2014

Posted on Latest News by Jo Ann Baumgartner · February 20, 2014 9:18 AM

produce2.14.jpgThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has reached this settlement of the new deadlines for publishing final rules implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) with the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Center for Environmental Health.

The settlement also removes any prior deadlines for public comment periods, which CFS says <http://www.centerforfoodsafety.org/press-releases/2919/victory-your-food-will-be-safer-thanks-to-center-for-food-safety-lawsuit>  will allow for “more robust public participation throughout the rulemaking process.”

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