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Stealth Curriculum for Local Food Systems and Ag-bioenergy Business Collaborations

Submitted by Ross MacDonald on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 11:46am

 

Embedding learning opportunities into the development of local food systems and ag-bioscience businesses and business clusters is one of several key strategies for enriching local and regional economies.  Any local food system or ag-bioenergy development effort will require significant collaborative skill and effective use of a range of face-to-face and electronic communication tools.    Assuming such a topic to be of general interest, this post introduces the concept of "Stealth Curriculum" to all site users.

INTRODUCTION

Check out training offered through eXtension

Submitted by Susan Smalley on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 5:09am

Good morning all:

I'm wondering how familiar anyone in our group is with eXtension.  I have been watching its development but not really involved.  This afternoon I plan to join their 30-minute webinar on Moodle Courses.  Another webinar that may be relevant to our work is Using Ning Groups to Improve Learning in Extension Programs, scheduled for 7/29.  I'm thinking that there may be several possibilities for linkages and leverage:

Use Social Networking Tools to Get the Word Out

Submitted by Steve Bosserman on Sun, 07/12/2009 - 1:53pm

Last week, Carol Goland, Executive Director for the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA), emailed an announcement about upcoming events
in conjunction with OEFFA's 30th year celebration to be held at Whole
Foods in Columbus on July 23rd through the 25th.  The line-up

Local Food Systems Web and Network Architecture

Submitted by Sam T. Rose on Sat, 04/04/2009 - 3:05pm

Yesterday, and todya, Paul Hartzog and I architected the basic building blocks of Local Food Systems network architecture.

 

The idea here is to be able to make very flexible and useful architecture, that can be easily added to over time, and that can be used both on localfoodsystems.org *and* elsewhere. 

The system accepts multiple inputs, processes in many useful ways, and generates multiple outputs. The system is made entirely of open source software.

Here's a graphical represention of the architecture:

Connecting local people with curriculum for creating web presences, and tools to network their presences with others

Submitted by Sam T. Rose on Sun, 03/22/2009 - 12:07pm

I am changing this post to a stated need to connect people with knowledge about creating web presences, prefably using open source software when possible.This was  stated need at http://www.leadershipsummit2009.com/Home.html

Local Food Systems Virtual Business Park

Submitted by Ross MacDonald on Sat, 01/10/2009 - 5:02pm

The re-launch of our website “local food systems.org” marks the transition from a start-up to a build-up phase in our local food systems project. In our start-up phase, we organized, promoted new relationships, set goals, found funding, and supported communication with an active website. In this second phase, funded in large part by the USDA-SCRI grant, we focus on business development related to local and regional foods using web-based tools and our growing experience with them as a key set of levers.<

Participation in Local Food Systems

Submitted by Steve Bosserman on Sat, 01/03/2009 - 8:47pm

Participation in Local Food Systems

Numerous references are made in the USDA-SCRI grant to networking and collaboration--the ability to communicate with anyone, anywhere, at anytime and work effectively together on activities of mutual interest.  These social behaviors are essential to the development of local food systems and their logical extension to local and regional

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