The 2017 Food & Farm Forum will take place Friday and Saturday December 8-9 at Camp McDowell in Nauvoo, AL. The event will start Friday morning and conclude Saturday evening, so participants traveling from farther parts of the state are encouraged to arrive Thursday evening and depart Sunday morning. We'll be posting more information [...]
Graze: Birmingham is a farm-to-fork picnic in which attendees “graze” on a wide variety of dishes, each produced by a different local farmer + local restaurant pair. Add in some picnic blankets, live music, and delicious local beverages… and it’s a picnic you don’t want to miss! Sunday, September 17, 2017 5-8pm Avondale Brewery [...]
The Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network (ASAN) invites you to join us as we imagine and envision a course for our next few years. See this previous post for more background about why we're undertaking this process now, and an overview of our plans for the year. What do you imagine sustainable farming will look like [...]
ASAN is growing as fast as the henbit and chickweed, this spring! We are thrilled to make TWO major announcements this week, about the growth of our organization: New staff: First, we are thrilled to welcome Christine (Chris) Meyer onto the ASAN staff as our new Development Director! Chris will help raise funding and awareness for [...]
Throughout the coming year, we invite you – the members and supporters of ASAN – to be a part of a process of reassessing and realigning with our mission and vision, and defining a sound and strategic plan for how we’ll pursue those goals in the next few years. The sustainable food movement has changed [...]
Employment opportunities in Alabama food (as of February 8, 2017): Alabama Sustainable Agriculture Network! (Birmingham): We're hiring a full-time Development Director!!! See more information [HERE]. Application deadline is February 17. Snow's Bend Farm (Coker, Tuscaloosa County): Snow’s Bend Farm is hiring a Farm Manager. Snow's Bend Farm is a diversified, Certified Organic, family farm producing 50+ [...]
We're thrilled to announce that ASAN is hiring a full-time Development Director! This is a new position in the organization, which increases the full-time staff of the organization from one to two. Reporting to (and working in partnership with) the Executive Director, the Development Director will spearhead fundraising and development efforts as ASAN continues to [...]
