Friday-Saturday December 7-8, 2018 (Pre-Forum session Thurs Dec 6) Camp McDowell Nauvoo, AL QUICK LINKS: (see details under the respective headers below) Registration form (all ages) Lodging reservation form Youth Forum additional required forms, in DOCX format (click to download) Youth Forum additional required forms, in PDF format (click to download) Scholarship application form [...]
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 9, 2018 5-8pm Avondale Brewery [...]
ASAN is pleased to welcome Laura Núñez to our staff as our new full-time Administrative & Program Assistant. Laura, originally from Los Angeles, California, completed her undergraduate education at the University of Pennsylvania where she majored in international relations and minored in Korean. Laura has lived in many corners of the country before moving here, [...]
ASAN is thrilled to announce our plans for our first-ever Youth Food & Farm Forum, to be held this year in conjunction with our (adult) Food & Farm Forum, December 7-8 at Camp McDowell in Nauvoo, AL. We are now hiring a Youth Food & Farm Forum Coordinator, which is a part-time contract position [...]
For more about the ASAN Member Profiles series, click here. For a full collection of the profiles published thus far, click here. Marilyn is originally from Alabama -- she grew up in Fairhope where she currently resides. Her parents, who also grew up in Fairhope, were influenced by the Utopian vision of its founders. [...]
For more about the ASAN Member Profiles series, click here. For a full collection of the profiles published thus far, click here. For those of you who attended our 2017 Food & Farm Forum, you may recall seeing beautiful, enormous bulbs of garlic during our market night, they were quite a hit! Those beauties [...]
ASAN is hiring an Administrative & Program Assistant, who will report to the Executive Director and perform a variety of critical functions in the day-to-day operations of a small, growing organization. This employee will be responsible for everything from day-to-day data entry and errands, to collaborating with other staff (and board and volunteers) to work [...]
For more about the ASAN Member Profiles series, click here. For a full collection of the profiles published thus far, click here. Jan and Rinske de Jong bid farewell to their native home, the Netherlands to seek new opportunities in the United States. Leaving friends and family in Holland, they were guided by a [...]
For more about the ASAN Member Profiles series, click here. For a full collection of the profiles published thus far, click here. Born in California and raised in Texas, Kristin Woods made her arrival in the southeast US in 1999 after landing a job as Process Development Scientist for Wayne Farms in Georgia, advising how [...]
Introducing our newest feature: membership profiles! Since many of you are miles apart, we thought it could be helpful for you to get to know more about other ASAN members. These profiles will be excerpted in the quarterly print newsletter and featured in full-length here on our website. To nominate someone (an individual, farm/family, or business/organization) [...]
