Welcome to NSAS
Our mission: To promote agriculture & food systems that build healthy land, people, communities & quality of life, for present & future generations.
Our vision & work: We recognize the essential relationship between healthy local agriculture & a strong local food system; a relationship that benefits from food grown & processed locally. This adds quality & security, as well as social & ecological responsibility & benefits to the our communities. It is this understanding that motivates NSAS's work to strengthen & enhance these systems together. Our work spans across Nebraska.
We are non-profit organization, proud of our diverse membership which includes farmers & ranchers, rural & urban consumers, market gardeners, educators, families & restaurateurs. We welcome anyone who is concerned about family farming, environmental quality & good, healthy food!
5th Annual Diversified Ag Tour, September 10th
Deadline to register is Friday, September 3rd at 5:00 pm. Cost is $20 and includes transportation and lunch. Preregistration is required so we can plan for transportation and meals. To register contact Gary Lesoing, 402-274-4755, glesoing2@unl.edu. Tour information- The Tour is September 10th. The tour will include stops at NSAS member farms!: Sunny Slope Farm (Filley), West Blue Farm (Milford), Shadow Brook Farm (Denton), Branched Oak Farm (Raymond). The tour provides unique experiences to learn about CSA (Community Supported Agriculture), organic crop and livestock production, free range poultry and eggs, honey, flowers, cheese making, vegetable and herb production, as well as Farmer’s Markets and direct marketing. More info, contact Gary Lesoing, 402-274-4755, glesoing2@unl.edu.
New Resources!
Mob Grazing:"Mob Grazing" presented by Terry Gompert, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension Educator in Knox County. Terry has focused his programming on grass-based agriculture and grazing for the past several years. Terry will share his insights into the principles of Mob Grazing and the impact it has on pastures, soil and livestock
Mob Grazing with Terry GompertUpcoming
Holistic Management Gathering: September 14-15, 2010. Black Horse Inn & Drovers Steakhouse. Creighton, Nebraska. The Nebraska Holistic Management Gathering will feature several Holistic practitioners, Ann Adams, Neil Dennis, Chad Peterson, Rodger Savory, Tilak Dhiman, Terry Gompert, and the newly graduated Holistic Management® Certified Educators. What will you learn? Grassfed Research, Power of Stock Density (mob grazing), Application of Holistic Management, Dung Beetles. Registration Costs: Before September 1st, $100. After September 1st, $150. 50% discount for each extra member of a family or farm unit. For more information contact: UNL Extension in Knox County at P.O. Box 45, Center, NE 68724; email - knox-county@unl.edu; phone - 402-288-5611; or fax - 402-288-5612. Directions and details will be sent after registration is received.
The Latest NSAS News You Can Use:
NSAS Beginning Farmer Support Group in the News!The Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society has created a new support group for beginning farmers to help each other get started. While most farmers across the state work toward parking their planters for the season, there's one small group just getting started. They're looking for a bumper crop -- of new farmers. With his buckeyed chickens, two horses, and his two bull calves -- Suh and Crick -- William Powers is learning to farm; as he goes. Read the rest of this article from KOLN KGIN in Lincoln Click here for more information about the group
Teetering Toward The Tipping Point: A Rural Advantage“I am convinced that sustainability is the defining question of the 21st Century,” John Ikerd said last Saturday afternoon. Read the rest of this blog by our friend Steven McFadden!
A Healthy Farms Conference Sponsor
Nebraska Food Cooperative: The mission of the Nebraska Food Cooperative is to foster a local food community and promote a culture of stewardship by cultivating farmer-consumer relationships, promoting the enjoyment of healthful food, increasing food security through diversity, and enhancing overall rural sustainability.
Support the Nebraska Food Cooperative!2010 NSAS Annual Healthy Farms Rural Advantage Conference
February 5 & 6, Lincoln, Neb.A Big Thank You to our Conference Sponsors!!
To see pictures from the 2009 conference click here .Newsletter Issues Available! Enjoy all of our bimonthly NSAS Newsletters, as well as the June 2010 on-line! (In Adobe pdf format.)
NEW! Join, renew or donate on-line using PayPal!
Consumer & sustainable food system resources
Farm tours, field days & events
Current Projects:
Buy Fresh, Buy Local Nebraska: Buy Fresh, Buy Local Nebraska features a beautiful directory focusing on farmers and farm raised goods, as well as restaurants, institutions and groceries that purchase and purvey Nebraska raised goods. Any and all meeting the criteria can become members. The outreach and marketing focus area is in the counties of the Great Plains RC & D region (includes York, Polk, Butler, Saunders, Douglas, Sarpy, Cass, Lancaster, and Seward counties). Membership is state-wide. The Nebraska chapter is a collaboration between NSAS, Nebraska Cooperative Development Center and the Great Plains RC & D. Don't miss out! 2010 Membership forms are now available!! For more information, visit www.buylocalnebraska.org or contact coordinator Billene Nemec at 402.472.5273.
Farm Beginnings Nebraska: a joint project of UNL Extension, NSAS, Center for Rural Affairs & Nebraska RC & D's. This exciting program is modeled after other projects in the Midwest, and combines class time and mentoring for beginning farmers (or not-yet-beginning farmers!) in a format that works towards the practical decisions of what, why, and whether or not in the decision to farm, what to farm and all that entails. Next class will begin Fall 2008. Contact NSAS coordinator for more information.
NSAS video available for purchase! Elisabeth Reinkordt created Living with the Land: Sustainable Agriculture in Nebraska, for NSAS. Running time is 25 minutes & features farmers, restaurant owners/chefs, CSA members, children, academics & sages. Better than a home movie! 
Copies available for $15 each (plus $2.50 each for tax, postage & handling). Contact coordinator@nebsusag.org to purchase. Generous support for production of Living with the Land from the Renewing Earth and It's People Foundation: www.REAPfund.org
How to Reach Us
William Powers
NSAS Executive Director
414 County Road 15
Ceresco, Nebraska. 68017
402.525.7794; healthyfarms@gmail.com
Jill Wubben, Bookkeeper & Membership
PO Box 736
Hartington, NE 68739
402.254.2289
jwubben@nebsusag.org