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 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!
2012 NSAS Annual Conference
Plan to attend the Healthy Farms & Rural Advantage Conference in Nebraska City, Nebraska. The dates for 2012 are February 10-11 at the Lied Lodge and Conference Center. Our keynote this year is Fred Kirschenmann. Fred Kirschenmann We will also have a capstone address from Tom Field of the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program, About Mr. Field. There will also be a full schedule of youth programming complete with hands-on demonstrations, youth lead sessions, and more. Included in the registration for the youth program is the Arbor Day Tree Adventure. For details!
New Resources!
Cover Crop Roller:Improving Cover Crop Management for Increased Production in Organic Farming. The Cover Crop Roller was developed by The Rodale Institute in an effort to develop practical methods of cover crop management to increase production in Reduced Tillage Organic Farming. The Cover Crop Roller is manufactured and sold by I & J Manufacturing, LLC of Gap, PA. The Cover Crop Roller mounts to the front of the tractor with a Three Point Hitch (available here), leaving room for the seeder at the back. This means you can knock down weed suppressing mats of cover crops and plant through it all in the same pass! Cover Crop Roller
Cover Crop RollerThe Latest NSAS News You Can Use:
NSAS: The Foundation of Sustainable Agriculture in Nebraska. The Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society (NSAS) has been promoting sustainable and organic agriculture throughout the state since 1976. NSAS’s principal objectives are to encourage the growth of agriculture and food systems that fortify the land, provide a social benefit to individuals and communities, and improve the quality of life for present and future generations. Read the rest from the SeedStock Blog
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
Grain Place Foods
Grain Place Foods again was the major conference sponsor for the annual NSAS Conference. The mission of Grain Place Foods is to provide to its customers grain products that are grown and produced in an ecologically sustainable and socially responsible manner - with the conviction that how your food is produced does matter!
Support Grain Place Foods!Newsletter Issues Available! Enjoy all of our bimonthly NSAS Newsletters, as well as the Spring 2012 Newsletter 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:
High Tunnels Nebraska: This workshop is part of a Specialty Crop grant the Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society received in partnership with the Nebraska Cooperative Development Center. �Increasing the Availability of Nebraska�s Specialty Crops through High Tunnels� aims to increase the number of producers in Nebraska using these high tunnel technologies. The objectives of this project are to: Increase awareness about high tunnels and how they can be used to extend specialty crop production in Nebraska. Increase the technical skill level among specialty crop farmers growing or starting to grow crops in high tunnels. For more information email William healthyfarms@gmail.com The latest webinar can be found here Choosing the Right High Tunnel- Components and Design, presented by Stacy Adams
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. Classes are currently in progress and being held near Mead, Nebraska. We will be holding a Western Nebraska course in the Fall of 2011. For more information email William farmbeginningsnebraska@gmail.com
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