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SARE, NACAA Announce Fellow Candidates
Pennsylvania Ag Connection - 08/23/2018

Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) and the National Association County Agricultural Agents (NACAA) announced the induction of four leading Extension educators into the ranks of the SARE/NACAA Sustainable Agriculture Fellows Program. Announced at the NACAA Annual Meeting and Professional Improvement Conference in Chattanooga, Tenn., the new Fellow Candidates are:

- Jessica A. Kelton, Alabama Cooperative Extension System

- Kathleen Painter, University of Idaho Extension

- Nicole Santangelo, Penn State Extension

- Claire Strader, University of Wisconsin Extension

The SARE Fellows program improves agricultural professionals' capacity to assess production systems using a whole-systems approach," says SARE's Associate Director Kim Kroll. "SARE Fellow Candidates learn how to adapt core sustainable practices to serve producers who want to improve the sustainability of their operations back home."

The SARE/NACAA Sustainable Agriculture Fellows program enhances understanding of sustainable agriculture through broad-based training and hands-on exposure to successful and unique sustainable agriculture programs. Participating fellows are better able to create new programs that meet the needs of their local clientele.

The program aims to:

- Enhance selected fellows' capability to deliver sustainable agriculture programs

- Develop NACAA leaders committed to sustainable agriculture who can share their knowledge

- Increase agricultural professionals' awareness of program opportunities and concepts of sustainable agriculture

- Recognize NACAA members who are leaders in the development and adoption of sustainable agriculture

A series of seminars exposes the fellows to sustainable farming and ranching systems, with a focus on basic sustainable agriculture strategies and how they work in the field. Fellows also visit selected farms and ranches to view firsthand the sustainable agriculture principles studied in the classroom.

Each year, four Fellow Candidates are chosen to participate in a two-year series of sustainable agriculture tours to learn and experience how sustainable strategies work in the field. NACAA members in good standing with their state associations are eligible to apply for the Fellows program. SARE and NACAA have collaborated to provide the Sustainable Agriculture Fellows program since 2007.


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