User talk:Growingorganic

IFOAM definition
7/1/08 I am trying to find good places to include the IFOAM Definition of Organic Agriculture. http://www.ifoam.org/growing_organic/definitions/doa/index.html I could use some feedback and some help with this.Growingorganic (talk) 15:44, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

The official Definition is: 'Organic agriculture is a production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects. Organic agriculture combines tradition, innovation and science to benefit the shared environment and promote fair relationships and a good quality of life for all involved.'Growingorganic (talk) 15:48, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

hi, you might have noticed that there is already a quote from ifoam in the intro to the organic farming article, a bit further down, but your quote is more complete. i will put your quote in the place of the older one and remove the older one completely to avoid redundancy. Truetom (talk) 20:38, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Growing Organic
11/24/08 I have been working for the past eight months on this exciting project for the International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements Head Office in Bonn, Germany. This has been an incredibly educational and grounding experience. The work is now essentially complete and I am now working on promoting it. Please help me get the word out, have a look and see if the work applies to any of your pages in wikipedia.

The web pages I built are a source of information for developing organic sectors of all kinds, even growing organic food and composting in the backyard. They represent the cumulative knowledge and experience of IFOAM, the umbrella organization for Organic Agriculture, and are a community resource designed to represent and serve global Organic movements. I like to think of them as a kind of Organic Wikipedia.

These web pages provide comprehensive information for everyone from grassroots organizers engaged in advocacy to trainers and smallholders (Training Platform www.ifoam.org/training). They are also full of recommendations and options for the successful growth through networking, strategic relations, and partnerships.

Searching these pages you can learn more about the history of Organic Agriculture, lessons learned through case studies and research from all around the world, and specifics on how to produce and promote Organic Agriculture. Here you will also find information on the whole process of developing organic sectors, from policy making to market development (www.ifoam.org/markets).

These pages address common criticisms/ misconceptions, and offer arguments in favor of Organic Agriculture through the publications and works of IFOAM and Global Organic Movements.

I hope you like it. Growingorganic (talk) 16:49, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

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Hi
Hi and welcome to Wikipedia. You have added information to a redirect page and I've removed it. Since you are new to Wikipedia, I guess that you don't know what a redirect page is. It's not an article, it's not even a page that people see, it automatically redirects to another page. Adding text to such pages is pointless, as nobody will ever read it. A redirect page should not contain anything but the redirect link. JdeJ (talk) 16:04, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

Organic Agriculture Redirect Page
Thank you all for helping me as I work out how this system works. I have written some of you about my project here with IFOAM and am very, very grateful for your assistance with promoting the IFOAM materials and information on Wikipedia.

I am trying to update and enrich sections of Wikipedia which are related to my organization IFOAM the International Federation of Organic Agriculture www.ifoam.org. We are the Umbrella Organization for Organic Agriculture and have an official definition for Organic Agriculture which I am charged with advertising on Wikipedia.

The IFOAM official definition: 'Organic agriculture is a production system that sustains the health of soils, ecosystems and people. It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects. Organic agriculture combines tradition, innovation and science to benefit the shared environment and promote fair relationships and a good quality of life for all involved.'

I understand that things which are posted on wikipedia will be 'mercilessly edited' and that is fine. The issue is that we represent 'Organic Agriculture' It would be advantageous for us to find a way to have a wiki page for 'organic agriculture' rather than just 'organic farming' .. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Growingorganic (talk • contribs) 12:13, 2 October 2008

October 2008
Hi, reverted your changes to the Principles of Organic Agriculture article, as it seemed to be a verbatim reproduction of the document itself. The project which serves that sort of content is Wikisource. The Wikipedia article already links to the copy that exists there. An encyclopedia article should place the subject more in an overall context, such as with the Constitution of the Republic of China, which actually features little of the original text. To expand the article, perhaps you could add coverage of the relevance of the Principles outside IFOAM. Dancter (talk) 15:55, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

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