General Information

The second report of ORR"s Integration Work Group will be released in June 2010.  

A Newly Arrived Refugee Farming near Indianapolis, Indiana.
 
10 Reasons why I Love Refugee Farming
By Lauren Swain
 
 Here are the top-10 reasons for loving refugee agriculture ( and you have probably already have a similar list!):
 
 

Organic necterines grown at Dry Fork Farm near Stay More, Arkansas.
 
Dave Wilson, an agronomist with King's Agriseeds in Ronks, Pennsylvania, provides two links to glossaries of terms of use to grants writers and others who need to be precise in how they describe the environments in which they work. ISED thanks Dave for these useful links:
 

ISED Welcomes Rebecca Remis!
 

 

ISED Intern Heather Quinney, pictured above, has researched and summarized loan and grant programs available from USDA Rural Development. We thank Heather for her hard work!
 
Rural Business-Cooperative Service, Announcement of Value-Added, Producer  Grant  Application Deadlines
 

Paul Doolittle, Manager of Sun Point Farm and refugee workers in the international Insitute of New Hampshire's TANF--RAPP Project.
 

ORR's Wilson Fish Program Manager, Carl Rubenstein, worked with ISED's technical assistance team of Jan Losby and Peggy Gilbert to host a two-day data summit on December 9 & 10.  Four WF program directors who currently complete and use the optional self-sufficiency report joined the ORR-ISED team to look at how effective the report is in helping program managers track self-sufficiency and to explore options for future data collection and anlysis in planning for a new funding cycle.