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griculture

American Livestock Breeds Conservancy
The American Livestock Breeds Conservancy is a nonprofit organization working to protect over 150 breeds of livestock and poultry from extinction.

Eat Wild
Eat Wild is a comprehensive source of accurate information on the benefits of raising animals on pasture. They link consumers with local suppliers of all-natural, delicious, grass-fed products.

Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund
The FTCLDF provides affordable legal counsel to farmers and consumers in need, it will make the needs of the small farmer and the concerned consumer known to our government, and it will promote a shared vision.

Local Harvest
The best organic food is what's grown closest to you. This website allows people to find farmers' markets, family farms, and other sources of sustainably grown food in your area, where you can buy produce, grass-fed meats, and many other goodies.

Maryland Independent Consumers and Farmers Association
To promote and preserve unregulated direct farmer-to-consumer trade that fosters availability of locally grown or home-produced food products. An advocate for small farms and consumers alike.

Slow Foods

Weston A. Price Foundation
An excellent organization that every small farmer should join. They represent the right for small farms to sell healthy, nutritious products directly to consumers.

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oats

Falling Fainters Farm
A farm in Western Maryland that raises Myotonic and Pygmy goats.

Fiasco Farm
Wonderful resouce for information on goat health and husbandry, cheesemaking and home dairying, and natural remedies. We referred to this website a lot when we were first getting started.

International Fainting Goat Association
Fainting goat breed club and registry.

Myotonic Goat Registry
Myotonic goat breed club and registry.

Shanghai Shaggies Fainting Goats
Great source of Tennessee Fainting goats and other heritage breeds. Helped us get started with our herd.

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Chef Andrew Little's Blog
Chef Andrew Little embodies the "farm-to-table" and "buy local" philosophy and goes the extra mile to work with local farms. He is an energetic, talented chef. He works wonders with food.

Emmitsburg Historical Society
This website will tell you more about our town in fabulous Frederick county.

Mother Earth News
A wonderful magazine that covers many agricultural and sustainability issues.

Southern Consortium for Small Ruminant Parasite Consortium
The Southern Consortium for Small Ruminant Parasite Control was formed in response to the critical state of the small ruminant industry associated with the emergence of anthelmintic resistant worms.

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oultry

Feathersite
If you want to know what a particular chicken or turkey looks like, then this is your site. The most comprehensive collection of photos of different breeds and varieties of poultry I've come across on the web.

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heep

D-S Livestock Equipment
This is hands down the best manufacturer of sheep and goat handling equipment.

Johnes Center
An excellent resource for information on Johnes's developed by the University of Wisconsin's School of Veterinary Medicine. Johnes's, also known as Paratuberculosis, is a serious and often neglected disease of sheep, goats, and cattle.

Katahdin Hairsheep International
Katahdin Hairsheep breed club.

Maryland Small Ruminant Page
Excellent resource for information on all things sheep and goat. Owned and operated by Susan Schoenian.

National Sheep Improvement Program
NSIP collects performance data from purebred producers and provides them with across-flock EPDs, which is an industry standard for reliability, integrity, and accuracy.

OPP Concerned Sheep Breeders Society
A network of producers and veterinarians who are working to eradicate and control Ovine Progressive Pneumonia. An excellent resource center for shepherds concerned about OPP, Everyone should be testing their flocks for this insidious disease.