Membership to eOrganic

Thank you for your interest in eOrganic!

We would like to have you join us in our mission to bring the best science- and practitioner-based organic agriculture information to the web. To find eOrganic's public organic farming content please visit eXtension

eOrganic's primary mission is to develop web content for eXtension.  Another important part of eOrganic is professional networking.  We hope you can make new contacts, learn about new projects, and form groups to collaborate with while working in eOrganic.  Our goal is to build a diverse membership.  We hope you can find your niche within eOrganic.

Membership to the eOrganic Community of Practice requires the following to be sent to us via email at joineorganic [at] gmail [dot] com

  1. Your CV/resume, or a link to it
  2. In a few sentences describe:
    1. where in eOrganic you would like to work (see Current Content Areas below)
    2. what your role(s) might be:  author, reviewer, leader
    3. how your experiences qualify you to contribute. 

You must also become a member of eXtension by getting an ExtensionID at https://people.extension.org/account/signup
If you are not in the Land Grant University System a current member of eOrganic will have to vouch for you through the eXtension system. Please register with eXtension and after receiving approval to join eOrganic you will be vouched for.

Once completed, your information will be passed on to the Membership Committee and/or applicable Content Area Leaders.  Following approval you will receive a confirmation letter informing you as to which group in eOrganic you will work with.  All eOrganic members contribute through groups and you will be placed in an existing group based on your interests.  If no group exactly matches your interests you will be initially placed in a group that most closely matches your field.  Our current funding dictates that we focus on dairy and diversified vegetable production system and our groups are creating content for these systems.  Read over our current list of content areas.  If the area of your expertise is not represented in this list, please let us know what areas you are interested in.  You also have the option of creating a new group for content development (please review Starting a New Group below.)

Current Content Areas

  • Model Livestock System:  Dairy Production and Marketing
    • Introduction to Organic Dairy Farming
    • Grazing and Pastures
    • Herd Health
    • Housing and other facilities
    • Management and economics
    • Marketing and Dairy products
    • Nutrition of the organic dairy herd
    • Organic dairy cropping systems
    • Soil management
  • Model Cropping System:  Diversified vegetable production and marketing
    • Breeding
    • Cover cropping
    • Certification
    • Disease management
    • Economics
    • Equipment
    • Food Safety
    • Harvest and post-harvest handling
    • Insect pest management
    • Marketing and food systems
    • Plant Breeding
    • Potting mixes and transplants
    • Production of specific vegetable crops
    • Rotation
    • Season extension
    • Seeds
    • Soil and fertility management
    • Transition
    • Weed management

Membership Responsibilities

By continuing with the application process you are affirming your commitment to the eOrganic Community of Practice.  Please review the following duties of our members. 

  • Understand and comply with the mission, vision, values, goals and guiding principles of eXtension and eOrganic
  • Serve as a CoP member with integrity, honesty, and open-mindedness
  • Show respect to all CoP members and leaders, including those with differing opinions
  • Actively participate in content development/review or other activities
  • Meet deadlines
  • Participate in scheduled meetings and conference calls

Failure to meet your responsibilities as a member can result in your removal from our ranks.  Being a member of eOrganic requires a commitment from you. 

Forming a New Group

If your area of expertise is not currently represented within eOrganic, you can form a new group.  Due to our current workload, we will begin forming new groups in early 2009.  Creating a new group requires a content area leader.  The content area leader has considerable expertise in the content area, must be approved by the eOrganic Leadership Team, acts as the group manager, liason to the leadership team, works with the assigned eOrganic coordinator in assisting group members, approves new membership requests, and oversees content develop for publishing with eXtension.  These duties can be shared with co-content leaders.  Please indicate in your response if you are interested in forming a new group with eOrganic. 

Thank you for your interest in eOrganic.  We look forward to working with you soon.