Summary Information
Faye Jones Papers
1989-2002
Mss 1209
0.2 cubic feet (1 archives box)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers, 1989-2002, of Faye Jones, organic farmer, conference organizer (1990-2016) for the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference (UMOFC), and executive director (1999-2016) of the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES). Included are organic certification records for her farm, her 1990 testimony regarding the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) to a Senate Agriculture Committee, and papers documenting the beginnings of MOSES.
Forms part of the Organic and Sustainable Agriculture Collection.
English
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Biography/History
Faye Margaret Jones was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1960. She graduated from high school in Roseville, Minnesota, in 1978, and from the Minnesota Institute of Medical Assistants in 1980. After attending two years at the University of Minnesota, she apprenticed at organic farms in Minnesota and Europe in the early 1980s. In 1984, she began farming organically in Spring Valley, Wisconsin, with her husband, Mark Plunkett, raising Highland cattle, chickens, flowers, and garlic, operating as Morning Glory Farm.
Jones served on the board of the International Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (IASA, 1982-1985), acted as the primary staff person for the Wisconsin Organic Growers Association (WOGA, 1989-1990), and participated in a Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection committee (1988-1990) which helped to write the Wisconsin state organic standards. She was one of the organizers for the Upper Midwest Organic Farming Conference (UMOFC) when it started in 1990 (with 90 attendees), and led the conference planning efforts through 2016 (with over 3400 attendees). She served as the outreach coordinator (1995-1999) for the Educational Fund of Wisconsin Chapter #1 of the Organic Crop Improvement Association (WI OCIA), where she organized events and made resources about organic agriculture available. When WI OCIA became the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES) in 1999, Jones became its Executive Director, a post she held through 2016. February 27, 2016, the final day of the 2016 UMOFC, was declared “Faye Jones Day,” by the mayor of the City of La Crosse, Wisconsin, the site of the conference since the year 2000. She served on the Advisory Council for the University of Wisconsin-River Falls School of Agriculture from 2005 to 2010, and was awarded an honor from the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) in 2015.
Jones also served as board chair (2014-2018) of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC). She has worked as the farm policy coordinator for the Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship program (2016-2018), and continues to farm and work on behalf of sustainable agriculture initiatives.
Scope and Content Note
Notable in this small collection of papers from Jones's long career in organic agriculture are organic certification records for Jones's own farm conducted by two organic certifiers (Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA) and Midwest Organic Services Association (MOSA)), prior to the establishment of a national organic standard; her testimony in 1990 regarding the Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA) before a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing; and a letter to the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) concerning aspects of the National Organic Program (NOP). Also included are copies of organic certification standards for two certifying agencies: the OCIA and the Organic Growers and Buyers Association (OGBA). Also papers relating to the beginnings of the Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES), the organization which Jones led for seventeen years. (Other papers concerning the beginnings of MOSES can be found in the Roger Blobaum Papers (Mss 1169) and the Prescott Bergh Papers (Mss 1177).)
Related Material
Administrative/Restriction Information
Presented by Faye Jones, Spring Valley, Wisconsin, February 5, 2018. Accession Number: M2018-036
Processed by Julia Wong, March 2018.
Contents List
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Mss 1209
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Collected articles, papers, 1992, undated
: Includes "How to Get Started in Biological Farming," by Gary F. Zimmer; papers by Frederick Kirschenmann: "Biotechnology and Organic Agriculture," "Biotechnology and Sustainable Agriculture" (1992), "The Private (and State) Organic Certifiers' Seal ... What's at Stake," "Rediscovering American Agriculture," and article about Kirschenmann.
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Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service (MOSES)
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Strategic planning meeting (December 2, 1999), Trempealeau, Wisconsin, 1999 April-2000 March
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Roger Blobaum documents, 1999 November
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Organic certification standards
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Letter to National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), 1993 April 26
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Midwest Organic Services Association (MOSA)
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MOSA certification program manual: drafts, undated
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Morning Glory Farm organic certification, 1999-2002
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Organic, definition of, undated
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Organic Crop Improvement Association (OCIA)
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OCIA 1997 International Certification Standards, 1997 March
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Wisconsin Chapter #1, Morning Glory Farm organic certification, 1995-1998
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Organic Farmers Association Council (OFAC), testimony regarding Organic Foods Production Act (OFPA), organic standards, 1990 March 22
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Organic Growers and Buyers Association (OGBA)
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General, 1990, undated
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Organic standards, 1992, 1995
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Soil songs by Francis D. Hole, undated
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Wisconsin Organic Growers Association (WOGA), 1989-1994
: Includes certificates of incorporation and dissolution.
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