Rural Resources Records, 1969-2000 (bulk 1975-1981)

Contents List

Container Title
Mss 1225
Series: Organizational Files
Box   3
"A Brief History of Rural Resources, Inc." and "Chronology of Rural Resources and OEFFA"
Box   1
  Folder   1
By-laws and articles of incorporation, 1976-1977
Board of Trustees
Box   3
  Folder   1
Biographical data, 1976
Box   1
  Folder   2-4
Meetings, 1977-1981
PH 7146
Folder   1
Photographs taken at July 10, 1978 annual meeting
Mss 1225
Box   1
  Folder   5
Organizational work, meetings, 1978-1979
Box   1
  Folder   6
Prospectus, timeline, 1979
Box   1
  Folder   7
Brochure, artwork, layouts, circa 1975
Cincinnati Agricultural Marketing Project (CAMP)/Tailgate markets
Note: CAMP merged with Rural Resources in 1978.
Box   1
  Folder   8
General, 1978-1980
Box   3
  Folder   2
Funding, 1979-1980
Box   3
  Folder   3
Hunger Coalition Directory project, 1979
Community gardens
Box   1
  Folder   9
Cincinnati Community Garden Coalition, 1980-1981
Box   3
  Folder   4
Community Garden/Solar Greenhouse Project, Dayton, funding, 1980
Conferences
Box   1
  Folder   10
Conference flyers, mock-ups, 1976-1979
Co-op Exchange meetings, 1978-1979
Box   1
  Folder   11
Loveland, Ohio, 1978 December 10
Box   1
  Folder   12
Cincinnati, Ohio, 1979 February 18
Box   3
  Folder   5
Farm and Food Issues Consultations, 1976-1977
Note: Omaha, Nebraska: January 21-23, 1977; Louisville, Kentucky: February 11-13, 1977.
Box   3
  Folder   6
National Agricultural Lands Study workshops (December 3-5, 1979), 1979
Note: Some affiliated with Rural Resources, including Kathleen Cusick, Jon Schafer, and David Rosenberg, participated in the hearings that led to the 1980 report on organic farming that was suppressed. See also "A Dialogue on the Structure of American Agriculture: Summary of Regional Meetings" in M2022-035.
Box   1
  Folder   13
National Conference on Rural America, 1975-1979
Box   3
  Folder   7
National Direct Marketing Conference (December 3-5, 1980), 1980
Box   1
  Folder   14
Natural Farming meeting, 1979
Box   3
  Folder   8
New Directions in Agricultural Marketing (November 19, 1977), 1977-1978
Box   1
  Folder   15
Other conferences, events, 1972-1980, undated
Box   3
  Folder   9
Festival on Religion and Rural Life, 1978
Box   1
  Folder   16
Sustainable Agriculture Conference: A Look at Successful State Programs, Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI, March 13, 1991), 1991
Box   3
  Folder   10
Rural Awareness Day, 1978 March 4
Rural People, Rural Prospects (RPRP, January 28-30, 1977, Chatfield College)
Box   1
  Folder   17
General, 1976-1977
Box   3
  Folder   11
Conference and small group reports, 1977
Box   1
  Folder   18
Correspondence, 1976-1977
Box   1
  Folder   19
Solar workshop, 1978
Box   3
  Folder   12
Sun Day, 1978
Women and the Land … There's a Story (April 6-8, 1979)
Box   1
  Folder   20
General, 1979
Box   1
  Folder   21
Correspondence, 1979 January-July
Note: See also Subject Files for related information on hunger, land use, rural development, and related issues.
Box   1
  Folder   22
News clippings, 1978-1979
Box   1
  Folder   23
Planning, 1979
Box   1
  Folder   24
Report: draft and final (partial), 1979
Box   1
  Folder   25
Women and labor, articles, resources, 1974-1979
Box   1
  Folder   26-30
Correspondence, 1975-1983, 1987
Box   3
  Folder   13
Blobaum, Roger, 1977-1980, 1991
Box   1
  Folder   31
Chavez, Cesar, 1980 January 25
Box   1
  Folder   32
Lappé, Frances ("Frankie") Moore, Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP), 1975-1979
PH 7146
Folder   1
Publicity photographs of Frances Moore Lappé
Mss 1225
Box   3
  Folder   14
United States Catholic Conference (USCC), 1974-1980
Note: Includes Rural Resources comments on USCC final draft policy on energy, December 9, 1980, and paper on nuclear power.
Box   3
  Folder   15
East Central Cornucopia Alliance (ECCA), 1981-1982
Note: ECCA became part of Rural Resources.
Box   1
  Folder   33
Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC), 1978-1979
Box   1
  Folder   34
Fundraising, 1974-1981
Box   3
  Folder   16
Individual donor correspondence, 1978-1980
Box   3
  Folder   17
Reports to funders, 1976-1979
Box   3
  Folder   18
Letterhead, undated
Box   1
  Folder   35
Mailing, media, and resource lists, 1975-1979
Box   3
  Folder   19
Mailing lists, 1978-1979, undated
National Catholic Rural Life Conference (NCRLC)
Box   1
  Folder   36
General, 1972-1979, undated
Box   3
  Folder   20
Diocesan Directors meetings, 1975-1978
Box   3
  Folder   21
Rural Life Conference meeting minutes, 1976-1978
National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC)
Box   1
  Folder   37
Family Farm Development Act (HR 6295), 1978-1980
Box   1
  Folder   38
National Family Farm Education Project (NFFEP), 1979-1980
Box   3
  Folder   22
News clippings, 1976-1979
Box   1
  Folder   39
Newsletter articles, 1979
Box   1
  Folder   40
Newsletter mock-up, 1979 February
Box   1
  Folder   41
Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA), 1979-1982, 2000
Box   3
  Folder   23
Presentations, reports, 1974-1981
Note: David Rosenberg, Roger Blobaum, Maria Duivenvoorden.
Box   2
  Folder   1
Grundy, Terry, speeches, paper, 1976-1979
Box   2
  Folder   2
Rural America, 1975-1978
Box   2
  Folder   3
Rural American Women, 1978-1979
Small Farm Training Center (SFTC)
Crow, Ivan P.
Box   3
  Folder   24
Correspondence, 1976
Box   2
  Folder   4
Curriculae development, 1976
Box   3
  Folder   25
Edinburgh School of Agriculture syllabus, undated
Grailville Long Range Planning (LRP) Group
Box   3
  Folder   26
Models
Box   3
  Folder   27
General, 1977
Box   3
  Folder   28
Earth Stewards, Putney, Vermont, 1977
Box   2
  Folder   5
Frank Porter Graham Training Center and Experimental Farm, Anson County, North Carolina, 1973-1975
Box   3
  Folder   29
"The Next Five Years: An NSF/RAF Working Paper," 1976 September
Box   2
  Folder   6
Rationale, proposal, timeline, 1972, 1976
Box   3
  Folder   30-32
Staff binder ("OHIO 70-82"), notebook, 1979
Note: Jody Grundy and Maria Duivenvoorden.
Box   3
  Folder   33
Take Stock in Agriculture project, Catholic Conference of Ohio, 1986-1987
Box   3
  Folder   34-35
Tax-exempt status, 1976-1980
Xavier University
Box   3
  Folder   36
Earthbread, 1975?
Note: Food and environment group.
Box   3
  Folder   37
Food Day (April 8, 1976), 1976
Box   2
  Folder   7
Food Week (November 12-17, 1979), 1979
Series: Subject Files
Box   2
  Folder   8
Action Center, 1977-1979
Box   3
  Folder   38
Ag-Land Fund I, 1977
Box   2
  Folder   9-10
Agri-business, 1973-1976
Box   2
  Folder   11
Agri-business Accountability Project (AAP), 1973-1976
Box   2
  Folder   12
Agricultural Marketing Project (AMP), 1976-1979
Box   3
  Folder   39
Agriculture papers, 1978-1979
Note: "Advanced Capitalist Insertion in Midwestern Agricultural Production and Income Inequality" / by Jan L. Flora, Ivan Brown, and Judith Lee Conboy, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Regional Research Funds, 1979?; and "Agriculture in the Transition to a Sustainable Society" / by Frederick H. Buttel, Ohio State University, January 1978.
Box   3
  Folder   40
American Village Institute, 1977-1978
Box   3
  Folder   41
Antioch College Farm, 1978
Note: Also Folk College Association of America 1978 Conference at Antioch College.
Box   2
  Folder   13
Appalachia, 1976-1979
Note: Includes Appalachian Regional Commission, 1978-1979; and periodicals relating to Appalachia: Gammaliel: A Catholic Pacifist Quarterly, Spring 1976; and Urban Appalachian Council Cultural Events News, March-May 1979.
Box   2
  Folder   14
Apprenticeships, rural learning, 1976-1978
Box   3
  Folder   42
Appropriate technology, 1976-1977
Box   2
  Folder   15-16
Audiovisual resources, 1975-1979
Box   3
  Folder   43
Avon Woods outdoor program, 1979
Box   2
  Folder   17
Bibliographies, 1976-1978, undated
Box   3
  Folder   44
Bibliographies, 1976-1978, undated (continued)
Box   3
  Folder   45
Brooklea Farm Project, 1978-1979
Box   3
  Folder   46
Brown County Overall Economic Development Program Plan, 1976 November
Box   2
  Folder   18
Center for Rural Affairs, 1978-1979
Box   3
  Folder   47
Center for Rural Manpower, undated
Box   3
  Folder   48
Center of Concern, 1975-1977
Box   3
  Folder   49
Chatfield College, 1976-1979
Box   3
  Folder   50
Cincinnati Rural Life Conference, 1976-1979
Note: Meeting minutes, position paper.
Box   2
  Folder   19
Citizens' Energy Project, 1976-1980
Box   3
  Folder   51
Civic Garden Center, 1979
Box   2
  Folder   20
Community Center Foundation, 1979
Box   2
  Folder   21
Community Service Inc., 1977-1978
Box   3
  Folder   52
Composting toilets, 1978, undated
Box   3
  Folder   53
Control Data small farm program, 1979
Box   2
  Folder   22
Cooperative banking, 1978
Box   3
  Folder   54
Cooperative development, 1978
Note: See also correspondence with Urban Alternatives Group.
Box   3
  Folder   55
Cooperative Extension Service, 1976-1979
Box   3
  Folder   56
Cooperatives, rural, 1970-1977
Box   3
  Folder   57
Corporate farming, 1975
Box   3
  Folder   58
Countryside magazine, 1977
Note: "Energy Costs of Food" event.
Box   2
  Folder   23
Earlham College Farm Project, 1976-1978
Box   3
  Folder   59
Eco-farming study, 1976-1978
Box   3
  Folder   60
Ecology Action of the Mid-Peninsula, 1976
Box   3
  Folder   61
Economic alternatives, 1972, 1974
Box   3
  Folder   62
Energy issues, 1975-1979
Box   2
  Folder   24
Family farm, 1973-1979
Note: Supportive articles.
Box   2
  Folder   25
Family Farm Development Act, 1978-1979
Box   2
  Folder   26
Family farm model legislation, 1976-1978
Box   4
  Folder   1
Farm as business, exports, 1972-1978
Box   4
  Folder   2
Farmers markets, national models, 1978
Box   4
  Folder   3
Farmworkers, small farmers, 1975-1978
Box   4
  Folder   4
Federated Department Stores annual meeting, 1979 May 31
Note: J.P. Stevens boycott.
Box   2
  Folder   27
Food cooperatives, 1973-1979, undated
Box   4
  Folder   5
Food preservation, 1977-1979
Box   4
  Folder   6
Food reserves, 1969-1978
Note: See also 1976-1977 issues of Hunger in M2022-035.
Box   4
  Folder   7
Food security, regional 1977-1979
Box   4
  Folder   8
Food tax, 1977
Box   4
  Folder   9
Futuristic planning, 1974, 1977
Box   4
  Folder   10
Glenmary, 1976-1978
Note: Rural missions.
Box   4
  Folder   11
Goddard College, Institute for Social Ecology, 1977
Grailville
Box   4
  Folder   12
Earth/Land Committee, 1991
Box   2
  Folder   28
Grail Women's Educational Equity Act Project, 1979
Note: New Directions for Rural Women: A Workshop Leader's Manual : draft, New Directions for Women: Education for Jobs : draft and project final report (September 7, 1979).
Box   4
  Folder   13-14
Hunger, 1974-1978
Note: Correspondence, articles, news clippings, brochures.
World hunger
Box   4
  Folder   15
Analysis, studies, 1974-1977
Box   4
  Folder   16
Church and legislative responses, 1973-1978
Box   2
  Folder   29
Intensive agriculture curriculum for southwest Ohio, circa 1975
Box   4
  Folder   17
International Independence Institute, 1970-1977
Note: Land trusts.
Box   4
  Folder   18
Interreligious Taskforce on U.S. Food Policy, 1975-1980
Note: See also Publications in M2022-035 and Food reserves under Subject Files.
Box   2
  Folder   30
Land reform, stewardship, 1971-1978
Box   2
  Folder   31
Land use planning, 1975-1979
Box   2
  Folder   32
Legislation, 1977 Farm Land Act, 1975-1978
Note: See also Terry Grundy correspondence with Congress, et al.
Box   4
  Folder   19
Liberation: economics and justice articles, 1974-1979
Box   4
  Folder   20
Little Miami River, undated
Box   5
  Folder   1
Marijuana legalization, Kentucky, 1977-1978
Box   5
  Folder   2
Midwest Regional Farms Conference, 1978
Note: See also USDA and CSA hearings, correspondence.
Box   5
  Folder   3
Migrant workers, Ohio, reports, 1971, 1973
Box   5
  Folder   4
Miners, Stearns, Kentucky, labor strike, 1978
Box   5
  Folder   5
National Farmers Organization (NFO), 1972, 1977
Note: See also Terry Grundy correspondence with NFO regarding Grundy presentation, 1977.
Box   5
  Folder   6
National Land for People, 1978
Note: See also correspondence regarding legislative action, 1979.
Box   5
  Folder   7
National Rural Center, 1978
Note: Regarding and including Directory of Rural Organizations.
Box   2
  Folder   33
News press guides, 1976, undated
Box   5
  Folder   8
Ohio Biodynamic Association, 1978-1979
Box   2
  Folder   34
Ohio Farmers Union (OFU), 1976-1979
Box   2
  Folder   35
Ohio Public Interest Campaign (OPIC), 1978-1979
Note: Fair Tax Initiative, Father Ben Urmston, Merrill Goozner.
Box   5
  Folder   9
Organic farming coalitions, 1978-1980
Box   2
  Folder   36
Organic vs. chemical agriculture, 1975-1979
Box   2
  Folder   37
Parity research, 1978-1979
Box   5
  Folder   10
Resources for Communication, 1979
Box   5
  Folder   11
Rodale, 1975-1978
Box   5
  Folder   12
Rural development, 1973-1977
Box   5
  Folder   13
Rural ministry, 1975-1978
Box   2
  Folder   38
Rural women in agriculture, 1976-1979
Note: See also related correspondence on women and agriculture: University of Wisconsin-Extension, Constance F. Threinen, 1978.
Box   5
  Folder   14
Save Our Valley, Ecumenical Coalition of the Mahoning Valley (ECMV), 1977
Note: See related correspondence between Jody Grundy and ECMV.
Box   2
  Folder   39
School nutrition, legislation, articles, 1977-1979
Note: See related correspondence between Kathleen Cusick and Dr. Joseph Crawford, Hazen, North Dakota.
Box   5
  Folder   15
School of Living, Green Revolution, 1976-1978
Note: See related correspondence between Jubal and Terry Grundy regarding mutual organizational support.
Box   2
  Folder   40
Self Help Action Center, 1974-1975
Box   5
  Folder   16
Simple living, 1977
Box   5
  Folder   17
Small Farm Viability Project report, 1978
Note: "The Family Farm in California," California Employment and Training Advisory (CETA) Office.
Box   2
  Folder   41
Small farmers struggle for survival, articles, 1976-1978
Box   5
  Folder   18
Small industry, crafts, 1976-1978
Box   5
  Folder   19
Social justice and peace work flyers, 1980
Box   5
  Folder   20
Solar energy, 1974-1978
Box   5
  Folder   21
Blueprints, 1973-1977
Box   5
  Folder   22
Stevens, David Ross, 1977-1978
Note: Grant proposal regarding solar energy for low-income rural communities project and demonstration house in Louisville, Kentucky.
Box   5
  Folder   23
University Without Walls programs, 1977-1978
Box   5
  Folder   24
St. Mary's College, St. Mary, Kentucky, 1976
Box   2
  Folder   42
United Farm Workers (UFW), 1971-1981
Note: Cincinnati Citizens for United Farm Workers, lettuce boycott. See also Rural Resources biographies and correspondence (Cesar Chavez).
Box   5
  Folder   25
United States Catholic Conference, Office of International Justice and Peace, 1970-1978
Box   5
  Folder   26
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Economic Research Service (ERS) reports, 1975-1976
Note: Rural population statistics, trends.
Box   5
  Folder   27
VISTA Project, 1978-1979
Box   5
  Folder   28
Wilmington College agriculture program, 1977