Bell, Michael M.

Posted July 2000

Professor, Department of Community and Environmental Sociology
1450 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1562
Phone: (608) 265-9930
Fax: (608) 262-6022
michaelbell@wisc.edu
www.michaelmbell.net

Areas of interest: Environmental Sociology; Agroecology; Culture; Economic Sociology; Community; Place; Rural Society; Inequality; Gender; Sociology of the Body; Food; Sociology of science; Democracy; Social Theory; Ethnographic Methods.

Research Interests: Sociology of “nature”; Sociology of dialogue and dialogics; Sustainable agriculture as a social movement; Dialogic perspectives on agricultural sustainability; Rare local foods; Social experience of place and environment; Cultivation of knowledge; Rural masculinities; Dialogue and democracy.

Vegetable Storage Crops Workshop

Learn how to extend your marketing season by growing and selling winter storage crops like carrots, beets, winter squash, cabbage, potatoes, onions, garlic and more. This workshop will be held on December 4 in Hudson and December 11 in Madison. For details, see the workshop flyer. Hope to see you there!

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CIAS in the community

CIAS Hosts Annual Meeting of Eco-Apple Growers

On Thursday, November 12, CIAS hosted its annual meeting of apple growers engaged in its Eco-Apple pesticide reduction program. Notably, the group of 48 growers celebrated the successful completion of a six-year effort designed to reduce the use of pesticides on orchards throughout Wisconsin. During the course of the program, all reporting orchards demonstrated a reduced reliance on pesticides in favor of a diversity of IPM strategies, and some realized a near-total elimination of organophosphate applications. CIAS thanks its team of growers for their enthusiastic and committed participation. In particular, CIAS wishes to thank Dave Flannery, Wendy Schafer, Bill Stone and Anna Maenner for their fortitude in seeing this phase of the project through to a successful conclusion. UW rsearchers Dan Mahr, Patty McManus, Matt Stasiak and Teryl Roper have been critical to the project’s success. Thanks also to EPA-V and the USDA for their support and encouragement.

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