Thank you for your interest in joining the American Agricultural Heritage Areas (AHA) Working Group, hosted by A Place at the Table Lab (APAT Lab). APAT Lab is a new initiative of the Lyson Center for Civic Agriculture and Food Systems (Lyson Center). Before completing this application, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the APAT Lab and its proposed activities, including AHAs.

PLEASE NOTE: This is not an application for an AHA designation, nor is AHA a government-funded or -sanctioned program. This is an application to volunteer to help develop an innovative framework for recognizing, conserving, and advancing place-based agricultural landscapes that have unique specialty crops and products.

To that end, we are seeking individuals who can contribute relevant expertise and perspectives; represent or are familiar with a potential AHA; and participate at a level of about 2 hours per month over the next 6 months explore the feasibility of the AHA concept.

The application will take less than 10 minutes to complete. Everyone applying will be added to our networking outreach list; however, for efficiency's sake, only a handful of folks with specific expertise will be invited to join the working group.

Thanks again for your interest!
Duncan Hilchey
Lyson Center Co-Director
Editor in chief, Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
duncan@lysoncenter.org

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* 1. Full Name

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* 2. Organization / Affiliation (if applicable)

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* 3. Title / Role (if any)

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* 5. Phone Number (optional)

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* 6. Location (City, State/Province, Country)

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* 7. We seek to invite leaders who have broad knowledge of a potential AHA, or in-depth technical expertise, to the AHA Working Group. In the list below, check all the areas of experience or knowledge you bring to the table.

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* 8. Please further describe or qualify your experience or expertise in the space below:

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* 9. Name of a potential Agriculture Heritage Area you are familiar with (if any):

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* 10. Location of this potential AHA (region, state, country). Please add latitude and longitude coordinates if you can (such as by using Google Earth):

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* 11. Which characteristics apply to this potential AHA? (Check all that apply)

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* 12. Please further describe the landscape, crop(s), livestock, foods, or other characteristics of the area, and why you believe it exhibits a distinctive “taste of place."

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* 13. What level of involvement are you most interested in?

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* 14. Are you available to participate at the level of approximately 2 hours per month over the next 6 months?

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* 15. What do you hope to gain personally or professionally by participating?

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* 16. Any additional thoughts, comments, or concerns you would like to share? (optional)

Thanks again for your interest in the AHA Working Group!
We will review submissions and follow up with next steps and additional information in the coming weeks.

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