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"Farming Commune" by Dorothy Day THE CATHOLIC WORKER farm at Easton has finished its third summer with bulging barns. These are the pleasantest days of all the year down in […]

We received this email from the blog reader: We need a FARMER to join our staff and write from the vantage point of someone whose life’s work is to bring […]

A great article recently published in Solutions. Pasture Cropping: A Regenerative Solution from Down Under  By Courtney White Since the late 1990s, Australian farmer Colin Seis has been successfully planting […]

Nearly Half of All US Farms Now Have Superweeds By Tom Philpott, Wed Feb. 6, 2013 for Mother Jones Last year's drought took a big bite out of the two […]

http://mannlib.cornell.edu/collections/digital-collections a good sideshow for seed ordering and sorting !

"Local Food a Growing Trend for Land Trusts" By Erik Hoffner / February 2013 Grist guest contributor  When a land trust in Grayslake, Illinois, made a strategic decision in 2005 to include […]

NPR: Farmer's Fight with Monsanto Reaches the Supreme Court NYTimes: Farmer's Supreme Court Challenge Puts Monsanto Patents at Risk And this from The Chronicle of Higher Education: In Standing Up […]

Entrepreneurs Take to the Seas for Inspiration By Eric Tyler, New America Foundation What happens when you mix 11 budding startups with Google executives, Stanford professors, a Nobel Peace Laureate […]

Because that farmer is all alone out there facing a MEGA corporation with fangs. In a front page story on Saturday, the Post writes up a case that might go […]

By Danielle Davis / February 5, 2013 via Seedstock.com Employing web-based social networking technology to simulate old school neighbor-to-neighbor information share, Farm Hack is a farmer-driven, collaborative project that develops, builds, documents and […]

By Jeremy Rifkin October 22, 2012 via The Commons Magazine "Medieval European agriculture was communally organized. Peasants pooled their individual holdings into open fields that were jointly cultivated, and common […]

Shannon Hayes, Sap Bush Hollow Farm 22 January 2013 Dear Friends; As some of you are aware, I trekked out to Wisconsin this past weekend to speak at a farming conference. […]

The Agricultural Fulcrum: Better Food, Better Climate By Diana Donlon for The Atlantic The National Climate Assessment, released this week, predicted increasingly negative impact of weather extremes on crops. But […]

Fiscal Cliff Deal A Disaster for New England Farmers Shelburne Falls, MA – January 3, 2013 New England farmers received a sour New Year’s surprise when a short-term extension of the […]

Here are some meditations on OPENSOURCE by Dorn Cox of Greenstart NH-- a key leader of Farmhack. Here are some meditations on OPENSOURCE by Dorn Cox of Greenstart NH-- a […]

we're diggin the story about farmhack AND civil eats' swanky new website! check 'em both out here: http://civileats.com/2012/03/20/farmhack-diy-farmer-collaboration/  

By Michael Prager for the Boston Globe GLOBE CORRESPONDENT DECEMBER 03, 2012 GROTON — Susan and Paul Shay bought their four-acre dream spread years ago, with the idea of returning […]

Quinoa Craze Inspires North America To Start Growing Its Own by Alastair Bland The explosion in world popularity of quinoa in the past six years has quadrupled prices at retail […]

How Can Urban Agriculture Go From Niche To Food System? Everyone loves a story of a plucky urban farm, but what steps do we have to take to make them […]

Setting fires and spraying thousands of gallons of milk to protest unsustainable milk prices. Prices which are lower than the cost of production. Europe Milk Quota Protest: Police Sprayed With […]

On Friday November 16, 2012, the University of California (UC) razed all of the publicly planted crops on the Gill Tract. Occupy the Farm is disappointed that the UC has […]

The Death of Farmbrain by Amy Halloran These days, everyone seems to enjoy tending chickens and eating local. But lifestyles are rarely ways of life, and the grain that goes […]

by Cathy Stanton. Where slow food meets slow knowledge I shed 40 pounds this week, and it feels great. The weight was in the files and materials from the Ethnographic […]

The Staff and the Board of the Quivira Coalition are very pleased to announce a major leadership transition. On November 1, 2012, the Board formally appointed Avery C. Anderson as Quivira’s […]

Prop 37 Defeat Reveals a “Food Movement” that Is Still Half Baked by Jason Mark – November 8, 2012 Good food partisans have much work to do to build a […]

on seeds... Surin Declaration: First Global Encounter on Agroecology and Peasant Seeds November 6 -12, 2012; Surin, Thailand (Photos os the First Global Encounter on Agroecology and Peasant Seeds) La […]

Greece's New Farmers by Victoria Bouloubasis for The Huffington Post [vimeo http://vimeo.com/50199525] Popular perception of Greece teeters between two extremes. One is based on serene, mystic island landscapes and a […]

and the role they play in generating the next generation, from liberal arts to technical colleges. http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=2625

Seriously. VOTE! The Last Four Years: Change at the USDA Many of us with interests in agricultural and food policy issues have felt a little left out during the Presidential […]

michael pollan dishes it out this week in NYTIMES -- read it here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/magazine/why-californias-proposition-37-should-matter-to-anyone-who-cares-about-food.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Via the Organic Seed Alliance: There shall be at the seat of government a Department of Agriculture, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and to […]

After Graduating From College, It’s Time to Plow, Plant and Harvest RED HOOK, N.Y. — It was harvest time, and several farm hands were hunched over a bed of sweet […]

{scaling up the northeast grain system} Wild Hive Editor’s Note: Our monthly local-grain-love-fest with Amy Halloran is back with the 8th installment in her Scaling Up The Northeast Grain System series. […]

By JULIA MOSKIN NY Times. Published: September 11, 2011 OLD ORCHARD BEACH, Me. -- THE first time the Food and Drug Administration sent an inspector to check out the dairy operation at Kate’s […]

Mitt Romney, Monsanto Man Wayne Barrett September 12, 2012 Though Mitt Romney has been campaigning for president since 2006, it’s alarming how little is known about critical chapters of his […]

Andrea Damewood Columbian Staff Reporter Saturday, June 30, 2012 YACOLT -- To see Dan Swansey perched atop a plow working the land, making soft clicking sounds to encourage his two […]

A Banker Bets on Organic Farming By MARK BITTMAN It’s unlikely that large-scale changes in the so-called food system will happen without movement on the part of big investors. Sadly, […]

Falls Church, VA, Aug. 27, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – On July 31 Armand and Teddi Bechard entered into a consent agreement with the State of Missouri, ending a case that began in 2009. On two […]

A recent talk given by John Ikerd -- professor emeritus and sustainable agriculture visionary. Read more of his MANY works: http://www.johnikerd.com) "I believe that to live and work on a […]

New campaign finance reports reveal that Monsanto Co. just contributed $4.2 million to defeat Proposition 37, which would require labeling of genetically engineered food.  That is the largest contribution in the race.  Total contributions […]