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Often we landless farmers are comforted by the notion that we'll be able, someday, to afford some degraded land somewhere-- a clear cut or an abandoned brownfield, a farm thats fallen […]

Finding a Future in Agriculture: An Apprentice's Journey By Amber Reed Before the Quivira Conference in Albuquerque last fall, I had read only a little by Aldo Leopold. At the […]

A Stale Food Fight By Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser November 28, 2010 THE best opportunity in a generation to improve the safety of the American food supply will come […]

Far From the Madding Crowd, By Thomas Hardy About young farmer Gabriel Oak, and young farmerette Bathsheba Everdene-- and their neighbor, middle aged farmer named Boldwood. Unfortunately, Gabriel was leasing […]

By MICHELE F. MIHALJEVICH Indiana Correspondent: FarmWorldOnline.com KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The growth in college agriculture programs across the country has come from women, according to Bill Richardson, project manager of […]

from the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Let's get some young farmer voices in there! The Essential Principles of Small- and Mid-Scale Food Value Chain Development Manuscripts […]

some commentary the aging farmer population in AgWeek. Graying on the prairie By Jonathan Knutson NIAGARA, N.D. — By Nelson County, N.D., standards, Niagara farmer Mike Kelly is still a […]

a wonderful essay by charles waldheim which can be read in its entirety here.  An excerpt is below. The categories of agrarian and urban are usually understood as distinct. Across […]

Regenerative Agriculture can Mitigate Climate Change By Eliav Bitan. We greenhorns are the first generation to farm in a climate that has been radically changed by hundreds of years of […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 10, 2010 Prop 84 Funding for City Slicker Farms Brings Land Security to West Oakland’s Urban Agriculture Movement. City Slicker Farms is awarded $4,000,000 to purchase […]

GROWING THE NEXT SEASON OF FARMERS Young people looking for satisfying environmental work By Whitney Pipkins for the Skagit Valley Herald Customers of Hedlin Farms’ community supported agriculture program get […]

Here's a piece about the brilliant folks at Farmstead Meatsmith, and posted on the website of an equally brilliant project called Farmrun. Nauseatingly Predictable The conditions are nauseatingly predictable. It’s […]

Most of you have heard walmart's annoucement to sell over $1 billion of goods purchased from small and mid-sized farms and to train 1 million farmers in sustainable farming practices around […]

Hundreds of young farmers expected at 'Greenhorns' screening tonight By Jennifer Pittman PESCADERO - Hundreds of young farmers are expected to leave their wet fields early today to gather for […]

les says: 'do it with parsley'

that they have set up the rhetoric for ' shock doctrine agronomy' with these patents. frustrated by Monsanto? become a farmer, take back that territory! Surge in Corporate Patents on […]

only thing she forgot was that WE DO WANT TO FARM and there are a lot of us. Where Are All the Young, Hot Farmers? by Sarah Parsons It seems […]

From the Rodale Institute: The Greenhorns: Next generation agriculturalists Severine von Tscharner Fleming and The Greenhorns are promoting, recruiting and supporting young farmers--and having a whole lot of fun along the way. […]

from our friends at Little City Gardens. report back from the border This summer I took a month off of this urban farming pursuit and went down to the Arizona/Mexico […]

Here's a nice little piece from a greenhorn in Georgia, posted on Civil Eats. Young Farmers Sprouting Up Across the Nation In an attempt to explain what seems to be […]

Great news as a result of our Washington Young Farmer mixer...here's a note from an attendee. Nine of us carpooled to the WA Greenhorns mixer last week, and were amazed […]

a story by Roseanne Pereira in Heavy Table. When I first see Laura Frerichs at her 40-acre farm in Hutchinson, MN, there’s a blue cloudless sky and the sun is […]

We just heard from the National Farmers Union in Canada, who are helping coordinate young farmers up north.  They are also members of La Via Campesina. Pamphlet: http://www.nfu.ca/convention/2010-pamphlet.pdf and blog: […]

Enviropig: the next transgenic food? "Snort! Snort!" The plump, pink beast comes rumbling towards me as I approach, then attaches its snout to my leg, sniffing intensely, apparently trying to […]

These researchers battle it out over the question of what is sustainable agriculture.Every once in a while I zoom back out and realize that greenhorn efforts in the U.S. are […]

NYTIMES.com. By CHRISTINE MUHLKE - September 8, 2010 Some of the most sought-after internships this summer weren’t on Capitol Hill or in the Vogue fashion closet. They were on farms. If […]

blog reader Sarah Parker sent us this note about a recent story on NPR: I remember when you guys posted this past Spring on the USDA 1.25M settlement with 13,000 […]

Thanks to Eric Hoffner for this one: In the categories of both fun and bomber ideas for your blog: Clever Arizona family grows veggies, chickens, fish in former swimming pool. […]

http://www.planet-diversity.org/storiesandvideos.html In case the " young farmers are popping up all over the country" story has whetted your appetite. Here are a bunch more testimonials from all corners of the […]

An Unconventional Food Festival: You'll Have a 'Ball' When you grow up in a Polish household in Chicago, food--God, sometimes a lot of it--just naturally becomes a vital part of […]

Here's a note and some analysis from Kevin Skvorak of Regeneration CSA.  Thanks, Kevin! hey greenhorns folks, if you are thinking about slow money in the HV, here are some […]

The latest from the US EPA on public health dangers from hydrofracking for methane. http://www.propublica.org/article/feds-warn-residents-near-wyoming-gas-drilling-sites-not-to-drink-their-wate From this article “The federal government is warning residents in a small Wyoming town with […]

Have you been experiencing the prescense of this nasty chemical herbicide in your compost? In Washington, it is popping up in composted manure in Whatcom County, and other parts of […]

Young couple finds vigorous venture in vegetable farming Now in their second year of operation, couple makes plans to expand acreage Shooting Star CSA By WES SANDER FAIRFIELD, Calif. -- […]

A few weeks ago, Rob Cushman led a  seaweed workshop on the coast of Maine during our  3-day Chautauqua.  It was a magical morning, and many people in attendance wanted […]

It is not my operating system! Opponents threaten to push for biotech labels Three farmers say biotech wheat will destroy Japanese market By DAN WHEAT WATERVILLE, Wash. -- Feeling their […]

any young farmers want to weigh in on this? Broadband Trumps Farmer Payments in Rural Aid. By Alan Bjerga - Aug 26, 2010 "Former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack knows that Farm […]

meatpaper is calling for submissions for their upcoming issue - do you have a meat story to share? or a story about a sandwich? the deadline is September 3!  For […]

with iconic hats. what more can we ask for , really. oh yes, their cause: noble ‘The Bulldozers Are Coming’: Garden Crusaders Hop on Their Bikes By COLIN MOYNIHAN Published: […]

Any other wildcrafters & foragers out there? There's a group from Seattle area - Foraged and Found Edibles Their website has a great listing of what's available & when. Foraging […]