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Women Taking Over Farms, Learning the Lay of the Land By CORRIE MACLAGGAN Published: November 14, 2013 AMARILLO — DeDe Cummins’s family has farmed in the Texas Panhandle for a […]

Why the Climate Corporation Sold Itself to Monsanto Posted by Michael Specter For this week’s issue of the magazine, I wrote about the Climate Corporation, a company that is trying […]

A worthy indiegogo campaign. Small Farm Videos: Learn How Successful Small Farms Produce Good Food [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1a9hzgjJ2U&w=640&h=360] For the past 7 years the Northeast Beginning Farmer Project has helped thousands of […]

Check it out. And then listen to a recent Greenhorn Radio episode about GEESE Raisers in Vermont!  HERE Wesley Bascom grew up on a working dairy farm in the verdant […]

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Farm Hack by Courtney White, originally published by The carbon pilgrim  | NOV 1, 2013 Welcome to the virtual coffee shop for agrarians! Pull up a laptop and join the conversation. Do you […]

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“Greenhorns”: California couple learns farm life running local CSA farm By Polly Keary, Editor Andrew Ide, 27, has a degree in philosophy and theology. His wife Micha, 29, has a […]

To Market, To Market, No More By Rachel Wharton, for the New York Times CHANGEWATER, N.J. — As he pushed a manual weeder through an inch-tall row of fall cilantro, […]

If you're Salatin fans like we are, this will be right up your alley: [vimeo http://vimeo.com/76483042] We are an Australian family, who for over 20 years have worked with farmers […]

with a forward by Severine!  Pre-order HERE. http://www.themarketgardener.com/

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[vimeo=https://vimeo.com/74515269] The Last Crop is a CALL TO ACTION that addresses timely issues that are confronting our nation's farmers – see The New York Times Op-Ed piece, “Keep Farmland for […]

View The Boston Tree Party Handbook (pdf) During the course of the Boston Tree Party’s work we’ve gathered an extensive amount of information about heirloom apple trees and civic fruit. At its […]

GLEASON RANCH: Risking Everything A Fundraising Campaign to Finish the Documentary Film! In the face of great loss, two sisters struggle to hold onto their 150-year-old, 5th-generation family ranch. And […]

Banksy: Think Twice about What You Eat By Twilight Greenaway on October 17, 2013 Few contemporary artists have been the subject of quite so many rumors as Banksy. Depending on […]

Beautiful photos from our friend Grant Delin.  http://www.vermontsailfreightproject.com/  

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Hay. Beautiful. Farmers in Transylvania have created a landscape of flower-filled hay meadows. Can they endure? By Adam Nicolson Photograph by Rena Effendi You can’t help but smile as you […]

Let's not lose this powerful resource!  Visit their kickstarter page and chip in.  2 Days to go! Check out some of their great work at civileats.com if you're not convinced. […]

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/73310470] Watch this trailer for a powerful new documentary about how supposedly well-meaning Dutch and Swedish investments can result in land grabbing and human rights abuses in one small […]

Hacking the Fields: Crowdsourcing DIY Tools for Sustainable Farming In the brave new world of farm technology, communities are inventing new tools and cutting out Big Ag. For some farmers, […]

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A well-worn favorite on our bookshelf, Keeping A Family Cow, is out again in a revised and updated edition!  Joann S. Grohman wrote the book back in the early 1970s, […]

Listen HERE LibriVox recording of Progress and Poverty, by Henry George. Read by Tim Makarios. What I have done in this book, if I have correctly solved the great problem I […]

President says young farmers need land Helping young farmers to access land is the greatest challenge facing modern agriculture, President Michael D Higgins said at the opening of the National […]

Keep Farmland for Farmers By LINDSEY LUSHER SHUTE and BENJAMIN SHUTE CLERMONT, N.Y. — WHEN we went looking in upstate New York for a home for our farm, we feared […]

awesome film!  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nIV22Eqw04] Wisconsin Rising tells the story of how Wisconsin became a testing ground for the nation in 2011. It was the canary in the coal mine as big […]

if you're in need of a little weekend inspiration, we highly encourage you to check out Forever Farms Radio -- the show is a weekly 5 minute feature that airs […]

another episode is up!  We'll continue to periodically remind you of this helpful and inspirational podcast. 'This Is The Farm' - a podcast by the Texas Young Farmer Coalition. This week […]

A funny and timely film about intellectual property rights and bullying! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_8UHX8FRGY] A Defiant Dude

Vermont Sail Freight is live now on Good Eggs. For anyone hungry living along the Hudson or in NYC. We deliver into your lap by sail barge in October. Stock […]

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Rural Academy Theatre   In horse pulled wagons stocked with a bicycle powered silent cinema, an Appalachian-balkan-brass-klezmer-dixieland-string ensemble, kinetic sculpture and their signature low-tech theater appliances, the newly formedRural Academy Theater have […]

Hello loyal blog readers,  Our occasional, random requests have been so fruitful that we're coming back for more! Can you send in  your favorite: 1. Farm / farm-affiliated bands 2. […]