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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 century, but no one expected her to have any interest in the work. “I was a girl,” said Ms. Cummins, 53, a high school special […]

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 to deploy a vast and growing trove of data to help farmers cope with the increasingly severe fluctuations in weather caused by climate change, in […]

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 new and aspiring farmers get started, by providing trainings and connections to the resources they need to develop strong farm businesses.

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 valleys of the Connecticut River. He studied Ecological Design and Environmental Science at the University of Vermont - graduating in 2010. After pursuing interests in […]

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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 have a farming issue on your mind, or maybe a tool design that you’d like to share, a crop problem that needs to be solved, […]

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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 degree in anthropology and part of another in interior design. Both have experience in the California corporate world. None of that knowledge is doing them […]

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, Bill Maxwell ticked off a list of the types of people who make good vegetable farmers: worriers, workaholics, obsessive followers of the weather, those able […]

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 all over the world helping them to regenerate their farms, communities and most importantly soils.   We are in America for a 2 month workshop […]

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 Farmers”. The film follows Jeff and Annie Main of Good Humus Produce located in Capay, California. Their struggle to ensure their family farm’s future in […]

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 heart, this project is about sharing, so we very much want to provide this information to everyone, whether or not you are part of the […]

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 while the ranch—their home—becomes more difficult to maintain, so does their relationship. Harnessing moments of celebration, sadness, tragedy, and joy, Gleason Ranch becomes a powerful […]

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 what you believe, the anonymous, larger-than-life British graffiti artist is not one man, but a collective of people. He participates in social media–or not. His identity […]

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 walk in early summer through the grass-growing valleys of Transylvania. They ooze a kind of sweet-smelling well-being, largely because these valleys in the Carpathian Mountains […]

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. [kickstarter url=http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/708969873/civil-eats-food-policy-news-and-commentary-with-bi width=480] Founded in January 2009, Civil Eats is a community resource that brings together over 100 contributors as active participants in the evolving […]

[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 community in Mozambique. In the northern province of Niassa, Mozambique, one company, Chikweti, set up with investments by Swedish and Norwegian churches and the Dutch […]

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, the fate of a tractor or combine can make or break an operation. But with their high price tag and narrow application, these massive tools […]

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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, but it is just as relevant to greenhorns of today.   Check it out at Chelsea Green. The cow is the most productive, efficient creature […]

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 have sought to investigate, is, to unite the truth perceived by the school of Smith and Ricardo to the truth perceived by the schools of […]

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 Ploughing Championships in Ratheniska, Co Laois, yesterday. He said Irish farming had changed “profoundly” since the championships were last held in Ratheniska in 1943, and […]

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 competition from deep-pocketed developers, a new subdivision or a big-box store. These turned out to be the least of our problems. Though the farms best […]

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 money and power waited to see how far they could push people’s rights, in a political environment where corporations have greater and greater clout and […]

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 on a local community radio station (WERU 89.9, weru.org) at 6.30am on Mondays, and highlights farmers who work on farms in agricultural easements, and talks about their success, […]

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 is Brad Stufflebeam, who is brilliant and very excellent.  You can find it here: http://www.texasyoungfarmers.org/episode-5-brad-stufflebeam-of-home-sweet-farm/ or subscribe to it here through iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-the-farm/id599474623 Brief synopsis On […]

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 up on shelf-stable goods for winter. Dockside deliveries to: Mechanicville, Troy, Albany, Hudson, Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Beacon, Peekskill, Nyack, Yonkers, Brooklyn, Manhattan. Sick a lot? […]

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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 staged their innovative performances in the town greens, theaters, college campuses, and pastures of Western North Carolina. “By not relying on gasoline powered propulsion or […]

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. WORK SONGS 3. Sea Shanties/ pirate songs 4. Topic songs about farming Please email [email protected]. We've got such a great start on this. Here are some […]