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tonight! Advance Film Screening: Growing Cities (7:30-10pm) Filene Hall at Skidmore College  815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY (This is Skidmore College's official address. Filene Hall is pinpointed in the Google Map link.) Farm Aid and Skidmore College present Growing Cities, a new documentary about urban farming. Join us for an advanced screening (doors at 7:30pm, film at 8pm), followed by a […]

event this saturday on the hudson waterfront.

Be it tractor or truck. A film about text accidents by werner hertzog. From One Second to the Next [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BqFkRwdFZ0]

It's not everyday that we find a product so PERFECTLY in synch with  small  research projects. We've been learning about waterproofing for canvas / nautical applications, and here is a home kitchen version! Beeswrap

They're still seeking some funding. Check out the indiegogo campaign Hudson Rising: Stories of Revival from the Hudson Valley We're trying to complete our movie about the Hudson Valley - and we need your help to do it! After three years, production of Hudson Rising is nearly complete and the premiere is scheduled for October 26th 2013! Hudson Rising is […]

Where land prices rose 26% in 2012, mostly because of fracking speculation. Satellite Fields SATELLITE FIELDS is a series of large-scale tree formations planted in North Dakota. Covering 4 acres of land, each piece will be large enough to appear in satellite surveillance of the area, so that the formations can be visited two ways: […]

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How can we, the grassroots, work with the power of living systems to truly heal and transform toxic and damaged landscapes into thriving, healthy, and fertile places once more? How can we respond to environmental disasters in accessible and community empowering ways? Earth Repair explores a host of powerful grassroots bioremediation techniques to assist with the recovery […]

Taylor Farms, Big Food Supplier, Grapples With Frequent Recalls By STEPHANIE STROM Taylor Farms, the large vegetable producer whose salad mix is being investigated in connection with an outbreak of illness involving hundreds of people in 22 states, has had an unusual number of voluntary recalls for potentially tainted products in the last three years. […]

We like it! Shu Lea Cheang’s Garlic=Rich Air was an interactive online project that anticipated the year 2030 as a postcapitalist society where the global economy and currencies have collapsed and network media has nearly crashed. In this future world, organic garlic is the new social currency–bought, sold, and traded to establish a new, free […]

good work by the AP! Selling Farms Sometimes Calls for Creative DealsALBANY, N.Y. September 1, 2013 (AP)By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press After four decades of farming, Kevin Carley was ready to pass along his dairy operation in central New York. And his son-in-law was eager to take charge. But simply selling operating farms — pricey […]

We are live, people! you can now buy product from the sail boat, online. as a person as a restaurant as a retailer http://vtsailfreight.com/

A pleasure to read.  And in other VSF news, cargo wholesale orders went out yesterdayI If you have a place for us to mail flyers about the sail barge please send your mailing address to Cara @thegreenhorns.net There is much to report since my last post here three weeks ago.  Since our first spaghetti dinner […]

a failure to do life-cycle analysis of treating all carbon as a fuel! Trash Into Gas, Efficiently? An Army Test May Tell By PAUL TULLIS There is an indisputable elegance to the idea of transforming garbage into fuel, of turning icky, smelly detritus into something valuable. But big drawbacks have prevented the wholesale adoption of […]

at Fibershed. Always a good reminder. Fibershed is a non-profit organization that provides experiential education that both generates awareness, and teaches the necessary skills within our community to build and sustain a thriving bioregional textile culture that functions hand-in-hand with principles of ecological balance, local economies, and regional organic agriculture..

Check out this article about the toxicity of Round-Up. And two responses: Rodale vs. Monsanto

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Despite Drop in Commodity Prices, Farmland Values Rise By PAUL SULLIVAN DAN LINDSTROM remembers looking at a piece of Nebraska farmland six or seven years ago that cost $3,300 an acre. Raised on a farm, he ran the numbers with his brother who is farming the family land and concluded that it was too expensive. […]

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Not All Industrial Food Is Evil By MARK BITTMAN I’ve long wondered how producing a decent ingredient, one that you can buy in any supermarket, really happens. Take canned tomatoes, of which I probably use 100 pounds a year. It costs $2 to $3 a pound to buy hard, tasteless, “fresh” plum tomatoes, but only […]

Always a good thing. Can-do: Grange shows how to preserve nature's bounty by Mike Lauterborn Monday, August 12, 2013 for the Fairfield Citizen With a can-do attitude and an interest in preserving the bounty of the harvest, a group gathered Saturday at the historic Greenfield Hill Grange to learn about canning and preserving homegrown fruits and vegetables. […]

Fable Farm Theatre presents "Crimes of the Heart" By Beth Henley Join us this August at the Clark Commons for a late Summer evening of food and theatre amongst our gardens and towering mama maple trees.  Grab a bowl of soup from the cauldron, talk  with friends, fill your jar, and find your seat; the show is about […]

Baking Bread for a Sustainable Future by Chris Riedy, 2 August 2013. It’s raining lightly in Oslo as our procession makes its way past the gleaming white of the Opera House, jutting like a glacier over Oslo Fjord. I am following an artist, Eva Bakkeslett, on a strange journey to a kind of guerilla bakehouse. Colleagues […]

Farm Bill out of touch with Rural Americans by The Center for Rural Affairs, 26 July 2013 The US House of Representatives’ farm bill is out of touch with rural America in its disregard for protecting the small town and rural way of life. If and when a conference committee meets to produce a final […]

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published Jul. 10, 2013, for Harvest Public Media. While the farming community continues to age fewer young people are filling the ranks, prompting the question: Do young people even want to farm anymore? The quick answer is yes, just not in the same numbers as they used to. And surveys indicate many of them don’t […]

Serious props to this new farm in the Adirondacks for their great tumblr site.  (and their farming skills)     http://sugarhousecreamery.tumblr.com/

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The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say) by James Bamford The spring air in the small, sand-dusted town has a soft haze to it, and clumps of green-gray sagebrush rustle in the breeze. Bluffdale sits in a bowl-shaped valley in the shadow of Utah’s Wasatch Range to the east […]

Gabfestry for Creative Dissenters August 19-24, 2013 What is this? Gabfestry will be an opportunity for politically minded artists (of all media) to geek-out, talk shop, learn from each other, and share our experiences and concerns.  This event will be held August 19-24 and offer a chance for artists to plug in to perspectives of […]

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Red Tomato has spent 16 years learning how to leap (or at least climb over) logistics barriers for local produce. To tell our story, RT collaborated with Epipheo to create a fun animated short that represents the essence of what we do and the role of organizations like RT in the future of local, sustainable agriculture. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKsYoxyclUg&w=560&h=315]

via the Federation of Southern Cooperatives Land Assistance Fund The History of Cooperatives in the Black Community   And Other Updates on the Federation's Website  ATLANTA....We now have on our website information about the history of cooperatives in America's Black community, thanks to the work of scholar Jessica Nembhard. Please go the following link to read […]

A great piece by greenhorns ally Kelsey Jones-Casey, an Independent Researcher and Consultant at Isthmus & Strait whose work focuses on the intersections between land rights, sustainable livelihoods and social equity. I disdain flying for countless reasons:  the armrest wars, flight delays, and cold feet in the draft. But a small part of my people-loving […]

  Farm Aid's 2013 concert is September 21 in Saratoga Springs! Featuring Neil Young, Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews... a good crew. And support farms! Check it out here, buy tickets here. And come say hey to the greenhorns table!

An encouraging piece from the New York Times Strong Support for Labeling Modified Foods By Allison Kopicki, Published: July 27, 2013 Americans overwhelmingly support labeling foods that have been genetically modified or engineered, according to a New York Times poll conducted this year, with 93 percent of respondents saying that foods containing such ingredients should […]