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The Faith-based, Trickle-down Model of Conservation 4.0 — Michael Soulé Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.                                           – […]

Mentor, relisher of life.  Les Blank, Filmmaker of America’s Periphery, Dies at 77By Bruce Weber, Published: April 7, 2013 Les Blank, whose sly, sensuous and lyrical documentaries about regional music […]

An example of excellent journalism. You can only read the original Harper's Magazine Piece, The Way of All Flesh, if you are a subscriber.  But here is  Ted Conover being […]

for our Grange event in Keeseville, NY! Pocatello. Listen to some songs HERE

Op-Ed: To Recruit a New Generation of Farmers, We’ve Got to Get the Story Right The National Young Farmers Coalition wants to set straight the economic facts of local food […]

Here's a sneak peak at an exciting new book, Regenerative Enterprise: Optimizing for Multi-Capital Abundance, by our friend Ethan Roland. Download the excerpt  

from The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development Special Topic Call for Papers:        Land for Food: A Focus on Farmland Protection and Land Grabbing Deadline for manuscripts: May 15, […]

Rebecca Gayle Howell.  Preorder her newest book, Render/An Apocolypse. How to Plant by the Signs When the ground is lit when your back, hands, intent are lit full well full […]

via Little City Gardens.  A public hearing is scheduled for tomorrow.  CA greenhorns, take action! Access to land is a crucial issue for small scale farming, both urban and rural, […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIKCjQdxtO0] "For more than 150 years, logging techniques remained the same. Men cut trees by hand and loaded them on horse-drawn sleds to be hauled over snow to the river. […]

Agriculture Department mapping Montana’s food system A new interactive online map created by Montana’s Department of Agriculture paints a picture of the potential for improving Montana’s food system infrastructure and […]

Cooked A Natural History of Transformation In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores the previously uncharted territory of his own kitchen. Here, he discovers the enduring power of the four classical elements—fire, […]

Around the turn of the century, the Salvation Army founded three intentional communities in Colorado, Ohio, and California in an effort to relieve urban poverty that followed in the wake […]

The End of the World In pages that crackle with the lightning of an electric storm, the Reverend Billy, messianic leader of the Church of Stop Shopping, thunders from his […]

Trailer for Godfrey Reggio movie "the holy see" [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duIcpOm8tyY] "The Crisis of Civilization Watch", is a documentary feature film investigating how global crises like ecological disaster, financial meltdown, dwindling oil […]

On March 25, 2013, we on Just Peace (WRFG-Atlanta 89.3FM) interviewed urban farmer Rashid Nuri on the recent Congressional passage of what is referred to as the Monsanto Protection Act […]

"The Future of Farming in America" featuring greenhorns director, severine vT fleming In this farm podcast you will learn: The power of proving how serious you are. How to use stunts […]

Obama Signs Monsanto Protection Act Into Law After Promising GMO Labeling in 2007 By Anthony Gucciardi, via NationofChange.org President Obama has signed into law the notorious Monsanto Protection Act legislation hidden inside […]

meet Patrick Diedrich, a young farmer working on a family farm near DeWitt, IA [youtube=http://youtu.be/EHjRiOVwvok]

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"Visit a village in Rwanda and hear from small farmers telling their story of how their lives have changed since they received a title to their own plot of land." […]

Farming's New Faces by Daniel Looker published March 20, 2013 on Agriculture.com They are different, yet united by a toughness that farming demands. They are among the newest faces on […]

America: Becoming a Land Without Farmers by Evaggelos Vallianatos published May 2, 2013 in Independent Science News The plutocratic remaking of America has a parallel in the countryside. In rural […]

behold! an epic teaching moment by greenhorns friend, neil: below are a bunch of links to videos related to succession agroforestry or multi-strata agroforestry. Most are in Spanish or Portuguese […]

brought to you by The Land Magazine Demands to “make poverty history”, and the responses from those in power, revolve around money: less debt, freer and fairer trade, more aid. […]

Published on Monday, March 11, 2013 by The Asian Age Tilling the Soil with Pesticides by Vandana Shiva The ministry of agriculture had organised a conference on Doubling Food Production from February […]

Boone documents the journey of three young farmers in Southern Oregon risking land, business and friendship to confront the United States Department of Agriculture. This is an experiential film: there […]

  The Greenhorns  WHEN: Thursday March 28th WHERE: 767 Fulton St, Brooklyn, NY   Please join us for a screening of THE GREENHORNS, a documentary about young farmers in America. […]

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Immigrant Farmers Breaking Barriers in US Midwest In the Midwest, where the immigrant population has soared in recent years, Latino farmers are breaking through cultural and language barriers to operate […]

Wheat Trials, On-farm Biofuel, Winter Hardy Bees and more. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJy5jmG6_Iw] Check out the full vault  HERE

Flooded rice field is tested as salmon nursery in Yolo Bypass By Matt Weiser Decades of experience have proved that Sacramento Valley rice farmers can use their fields to grow […]

Martin Crawford of the UK’s Agroforestry Research Trust is one of the world’s best recognised practitioners of the art of "forest gardens". [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFbcn06h8w4] Martin’s forest garden has an enormous diversity […]

Hi Friends of Futurefarmers, Michael and Amy are debuting a line of aprons and props for their project in Oslo (http://www.flatbreadsociety.net) Saturday, March 23rd, 2013, from 12pm to 4pm @ the Workshop […]

In the Midwest, where the immigrant population has soared in recent years, Latino farmers are breaking through cultural and language barriers to operate their own farms. A new US government […]

GROWING FARMERS, a documentary highlighting the new generation of farmers on Long Island and the struggles and triumphs of the farming community, premiered at the 2012 Hamptons International Film Festival and […]

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In Wired: Analyze This: Design Contest Seeks Your Cheap, Open Source Spectrometers By Nathan Hurst, 03.07.13 Spectral analysis might not really be your thing, but nonprofit science network Public Lab […]

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via Catskill Mountainkeeper Two Year Fracking Moratorium Introduced in both NYS Senate and Assembly Yesterday, I joined Senators Diane Savino and David Carlucci at a press conference with other environmental […]