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"Farming Commune" by Dorothy Day THE CATHOLIC WORKER farm at Easton has finished its third summer with bulging barns. These are the pleasantest days of all the year down in […]

We received this email from the blog reader: We need a FARMER to join our staff and write from the vantage point of someone whose life’s work is to bring […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFMUhZmMbqU] Get Your Pitchfork On!: The Real Dirt on Country Living. It's a no-romance guide to moving from an urban place to a rural one, and covers all the usual […]

AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST: NO FARMS NO FOOD RALLY MARCH 13, 2013 "We are thrilled to support the No Farms No Food rally and help our listeners make the connection between […]

another worthy indiegogo campaign: FarmShorts FarmShorts is a web video initiative to benefit sustainable farms, food producers, local artists and the regional local community. We are creating an online, coherent […]

A great article recently published in Solutions. Pasture Cropping: A Regenerative Solution from Down Under  By Courtney White Since the late 1990s, Australian farmer Colin Seis has been successfully planting […]

Poet and Rancher Linda Hussa, in conversation with Lisa M. Hamilton March 7, 6PM at The California Historical Society RSVP at http://eveningwithlinda-eorg.eventbrite.com/ Linda Hussa writes and ranches cattle and sheep in California’s farthest […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbEy7uyhK5Q&feature=player_embedded] LOS ANGELES (February 28, 2013) -- From filmmaker Alex Warren comes LOSING THE WEST, a quintessentially American documentary examining the transformation of the iconic old west that was, for so […]

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Nearly Half of All US Farms Now Have Superweeds By Tom Philpott, Wed Feb. 6, 2013 for Mother Jones Last year's drought took a big bite out of the two […]

http://mannlib.cornell.edu/collections/digital-collections a good sideshow for seed ordering and sorting !

"Local Food a Growing Trend for Land Trusts" By Erik Hoffner / February 2013 Grist guest contributor  When a land trust in Grayslake, Illinois, made a strategic decision in 2005 to include […]

[vimeo=https://vimeo.com/44949759] New video at http://ourland.tv/

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  A new book by Judy Wicks "Judy Wicks' brilliance redefines what a business can be. The White Dog Café modeled what commerce will become if we are to create […]

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NPR: Farmer's Fight with Monsanto Reaches the Supreme Court NYTimes: Farmer's Supreme Court Challenge Puts Monsanto Patents at Risk And this from The Chronicle of Higher Education: In Standing Up […]

When: February 20, 2013 @ 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Where: Haven Coffeebar & Bakery 3 Water Street Port Hawkesbury,NS B9A 2H5 Canada Categories: SCREENING Part of a mini February Foodie Film Festival FarmWorks and ThinkFarm […]

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Dad would want everyone to know who his teachers were. Den Berry The Holy Earth by Liberty Hyde Bailey. Farmers of Forty Centuries by F. H. King. Becoming Native to […]

Entrepreneurs Take to the Seas for Inspiration By Eric Tyler, New America Foundation What happens when you mix 11 budding startups with Google executives, Stanford professors, a Nobel Peace Laureate […]

Because that farmer is all alone out there facing a MEGA corporation with fangs. In a front page story on Saturday, the Post writes up a case that might go […]

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Whole Foods' Do Something Reel film festival is showing the Greenhorns documentary, this month, all month!  If you haven't seen it, this is a great chance.  Online access makes it […]

Le jardinier-maraîcher, written by Jean-Martin Fortier, provides an overview of all aspects of vegetable production at les Jardins de la Grelinette, a farm in Quebec that is well known for its […]

By Danielle Davis / February 5, 2013 via Seedstock.com Employing web-based social networking technology to simulate old school neighbor-to-neighbor information share, Farm Hack is a farmer-driven, collaborative project that develops, builds, documents and […]

By Jeremy Rifkin October 22, 2012 via The Commons Magazine "Medieval European agriculture was communally organized. Peasants pooled their individual holdings into open fields that were jointly cultivated, and common […]

Shannon Hayes, Sap Bush Hollow Farm 22 January 2013 Dear Friends; As some of you are aware, I trekked out to Wisconsin this past weekend to speak at a farming conference. […]

Drought in the 1930's: The Worst Hard Time Drought in the 2010's: Full Planet, Empty Plates Check out the connection.

In Whitefield, Maine. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/35600217]

Calabria to California The documentary was also way to explore our relationships with food and work; one more statement as to why such small-scale foods should be supported over the […]

The Agricultural Fulcrum: Better Food, Better Climate By Diana Donlon for The Atlantic The National Climate Assessment, released this week, predicted increasingly negative impact of weather extremes on crops. But […]

seedsoffreedom.info [vimeo http://vimeo.com/43879272] Seeds of Freedom charts the story of seed from its roots at the heart of traditional, diversity rich farming systems across the world, to being transformed into […]

Hi there folks we love. ITs distribution time! WE need your guidance in getting the 2013 New Farmers Almanac out and about, AK press will be distributing to bookstores-- but […]

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We've received 80% of the pledges we need for the OCCUPY THE FARM Kickstarter campaign.   Only $6,000 more and we've reached the goal. Thank you all for your participation […]

If you haven't seen this film yet... Since our premiere in June, 2012 at Silverdocs, and our subsequent Maine premiere at Camden, we've embarked on a very successful Maine tour. […]

you get to make nice things, and then get proceeds from what sells. Amazing way to incubate new craft product lines. check it out http://theworkshopresidence.com/about

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