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learn about them HERE: http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/young-farmers/Content?oid=1752043    

    Calabria to California, a feature documentary over two years in the making, explores stories of artisan food producers from both regions.  Their narratives illustrate oppositional and yet complimentary alimentary atmospheres of loss, knowledge, economics and the eternal tension between pleasure and pain. support the finishing of this film on kickstarter: http://www.indiegogo.com/Finishing-funds-for-Calabria-to-California

WCSJ: Plant Diseases, Farmer Suicides And The Peril of A Hungry Future By Maryn McKenna Here’s my second report from the World Conference of Science Journalists — and if you thought the first one on diabetes in China was depressing, just wait for this one. Since I wrote SUPERBUG the book and started this blog, […]

and for orchardry. via the morphology of farm destinies [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJdDnWDdqD0&feature=youtu.be]

a book about farm workers, Floria and the fast food fruit. Read the Washington Post's review here, the NY Times' here.  

Let's Be Frank - a hot dog shop featuring meats from local, pasture-based farms and ranches.  Find their carts and trailers around San Francisco and LA and Check out this video.

this just in! August 7 - Greenhorns shows at the Queens Museum of the Moving Image with Rural Routes Films. followed by panel of rockstar young farmers. followed by beers and short films on the Brooklyn grange down the street. Screening is Free with admission to the Museum ($10 adults)

An article on the all--but-vanished herbs and vegetables of our colonial predecessors: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/garden/ye-olde-kitchen-garden.html?ref=style

Remember. Big things start small. Large, young farmers at risk if land prices tumble A rise in borrowings for buying tractors has raised the threat of agriculture insolvencies if the farmland market collapses, with large operations, and younger farmers, at greatest risk, America's central bank has warned. The debt-to-asset ratio on farms run by bosses […]

  Afghanistan’s Last Locavores By PATRICIA McARDLE MANY urban Americans idealize “green living” and “slow food.” But few realize that one of the most promising models for sustainable living is not to be found on organic farms in the United States, but in Afghanistan. A majority of its 30 million citizens still grow and process […]

young farmer doesn't like the climate of agriculture... Levees Save a Farmhouse, but Farming Is Still a Risk By Campbell Robertson; June 20, 2011 in the New York Times

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Advice for Young Farmers from Swanton Berry Owners by Vera Chang In a recent talk for Seattle Arts & Lectures, Wendell Berry told aspiring young farmers to “listen to the old-timers.” I’m taking the revered American poet, philosopher, and farmer up on his recommendation, and I’m especially interested in veteran farmers’ views on farm labor […]

From NCPR: Beginning and veteran farmers will gather in the Champlain Valley on Saturday for a chance to network, learn and socialize. The event, at the historic Whallonsburg Grange in Essex, will feature food, music and the screening of a documentary that focuses on a new generation of young farmers. Todd Moe talks with Hudson […]

Help fund Anna Mumford's film about her family's Indiana Farm!  15 days to go on her kickstarter campaign. A year ago, inspired by the work I'd been doing with the local food community in NYC, I began a film project about my family's corn and soybeans farm in Indiana. The farm, located in Griffin, Indiana […]

Deb Shoval, 33 year old farmer in northeast PA made the short film AWOL while running her CSA, Fertile Grounds http://sundance.slated.com/2011/films/awol_sundance2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/movies/palm-springs-international-shortfest.html?_r=1&hpw

Antique Farm Tools.info What a collection!  There's much to learn from these tools.  Seed fiddle, anyone? Peter Charles Dorrington collected and restored over 750 antique farm tools between 1985 and 2001. Most of these tools were agricultural hand implements and fenland tools that were used in England, Wales and Scotland, dating from about 1600 to […]

a film series: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/reports/the-next-american-system/video-beyond-the-motor-city/939/

Billy Bragg sang an electric version of an old english ballad about the DIGGERS and the uprising of the peasantry - "World Turned Upside Down" at this weekend's Clearwater festival in Croton on Hudson, where greenhorns were selling homemade elderflower cordials and proselytizing to the thirsty. which is a good tactic by the way Here's a […]

this article in the NYtimes sheds some light: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/us/23crop.html?_r=2&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

greenhorns are hosting an agrarian children's book read-in at yale in october. here's one that might make the list. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/books/review/childrens-books-farmyard-beat-and-moo-moo-brown-cow-have-you-any-milk.html?_r=1&hpw

They’re composting and they’re earnest. Amanda Austin and Dan Moon met here in the hudson valley on apprenticeships-and even stopped in for dinner with the greenhorns one night. Now, Amanda’s returned to her hometown, recruited Dan to come join her, and they’ve launched a community farm right in the heart of Texas.  

beer-brewing is the hip/hop thing to do, it seems check out this article in the Riverhead News-Review, a 23 year-old growing hops on his family farm

Try planting something different! a radical suggestion by conservative farm service providers. Grow something different! http://americanagriculturist.com/story.aspx/cornplanting/season/past/now/what/9/50153

the need for health insurance for young farmers is a hot topic - learn more by reading this article from the Center for Rural Affairs: http://www.cfra.org/node/3384        

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I'm not the hugest fan of this paper, but he references a lot of historical texts that I've begun digging into. Currently on the bed: Agricultural Discontent in the Middle West  It is a history of American Populism (which was born in the farmer cooperatives and state level leadership of Wisconsin, Iowa, etc). The galvanizing […]

PETER NADIN June 29 – July 30, 2011 Opening reception: Gavin Brown’s enterprise  620 Greenwich Street, New York 212 627 5258 T – Sa, 10AM – 6PM Peter Nadin was born in 1954 in Bromborough in the north of England and moved to New York in 1976, after being presented with the Max Beckman Award at […]

These are good people. Social Saturday: Mark Dion with guest chefs Caroline Woolard and Emcee CM 4:30 pm If you want to tour around Mildred's Lane 6:00 pm Dinner (Seating and Chef presentations at 5:30 sharp.) Please make reservations at [email protected] as seating is limited. BYOB Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in […]

a must-see film.  At the Anthology  Film Archives in NYC just til Thursday! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj4eHeo_l7g] Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Ave 4:15 PM, 6:45 PM, 9:15 PM In Uruphong Raksasad’s ravishing documentary/fiction hybrid, two rural families, facing the seizure of their lands, come together to work the same rice paddy for a season, using pre-industrial farming […]

an interview with the lovely debra eschmeyer in the faster times: http://thefastertimes.com/foodpolitics/2011/05/27/tft-interview-debra-eschmeyer-of-foodcorps/ + learn more about her latest groundbreaking undertaking - FoodCorps.

coming to a theater near you! http://www.buckthefilm.com/ (can't really be beat NATIONAL VELVET)

They are seed savers! Check it out: We Are Jeneric Team up with Ocean Future Society. More on Jen's Blog.   You can listen to some of their music on their myspace page Our Essex Mixer is June 25th, all day.  Whallonsburg NY. More on that very soon!

The Reverend Billy Project After many years of stealing away to work on it we are thrilled to announce our new book is really done, and forthcoming from The  University of Michigan Press. Please join us at the release party Monday June 13th, 7 PM at The Housing Works Bookstore & Cafe on Crosby Street. […]

Grand Prize at Strolling of the Heifers' first-ever film festival! Read more in the Brattleboro Reformer.

Good for everyone to watch it again. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW7LcNAYBWg] http://www.permacultureportal.com/network_resources.html

        RFD is a reader written journal for gay people which focuses on country living and encourages alternative lifestyles. It fosters community building and networking, explore the diverse expressions of our sexuality, care for the environment, radical faerie consciousness, nature-centered spirituality, and share experiences of our lives. Quarterly issues are 64 pages, […]

The first screening will take place at The Speakeasy at Local 121 in Providence at 8pm on June 16, and the second at The Jane Pickens Theater & Event Center in Newport at 6pm on June 17. Advance tickets for the Newport screening are available athttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/179700.

couldn't make it?  Here's a video. In late April, The Greenhorns brought the farmstorm to the nation's capital for a screening of their film and a bicycle tour of the urban farms in the city. Unfortunately, the springtime rains graced the city streets that day, recommending that we postpone the bicycle portion of the festivities. […]

devon sproule steps with the best. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltJHe1JdKKk&feature=related]