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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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