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In New Food Culture, a Young Generation of Farmers Emerges By ISOLDE RAFTERY CORVALLIS, Ore. — For years, Tyler Jones, a livestock farmer here, avoided telling his grandfather how disillusioned he had become with industrial farming. After all, his grandfather had worked closely with Earl L. Butz, the former federal secretary of agriculture who was […]

  Ag antibiotic use: Risky — but also sloppy and wasteful by Maryn McKenna So, antibiotics. Given to farm animals. (Yeah, that again.) How does that work, anyway? Pills? Injections? Daily massage with specially compounded creams? Not quite. Farm animals overwhelmingly get antibiotics in their feed. (You knew that.) And a new paper in the […]

In Price of Farmland, Echoes of Another Boom By WILLIAM NEUMAN The 80 acres of rich farmland that Jeff Freking and his brother Randy bought near Le Mars, Iowa, on Monday for $10,000 an acre would seem to have nothing in common with a condo in Miami or a house in Las Vegas. But as […]

nice little digestible subsidy piece by mark bittman: NYtimes.com  

WGXC - its on the air, and in the cyberspace. Greenhorns radio is on there, along with a WHOLE LOT of agricultural programming. Can you imagine! http://www.wgxc.org/schedule

check 'em out: ben stechschulte photography

and rocky mountain organic meats [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0IOO1YR-0M]

if you know any carolinian crafty farmer types. send them our way. we are working on the flyer http://elsewhereelsewhere.org/programs/collaboratory/

someone said this on comfood: "In more and more places there isn't enough money for fixing potholes, much less beautiful landscaping projects." Which prompted an interesting response from daniel. Potholes!  One of my favorite topics. Last time they were mentioned on Comfood was a while back. http://blogs.reuters.com/shop-talk/2009/03/25/pothole-filling-thats-finger-lickin-good/ Interesting thing that I learned from: Follow That […]

More Oregon greenhorns, keeping a great blog! Here's a letter from Eric of Wild Garden Seeds. Wild Garden Seeds grows organic, open pollinated vegetable seeds in Philomath, Oregon, seven miles west of Corvallis. Most of what we grow are various salad crops, including lettuces, mustards, brassicas, chard and beets. The company was started by Frank […]

In the last three weeks. New crops. ALfalfa, sugar beets, ethanol corn. What is going on ? obama? You need us to show you the movement? You need us to get direct up in your space? You need some squealing piglets on the white house lawn? These developments erode the resiliency of our agricultural system, […]

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Using fruit as our lens, Fallen Fruit investigates urban space, ideas of neighborhood and new forms of located citizenship and community. From protests to proposals for new urban green spaces, we aim to reconfigure the relation between those who have resources and those who do not, to examine the nature of & in the city, […]

We love hearing from young people who want to farm!  If you're a teen aspiring agrarian and want to share your story, we'd like to hear it: [email protected] Hello, I am Ariel, and I write the blog, The Future Farmer, at http://joyoffarming.blogspot.com/. I am currently in my sophomore year of high school, and I intend […]

Below the themes still sought for the Storey publishing book project.  An anthology of Greenhorns essays. READ THIS LINK FOR ESSAY GUIDANCE. Drop Dead deadline March 12th. questions? [email protected]/ [email protected]   biodynamics living in a trailer crop mob farmers markets, comporting yourself for maximum sales wholesale, not getting fleeced by the fancy chefs construction skills welding for women taking dorky […]

nice book, nice radio podcast. brought to you by the Leonard Lopate show: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/nov/23/son-farmer-child-earth/ "Fourth-generation farmer Eric Herm discusses commercial agriculture's strain on natural resources, ecosystems, and the farmer. Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth, a Path to Agriculture’s Higher Consciousness looks at the harsh economic realities and complicated legislation facing farmers, as well as GMO […]

Symphony of the Soil is an upcoming documentary series currently in production by Deborah Koons Garcia - The Future of Food (2004) - that explores the soil community from the microscopic to the global. Three of the short films (Sekem Vision, Transition Town Totnes, and Portrait of a Winemaker) from the Symphony of the Soil […]

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Thanks, Alisa, for writing this inspiring piece for us! “Where is the midwife!?!” Erin, a young organic apprentice, jokes as the rolling cackle of a hen sharpens and peaks signaling the arrival of a new egg. I turn and smile at the rusty, little hen tucked in the corner of the tool shed. “Just breath […]

For a market garden in Orange County's Black Dirt region. Greetings, I'm interested in possibly soliciting an investment from you in my farm.   It's a 7 acre plan on, both upland, and bottomland, growing herbs, cut flowers, salad mix, and truck crops.  I'd be retailing at Farmers' Markets, and operating a small CSA.  My […]

Lettuce Eat Kale has two solid lists, one of the top 10 Documentaries and one for straight up "food films". Babette's Feast, anyone? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE8ZkMYntdQ]

listen HERE Food prices are through the roof around the world. We look at all the why’s and all the consequences. 2008 was a bad year for global food supplies. A real pinch. Now, just over two years later, the pinch is back. The U.N.’s global food price index is at a record high. Experts […]

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with a new book, released by a "young publisher" based in Brooklyn!  Our latest title is called Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth, and is written by 4th generation farmer Eric Herm, who lives on his farm outside the small town of Ackerly, Western Texas.

In the film. On the land. Surfing it up-- and dealing with the ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLID the best way he can. So since I have seen you last I have moved down to Watsonville (just south of Santa Cruz) to set up a new growing grounds for Four Winds Growers. We have 13 acres total, probably […]

A terrific video of young farmer Alice Holden  HERE.  Alice represents a small group of young people who are choosing a career on the land. She will tell us how and why the work captured her and perhaps even challenge our notions of what it means to be a farmer and our image of farms […]

Rooted tells the stories of a new generation of farmers and ranchers in Montana through still photography and written profiles. I began this project in the spring of 2010 as an assignment for a photo-documentary journalism course at the University of Montana. At the end of that course, there was more that I wanted to […]

check 'em out! http://berkeleystudentfoodcollective.org/ Berkeley co-op aims to educate about food choices by Debra Levi Holtz, The San Francisco Chronicle The brightly colored mural of farmers loading fresh fruits and vegetables onto a train illustrates the mission of the city's newest food co-op: to provide healthful alternatives to junk food while educating the UC Berkeley […]

inspiring! from the women, food & agriculture network.

amazing video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EImx-r_kMxA]

As I said to the berkeley class I spoke to last night: we have to Choose to choose! http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2011/02/why-you-should-care-about-genetically-modified-alfalfa/70557/

GoodFoodJobs.com is one of the best resources around for finding jobs in education, culiary, non-profit, distribution, and agriculture production. Updated all the time with jobs all over the country - as we work together to banish unemployment one full belly at a time.

Dear friends, I'm very excited to announce the opening of "A Sense of Place," a photography show dedicated exclusively to the works of beginning farmers from across the nation! The opening party and farmer mixer is this Saturday, February 5th, from 5-7 pm at the 18 Reasons gallery. Come see the works, meet new friends […]

[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/19360310] We are Abalimi. We are the Farmers. is a short documentary film about Abalimi Bezekhaya, an urban micro-farming organization operating in the townships of Cape Town, South Africa. Abalimi Bezekhaya teaches people how to create their own garden, grow - and potentially sell - their own vegetables, and feed their families. Through a series […]

The studios are inside a historic livestock auction barn - great re-use!   The deadline to apply is tonight. invites all artists to apply: Artist Residency: May - October, 2011 OPEN CALL Now Online. Application Deadline: February 1st, 2011, 11:59pm Application can be found HERE! Pics of the studios can be seen on facebook HERE. And […]

today (january 31st) is the last day of a special offer from our friends at the beehive collective, and the last day of the kickstarter campaign.  Help keep their good work coming! We are sharing our ENTIRE COLLECTION OF POSTERS (13!) with their accompanying narrative storybooks for $100 including shipping. Help us raise funds for […]

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