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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 10, 2010 Prop 84 Funding for City Slicker Farms Brings Land Security to West Oakland’s Urban Agriculture Movement. City Slicker Farms is awarded $4,000,000 to purchase land in West Oakland to create a Community Market Farm and park.Oakland, CA (November 10, 2010)—On Monday, November 8, 2010 City Slicker Farms was awarded […]

Don't forget! Enter your photos into this exhibition that our Anya is co-curating! *A Sense of Place: Contemporary Agrarian Photography - Call for Submissions* Farmer-photographers are invited to submit up to 6 images by December 5, 2010 on the theme of "a sense of place."

It's out! Our friend Kristin Kimball recounts her first year farming, after leaving the big city for upstate New York to fall in love--with a man & with the land. Essex Farm is a horse-powered, year round, full diet CSA. Woah. We've read it & we love it! http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Kristin-Kimball/44726842

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE] "it's actually made of chicken!!!" we can't resist. anya found this one.

The Horticultural Society of New York is pleased to present Contemporary Heirlooms: Art from the Hudson Valley Seed Library as part of its continuing exhibitions program featuring plant-based art. The exhibition showcases for the first time in New York City original artworks commissioned by the Hudson Valley Seed Library for their unique Art Pack seed […]

Our own Patrick Kiley cleaned them for our mixer at NESAWG last week, and here's a little something he wrote. I scrubbed each one with a little squirt of lavender soap and hot water, again and again, until they sparkled. Out with mouse shit, in with sparkle. These jars are for drinking Red Jacket Orchards […]

GROWING THE NEXT SEASON OF FARMERS Young people looking for satisfying environmental work By Whitney Pipkins for the Skagit Valley Herald Customers of Hedlin Farms’ community supported agriculture program get a special treat in their boxes of produce each week: Kai Ottesen’s odes to farming. With an English degree in his back pocket, Ottesen can […]

Here's a piece about the brilliant folks at Farmstead Meatsmith, and posted on the website of an equally brilliant project called Farmrun. Nauseatingly Predictable The conditions are nauseatingly predictable. It’s a miracle I’vnt vomited on my keyboard just thinking about using myself sitting next to Lauren in a car to grab your attention. She is […]

Deutsches Zusatzstoff Museum and here is how you can translate it: http://translate.google.com/#

Tell your friends, the newly released Low Coal will be screened in New York City on Monday, Nov. 15 at the Spectacle Theater. There will be two showings, 7 p.m. and 8:45 p.m.  Watch the trailer here.  Where: Spectacle Theater, 124 S. 3rd St., at Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, New York When: 11/15/10, 7:15 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. Cost: […]

our talented friend, and favorite organic designer.  John Patrick Organic. Vote HERE

Thanks, Alex, for sending us this heads up.  In Alex's words, "An excellent and nitty gritty investigation into the direct corporate favortism by U of M officials preventing release of a film" Released U Documents Show Officials Went to Great Lengths to Appease Corporate Ag & Cover Up Reasons for Film Censorship LSP Publishes 100’s […]

Check out the Beehive Collective on tour, sharing stories on their new poster, "The True Cost of Coal," about mountaintop removal and everything interconnected with the process. Please pass along to interested folks, and COMEJoin the Beehive Collective for an exciting and educational visual workshop on "The True Cost of Coal" Come for food and […]

Most of you have heard walmart's annoucement to sell over $1 billion of goods purchased from small and mid-sized farms and to train 1 million farmers in sustainable farming practices around the world. Will Wal-Mart lead to a loss of the soul of the local food movement? THIS article raises awareness about food sovereignty in the face of local […]

Hundreds of young farmers expected at 'Greenhorns' screening tonight By Jennifer Pittman PESCADERO - Hundreds of young farmers are expected to leave their wet fields early today to gather for some local food, music, workshops and a preview screening of "The Greenhorns," a documentary about a burgeoning new generation of American farmers. The Greenhorns is […]

Well, this morning on the West coast, anyway.  Tune into KUOW 94.9 in Seattle http://www.kuow.org on Monday, November 1st from 10-11am PST for an hour discussion on issues concerning young farmers on the show "Weekday." On the show will be Jason & Siri from Local Roots Farm in Carnation, Severine von Tscharner Fleming of the […]

an arts foundation in NYC.  Listen online here: The Creative Time Summit

who wants candy on halloween when you can have bike blended smoothies? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsP7IncdKv8]

les says: 'do it with parsley'

Saturday, November 6 PREMIERE SCREENING AND GALA RECEPTION: PERMACULTURE: THE GROWING EDGE A brand-new documentary by Starhawk and Donna Read—the team that made Goddess Remembered, Burning Times, Full Circle and Signs Out of Time! Madrone Studios 1417 15th St.  San Francisco, CA 6:30 pm Gala reception, food, drinks, music by Evelie Posch Sales and Ayla Nereo, meet […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfYt7vRHuY] The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents the US- debut of the first Vienna Vegetable Orchestra. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 03, 08:00 PM New York Proctors Theater Schenectady Proctors 432 State Street Schenectady, NY 12305 For tickets please visit: http://www.proctors.org/events/vienna_vegetable The ensemble plays vegetable instruments: carrots and cucumbers instead of guitars and drums. Bridging the gap between […]

A Call to Farms in downloadable pdf format! Download it here

that they have set up the rhetoric for ' shock doctrine agronomy' with these patents. frustrated by Monsanto? become a farmer, take back that territory! Surge in Corporate Patents on “Climate-Ready” Crops  Threatens Biodiversity and Signals Grab on Land and Biomass Nagoya, Japan -- Under the guise of developing “climate-ready” crops, the world’s largest seed […]

only thing she forgot was that WE DO WANT TO FARM and there are a lot of us. Where Are All the Young, Hot Farmers? by Sarah Parsons It seems like scientists, non-profits, and even students consistently receive government grant money. Small farmers, however, rarely see Uncle Sam reach into his wallet and hand them […]

Another great radio project.  Don't forget to listen in to our radio show on Thursdays! Radio23.org is a non-commercial, freeform radio station dedicated to providing an international artistic platform for innovative and creative home broadcasters. Experience underground music and culture from all parts of the globe created by dozens of weekly live broadcasters. Every two […]

Three young farmers share one crazy idea: To learn to farm with giant draft horses instead of tractors… in New Jersey. The Farmer and the Horse makes its New York City debut at The Tank on November 13 at 9:30 p.m. (354 W. 45th St.). Tickets can be purchased for $10 at the door or […]

from Sister Corita Kent, nun at the Immaculate Heart Convent in Los Angeles &  teacher in the art department at the Immaculate Heart College.

coolio: a video of 5000 fed at an event in London’s Trafalgar Square where 5000 members of the public were given a free lunch made from food that would otherwise have been wasted. As Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall remarked, "I think it's a brilliant way of highlighting the problem of food waste."

From the Rodale Institute: The Greenhorns: Next generation agriculturalists Severine von Tscharner Fleming and The Greenhorns are promoting, recruiting and supporting young farmers--and having a whole lot of fun along the way. By Amanda Kimble-Evans Severine von Tscharner Fleming is a Pied Piper of sorts--joyfully leading young people into farming--and her goals are lofty. She wants to throw […]

In his insightful new book, Holy Shit, Managing Manure To Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure—our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource. He begins by lamenting a modern society that not only throws away both animal and human manure—worth billions of dollars in fertilizer value—but that spends a staggering […]

from our friends at Little City Gardens. report back from the border This summer I took a month off of this urban farming pursuit and went down to the Arizona/Mexico border to work with a humanitarian aid organization called No More Deaths who’s mission is to end the deaths and suffering of folks migrating to […]

Here's a nice little piece from a greenhorn in Georgia, posted on Civil Eats. Young Farmers Sprouting Up Across the Nation In an attempt to explain what seems to be the seed of a cosmic shift in how farming is practiced and portrayed in America, I offer you my story: I’m 26 years old, and […]

This show featured the Rodale Institute last weekend, and you can watch all of the episodes online! Growing a Greener World on American Public Television.

These great cheese makers  have donated to TWO greenhorns mixers. And their cheese is top o' the notch.  We need to remember to support small cheese makers. They could double or triple production but don't have the markets to do so in some cases.  Seek them out.  Ask for them at the store. Take your […]

Great news as a result of our Washington Young Farmer mixer...here's a note from an attendee. Nine of us carpooled to the WA Greenhorns mixer last week, and were amazed to see about 250 people at the Vashon Grange for the pig roast, potluck, and square dancing. I'd guess that about 200 of those were […]

this one by director of "Real Dirt on Farmer John, taggart siegel http://vimeo.com/10971927

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba97nG2Bvyg] Last month, the University of Minnesota caused a stir when it decided to postpone the release of a film that focuses on the effect agriculture is having on U.S. waterways from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Troubled Waters–a film directed by Larkin McPhee for the University’s Bell Museum of Natural History, part of […]

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Have you seen Anya's photos? They are so good. She's co-curating this photo exhibit in California. A Sense of Place: Contemporary Agrarian Photography - Call for Submissions Farmer-photographers are invited to submit up to 6 images by November 15, 2010 on the theme of "a sense of place." 18 Reasons curators will select 2-3 images […]

From WGBY, Episode #211: Thursday, September 9, 2010 http://www.wgby.org/localprograms/ecoexchange/video.html This special edition of Eco Exchange will examine four local farms in Western MA that are using the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) business model. CSA farms, on the rise in America, but especially in New England, are farms that sell shares to individuals and families in […]