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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 […]
a sense of place - call for submissions!
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 […]
the dirty life
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. […]
get into farming!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pDTiFkXgEE] "it's actually made of chicken!!!" we can't resist. anya found this one.
contemporary heirlooms: art from the hudson valley seed library
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 […]
106 Mason Jars
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 […]
skagit valley young farmers
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 […]
nauseatingly predictable
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 german museum of additives and preservatives
Deutsches Zusatzstoff Museum and here is how you can translate it: http://translate.google.com/#
Surprise "Low Coal" screening in NYC!
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 […]
vote for john patrick!
our talented friend, and favorite organic designer. John Patrick Organic. Vote HERE
censorship
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 […]
beehive collective is swarming
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 […]
local food + walmart = ?
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 […]
we like the sound of hundreds
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 […]
young farmers on the radio this morning!
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 […]
talks on food by creative time
an arts foundation in NYC. Listen online here: The Creative Time Summit
Purple Pedal Power Berry Bicycle Blender
who wants candy on halloween when you can have bike blended smoothies? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsP7IncdKv8]
west coast permaculture is everywhere
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 […]
vegetable orchestra
[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 […]
a guide to midwest farm radical scene!
A Call to Farms in downloadable pdf format! Download it here
keep it in your peripheral vision
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 […]
she explains the issues well...
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 […]
radio 23
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 […]
the farmer and the horse - nyc premiere
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 […]
there should be new rules next week
from Sister Corita Kent, nun at the Immaculate Heart Convent in Los Angeles & teacher in the art department at the Immaculate Heart College.
a taste of freedom
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 […]
severine talks with rodale institute
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. […]
our own brooke budner illustrated this new book about SHIT
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 […]
farm laborer faces the big issues
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 […]
young farmers sprouting!
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 […]
growing a greener world
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.
Beltane Farm, CT
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 […]
washington young farmers organize!
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 […]
another bee film
this one by director of "Real Dirt on Farmer John, taggart siegel http://vimeo.com/10971927
troubled waters when you don't ride with the yeo valley
[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. […]
straight outta yeo valley
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anya wants your photos!
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 […]
csa's on tv, including greenhorns!
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 […]