Media
write for meatpaper
meatpaper is calling for submissions for their upcoming issue - do you have a meat story to share? or a story about a sandwich? the deadline is September 3! For […]
mushroom growing!
TODAY! A Mushroom Growing Workshop Thursday, August 19 2010 at 7pm; The Furnace - 84 Grand St., Albany, NY This Thursday Skott Kellogg, co-author with Stacy Pettigrew of "The Toolbox […]
here is another film project about farmworkers
Silenced Voices — an important new film, showing on the farm, August 13, 6 pm Vermont Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project shows their new important documentary film Silenced Voices on Friday, […]
if you can't make it to the Chautauqua in Maine
.. there's a train accessible farm based art festival! The Wassaic Project Summer Festival @ the Maxon Mills + Luther Auction Barn 37 Furnace Bank Road, Wassaic, NY August 13th […]
agrarian art
these posters, notecards, calendars are exquisitely simple and moving. the artist makes all of her work using only poster paper and the power of an exacto knife! Nikki McClure
an irresistible fleet of patriots
with iconic hats. what more can we ask for , really. oh yes, their cause: noble ‘The Bulldozers Are Coming’: Garden Crusaders Hop on Their Bikes By COLIN MOYNIHAN Published: […]
into the woods
Any other wildcrafters & foragers out there? There's a group from Seattle area - Foraged and Found Edibles Their website has a great listing of what's available & when. Foraging […]
swipe my permaculture card
Santa Fe, NM - In a financial economy where most consumers are worried simply about their money's security, member-owners of Santa Fe, New Mexico-based Permaculture Credit Union www.pcuonline.org know that […]
cool beans
http://www.soilassociation.org/Takeaction/Learning/Organicfarmschool/tabid/239/Default.aspx and check out the bodacious daylesford farm school too. gold plated shovels, oh my!
draft power documentary
check out this snippet from a new documentary directed by Jared Flesher, The Farmer and The Horse. If you like what you see and want to get your hands on […]
another farmacy
the site of our goatspit, summer 2009, now a homey farm store/ soda shoppe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRzzYDmYLOY
the farm bill and beginning farmers
via the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition's Blog. Also check out a response they posted from a farmer. Vilsack: Farm Bill Should Emphasize Beginning Farmers A funny thing happened on the […]
inspired by Elaine Weiss's book fruits of victory
about how the women's land army at first had issues with harvesting tobacco, in connecticut so close to the women's colleges... but ultimately they did it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dfon799_FI8&feature=related]
state fair joys!
Garrison Keillor At The State Fair. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111538579 In the July 2009 National Geographic, Garrison Keillor, host of public radio's A Prairie Home Companion, listed the Top 10 joys of the […]
bio control
Check out this film about biocontrol research on vineyards that greenhorns Anya's friend Houston is a key leader of. Kudos to someone for trying to make agroeco research look cool […]
always read schlosser
Unsafe at Any Meal By ERIC SCHLOSSER July 24, 2010 EVERY day, about 200,000 Americans are sickened by contaminated food. Every year, about 325,000 are hospitalized by a food-borne illness. […]
artists moving barns around
www.thebarnstormers.org/motionpaintings we could use some help painting some young farmer barns! I know there must be a cool 'this american life' episode on the nomadic crews of southern barn painters-- […]
just a reminder
the wicked delicate boys ( aka king corn boys) also made a really nice film called The Greening of Southie. which i was reminded of by watching mat damon bravely […]
more organic films!
Here's a trailer, that is part of the organic trailer competition. [vodpod id=Video.4081771&w=425&h=350&fv=vId%3D284%26amp%3BportalId%3D1%26amp%3BbaseUrl%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fviews.newhope.com%2FDesktopModules%2FUltraVideoGallery%2F] Video Player > Urban Roots, posted with vodpod Urban Roots is about the spontaneous emergence of urban […]
music for the farmers
http://www.subpop.com/artists many of whom are singing about saving the mountains from coal mining. and some of whom are singing the values of new agrarianims. We are looking for a band […]
delicious flotilla on the hudson
And a successful kickstarter project! More on Flood Time the movie HERE. Their teaser is wonderful. CONTEXT: Flood Tide is a collaboration with the Swimming Cities of Switchback Sea, a […]
instructional videos
instructables- there are more and more of them. cornell beginning farmers website sometimes its easier to see it in video format than reading about it.
brave like billie
life is unfair. be brave like billie! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Viwv-yvrk&NR=1&feature=fvwp]
"Good Food" Summer Broadcast Schedule!
PBS stations around the nation are scheduling summer broadcasts of the film GOOD FOOD, about sustainable food and farming in the Pacific Northwest. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0BHrA4hG80] Upcoming Broadcasts of GOOD FOOD We […]
why it makes sense to make culture from sunshine
http://www.allianceforarts.org/get-the-facts/current-reports.php when the downturn spins down, art pays for it our revolution must be powered by photosynthesis, at least mostly
fighting the good fight
many thanks to greenhorn Tim Quinn of Lost World Farm for his words and photos. He says of the Greenhorns, "Your group has been a large part of my inspiration, […]
maybe we should have a sponsored "young farmer olympics"
Young farmers up for anything The seven young men vying in Gore for the title of the county's top young farmer yesterday got their hands dirty showing their practical farming […]
front step farm
Check out this video from the Providence Journal on a new urban farming project. | http://www.projo.com/video/news-index.html?nvid=414786
some farmers surf
look at this beautiful video of DIY delight. music by John J. Francis. straight out of the seventies. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S75a00owFFA]
farmers = rockstars
--so says a recent piece by Christine LaPado in Chico's news, where the greenhorns get a shout out! you can read the blurb HERE rock on.
this is crazy
Young farmers: On-job training a must Federal proposal would keep non-family off land By Rick Dandes The Daily Item SUNBURY — A law proposed by a California congresswoman may make […]
a new spin on farmer recruitment
our friend Noah clued us in to this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/24/colbert-immigrant-farm-wo_n_624875.html In a tongue-in-cheek call for immigration reform, farm workers are teaming up with comedian Stephen Colbert to challenge unemployed Americans: Come […]
put 'em up
preserve the bounties of sweet summer! with the help of this new book by miss sherri brooks
new album, first in a long long time
from our favorite bicycle-powered musicial pixies, the ginger ninjas. Golden Bubble (span: [femenina] burbuja dorada): (n), The Golden Bubble is a force, my force, your force, our force. Benevolent, yet […]
need young farmers!
Agriculture struggles with lack of young farmers BY COURTENAY EDELHART, Californian staff writer [email protected] | Saturday, Jun 12 2010 12:00 PM Don Davis' grandfather founded his family's northern Kern County […]
The Last Crop film screening
Great Works Regional Land Trust is proud to offer screenings of The Last Crop, a documentary-in-progress by Chuck Schultz about a small California farm’s conservation journey. We invite you to […]