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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 Issue Thirteen, the theme for Meat Up (our short essay section) is “The Worst Meat I Ever Ate.” Do you have a sweet, funny, terrifying, […]

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 for Sustainable City Living", will be giving a mushroom growing workshop in downtown Albany. We will be mixing the Tree Oyster (pleurotus ostreatus) mushroom spawn […]

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, August 13, 6 pm here at Cedar Circle Farm & Education Center (225 East Pavillion Rd. East Thetford, VT). Contact Cat Buxton [email protected] or 802-785-4737. […]

.. 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 - 15th, 2010 noon-midnight, every day WHAT: The Wassaic Project Summer Festival is a free, annual, multi-disciplinary celebration of art, music, and community in the […]

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

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: August 1, 2010 The bikes departed Tompkins Square, pedaled by men and women dressed in 21st-century thrift-store versions of 18th-century garb. There were tricorn hats, […]

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 has been in the news a bunch lately, too: From the Los Angeles Times - For the self-reliant, the wild is a free buffet From […]

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 they're securely investing in sustainability for their communities as well. Established in 2000, the Permaculture Credit Union was specifically designed not just as a financial […]

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!

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 a DVD for a public screening, contact [email protected]. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qsAvKxqhto]

the site of our goatspit, summer 2009, now a homey farm store/ soda shoppe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRzzYDmYLOY

check them out HERE

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 way to a Senate Agriculture Committee farm bill hearing to review progress on implementation of the 2008 Farm Bill’s commodity, crop insurance, and disaster assistance […]

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]

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 State Fair. Keillor talks about what made the list, from food on a stick to oversized swine. Do you have a favorite state fair?  Tell […]

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 and accessible to people. [vodpod id=Video.4098186&w=425&h=350&fv=] bio control, posted with vodpod

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. And the number who are killed annually by something they ate is roughly the same as the number of Americans who’ve been killed in Iraq […]

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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-- they come north with spray-nozzle paint applicators and cheaply maintain many of the lovely barns in our landscape. can someone send me a video or […]

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 defending his tradesman-ship ethos in good will hunting

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 farms in the city of Detroit, a city devastated by the loss of half it’s population due to the collapse of manufacturing. With the most […]

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 to play the NESAWG mixer in Albany in November-- New England Sustainable Ag. Working Group conference.

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 project dreamed up by the artist Swoon and built by an eclectic group of artists and performers. In the summer of 2008, the crew built […]

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.

life is unfair. be brave like billie! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Viwv-yvrk&NR=1&feature=fvwp]

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 are continually updating this broadcast schedule on our GOOD FOOD Facebook page, so please visit there often to see the latest additions! > July 17 […]

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

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, so I must of course say thank you all for your efforts in helping to jump start our efforts. I really believe that we as a collective […]

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 ability. They are competing for the title of the National Bank Young Farmer of the Year award. After being grilled on Thursday on their theoretical […]

Check out this video from the Providence Journal on a new urban farming project.   | http://www.projo.com/video/news-index.html?nvid=414786

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]

--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.

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 it illegal for young people to get summer jobs on local farms. Sponsored by U.S. Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-34 of Los Angeles, the Children's Act […]

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 on, take our jobs. ... All applicants need to do is fill out an online form under the banner "I want to be a farm […]

preserve the bounties of sweet summer! with the help of this new book by miss sherri brooks

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 unpredictable, to be relied on in a pinch or for the extra magic to surmount the unsurmountable, yet not to be taken for granted. A […]

this poster says it all

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 farm in the 1930s, but the family legacy will end when he retires. His children aren't interested in farming. They came of age in the 1980s, […]

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 join us, meet the filmmaker and learn about the efforts underway in our own communities to protect local farmland. York Public Library will host the […]