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"Drop Dead Economics": The Financial Crisis in Greece and the European Union The Wealthy Won’t Pay Their Taxes, So Labor Must Do So By Michael Hudson Riddle: How are the Greek rioters like America’s Tea Party movement? Answer: Both reject government being taken over by the financial oligarchy to shift the tax burden onto labor […]

Our pal chandler passed this along - press opportunity for young farmers! Know any up-and-coming farmers, ranchers, or agribusiness people that would make interesting profile subjects for a story in the Capital Press? We are looking for folks 35 and younger who work in ag-related operations in Calif., Idaho, Ore. or Wash. Send an e-mail […]

who are awesome troopers-- http://www.youtube.com/user/ASIatUCDavis#p/u/6/VOalzw6fBPo

The 7th International Audiovisual Festival of Biodiversity is now online. It is possible to watch and vote participating videos on the digital platform Arcoiris.tv till the 23rd of May. Your vote will decide who will get 'Premio Arcoiris' prize. The Festival will take place from Thursday, the 20th to Sunday, the 23rd of May as part […]

Daily Yonder. Relevant news for rural America.  Check out their latest offerings: Dear Readers, We bring stories of local food and beverage this week. David Mudd reviews Cornbread Nation 5, a literary buffet of Southern foodways, and we introduce Kay Westhues's documentary of artesian wells across the Midwest, flowing free and sprouting stories. Gains but […]

we've been hearing from more and more young farmers in australia-- they are getting organized over there too.. and hot on the email. Farmers' voice needs to be loud and proud to bridge the city-country divide DEBORAH BAIN, May 4, 2010 The urban Australian population is removed both physically and emotionally from the farming sector. […]

Maine Farmland Trust is excited to announce a creative collaboration with Portland's SPACE Gallery. From May 20-23, SPACE Gallery will be hosting a Food & Farm film series; and each evening, the feature film will be preceded by one short documentary about a preserved farm, from the series "Meet Your Farmer" - commissioned by MFT and created by Cecily Pingree and […]

courtesy of  the soil association. “I battle so furiously on behalf of the small family farm because they are threatened with extinction from huge global corporate concerns, and governments that fail to understand the absolute crucial importance they play in the issue of food security.” HRH The Prince of Wales – The Times – 8 […]

and applications are due May 14! New Beginnings TDA grants jump start a budding generation of farmers... Friday, May 7, 2010; By Matt Felder Trent Thompson is a fire fighter. Wife Kara is a math teacher. She’s from Amarillo. He’s from Fort Worth. Outside of Comanche lies a patch of land virtually undisturbed by human […]

what do we think about geo tinkery? As huge cloud-whitening experiment goes public, global coalition urges an immediate halt to geoengineering First UN talks on issue in thirty years begin today http://www.handsoffmotherearth.org Amidst revelations in this weekend’s London Times newspaper{1} that a team of scientists and engineers funded by billionaire Bill Gates are planning to […]

greenhorn Katy Giombolini sent us this letter and a beautiful poem that she wrote!  Thanks Katy, good luck in the fields this summer. I was taking a poetry class this past semester and one of the prompts was to write a poem copying another poet. I chose Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" because in highschool I […]

Their May newsletter is chock full of good information, resources, tips, and research findings.  Check it our HERE.. And their Spring Planting Festival is this weekend!

Nominate Your WFAN "Sustainable Farming Mom of the Year" by May 7! Have you seen the hoopla lately from Monsanto about nominating candidates for their "Farmer Mom of the Year?" They're giving away $5,000 to five lucky winners. Interestingly, nominees aren't eligible unless they raise a certain number of acres of commodity crops or livestock. […]

Starting today, and weekly from now on, we'll be featuring books  all of us greenhorns who " farm with their brains as well as their bodies".  We'll categorize them under "Reading list", so if you're looking for a good read, click on that category and take your pick! Geography students, this one's for you. The […]

imagine if the midwest grew 28 kinds of vegetables for local consumption! A very nice study just came out unfurling the economic impact of such a future-- no surprise, more farm jobs, more farm income, and more nicer food http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/research/marketing_files/midwest.html

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc2JfUBraGw&feature=player_embedded] Kindest Regards, Rob

just out in the nytimes: For Corn Syrup, the Sweet Talk Gets Harder By MELANIE WARNER Published: April 30, 2010 FOR much of 2009, Michael Locascio, an executive at ConAgra Foods, watched with concern as the bad news about high-fructose corn syrup kept coming

for your sunday morning enjoyment. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8VHc49ZdP4]

Same guy(s), new post(s) Meatncheese!

from Les Blank. In April of 1858, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy  wrote to Alexandra Tolstoy, his aunt twice-removed and his closest confidante. He called her babushka,or grandmother, as a sort of joke, although she wasn't much older than him. He wrote: "Babushka! It's spring! It is so good to be alive on this earth, for […]

this wonderful film festival is on tour!  With many films, including our 20 minute cut. For a list of tour dates click HERE

This just in from our scientist friend Lucas Patzek.  I have just moved to Washington State University's research station in Mount Vernon, which is about 30 minutes south of Bellingham. I'm finishing up my research on nitrogen use efficiency in organic/low-input wheat-potato systems. There will be some exciting workshops and educational events, including breeding for […]

we cannot wait for this. culture tracker and magic maker: megan prelinger (greenhorn librarian wunderlady ), has produced a book! A marvelous, highly anticipated treatment of marginalia-- as interpreted thru the study of pop zeitgeist blusterdoms. *Read a nice article about the book.

What do women have to do with what America eats? Everything. With a hands-on guide for the sustainable food movement Proving that we all can have an impact Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat by Temra Costa, will change the way you view your relationship with food. Farmer Jane is a compelling work […]

solaro! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GCNPIslTtg via Pacific Renewables Group

A new book by Heather Rogers.  Read the NYTimes review HERE. , or check out one of the discussions and  signings around the country. Green Gone Wrong takes the reader into forests, fields, factories, and boardrooms around the world to draw out the unintended consequences, inherent obstacles, and successes of the products and practices that […]

Re-post of an article recently published in The Root. An Earth Day Solution For Urban Food Deserts With their ''guerrilla'' tactics, black organic farmers are taking Malcolm X's mandate of ''by any means necessary'' and turning it green. It is time, they say, to change an unhealthy paradigm. By: Frank McCoy | April 22, 2010 […]

Celebrate May Day at SOMArts on Saturday, May 1, 2010 from 12 to 5 p.m. Let's prepare the gardens for summer arts programming. We'll to some weeding, leveling/laying pavers, beating back the bamboo brush, cutting limbs, general upkeep, & maybe even install a drip irrigation system. Light refreshments provided. SOMArts 934 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94123 this […]

as paula notes, "Farm life, chic agrarianism, and rural color are inspiring fashion!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTi1qpq1K9Y what do we think of this strange trending?

Another (Sub)Urban Homestead In the City of Petaluma, we are converting a 1950's tract home into a productive and sustainable food source. Packing the yards with gardens, fruit trees and chickens and doing away with the front lawn, we hope to be part of the solution and an inspiration to passers by.

by Fred Bahnson; April 20, 2010 published in Faith & Leadership John Jeavons expects that 20 years from now most of the world’s people will be struggling to eat. Jeavons, a developer of sustainable agriculture methods, delivered this dire message at a three-day workshop I recently attended. Although his vision might seem to approach the […]

By Sarah Murray, FT.com. April 24, 2010. Until a few weeks ago Callum Saunders’ tiny east London balcony was packed with planters – but not only ones containing flowers or herbs. In an experiment to see just what edible produce he could grow at his small flat in Hackney he filled small containers with rocket […]

the tao seeger band is on tour. catch them, quick! http://www.myspace.com/taorodriguezseeger

by Ewen MacAskill. guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 April 2010 Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, donated $30m (£19.5m) to a new fund to help poor farmers today in an effort to push wealthy countries into fulfilling promises to stump up billions in aid. The Gates Foundation has focused primarily on health issues but sees aid for […]

an essay by Tom Philpott, actually the full-length version of what he wrote in the NYTimes piece we just referenced. To enter a farmers' market in a U.S. city in the summer is to experience firsthand the recent revival of small-scale farming. Stand after stand offers a dazzling variety of chemical-free produce, pasture-raised meat and […]

A nice little piece in the NYtimes by Benjamin Shute - greenhorn + one of the co-founders of our new National Young Farmers Coalition!  His piece is part of a lengthier commentary on "Making It Easier to Eat Local Food".  Several great writers are featured. Small Grants Can Help Us Benjamin Shute is the co-owner […]

Check our our friends Annie & Ben at Rooftop Farms in this sweet video! [vodpod id=Video.3466567&w=425&h=350&fv=] more about "Food Curated » A Farm Grows in Brookl...", posted with vodpod

opened up in Chelsea Market.  Here are the details: Three seasons in, we've finally grown up.  It's still me, my prom date and his old Craigslist roommate, but now we have a new crappy van instead of our old crappy van, we've sheathed ourselves in a 14-foot wall of popsicle sticks, and we can talk […]

Which happened last week in Madras Oregon. Listen in on the auction!

The Art of Eating has gathered all bread issues into a new collection - The 12 issues cover pizza, croissants, baguettes, pain au levain, and more. 12 issues, $87 no. 22 “Pizza in Naples” — Pizza in the city where pizza originated and remains better than anywhere else — the history and origins, what defines […]