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A drive thru the country to follow up a lead to some possible land for Greenhorns + Smithereen. A wonderful find. also. here is a video of Norm, whose farm is for sale. I loaded it up onto vimeo... by myself! - Severine [vodpod id=Video.3148797&w=425&h=350&fv=clip_id%3D9690338%26amp%3Bserver%3Dvimeo.com%26amp%3Bautoplay%3D0%26amp%3Bfullscreen%3D1%26amp%3Bmd5%3D0%26amp%3Bshow_portrait%3D0%26amp%3Bshow_title%3D0%26amp%3Bshow_byline%3D0%26amp%3Bcontext%3Duser%3A1950033%26amp%3Bcontext_id%3D%26amp%3Bforce_embed%3D0%26amp%3Bmultimoog%3D%26amp%3Bcolor%3D00ADEF%26amp%3Bforce_info%3Dundefined] more about "Norm's farm", posted with vodpod

UC Cooperative Extension Livestock & Range gets techy and gets a facebook page. and twitter too! @MendLakeRange

commentary? Off the Farm, Into the City By Judy Keen, USA TODAY ST. LOUIS — Andre Hall lives in the city and has never plowed a field or fed a hog, but he proudly wears the blue jacket long associated with the organization once called Future Farmers of America. Hall, 18, is among 30 high-school […]

Hello! Yesterday I took a walk through the Greenmarket picking up the last ingredients for this Saturday night's fundraising dinner for Growing Chefs in Brooklyn.  The lineup is wonderful--an evening of tasty treats and live music (a banjo jumped on board with the two fiddlers last week!)  The auction (starting at 9p) has grown to include […]

a great NY times piece about some spunky NC crop mobbers. By: Christine Muhlke “Who brought their own wheelbarrow?” Rob Jones asked the group of 20-somethings gathered on a muddy North Carolina farm on a chilly January Sunday. Hands shot up and wheelbarrows were pulled from pickups sporting Led Zeppelin and biodiesel bumper stickers, then […]

sophomoric, but still relevant. Open Letter to a Cloned Sheep, Pig, Broiler or Dairy Creature by Severine von Tscharner Fleming "Dear Dolly, It seems that the US Food and Drug Administration, in all its wisdom, has decided that US citizens will be safe eating cloned animal products. Yes, Dolly, that means ewe, your lambs and […]

New Exhibition of Photography by Rachel Barrett Baxter & Cook Art Advisors is pleased to announce "Of the Land" the first solo exhibition and the West Coast debut of New York-based photographer Rachel Barrett. Through her photographs we enter into the cohesive intricacy of relationships that exist in Bolinas, the love of and responsibility for the […]

IMPACT A series of stories about films making change How do social issue documentary films do more than just raise awareness? Are you a documentary filmmaker looking for the formula to take your film to the next level? IMPACT is a new series of videos created by Working Films and The Fledgling Fund focused on […]

the winners got a new pick-up.  Young Farmers and Ranchers Take Top Honors SEATTLE, January 12, 2010 – Winners of the Young Farmers & Ranchers (YF&R) Achievement Award, Discussion Meet and Excellence in Agriculture competitions were announced yesterday at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 91st annual meeting. Young farmers from around the United States competed […]

this article just came out in The Atlantic. How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America The Great Recession may be over, but this era of high joblessness is probably just beginning. Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults. It will leave an indelible […]

here's a note we received from some aspiring agrarians who are also making some pretty rad tshirts.  Dear Greenhorns Community- I recently wrote to Anne to say how much my husband Brent and I have enjoyed the Greenhorns blog. It's great to know that there are so many young and aspiring farmers out there. We […]

that many of us wandering activists feel most keenly while driving hours and hours in the volvo.  more info is here [vodpod id=Video.3074238&w=425&h=350&fv=] more about "Ain’t That The Way – St. Eliot & Co.", posted with vodpod

our lovely friend and former intern Anya passed this notice on. My stepfather Paul Clipson is an accomplished experimental film maker, and his most recent film, which I was lucky enough to take part in, will be in this Saturday's "Apparent Motion" fest at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco.

The industrial powerhouse of a lost American era has died, and the skeleton left behind is present-day Detroit.  Enter Urban Roots. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ptPuYtmbU] But now, against all odds in the empty lots, in the old factory yards, and in-between the sad, sagging blocks of company housing, seeds of change are taking root.

so says The Star, a newspaper out of Toronto, in this article. By Jennifer Bain Food Editor The wooden butcher block of food that Mark Trealout and Laura Boyd put out for our visit to their Kawartha Lakes farmhouse is a thing of beauty. Finger-sized slices of ham and free-form sausages, both made from their […]

in Chatham, NY. tomorrow is the deadline to submit a film! Sunday, March 7 from 1:00-4:00pm Crandell Theatre in Chatham, NY for an afternoon of farming films. We typically show one professionally produced documentary (60-90 minutes) plus a variety of short films made by and/or about local farms and farming issues. If you are a […]

TONIGHT in charlottesville: the musical stylings of paul curreri and devon sproule in at the intimate Southern music hall, it's their annual valentine's duet concert. read on for the rest of paul curreri's trek up the east coast, from VA to NY to ME.

these boys can rock. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwnFyLKLY0]

John Patrick Organic.  There is show today! @ 348 West 36th Street, between 8th and 9th Avenues.

check out the website HERE.  This is just part one -- you can see more on youtube. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz1_knWUpVk&feature=PlayList&p=CA61E734A083927E&index=0]

the folks at Baker Creek Seed Company have a new retail location/seed bank in Petaluma. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep0_iwEYLtg]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFQL5jyAtsU] we also received this from The Yes Men: A legal complaint from agribusiness giant ADM has resulted in the removal from Youtube of a fake video of ADM's CEO making over-honest pronouncements. (The video is still available here, here, and, for download and reposting, here.)

we received this nice email last week... Dear fellow food grower, I am a young farmer in Upstate NY. You gave me your card at a food conference last summer. I live on 110 acres just south of Albany with 2 of my friends and we run a small CSA in our area. Last year, […]

a neat video from 1940 - "Wilkie & McNary Know Their Farming"

oh gloriousness. from our friend natsuko!  She is in france -- and she found this for us: Next point. we have lettuce seeds, head lettuces mostly including speckled trout seed. Packed and processed by our homies over at HUDSON VALLEY SEED LIBRARY -- grown by Smithereen farm + the Greenhorns. Purchase some here oh yes. […]

we've been told by our witchy mystics that this is the best source: Free Will Astrology and from a farm/garden perspective -- have a look at the stella natura, published in our area by camphill village. may the force be with you!

for the Bicycle Music Festival (held on summer solstice).  Here's the latest: Hopefully you know firsthand that cyclists make better lovers, but if you’ve yet to discover this wonderful fact for yourself, come snag your Valentine at the BMF Benefit at Cell Space this Friday Feb. 5th, and learn! Learn, learn, learn! NUTSHELL: This party's […]

Rebecca Gerendasy of Cooking up a Story just sent us this great video, produced for SARE, that speaks to farmers who have (or are considering building) a greenhouse. Here's her note: Steven Schwen, or Earthen Path Organic Farm, in Lake City, MN, designed a thermal banking greenhouse, and through the help of a SARE grant, […]

making it happen. making it happen on the local airwaves. yes, everyone is making movies. But everyone also seems to be making radio happen. Down Home Radio Show kaya's channel got some others to add to the inventory? Who's your dj?

you want to check out this band if you're in NYC.   You can view their schedule HERE. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v-Q91E2XW8]

Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong. Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor. Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled. Meanness don't jes' happen overnight. Forgive your enemies; it messes […]

famous for Soil Buildling, and  for Apple Butter. get a load of this! Rodale Institute Newsletter Update – Jan. 21, 2010 Three weeks into 2010, writers at the Rodale Institute are celebrating Pennsylvania’s break-through Path of Organic program and rounding up the ways that organic farming can achieve even higher levels of carbon sequestration in […]

our friend jacob and courtney, greenhorns out at Prairie Heritage Farm, just wrote about this little happening.  A very sweet story.

Stop by and visit Waterpod: Autonomy and Ecology exhibit at Exit Art Underground Jan. 9- Feb. 6 Take a look at our events throughout the exhibit, all taking place at Exit Art at 475 Tenth Ave at 36th Street.

many thanks to Kimberly Hart for this piece. take action, greenhorns! Grassroots push for Student Loan forgiveness could remove barrier to new entry farmers I recently contacted my U.S. elected officials to propose that farming become one of the areas of employment eligible for Public Service Loan Forgiveness. I’m hoping that many young, beginning and […]

at Time & Space Limited in Hudson, NY Hi Friends and Fans of TSL. This  Friday night Jan. 15.@ 7:30pm Puppets/music/creative use of the simple things---(like cardboard??? Wow!!) THE SAME OLD BALONY SHOW will be at TSL. YES!!! ONE night only. This young group of theater people (Old Reliable Amusement Company) is touring the North […]

A lot of big thinking is going on about landuse in and around our culturally potent metropolitan places. http://themannahattaproject.org/ here is one example close to home. As we bring our digital tools to bear on the redesign of our economy--it will require many many minds. How about yours?

by Ian Wylie The Guardian, Saturday 9 January 2010 It's January 2020. You've commuted to the office in your titanium flying car, to be greeted by a robotic receptionist. You travelate to your 3D, virtual, interactive desk which pours you a tall decaf and scans the morning's to-do list on to your retina …

from our friends at the hudson valley seed library: Our Full 2010 Seed Catalog is now online! New for 2010 This year we have expanded our offerings, printed more packs, and grown and processed more of our own seed. We now have three kinds of seed packs to help our customers distinguish between our seed […]

Chautauqua i was utterly utterly bedazzled. What marvelous thespians. Greenhorns want an act in the variety show when it goes on tour