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a screening in Millerton, NY. Quite close to our farm! Please join us for a FilmWorks Forum screening at The Moviehouse, Millerton, NY of a new PBS documentary, THE BOTANY OF DESIRE based on Michael Pollan’s best-selling book, produced and directed by Michael Schwarz and narrated by Frances McDormand, on Sunday, October 11 at 11:30AM, […]

great song by Devon Sproule! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpAE3QXjLWE]

": 1 Dude. 1 Acre. Many Little Anecdotes." [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3545748&w=425&h=350&fv=clip_id%3D6620445%26server%3Dvimeo.com%26autoplay%3D0%26fullscreen%3D1%26md5%3D0%26show_portrait%3D0%26show_title%3D0%26show_byline%3D0%26context%3Duser%3A639504%26context_id%3D%26force_embed%3D0%26multimoog%3D%26color%3D00ADEF%26force_info%3Dundefined] more about "Notes from a Lone Acre", posted with vodpod

for all your nostalgic and strategic communications needs. Seed Catalogs from Smithsonian Institution Libraries

with fruit leather machetes quivers of jam rubbers and a strong set of canning tongs. the fruit is going to waste that is needed by a large + growing population of city people. City people need fruit! Can uncle sam not make a truck hotline linking those populations-- the growers and the eaters ? What […]

check out this short film, Peter and Ben. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFTGBmX19VQ] As a young man, Peter visited the rolling lush green hills of a remote and hidden valley in Wales and chose to stay there permanently. Self-sufficient and alone, Peter was content. Then he met Ben. Peter found Ben, an orphaned newborn lamb, abandoned in a ditch. […]

these book recommendations come from Tom Morris, Associate Professor, Soil Fertility;  Coordinator, Professional Development Program, Northeast Region, USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SARE); Department of Plant Science at the University of Connecticut. 1.Building soils for better crops, Fred Magdoff and Harold van Es. 2nd edition, 2000, Sustainable Agriculture Network (SAN). Cost was $19.95 […]

a shout-out to greenhorns friend & brilliant photographer Lily Piel up in Maine!   We'll be using Lily's photos on the blog periodically.  See more of her photos at lilypielphotography.com Lily was raised in rural Vermont. Her father was a gardener and grew vegetables in the backyard for their family of 8. After studying history at […]

here's the latest update from Farmers for the Future.  Have you checked out the site? Have any comments?  They have some interesting tractor videos. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvq03079-h8&feature=player_embedded#t=29] Farmers for the Future Our social network continues to grow in all directions. We now have nearly 2,200 members from all 50 U.S. states and more than 100 countries. We’ve […]

here's the latest from Dirt Palace: Dirt Palace enthusiasts, there is a you shaped hole in our heart. We never talk anymore. We barely feel like you know us. Allow us to infuse a glimmer of recognition into your cold, dead eyes via regaling you with updates of our most recent and most imminent goings […]

The first in a series of “how-to” videos funded by our friends at the Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) program and produced by Cooking Up A Story. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3469278&w=425&h=350&fv=] more about "yarn into apparel", posted with vodpod Value Added: Direct Marketing for Farmers and Ranchers, Yarn Into Apparel-The Carver Imperial Stock Ranch. Jeanne Carver, […]

thanks to our friend Dorian for this piece. Sustainable Fertilizer: Urine And Wood Ash Produce Large Harvest Human urine and wood ash appear to make a potent, inexpensive fertilizer combination for boosting the productivity of food crops, scientists say. ScienceDaily (Sep. 17, 2009) — Results of the first study evaluating the use of human urine […]

Hello Homesteaders… This is quick note to remind you of our annual outdoor Homestead Equinox Film Screening at Garden for the Environment on Saturday, September 19, 2009, 6:30 – 9:30 PM.   780 Frederick Street, San Francisco, CA 94117

lots of greenhorns we know work with draft horses, and our friends at Sterling College are busy teaching the next generation.  Yes! Magazine takes note: Sterling’s Draft Horse Program Receives Accolades from Yes! Magazine Craftsbury Common, VT—Having a 2000-pound draft horse as a teacher is something a Sterling College student takes for granted. So it […]

EAT WELL BRING FOOD Potluck Dinners every Tuesday & Saturday Eve Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte 541 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10011 http://projekte.leokoenig.com/exhibition/view/1785 The metaphors linking food and art are abundant. They persist: the ideas of sustenance versus subsistence, to satiate concomitant with nourishment, to simply serve, or to present. Don’t Perish posits the […]

we like this movie. Lemon Tree. Watch the trailer here

we just found out about this movie - Flood.  Watch the teaser here FLOOD is an experimental narrative film about a journey down a river in the midst of ongoing economic and ecological collapse. The film tells the story of a group of friends who, driven by dreams, desperation, and a sense of adventure, decide […]

which means "our seeds". [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPZwgjJW5xs] www.seedsavers.net offers you the working papers for the documentary. This is just the first 2 mins of our 57 min documentary on traditional diets we made in our own editing suite in Byron Bay. The film is shot in eleven countries.

Here's the latest from Red Rooster - give them a listen!  Great music, great vibes. Howdy dear friends and fans - happy Labor day! -We are back from a long year spent writing and recording and are getting back out there.  A lot has happened in the past year: we finished a new album, redesigned […]

if any of you haven't submitted photos to Farm Aid's contest, now is the time! Dear Farm Aid Fan, Have you ever sat in the front row? Whether at a football game or a rock concert, it's an amazing feeling — and at Farm Aid, with some of the greatest acts in America, it's a […]

This should provide one: GM crops: Battlefield (Download a PDF of this story - not free) from Nature Publishing Group Papers suggesting that biotech crops might harm the environment attract a hail of abuse from other scientists. Emily Waltz asks if the critics fight fair.

we've written about the New Entry Sustainable Farming Project before, but here it is featured on NPR's Here and Now: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkAiqEk1Ik4&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hereandnow.org%2F2009%2F08%2Fpumpkin-greens-grow-in-massachusetts%2F&feature=player_embedded] Read the full story here

from "Cooking Up a Story" [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVd47pY313k&feature=channel]

in male band version. The Smithereens: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM5_8CQbYZw&feature=related] you could, instead, check us out: Smithereen Farm

An old article, but solid.  Read a more recent article on Travis & Amy Forgues here The New American Farmer By Noel C. Paul ALBURG SPRINGS, VT. - If the average farmer is American Gothic, Travis Forgues is decidedly postmodern: He wears denim shirts and stone-washed bluejeans. His hair hangs down to his shoulders. He […]

Check out this documentary - Pressure Cooker. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3277476&w=425&h=350&fv=videofile%3D..%2Ffiles%2Fflv1%2FPCTrailer1.flv%26autoplay%3Dfalse] more about "TakePart | Official Pressure Cooker M...", posted with vodpod Three seniors at Philadelphia's Frankford High School find an unlikely champion in the kitchen of Wilma Stephenson. A legend in the school system, Mrs. Stephenson's hilariously blunt boot-camp method of teaching Culinary Arts is validated […]

Some great events this weekend: Food Justice Revival concert in Wassaic, NY August 28th Food Security Roundtable seasonal gathering, also in Wassaic, NY August 29th For more information, check out http://www.foodpower.org/

Big Spuds, Little Spuds The impact of climate change and monoculture on one of the world's staple food crops. a fantastic film from BULLFROG FILMS. about potatoes in peru, and potatoes in idaho. with fantastic talking head Pat Mooney of  ETC group

greenhorns ally Mark Andrew Gravel of Agrarian Art Lab is behind this new mag. Not Your Average Food Porn: Food + Sex Previews Nationwide New collage art food magazine Food + Sex = Us (Food + Sex) previews nationwide late this summer with bicoastal dates scheduled for the Eat Real Festival at Jack London Square […]

This comes to us via our good friends at the Hudson Valley Seed Library. Greetings! Do you have the blight blues? We do. And we've decided to do something about it! We're biting back with our new Blightee. Many of we tomato-loving farmers and gardeners are devastated this August. During a month that ordinarily finds […]

a re-post from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Avant-Garde Agriculture, Architecture Meet in B’klyn Futurists’ Workshop Attracts Students From All Over World By Stephen Rex Brown BROOKLYN — When Dr. Mitchell Joachim appeared on the Colbert Report he was only a short subway ride from his laboratory, where he and a group of fellow futurists envision […]

so much going on. so much bloomy fungality on my cucurbits. all the clothes hanging on doorknobs breezes dry overwhelment. feeling a bit like this song: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn22KsLG0wo&NR=1]

and stir up some trouble. Our favorite day of the week around here is Thursday. Why? because that's the day of our favorite radio show. Its called "The MODERN WORLD" and its on WFMU hosted by a zany pixie called DJ trouble http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/LM We're listening to it now. You too can listen online with a […]

new farmers. new foods.  particularly new foods made with green tomatoes! there are some amusing, witty entries here.  let's pepper them with some farm-fresh fare. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Reviews of New Food Got a new food you'd like to review? Send your review to [email protected]

with pig as unwilling participant. via boing boing [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZof9PSEB7k&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boingboing.net%2F2009%2F08%2F17%2Fjapanese-pig-rodeo.html&feature=player_embedded] actually, there is quite an amazing young farmers' movement in japanese, which we will have more to say about later. For now here's some reading material: Civil Eats: Finding a Model in Japan's Young Farmer Corps Global Voices: Go Farm, Young Man! - How Farming in […]

'Trees of life' are vital food source Miranda Spitteler BBC News The "famine food" of trees can keep drought-hit communities alive when all other food crops fail, says Miranda Spitteler. In this week's Green Room, she argues that policy makers need to recognise the important role trees play in providing emergency food aid. Food insecurity […]

As farmers age, plans match aspirants with pros By Sharon Cohen The Associated Press RICHLAND, Iowa — He quit his job and drove his wife and their four young daughters across country, a 21st-century pioneer lured to these faraway farm fields by the promise of a life-changing deal with an older stranger. Isaac Phillips always […]

a love supreme. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1AoSTcdSPU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmultimedia.slowfood.com%2Findex.php%3Flng%3D2%26method%3Dmultimedia%26action%3Dzoom%26id%3D30131&feature=player_embedded]

An ‘agri-intellectual’ talks back by Tom Philpott for Grist 14 Aug 2009 A lot of folks have asked what I think of the essay “The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals,” by Missouri corn/soy farmer Blake Hurst, published in The American, the journal of the right-wing American Enterprise Institute. My first reaction is that I’m thrilled […]

important book just released­ by Food First: Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice By Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel with Annie Shattuck Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it remains […]