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Cargill, Bunge Win Most Export Aid Since 1992 as Credit Slows By Alan Bjerga May 27 (Bloomberg) -- Cargill Inc., Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Bunge Ltd. are benefiting from […]

fresh stuff from greenhorn Trace Ramsey Farm or Die - A Revised Manifesto A few months ago I wrote an essay that became known as “A Young Farmer Manifesto” for […]

the latest from wicked delicate films. TRUCK FARM is a Wicked Delicate film + food project about growing a little food in a big city. "Episode 1" is an excerpt […]

looking to dance?  here's a tip from greenhorn margaret de bona, aka grackle of gracklesmalarkey.wordpress.com Guiding Star Grange Contra Dance - Greenfield, MA http://www.guidingstargrange.org/Events/events.html They have two dances a weekend […]

some brilliant advice from a director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project to graduating students & their parents. Hey Mom, I Want to Farm Jun 5 2009, by Melina Shannon-DiPietro […]

an important video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klJjRviA4PU&feature=Responses&parent_video=kpeLdXeIbwA&index=0&playnext=1&playnext_from=RL]

Food, Inc. is screening on Wednesday in Brooklyn and greenhorns will be tabling there!  will we see you? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqQVll-MP3I] we love pollan. we love schlosser. we love kenner.

Almost two years after its founding in a basement in Berkeley, California, The Greenhorns has matured from an idea for a recruitment film into a widespread national community. We are […]

here's a note from greenhorn hannah geller... Dear Fellow Greenhorns, We’d like to invite all of you to join us here at Fishkill Farms on Saturday, June 13 for our […]

here's a letter from a greenhorn in Gill, Colorado.  Front Rangers - take note, and head to the barn dance on tuesday! Hello Severine, I love your blog and the […]

"the tragic topic is why has everything become so toxic" [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhxnuXMcMgE&feature=PlayList&p=2F5A9649A59E1684&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=14] they call him the sodfather, and also "zeke the sheik the compost freak", and he's rather brilliant.

NY Times:  Organic Dairies Watch the Good Times Turn Bad If you are 35, capitalized, and looking to buy dairy equiptment--now might be a great time. If you are 17 […]

Any more farmers rapping out there?  Tell us about it! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMNkDKySDdU&feature=player_embedded]

Dear Severine, I've been following your blog for the past several months, as I finished one farm apprenticeship and started another. I had been meaning to send a note to […]

a poem for you... The Road Between Here and There Here I have heard the terrible chaste snorting of hogs trying to re- enter the underearth. Here I came into […]

Buying farmland abroad: Outsourcing's third wave The Economist (London) | May 21st 2009 Rich food importers are acquiring vast tracts of poor countries' farmland. Is this beneficial foreign investment or […]

Here's an uplifting story about West Oakland, urban farming and agricultural revival. Security, business drive small farm revival By Suzanne Bohan Contra Costa Times 05/16/2009 The din of a neighborhood […]

Susan Boyle may have won out this weekend on Britain's Got Talent, but these three farmers are pretty amazing: Barrow Boys' bid to win Britain's Got Talent [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RwgL0qYUSY&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fwi.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Frural-life%2F2009%2F05%2Fbarrow-boys-bid-to-win-britain.html&feature=player_embedded] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd7gcau14UE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fwi.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Frural-life%2F2009%2F05%2Fbarrow-boys-bid-to-win-britain.html&feature=player_embedded]

Save the Date - JUNE 18th! Greenhorns Young Farmers Mixer young dairy, livestock, veggie, fruit and grain farmers as well as young ag.-based business owners and employees are all welcome! […]

Little Piggies and loads of garlic... This a clip from the Les Blank Film Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers (1980) [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-Kptp6u4JQ]

this is severine. writing on her yellow awesome post it note pad...in the car for just this purpose. about a 1930s washing machine that looks just perfect for tanning rabbit […]

obama spring yes. I am planting trees. Planting trees on land I do not own. yes. I am laying drip tape. Laying drip tape in the rain. yes. I am […]

Some light reading for a drizzly day... Seriously people. BUY MILK! not sodapop Young Dairy Farmers Worry About Future - Brattleboro Reformer, May 8 bootstrap optimism. but only to a […]

FRESH the Movie. From Director Ana Sofia Joanes FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation […]

Contamination is a crime against humanity.  And this piece is brilliant.  LONG, but worth the time. Immoral Maize: Extract from Don't Worry, It's Safe to Eat by Andrew Rowell I […]

Check out this punky direct action garden celebration from Time's Up! With the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, a 300-piece radical marching band and dance troupe. "Stop! Plant! Grow!" [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLBkkw1890&feature=related]

But she is Sexy. Liz Hurley shares her country "estate" with four labradors, two cats, three geese, eight chickens, 49 cows, 63 sheep and 82 pigs, and thinks people look […]

Another side of the young farmers scene... Future Farmers of America - Founded in 1928, the Future Farmers of America brought together students, teachers and agribusiness to solidify support for […]

Remember the 1918 flu? Well here is the 1913 apprenticeship scheme. globalization, down under baby! http://www.safarmapprentices.net/farmers/

via Comfood, some of Rodale's recent work... Carbon, Connections and Culture Toward an ecologically sound, greenhouse-gas reducing and socially just foodshed for New York City. Without factoring in farming systems […]

If you have to read about Swine Flu, you might as well read this.  And then go eat some pastured pork. The swine flu crisis lays bare the meat industry's […]

Greenhorns in California, some great events happening tonight and this weekend! Free screening of The Garden Thursday, April 30, 2009, 6 P.M. Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA […]

A re-post from the Green Fork blog, on greenhorns Kristen and Nate Johanson of Wolf Lake Farm in Pennsylvania. Starting Farming on the Cheap: An interview with Kristen and Nate […]

Listen to the USDA on prepared meats, circa 1964: A Mark of Wholesome Meat. Via the Prelinger Archives. http://www.archive.org/details/MarkofWh1964 "No more grinding, mixing, slicing, or even cooking at home.  Unless […]

The mainstream press is catching on: 'Natural patterns' of farming touted in documentary By Joshua Hatch, USA TODAY SWOOPE, Va. - The white metal sign over the desk at Polyface […]

These spammers are getting awfully clever and progressive! My name is Sidney Cole, working with (WORLD YOUTH ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN WELFARE) California, U.S.A. We are organizing a global youths combined […]

Greenhorns & Sustainable Foodie Types across the country are harvest and savoring the first green growing things of the season - asparagus, fiddleheads, ramps, radishes.  Here's Greenhorn Zoe Bradbury's take […]

A great piece by Greenhorn Zoe Bradbury, posted on Civil Eats. Next Spring Break, Get a Real Tan - A Farmer Tan All around the country, classes are back in […]

Here's an update from Greenhorn Nic Koontz out in Fort Collins, Colorado.  We posted another letter from him back in February. Native Hill Farm is very much moving forward in […]

Another Greenhorns Ally, Al Attara, in the News: The Green Economy, A Work in Progress http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/nycondeadline/tag/flatbush-avenue/