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Occupy the Food System by Willie Nelson for Reader Supported News hanks to the Occupy Wall Street movement, there's a deeper understanding about the power that corporations wield over the […]

Farmers March with Occupy Wall Street, Sowing the Seeds of Hope and Democracy by Dave Murphy for The Huffington Post [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulLF_njco-0]

Check out the TRAILER for The GMO Film Project - which tells the story of a father’s discovery of GMO’s through the symbolic act of poor Haitian farmers burning seeds […]

NFU submitted comments last week to the U.S. Department of Labor regarding new proposed child labor safety regulations for agricultural and agriculture-related jobs. NFU policy supports the intent of the […]

A great new report from Greenmarket, seems they are throwing down the gauntlet. A hard-hitting look at how market forces are eroding food security for the nation's premier farmers market […]

NRDC Announces Fourth Annual Growing Green Awards to Honor Extraordinary Contributions in Sustainable Food Nominations are due by December 9, 2011 $10,000 cash prize in the Food Producer category $2,500 cash prize in […]

Food Democracy Now Food Democracy Now! is a grassroots community dedicated to building a sustainable food system that protects our natural environment, sustains farmers and nourishes families.

TOMORROW in NYC. New York City Public Hearing on Fracking November 30th, New York, NY, 1:00pm-9:00pm Event Location: Tribeca Performing Arts Center 199 Chambers Street, New York, NY 10007 As […]

Center for Rural Affairs Objects to Farm Bill Proposal Lyons, NE - Today the Center for Rural Affairs announced their opposition to the farm bill agreement reached by the House and […]

With the Super Committee Failure, Advocates Look Toward the Farm Bill Yesterday, the chairs of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction announced that the panel was unable to reach an agreement […]

via the Center for Rural Affairs: Despite lots of action from folks like you who want farmers to have a fair shot to make a living from raising livestock, Congress […]

The Budget Visualizer is a web-based application that allows visual analysis of Farm Bill spending since 2009. Developed by the Center for a Livable Future in partnership with the Hive Group, […]

Just Label It.org, a campaign for food labeling. But also a good place to get the latest data on contamination and gmo situations. Just down in New Mexico, I met […]

THE NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS' COALITION: New Survey of 1,000 Young and Beginning Farmers Reveals What the Next Generation Needs Contact: Lindsey Lusher Shute, 917-318-1488, [email protected] TIVOLI, NY -- The National Young Farmer’s Coalition released a study today […]

http://www.landstewardshipproject.org/programs_bfroa.html WE need a few policy literate young farmers in each state. Just a few who really take this on. If you are inclined in that direction you can email […]

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Until everyone is paid a fair wage in Agriculture, all of us will be competing with poverty wages in the marketplace http://foodjustice.org/ Read up. Watch this space.

Greenhorns, weigh in! Online forum a chance for young people to sound off on Farm Bill Here’s a special opportunity for young people to speak out on the 2012 Farm […]

In two ways.  First, from the Organic Farming Research Foundation: Please sign our online petition to demand that Congress supports organic agriculture in the 2012 Farm Bill. The Congressional Agriculture […]

Only once every 5 years do you have the opportunity to truly transform our food and farm system through the federal farm bill. Last week the Agriculture Committee leadership proposed to […]

  Please spread the word far and wide to any young entrepreneurs and farmers you know! Register HERE.

UNITE HERE, the largest worker organization representing food service workers, has launched a new initiative and website bringing the perspectives of food workers to the discussion about sustainable food.  We are also doing […]

this is the cluster of bills I keep talking about. Young would-be farmers have a tough row to hoe by By GABRIEL SILVERMAN in the News Observer ASHINGTON -- The […]

From Food & Water Watch: Genetically engineered Monsanto sweet corn is approved and could be on your plate next year. Genetically engineered sweet corn, the first Monsanto crop designed to […]

Here's a quick press release about a relief fund for farmers.  If you know farmers who need help, or if you want to help, read on! FarmieMarket and All Good […]

don't leave it to folks in the back of a supermarket. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/canteloupe-outbreak-more   stay alive yo better yet, grow your own damn food

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwWInp75ua0] http://www.occupytogether.org/ twitter and facebook are both blocking news of the protests. THANK GOODNESS wordpress is on the side of free communications

your choice. but do something... Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination The young people protesting in Wall Street and beyond reject this vain economic order. They have come to […]

Arcadia Farms, a program under the DC non-profit Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food and Agriculture, has entered to win a $65,000 grant through Nature's Path Organic "Gardens for Good" contest. […]

View the press release HERE First New Yorker To Serve On Senate Agriculture Committee In Nearly 40 Years – Held Listening Sessions With Local Farmers Across NYS September 20, 2011 […]

OCT 1, NYC is Right2Know March's first stop! A group of concerned citizens, supported by a coalition of food advocacy organizatons and food companies and a series of speakers, will be marching to the […]

Next week, NYFC will testify at a USDA listening session on organic agriculture and we need your input on what to tell agency officials. We need to know about your experiences with […]

Fracking: Time To Slow Down? Ball was head of an August 22 hearing to assess high-pressure hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, the natural-gas industry’s technology for freeing gas from shale. Senator […]

Here is an impassioned note from Sophie, a Vermonter who's been digging in to help out the farmers, and others, in the flooded valleys and devastated bottomlands of Vermont. We […]

A Commitment to Environmental Justice August 8th, 2011 Posted by Tracy Russo All Americans deserve to be protected from environmental health hazards. That is why last week, the Justice Department, […]

you'd want to be involved with these folks:  Trees for the Future Since 1989, Trees for the Future has been helping communities around the world plant trees. Through seed distribution, […]

The Department of Labor & Industries needs your help to determine the level of interest in expanding a program that allows small farms to hire interns legally and get Workers […]

  http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2079542,00.html When conditions are so bad that only the most desperate will take the work, and then the state starts cracking down on illegals-- crops wither on the vine. […]

rockstar farmer and co-founder of the national young farmer coalition, Benjamin Shute, weighs in on farm labor issues in the NY times: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/08/17/could-farms-survive-without-illegal-labor/we-need-a-new-generation-of-american-farmers