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Able and Cole, a produce delivery service in the UK, is now using the UK's first fully-compostable bag for vegetables. They are formed from non-GMO starch potatoes and a compostable polymer, […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN9gni4dXlE?list=PLXsLLGSaYdqLz7duVQeLQs1TkkUBHvaEW] This video was release in the build-up to last weekend's World Forum on Access to Land in Spain. March 30-April 2, 400 participants from 70 countries discussed the human, […]

Yellow Seed, a nonprofit organization that facilitates connections between farmers and fair markets, recently partnered with Impact Hub Berkley, a social impact working hub out of the Bay Area, to host […]

When: Friday, April 8, 2016 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Where: Robert Mills Carriage House 1616 Blanding Street Columbia, SC 29201 Cost: Members: $35 Non-members: $40 See: http://www.historiccolumbia.org/events/2016-gardening-symposium-keynote Dr. David […]

In the Spring of 1962, The New Yorker published Rachel Carson’s anti-pesticide manifesto, Silent Spring, in three installments. Carson’s message quickly transcended the magazine’s readership, eliciting a national response that […]

Audiovox is an open source, volunteer-run podcast/audiobook service. People can sign up to read their favorite books in the public domain and anyone can listen for free! Check them out […]

Check out this timeline (found HERE) from the center for new economics. It's great!

https://static.youcaring.com/api/uploads/fundraisers/546085/d53bd02c-1ec4-4347-b4dc-a33d175a8487_profile.jpg Dearest friends and family, I am writing to appeal for help on behalf of my sister Molly and Little Wing Farm. This farm that she built up over the […]

http://www.communityeconomies.org/site/assets/media/images/Nuestras_Web_Opt.jpg The Community Economies Collective (CEC) and the Community Economies Research Network (CERN) are international collaborative networks of researchers who share an interest in theorizing, discussing, representing and ultimately enacting new […]

40 years - our campaigns in pictures 2011 marks 40 years since Friends of the Earth was founded. Check out their images of just some of the amazing campaigns that […]

http://upupfilmfest.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/upup_logo.png Up Up! Farm is a film collection with 17 hours of documentaries by 13 independent filmmakers (including Greenhorns) about the future of farming, featuring young farmers from around world. […]

https://www.mainememory.net/sitebuilder/static/mho/common/essay-headers/885-1.jpg Future French Foreign Minister Charles de Talleyrand-Périgord journeyed to Maine a few years after the American Revolution scouting economic opportunities for his employers. While he wasn't overly impressed with […]

[vimeo 107812653 w=500 h=281] This video is put out by Fairphone, an Netherlands-based company that produces smart phones with opaque, open, and more socially-responsible supply chains. If this sounds like […]

"Maybe Faust had it Right," this fabulous and short article by Nick Theiberger, about the funding of art projects by large mining corporations in Australia within which he outlines the problem […]

During the last forty years, photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an ever changing humanity. He has witnessed the major events of our […]

https://soilcitydotorgdotuk.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/soil-city-final-logotype-square.jpg?w=220 Soil City is a space for conversation, participatory research and knowledge exchange. By engaging with the citizens of Glasgow and a wider community of scientists, artists, activists and academics, […]

April 16 & April 17, Saturday & Sunday | 9am to 4pm Instructor: David Yarrow, Terra Char http://www.biochar-international.org/sites/default/files/CHARTREE2.jpg Biochar is yet another tool in the toolbox of regenerative agriculture! In […]

http://static.squarespace.com/static/54130deae4b00794c96d9ac7/t/54132295e4b096cdd1fef920/1410540181753/hops.jpg Farm Manager Position Available for Hops Production Investing in growing successful Hops Crop for a minimum of 40 acres. We seek an expert with experience in organic farming and […]

SUMMARY: The Ranch Hand reports to the Director of Operations, and is part of the Ranch Team, which includes the Animal Care Manager, Garden Manager, and part-time facilities employee. The […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJTVF_dya7E] On the one hand, it is great to see how far we've come. And on the other, it is pretty difficult to accept how far we haven't. Pay […]

Longleaf pine forests once stretched across 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas. In 1720, the British pushed their American colonies to tap as many trees as possible for the […]

In their ongoing quest to revive and preserve ancestral grains, a Clemson University scientist and his collaborators have begun the process of restoring a nearly extinct variety of wheat that […]

Mars’ Position on GMO Labeling in the U.S. At Mars, we not only ensure the safety of all raw materials in our products, we’re also committed to being transparent with […]

http://www.organicauthority.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/tyson_chick3.jpg Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court  handed a loss to Tyson Foods over the company's challenge to an almost $5.8 million class action judgment in a case won by workers […]

http://blog.yellow-seed.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/FullSizeRender_3-768x576.jpg Impact Hub Berkeley’s “From the Ground Up” is a four part, year-long program that brings together multi-stakeholder organizations working in sustainable food and agriculture to collaborate on joint initiatives. […]

by Richard Marosi Veronica Zaragoza grew up in these coastal fields, picking berries and tomatoes and watching an industry being transformed.She saw new greenhouses erected, irrigation lines spread through the fields, […]

    http://latelierpaysan.org/IMG/jpg/whoweare2.jpg We are a French-speaking collective of small-scale farmers, employees and agricultural development organisations, gathered together as a cooperative named l’Atelier Paysan. Based on the principle that farmers […]

Fabulous news, Greenhorns, our new spiffy website for Up up! is live! Up up! is a DIY collective festival made of a great gaggle of amazing agrarian films. The spiffy new website is much clearer than […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyWGTMSYA7g&w=420&h=315] Solidarity for the WE WE. The WE WE who are all here on this continent In this territory in relation with the present and the future enough with […]

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When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable "trophic cascade" occurred. What is a trophic cascade and […]

JUST FOOD? FORUM ON LAND USE, RIGHTS AND ECOLOGY A CONFERENCE EXPLORING LAND AND THE FOOD SYSTEM: HOW LAND AFFECTS WHAT WE EAT, WHO WE ARE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT WE […]

LunaseeStudios/Shutterstock The world's largest brewer in Dec. 2015 introduced a new incentive program that could offer some independent distributors in the U.S. annual reimbursements of as much as $1.5 million […]

This article in Elle might seem like a complete joke, but unfortunately it's not. While recently in Los Angeles, Greenhorns founder Severine VT Fleming ran into some seed schoolers (funded […]

California Native Grassland Association Registration is open for CNGA Hedgerow Farms Field Day on April 22. This year's event title is "Coping with Competition: Weed Control Strategies in California Grasslands." […]

The Creature Show is a documentary webseries dedicated to telling the story of the wild things of New Jersey, and the people trying to save them. The next episode of […]