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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, and they are available in larger trash bag sizes for kitchen waste or yard debris. If you live in the UK, you can order these […]

[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, economic & ecological impacts of land grabs. Was anyone out there in attendance. We'd love to hear your stories and feedback in the comments section!

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 six curated working groups to focus on Collaborative Trade. The project was called From the Ground Up: Change Accelerator and aimed to "design healthy, global food supply chains […]

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 Shields, Carolina Distinguished professor, chairperson of Slow Food’s Ark of Taste Biodiversity Committee for the Southern Region, Chair of the Carolina Gold Rice Foundation, and […]

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 would eventually lead to a federal ban on DDT for agricultural use and the creation of the EPA. In honor of Carson’s legacy and Women’s […]

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 HERE!

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 last four years through sheer force of will, dedication of effort, and application of vision, was only possible because of her profound respect for all […]

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 visions of economy. By making multiple forms of economic life viable options for action, these diverse, engaged scholarly and activist efforts aim to open the […]

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 our supporters have helped win over the past four decades.

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. Each explores questions of farmland access, rural livelihoods, and the relationships of people and place.The project aims to spread young farmer stories far and wide […]

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 some segments of Maine society –lumbermen and fishermen were particularly suspect –he was awed by its coasts, so favorable to shipping, and believed in its […]

[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 a plug for the company, it's not, per say. If you're going to get a smartphone, Fairphone is obviously a great alternative to larger corporations. But, what […]

"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 of accepting money from these companies and a possible alternative. It is not hard to stretch your imagination to see the parallels across the world […]

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 recent history; international conflicts, famines, and exodus… He is now embarking on the discovery of pristine territories, of the wild fauna and flora, of grandiose […]

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, we hope to gain a better understanding of the relationship between healthy soil and healthy people.  We’ll be exploring how inequalities within society are reflected […]

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 the last two decades, Biochar has and is receiving more attention of its benefits to agriculture and of its other uses. This Biochar workshop will […]

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 specifically hops. Open to an individual or expert couple, family etc. familiar with the growing of hops, barley , rye, organic vegetables, free range chickens. […]

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 Ranch Hand assists with facilities maintenance (including ranch buildings, structures, animal areas and gardens) in a manner that is safe and appropriate for a public […]

[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 close attention at 19:00 minutes to what one farm employer has to say about working conditions, wages, and his workers dispositions.

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 lumber, rosin and turpentine — naval stores — needed to keep the king’s navy afloat. The industry, at first, centered on eastern North Carolina. But […]

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 traces its American roots to the 1700s. Purple Straw is the only heirloom wheat to have been cultivated continually in the South from the Colonial […]

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 our consumers so they can understand what’s in the products they love. In 2014, the state of Vermont passed a mandatory genetically modified (GM) ingredient […]

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 at an Iowa pork-processing facility who contended they were underpaid. The court, in a 6-2 ruling written by conservative Justice Anthony Kennedy, upheld a 2014 […]

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. The change accelerator combines dynamic innovation salons, public-facing education programs, and community building events to drive systemic change in the following areas: (1) Collaborative Trade, […]

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, packing plants expanded and produce piled onto ever-larger trucks. Everything in this fertile agricultural region 200 miles south of San Diego has changed, it seemed, […]

    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 are themselves innovators, we have been collaboratively developing methods and practices to reclaim farming skills and achieve self-sufficiency in relation to the tools and machinery […]

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 the old one and has a new Resources page to help facilitate your festival. Check out the festival locator to see screenings near you! Or […]

[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 retrograde xenophobia falseness meanness cruelty exclusion blaming monopoly mind Embrace the project ahead The teamwork the tactics the opportunity of contraction managing systems in flux […]

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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 how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix.

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 LIVE IN March 25–26, 2016 Wasserstein Hall, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts This year's Just Food? conference will examine the relationship between people and land, primarily […]

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 if 98% of the beers they sell are AB InBev brands, according to two distributors who requested confidentiality because they were asked not to discuss […]

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 by the Cliff Bar Foundation) and ended up learning about the phenomenology of  the “clean food worshiping cult.” Don't compare yourselves to this woman. Besides, […]

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." Join by registering here. http://cnga.org/resources/Pictures/Workshops/Field%20Day/CNGA_Field_Day_04_24_2015_284.JPG  

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 The Creature Show is about endangered snakes... and a lot more. This is a story of ecological threats facing the New Jersey Pine Barrens—and the […]