Blog

August 27th, 12pm-8pm Portland, Maine: Morning: The Schooner Adventure Sails into Portland Harbor from her home port of Gloucester, MA.  She docks at 400 Commercial Street (Portland Yacht Services) 12.00p […]

http://www.npr.org/player/embed/410319950/410340251 NPR's The Salt tells the story of how the cod in England's North Sea, after they had been fished to the brink of extinction, made a fantastic comeback with the help […]

Greenhorns press!  In this new millennium marked by the looming threat of transnational trade deals like the Transpacific Partnership (TPP), The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and the Trade in Services […]

   Maine Sail Freight offers a new way to think about trade By Severine von Tscharner Fleming What do we who produce food from the land and sea have in […]

In the spirit of ships.. Let Lance and Arista swoop up your heart with their fleet of small boats. They are our wonderful partner in arms for August 11th 'peaceful armanda of […]

Stone Soup Institute is now accepting applications for their Fall and Winter Semesters. Both semesters are open to up to four students who are curious and adventuresome enough to explore […]

SEVERINE FLEMING, Agrarian A New Economy on the Land Severine is a farmer, activist, and organizer based in the Champlain Valley of New York. She is founder and director of The […]

Policy Expert: Walmart has 'immense power' over food system by The Fault Lines Digital Team, Aljazeera America June 18, 2015 In mid-March, hundreds of workers who pick produce in the […]

Food Sovereignty Tours, a program of Food First, is seeking young leaders, farmers, and food activists from diverse backgrounds who are working to advance the mission of food justice and […]

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVRmXSI6Zi4&w=853&h=480] Reposted from DO (Ideas + Energy = Change).

Here's another fascinating lıttle nugget of nautical history. In 1845, the famed Captain Sir John Franklin, 127 men, and a very interesting list of provisions embarked on a mission to discover a […]

If you check out the official website for Bernie Sanders, you'll see that he has a box for agriculture you can check when writing to him. Check it out!

This honest essay comes from our friend Drew French of Living the Dream Farm (http://ltdfarm.com/).

Rogue Pope strikes again! Pope Francis has been surprising since he spoke out against capitalism, and he continues to impress by speaking out to give progressive opinions about the critical […]

Designed for continuous screening ın a tent for kids. Featuring: Draft power extravaganza! Fabulous old-timey war propoganda! Seas of golden grain! And oh holy mountains! It is well worth watching […]

He has eight books in his cell — six gardening manuals and two Bibles. photo credit Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post A Growing Experience: Prison Gardens Transform Inmates who Tend to Them […]

[vimeo 128686754 w=500 h=281] Another inspiring sailboat project! This one is dedicated to spreading and studying resilient human culture in islands of the Coast Salish Sea. See more inspiring videos […]

You can vote 10 times a day! Please help the Gardiner Food Cooperative to provide affordable local food to their community. <----Click this whole link to vote! No registration is […]

What happens when one gigantic grotesque agricultural monster is eaten by an even bigger and more hideous agricultural monster? It's a spine-tingling story that involves tax aversion, gly-phosphates, surveillance technology, and a […]

Hormel Foods Corp. agreed to buy Applegate Farms LLC for about $775 million, a move that would give the maker of Spam a foothold in the organic-meats category. Closely held […]

Uma Rapiti Farm New Zealand: We are a family who have a small, organic farm on Waiheke Island, New Zealand.  We are looking for someone with experience in organic farming/permaculture […]

Ecopolis Iowa City: Community Forum Launches Regenerative City Initiative by Jeff Briggers, Huffington Post A broad range of community members in Iowa City, Iowa kicked off the "Ecopolis Forum" today, […]

Watch the trailer for the new documentary Food Chains! Here's the scoop: "There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the […]

Growing Heart Farm (growingheartfarm.com) is hiring a young farmer or farming team to operate 1.5 acres in cultivation for the 2015 growing season.  Private 2 bedroom apartment provided on our […]

Ferguson Action has released their demands for racial justice, divided into "Our Vision for a New America" and "National Demands." The demands are ambitious and utopian, but also simple and […]

There's a new resource for learning about how to grow good, sustainable food, who's growing it, and how you can better understand your place in the new ecosystem we're all […]

Noon, December 6, 2014 at Sub Edge Farm, 199 Town Farm Rd., Farmington, Connecticut Presented by Bennett Konesni, Edith Gawler, and friends. Join Bennett Konesni and Edith Gawler (of Sylvester […]

Though the XL Keystone Pipeline failed to pass the Senate, other measures in the house  passed H.R. 4012, which places restrictions on scientists and creates room for industry experts with  financial ties […]

(From the Wall Street Journal and Shareable.net) There are an estimated 300 so-called seed libraries in towns and cities across the U.S., including Boston, Cleveland, Nashville and Tucson, up from […]

via Truth-out.org by Penn Loh of YES! Magazine When Glynn Lloyd couldn’t source enough locally grown produce, he decided to grow his own. Since 1994, Lloyd has run City Fresh […]

Winona LaDuke, a Native American activist and author, gives a clear, impassioned rundown of why the federal government will not return land taken from Indian people and why they should […]

This film examines a cooperative of the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST) in the South of Brazil, which struggled for access to land and then transitioned to ecological agriculture, or agroecology. […]

Mark Bittman of the New York Times, Michael Pollan of the University of California, Berkeley, Ricardo Salvador of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Olivier De Schutter of the Catholic […]

Join Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir on Thanksgiving Day in St. Louis, Missouri for a communal dinner on Monsanto's front lawn. It should be a great time! The […]

You might not know it, but a legislative battle is being waged over who can produce food, where they can sell it, and when the government can shut them down. […]

Extra! Extra! Come out this Friday Nov 21st in NYC for a short talk by esteemed author and University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaigne professor of Law Eric Freyfogle, followed by drinks and […]