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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 Leah Cook, Chief Stevedor, oversees loading of the cargo in the boat. 2.00p Historian William Leavenworth Gives “Ice tea Stevedore pep talk” on Maritime history […]

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 of a little government intervention. Today, the cod population is steady and the industry is booming. This great historical maritime tidbit brought to you by […]

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 Agreement (TiSA), one unusual trade adventure, Maine Sail Freight will embark on a creative, bold journey as an act of defiance against business-as-usual.  When Maine Sail Freight […]

   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 common? For one thing, a changing climate. Changes in the weather have big impacts on the businesses and industries that straddle nature and the market. […]

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 watershed foods' event in Hallowell, Maine. SCHOLARSHIPWRIGHTS program… Come Build, Sail, Publish and live in a community! We will build Hampton Boats's (from New England) […]

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 the experiential learning opportunities on a small homestead in Maine. Fall Curriculum Animal Husbandry Butchering pigs Daily care of laying hens Butchering broiler chickens Daily […]

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 Greenhorns, a grassroots cultural organization with the mission to promote, recruit and support a growing movement of young farmers and ranchers in America. The entering […]

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 Mexican state of Baja California left the fields and took to the streets. The demonstrations blocked the main highway connecting the region to the U.S. […]

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 food sovereignty in their local communities, nationally and/or internationally.Preference given to applicants from underserved communities. People of color strongly encouraged to apply. One selected applicant […]

[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 Northwest Passage and never returned. Ice-locked with lead cans and lacking enough food for the strenous task of surviving an arctic winter, the crew died […]

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 issues of our times. This year for Pentacost, he released this letter imploring his dioceses to, in short, enter the environmentalist movement. We believe his […]

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 all the way to the end just to catch everyone tearing up the barn floor at the hoedown.

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 By Michael S. Rosenwald, June 7 WESTOVER, Md. — Don Vass, an admitted drug dealer, pulls a cabbage from the ground, then hands it to […]

[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 and actions by Over Grow the System.

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 needed. The City of Gardiner, once a thriving industrial center, has struggled in recent decades. Unemployment in Gardiner exceeds that of the local area and […]

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 new era of "robo-farming." "When a single corporation sells the seed, knows the prevalence of pests and sells the pesticide, knows the local soil conditions, […]

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 Applegate’s annual sales are expected to be about $340 million this year, Hormel HRL, -0.39%  said in a news release Tuesday announcing the deal. A […]

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 to help on our land as part of a work exchange. The property is relatively new to our family; we have been developing it as […]

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, a groundbreaking series of monthly winter conversations on creating the first regenerative city of the arts, food, renewable energy, and commerce in the heartland. Featuring […]

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 hands that pick it. Farmworkers, the foundation of our fresh food industry, are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be […]

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 41 acre farm 1 mile from metro north train station in Wingdale, NY. We are open to a range of experience levels, however, this position […]

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 straightforward because they deal with the basic rights of a human being in a civil society. They provide practical policy responses the systemic injustice that […]

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 trying to build: EthicalFoods Magazine. Ethical Foods is looking out for your health, the renewability of the earth, and sharing farmers' insights with the world. […]

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 Manor and worksongs.org) for this small-group, hands-on, sing-out workshop  at Sub Edge Farm in Farmington. Participants will learn a collection of songs useful on vegetable farms […]

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 to those affected by EPA regulations. The bill is being framed as a play for transparency:  Rep. Michael Burgess, R-Texas, argued that the board’s current structure is problematic […]

(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 about a dozen in 2010. Most are affiliated with public libraries, where residents can "borrow" seeds to plant in private gardens, then return others they […]

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 Foods, a catering company based in Roxbury—one of Boston's lowest-income neighborhoods. He wanted his business to use locally produced food, but at that time it […]

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 return it.

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. This MST cooperative is demonstrating the possibility of an alternative model of flourishing rural life, which provides thriving livelihoods for farmers, produces high quality and […]

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 University of Louvain have collaborated on a new article in the Washington Post that puts forward a plan for a national food policy. For the […]

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 group will meet at 1 pm at Stacy Park and then hike up to Monsanto World Headquarters. Find out more HERE.

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. The most recent incarnation of this is a modification to the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) that will make it possible for the FDA to […]

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 a discussion of land rights. "Give us Liberty and give us Land"   Friday November 21st, 6-8 pm" at Jimmy's 43 43 East 7th Street Between […]