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The New Connecticut Farmers Alliance continues its winter series of monthly farm tours with a visit to Hunts Brook Farm in Quaker Hill on Thursday December 8th.  With several years of previous farm experience under their belts, farmers Nicole Totino and Paul Clark are co-farming this season with the farm’s owners, Rob and Teresa Schacht […]

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, the Budget Visualizer uses “treemap” technology, a method of displaying spending data as nested rectangles, which allows you to “see” the proportion of federal funding […]

a little documentary: http://honkfest.org/about/#video

Here's a note from Brooke Welles, a greenhorn searching for land and keeping a great blog about it. I've been keeping this blog (http://twoblueboots.blogspot.com/) almost every day since I left my comfortable job as a farm manager and embarked on the journey of finding a farm of my own.  It still feels every bit as […]

http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/colorado/explore/young-ranching-family-finds-home-on-the-prairie.xml http://www.idahosbounty.org/

http://www.beginningfarmers.org/ doing an awesome job over there

Drink a beer, then fill it out. Or a cup of coffee, if you're reading this in the morning.  It'll help out the Northeast Beginning Farmers Project. We are proud to announce that the Beginning Farmer Barrier Id Survey – Phase 2 has finally opened!  Would you please help us reach aspiring and beginning farmers, and beginning farmer […]

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 the Food Justice Leader category $2,500 cash prize in the Young Food Leader category The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) announces its fourth annual Growing Green Awards to […]

  Join the Accokeek Foundation on the banks of the beautiful Potomac River for a community potluck, speakers, a screening of the film “The Greenhorns,” and a campout! You’ll want to bring lawn chairs, camping gear, flashlights (grounds are totally dark at night), a potluck dish to share, and hiking boots to check out the site and […]

Flooded Farmers Learn to Be Creative By PETE WELLS Published: September 27, 2011 in the NYTimes NEW PALTZ, N.Y. - RAY BRADLEY has always earned money from his laying hens, but until Sunday he’d never enlisted one to work in a fund-raiser. Each fall Mr. Bradley holds a big party at his farm here, always with a […]

facilitated networking between farmers and landowners. SO RELEVANT. so visionary. So Southwest! Quivira Coalition’s “New Agrarian Career Connection” Tuesday, November 9, 2011 @ 6:30-8:30 pm Embassy Suites, Albuquerque, New Mexico

by supporting the widely-known and loved apprenticeship program at UC Santa Cruz! read about the challenges on this post from Civil Eats: http://civileats.com/2011/09/12/government-austerity-measures-threaten-the-country%E2%80%99s-oldest-organic-farming-program/  

almanac posse is starting to gather steam. are you hankering to be on the mailing list? join us by emailing [email protected] please write "ALMANAC" in the subject line

if your fields are still soggywet, this excellent report from Cornell should help!

back to the start - performed by willie nelson for upcoming short film. worth the 2 minutes and 20 seconds!  

In and around Hudson? Grazin' Angus Acres--those authentic, pasture loving, grass fed & finished cattle raisers--are opening a REAL grass fed & finished burger joint in Hudson. Opening in a month or two at the old diner on Warren street across from the park. It just so happens, it's also a hop, skip, and jump […]

NYHarbor ShipCoop  

The National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) is seeking fall intern(s) to assist on food and agriculture issues in our Washington, DC office. Founded in 1986, NFFC represents family farm, fishing and rural groups whose members face the challenge of the deepening economic recession in rural communities. The combination of our 26 member groups' grassroots strength and […]

The Small Farms Conservancy urgently needs the services of a grant writer who has experience, loves small farms, and education!  This is a paid position, the proposal is due August 2nd.  If you know of anyone, please have them contact me and I will send the link for the grant and materials regarding our program […]

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are you a Senate Ag Committee member's constituent? http://ag.senate.gov/site/cmtemembers.html Or in the House? http://agriculture.house.gov/singlepages.aspx?NewsID=1222&LSBID=23|69&RBSUSDA=T write to them and call them so they know what you need in Farm bill 2012.  they are listening and they are the congressional voice in the crafting of this crucial legislation. The National Young Farmers' Coalition's policy page has some […]

AWA Announces Call for 2011-2012 Good Husbandry Grant Proposals  Animal Welfare Approved, the nonprofit certification program and food label for pasture-raised meat, dairy and eggs, is pleased to announce a call for proposals for its 2011-2012 Good Husbandry Grants. Now in its fourth year, the Good Husbandry Grants program has funded nearly one hundred projects […]

Binnewater Farm Project is seeking a grower for the 2012 season to start up a new 60-100 member CSA farm, located on 6 acres of land owned by Legacy Farm Cohousing community in Rosendale, NY [Ulster County]. Our purpose is to supply fresh locally grown vegetables (and eventually fruits, berries, eggs, and honey) to cohousing […]

                Join the Washington Young Farmers Coalition and Full Circle Farmstead for a summer social and crop mob! Located on 30 acres of SW Washington's Boistfort Valley, Full Circle Farmstead is a diversified, collaborative farm project that includes dairy goats, meat rabbits, beekeeping, laying hens, heritage breed hogs, […]

follow the blog of a group of engaged bike riders, as they take to the streets of New England on their bikes, raising their voices and urging all generations to join together to address issues of climate change.

New Spirit Farmland Partnerships is accepting applications for their newly launched Organic Farm Succession Program. This program helps young farmers by allowing them to take over a mature certified organic operation from a retiring farmer who wants to keep his or her land in organic production. They are seeking a farmer who wants to expand […]

you can find us in in Hudson July 9 and in Brooklyn July 24!

John Whitman Davis, known to everyone as “Whit,” is proprietor of one of the oldest farms in the state. Located on a gorgeous plot of land bordered by Long Island Sound, the Stanton Davis farm was established in the middle 1600s by Thomas Stanton, the interpreter general for the crown colonies of New England: http://www.workingtheland.com/interview-davis.htm

a critical step for fairness in the meat industry here is a good place to learn about it http://kpcw.org/2011/05/community-voices-may-26-2011/

unofficial commercial for trader joes, ya dig? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdB7GDZY3Pk]

small and beginner farmers of nh. they have a newsletter, a huge board of county leadership, gatherings, workshops, all the best ideas come from the state of freedom rock on new hampshire www.sbfnh.org you can make donations payable sandy brocaar, trasurere SBFNH po box 310 madison nh 03849

we met the Concrete Beet Farmers  - an up and coming urban farm in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis - at the Macalester screening event in MN - check them out!

Over the past 11 years, Tierra Miguel Foundation (located in the Pauma Valley, CA) has contributed: Community Supported Agriculture (CSA): Bringing seasonal organic produce directly from our farm to your table. Corporate Team-Building Workshops: Leadership and communication skills are put to the test during essential farming activities on a working farm. Farmer for a Day: […]

Honey Locust FarmHouse:  http://www.honeylocustfarmhouse.com/HLproducts.htm Anis Hyssop & Honeybush, Egyptian Mint & Green Tea, Tres Limon, Ginger Mint , Peach & Black Tea, Chocolate Mint & Rooibos, Elderberry Assam, Chai Mate, NamLanh&RauRam... oh la la! so much wonderfulness

Looking to get involved in the National Young Farmers' Coalition? Guess what...WE are looking for collaborators, particularly when it comes to reading, evaluating, interpreting and accessing policy documents. We are also looking for bloggers for the NYFC blog. Interested?  Email [email protected]

Austin has young farmers too!   With the scorching heat and blazing sun, farmers in Central Texas wear their farmers’ tan year round.  But that’s not keeping young Austinites from joining the movement. Recently, the local news highlighted Austin area farms and a young couple taking the leap from farmhands to farmers.  Skip Connett and […]

Southern Vermont Beginning Farmers Summit Saturday April 30th, 2011 at Bennington College 10am-12pm The Southern Vermont Beginning Farmers Summit is a free event for young and beginning farmers (both practicing and aspiring) who are located in Southern Vermont and surrounding areas. The event is centered around discussing and workshopping through  issues facing beginning farmers, including […]

The annual farm tour at Nash's Organic Produce in Sequim is coming up. Special discount price for farmers if you call into the PCC Farmland Trust office to sign up (206) 547-9855. Also, word is there's a barn dance that evening, so stick around for that too Cultivating the Next Generation of Farmers Join PCC […]

an awesome philly institution and a good model to keep in mind. Weavers Way Co-op

Another great opportunity from the good folks at Sterling College. The Sterling College Apprentice Farm Manager Program is an experiential, immersive learning and leadership opportunity for passionate, inspired, and enthusiastic individuals ready to help manage a diversified year-round teaching farm and live in a small close-knit college community beginning in May 2011.