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Soil Kitchen is a temporary, windmill-powered architectural intervention and multi-use space where citizens can enjoy free soup in exchange for soil samples from their neighborhood. 2nd+ Girard/Philadelphia, April 1-6th, 11am-6pm.

"Due to financial restrictions the Board of Trustees has voted to begin the closing process" of the New Jersey Museum of Agriculture. We need a patron to come along and […]

Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is a non-profit farm and education center located just 25 miles north of Manhattan in Pocantico Hills, New York. Stone Barns has an opening for […]

Much afoot in March for us young farmers, much underfoot too. Snowdrops from where I sit, and frisking squirrels shuffling acorn dregs. And geese flying south over the Hudson. And […]

Severine & the Greenhorns will be at Bioneers 2011, October 14-16, at the Marin Center in San Rafael, California. She will be participating in a panel about "100,000 new farmers," […]

GASTROPOLITAN - yet another splendid example of the convergence of social media + budding agrarianism

SEEKING 2-3 INTERNS FOR THE SUMMER 2011 SEASON (EARLY MAY-AUG, SEPT, or OCT) PEAKED MOUNTAIN FARM (sheep dairy) together with BIG PICTURE FARM (goat dairy) represent a collaboration of skills […]

February already almost done, wobbly weather on the east coast, blossoms started on the west coast. All of us bracing for a big year. The weather certainly is wobbly this season […]

just launched! New Beginning Farmer Website Unveiled After a year of development, the Northeast Beginning Farmer Project is pleased to unveil a colorful new website with expanded tools and a […]

Thanks to Rebecca for sharing Tom's story with us - Trantham's Sustainable 12 Aprils Dairy Grazing Program. "After years of being a conventional farmer in South Carolina, Tom Trantham faced bankruptcy. […]

The Center for Rural Affairs is seeking an intern to work with staff to create an online database of information for beginning farmers and ranchers.  The intern will create a […]

Greenhorns will be 'delegates' of this fantastic social art project by our friend Lisa Gross and Hybrid Vigor projects. The power of planting seeds! Check it out and come join […]

The latest from our friends at the Hudson Valley Seed Library. Hello gardeners! It's officially Seed Season here in the Northeast. For most gardeners, January is a bit early to […]

Iowa Greenhorns - hook up with these folks! The Northern Iowa Food & Farm Partnership is organizing a meeting for all growers currently selling to schools, growers who would like […]

White Gate Farm, located on 100 picturesque acres in East Lyme CT, is seeking a full-time farmer to head up crop production and participate in other aspects of this certified […]

A video brought to you by UV Extension. Incredible farmers Eric & Anne Nordell from PA. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3dEnbKNaUY]

Check out the youngfarmers.org young farmer profiles, including this from Greenhorns in OK: http://www.youngfarmers.org/2010/12/emily-oakley-and-mike-appel-ok/ and their super nice website! www.threespringsfarm.com

Check out our friend Connor Stedman's blog, Renewing the Commons My name is Connor Stedman.  I’m a permaculture teacher and designer, based mostly in the Northeast USA but exploring throughout […]

so says the Providence Journal. After century-long decline, Rhode Island farms are experiencing a growth spurt By Peter B. Lord, November 13, 2010 Founded in 2002, Aquidneck Farms’ 260 acres […]

because there's always room for more in this ever growing blogosphere - check out-  Ecocentric - its  a new environmental blog about food, water and energy, educating consumers, advocates and policy […]

for those of you not yet tuned into the sustainability forestry kick: coppicing is revelatory. Help these guys write a book about it by pledging on  Kickstarter!  Here's some of […]

The Farmers Arms ‘Let the Wealthy & Great, Roll  in Splendor & State, I envy them not I declare it. I eat my own Lamb, My chickens and Ham, I shear my own Fleece […]

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a super wonderful mountain project above portland Wealth Underground Farm

Dear Uncle sam, Dear eaters. While young muscles are brave, they are not invincible. We need to improve the odds for new farmers. Here is a sad story: The End […]

Which is abstract and big. Farming is direct and tangible. It should be easier for us http://www.350.org/en/resources/media

LOCAL ORGANIZATION LANDS MAJOR FEDERAL GRANT The Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming will launch a three-year training program for beginning farmers and market gardeners The EcoVillage at Ithaca […]

Our friend & fellow punk yeoman greenhorn Shawn McMahon at Out of Step Farms in Goleta is looking for more land. Here is another strapping, hardworking young farmer who wants […]

a project of our friend and fellow greenhorns, Trace Ramsey.  Another successful kickstarter campaign that could use an extra push in the last hours! Kickstarter Project HERE

in new york! GROW NUT TREES The fall meeting of the New York Nut Growers Association will be at SUNY, Morrisville, 80 Eaton St., Morrisville, NY 13408, (which is 16 […]

we just love these folks. plus, they are coming to our Washington mixer. here's an update from Cindy, executive director of the school of the lost arts in Carnation, WA. […]

Redwood Valley Revival Revelry: A celebration of our Agri-Culture & Mixer for young and beginning farmers Friday, October 15, 2010 • 4:30-9pm. Frey Vineyards 1400 Tomki Rd. Redwood Valley, CA Workshops, dancing, […]

The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center (SJDC) at Parsons The New School for Design presents Living Concrete/Carrot City, an exhibition that explores the role of design and grassroots activism in the […]

Investors seeing farmland as safer bet than stocks Wary of fluctuations on Wall Street, more wealthy Americans, private funds and foreigners are putting money into parcels of cornfields, fruit orchards […]

Dear Greenhorns Blog readers, We are so proud to have you as our readers, we do our best to give you a gander at the young farmer world that you'll […]

From Time Magazine. The Case Against Homeownership by Barbara Kiviat Homeownership has let us down. For generations, Americans believed that owning a home was an axiomatic good. Our political leaders […]

Greenhorns are organizing pre-conference programming for young and aspiring farmers, and a mixer on Thursday night! "It Takes a Region" A  Working Conference to Build our Northeast Food System REGISTRATION […]

it is amazing what Katherine Ball from Sea Change Gallery is up to: www.solutionsrevolution.org/route. "The 350 Solutions Revolution bike route mimics Amtrak’s train routes."

http://www.grownyc.org/greenmarket/nfdp The New Farmer Development Project (NFDP) identifies, educates, and supports immigrants with agricultural experience by helping them become local farmers and establish small farms in the region.

is about pixie tangerines. there is a lot of agribusiness spinny happy talk in this series ( note the sponsors: Monsanto and the American Farm Bureau Federation) but its interesting […]