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we love tom. and the holler of maverick where he rambles. Community Gardens A small farmer on how the government can help rebuild the infrastructure he needs to survive. By Tom Philpott | Newsweek Web Exclusive Nov 11, 2009 Five years ago, I gave up a career as a business writer in New York City […]

our own Smithereen Farm was just featured in our local paper, the Poughkeepsie Journal. Young Farmers Sprouting Up by Evelyn Gilbert Manziello November 1, 2009 Today the average age of farmers in New York is 56, according to the USDA. However, that number could be decreasing soon. Despite the graying of the American farmer, there's […]

We just found out about this terrific project - check them out! After working on Organic Farms in VT, founder David Stockhausen moved to San Francisco to learn about urban food movements.  The result is Amyitis Gardens, a San Francisco based urban farming project that links empty yards to eager hands and backyard farms to […]

check this one out: Jones Valley Urban Farm is a community-based non-profit organization in Birmingham, Alabama. Utilizing over 3 acres of vacant downtown property, JVUF grows organic produce and flowers, educates the community about healthy food, and helps make Birmingham a vibrant community.

Nominations are due in December! How about some greenhorns? Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has just announced this year’s Growing Green Awards 2010, a sustainable food award contest hosted by NRDC to honor extraordinary individual contributions to the sustainable food world.

@ Jimmy's No. 43 Thursday, October 29, 7 - 9 pm 43 E 7th Street Beekeepers of NYC: come out and share a little bit of your sweetness! (Non-beekeeping pollinator lovers and honey connoisseurs are welcome, too.) Just Food and Jimmy's No. 43 are thrilled to bring you this unique opportunity to taste and swap […]

Editorial Sacred cows at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo The university should be ashamed of its attempt to squelch an anti-agribusiness message to placate a donor. October 16, 2009 California restricts billboards along rural freeways, but there's a spot on Interstate 5 near Coalinga that's a better advertisement for vegetarianism than any Madison Avenue genius […]

Slow Food USA is hiring. POSITION TITLE: SPECIAL ASSISTANT TO THE PRESIDENT LOCATION: BROOKLYN, NY REPORTS TO: PRESIDENT, SLOW FOOD USA Slow food USA is current hiring for a Special Assistant to the President in our Brooklyn, NY based office. Instructions and details follow. Applications will be considered on a rolling basis.

Check out Katchkie Farm for more information Delight in the bountiful fall harvest at Katchkie Farm. Take a trip to Kinderhook and spend the afternoon in our fields and children's garden. To RSVP, email [email protected]

The Glynwood Center has announced their 2009 Harvest Award Winners.  Check out the greenhorns they've chosen: The Glynwood Wave of the Future Harvest Award Cody Hopkins/Andrea Todt, Co-creators, Falling Sky Farm, Marshall, AR It is ironic that in the center of a small rural state, fresh, local and organic food is hard to find. A […]

Cote de Fer is a commune in the Southeast department of Haiti. There are 6 communal sections and approximately 64,000 people. It is estimated that at least 70% of the population in this region does not have access to a toilet. Cote de Fer is a very agricultural region and the majority of families depend […]

It's a popular thing, it seems. Have you been to our site, Serve Your Country food? Dwell has a mapping project too: Small Farms Across the United States Greenhorns - are you on our map?  Visit our Serve Your Country Food site and join!

from the ny times, with quite an amazing photo! European Farmers’ Anger Spills Into the Streets of Brussels BRUSSELS — After months of complaints by European dairy farmers angry over low prices, protesters in Brussels on Monday poured milk onto the streets, hurled eggs and other missiles, and started fires that filled the air with […]

this is a nice rental quite close to Great Barrington. with 13 acres! http://betsylittle.com/properties/rental-pages/mil.html

from the Soil Association Obsession with high yield crops has stunted food nutrition Basic foods from modern crops contain significantly less vital nutrients – a problem which poses a heightened risk for public health, a BBC programme warned on Sunday night.

A newly formed land collective of young farmers is looking for co-op members with great ideas and permaculture ideals. Located in Preston Hollow, NY, the 110 acre farmstead offers full-time residencies and part-time land shares for interested individuals who are willing to learn from and educate the other members of the community and the public, […]

If you are looking for fertile land on 6.5 acres to garden organically and expand with field crops & grazing animals bordering a good size creek, with beautiful perennial gardens, woodlands, meadow, small orchard, massive oak trees and a quaint 2 BR 1800's farmhouse, I am offering such a place. Rent could start immediately. If […]

this is an appeal from COMFOOD: Dear COMFOODERS, I'm planning an organic farm bicycle tour across the US in 2011. I'm having a difficult time finding organic food projects in South Dakota and Wyoming. I'm searching for organic farms, CSA's, heirloom grain farmers, local food restaurants, native grass farmers, etc...

from our friend Dave Lord, who adds: "4 million hours/fatal accident for the average bicyclist (and it's not too hard to make yourself above average) vs. 2 million hours for the automobile user." Which Cycling Politics: Doom or Possibility? “If you don’t stand up, you don’t stand a chance.” – Genesis, Squonk A woman walks […]

Smithereen Farm has a fierce supply of tomatillos these days and subsequently we've all got sticky fingers from de-husking the purple dappled honeys. We've just moved to our new farm and are preparing barns for animals, fields for winter, and ourselves for quite an expansion next season. Please do be in touch if you'd like […]

The evolution of Bicycle Music Festivals continues with three full days of jammin in Calaveras County. The fun will begin on Friday, October 2nd at a secret location featuring a pre-party cob oven feast and percussion session. The following day, all instruments and music equipment will be transported ten miles by bicycles to Aimee's Mountain […]

Love is Love Farm, in Douglasville, GA, could use some help! Dear Friends and Co-Producers.  As many of you know, we at Love is Love Farm have been hit by record floods which turned the Aneewakee Creek bordering the western side of the farm, into a raging river that tore through 2/3 of the fields, […]

A series of workshops sponsored by the Regional Farm & Food Project We are very pleased to be able to invite you to our Fall 2009 Kitchen Culture Workshop Series. The goal is to put culture backing the kitchen where it belongs! While giving consumers the homestead skills they need to become producers, creating greater […]

The Society for Agriculture and Food Ecology will be hosting a speaker's series discussing "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan. Speakers on the panel include: Jessica Prentice, head chef at Three Stone Hearth, author of Full Moon Feast, and creator of the local food wheel Mike Biltonen and "Farmer Al" from Frog Hollow Farm John […]

SAN FRANCISCO, California, September 22, 2009 (ENS) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's deregulation of genetically engineered RoundUp Ready sugar beets in 2004 was unlawful, a federal court in California ruled Monday. The federal district court for the Northern District of California ruled that the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, APHIS, violated the […]

a re-post from comfood I used to work on a market garden just a short distance from this available 9-acre farm. Some of the most ideal growing conditions in the U.S. (along with some climatic challenges). 9-Acre Property Available for Organic Farming See it on a map: http://tiny.cc/hGowj The Carpinteria Unified School District is Soliciting […]

We received this email notice of some land available in tennessee - sounds promising for a greenhorn? photos included in the link. Hello Team Greenhorns, I know of a farm for sale in East Tennessee...where I live. The owner, Eric, would like to find some young like-minded farmers to carry on his family's work with […]

We are thrilled about our upcoming bike tours in Missouri: headquarter state of Monsanto, landscape of glory. October 2nd: daylong bike tour in La Plata, MO Meeting at 10 am at the Possibility Alliance: 28408 Frontier Lane La Plata, MO 63549 October 3rd: the HOMEGROWN Urban Country Fair Bike Tour with the Greenhorns in St […]

A re-post from Comfood on the Doha Round in India: Trade ministers are attempting to revive the Doha Round in India today. Thousands of Indian farmers are protesting. You won't see this on CNN i guess. A good article from Christian Science Monitor, one of the few to cover the protests: http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0903/p06s16-wosc.html However, the slant […]

you could take this weekend off, or you could get your hands in the dirt.  If you're in NYC, get on over to our friends at Rooftop Farms. Dear friends and urban farmers, What better way to celebrate Labor Day than to...labor?  Come and farm with us up on the roof if you are around […]

Re-post from Comfood: Please see the email below from a contact that saw our work with farmers here in Phoenix.  She has land available to farmers in New Mexico and would like to see her land put to use.  Her description of land and phone number are below. - Jon Jon Vosper | Community and Economic […]

Young Farmers!  This is a 'blast survey'. It should take 2 minutes. Please fill it out by following this link: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEthMkZQcWR3ZXFpZ1Y2SzFHWVBLVEE6MA.. Some of you may have filled out our longer survey at www.serveyourcountryfood.net But frankly, most of you have not. We are trying to gather quantitative and qualitative data about the experience of young farmers […]

This re-post comes to us via a new blog - Friend of the Farmer.  A great opportunity for one of you greenhorns out there! The Race Brook Lodge, a 30-room hotel located on one of the most picturesque roads in The Berkshires, is looking for a farmer. When many young and enthusiastic farmers scramble to […]

This site has got a lot of landed farmboys on it. Yes, they are mostly conventional farmers. Let's convert them one by one! Farmers for the Future: http://farmersforthefuture.ning.com/ Here's their latest e-blast: We now have more than 2,000 members from all 50 U.S. states and 100 countries. We’ve generated more than 1.2 million page views […]

have you been listening? did you know you can hear us interview young farmers and artist ninjas and other fine folk each week? Greenhorn Radio is on the Heritage Radio Network. last week's radio show was at 2pm. which means many of our loyal listeners missed it live. so go to the archive of the […]

Sometimes we find interest in the passionate backs and forths. Studies have shown a decline in the nutrition ( vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals/antioxidents etc) in conventional foods over time. Now some English study contradicts this consensus and is causing a furor. Basically the Organic implication is that soil health affects plant health affects animal and […]

a greenhorns e-blast, anyway. If you'd like to receive more, sign up for our newsletter! all greenhorns - It is August. It is hot. At Smithereen Farm,  our Greenhorns headquarters is full of peaches, yellow squashes+ rosy-cheeked visitors. Yes, we got hit by the blight, but as I type the air is full of vinegar […]

There is such a lot going on this year still. We'd like to keep you abreast of it all. Sign up here: http://www.thegreenhorns.net/mailinglist.html

we received this comment on the greenhorns trailer.  Those of you who are concerned about white privilege or racial exploitation should be angry - not at white people, but at the industrial economy, in which power, profit, displacement, competition, and exploitation are not only acceptable but virtuous. Look at land ownership around the turn of […]

Dear greenhorns, we need a boson- based collaborator for a special covert operation... not actually covert. just special. we're needing art materials for our upcoming workshops-- bike safety badge stations-- that we're setting up at monticello and at Farm Aid.