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homegrown: on rock concerts and yard farms
Severine reports from a bike excursion. I just went on my bicycle over to the Farm Aid offices for a visit, and ended up eating pie, talking about strategic take-over […]
the greenhorns update!
Dear allies, advisors, activists, agriculturalists. Thank you for being a part of this network. You may well have already helped us feed fundraiser guests, wash dishes, stuff envelopes, or […]
available: farm worker position!
Full-time (40 hours/week) farm worker position available. 47 acre educational farm in Queens is looking to add one full-time, year-round worker. Primary responsibilities will be to assist farmer in vineyard […]
King Corn on PBS!
King Corn airs this week on the Emmy-winning PBS series Independent Lens. Broadcasts begin tonight! Check local listings, learn more about the world of corn, get lost in the corn […]
nominate the best!
It is unfortunate that often the best foods cost the most--if you buy them in the city, that is. If you grow your own, its affordable to eat quail eggs. […]
greenhorns expedition : Atlanta and the American Lawn
This a travel journal entry from Severine's trip through Iowa, East Tennessee, and Georgia. ---------- From the Georgia Organics Conference, laden with four pounds of peanuts and two gallons of […]
fundraiser in San Francisco
dear California Bay Area greenhorns and friends of the sustainable farming movement, Please join us on Thursday March 27 for a fundraiser in SF. Proceeds go directly to the film. […]
spring equinox goat birth
Young farmer Novella Carpenter has just welcomed two new Nigerian Dwarf doelings to the world at GhostTown Farm. Here's their birth announcement, and read more about the birth here on […]
DIY easter eggs
First, Does anyone know how to access to abundance of chocolate bunnies, the day after easter? Please comment on this post if so. Or email farmer (at) thegreenhorns (dot) net. […]
the greenhorns trailer
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH7o3fxw6oE] A tiny taste of the feature film, The Greenhorns trailer features a small sampling of young farmers whose soil spans from California to Maine. It's meant as a visual […]
the greenhorns in the news
We're quite excited to see our ideas illuminating the blogosphere this week --- thanks to Kat at Eating Liberally who wrote an eloquent and hopeful post about us called "The […]
greenhorn expeditions: Georgia and East Tennessee
Tennessee ----------- Sandor Katz is a fermentation fetishist. Sandor is a film advisor and elfin-mentor to the project. He lives in a cob cubby set into a hill in rural […]
greenhorn expeditions: Iowa
The next three posts are Severine’s travel journals from a swoop she just made visiting farms in the midwest, seeking out young farmers and sleeping in their greenhouses in Tennessee, […]
more on greenwashing and effecting corporate change
I wrote a blog entry a few days ago inspired by Michael Specter's New Yorker article about consumerism, carbon consciousness, and carbon trading. In the post, I advocated the power […]
churches, carbon footprints, and corporate greenwashing
This week's New Yorker includes an article by Michael Specter about consumer pressure forcing large companies to adopt greener practices. Specter claims that "having a large carbon footprint is the […]
report from MOSES Organic Farming Conference in Wisconsin
Severine reports in from Wisconsin. I'm at the MOSES Organic Farming conference in downtown Lacrosse, Wisconsin. A wonderful small town in the "riftless" region on the state border with Minnesota […]
eating high on the (whey-fed) hog
This week a covey of Brooklyn-based Greenhorns contributors sat down together at Marlow and Sons in South Williamsburg. We were there to hear Mateo of Jasper Hill Farm talk about […]
relic ecologies / a note from Severine from Point Reyes Station
A visit to my fairy godmother's perch in Pt. Reyes Station. Barbara is a lepidopterist, a xercian butterfly gardener, a naturalist, a thinker. She reminds me about the integrity of […]
Dear Dolly, with regards, from Severine.
A letter to a cloned sheep, pig, broiler or dairy-creature. (Beware: this is satire.) Dear Dolly, Well. It seems that the US Food and Drug Administration, in all its wisdom, […]
Letter from Sledge in Mississippi
Read about our visit to Sledge's cotton gin. Dear Severine, I had a wonderful time talking to you and McKay today. I am really encouraged to see young people like […]
Ag road trip in the Mississippi Delta
After Christmas Severine came down to my family’s home in Mississippi to do some research on the history and contemporary realities of Southern agriculture. As would befit any visit to […]
conspicuous carnivores
In this week's New Yorker, Bill Buford delivers, with his usual finger-licking enthusiasm, a digest of three new books about meat. Though varying in tones of hopeful agrarianism, tongue-in-cheek indulgence, […]
Shooting with the King Corn boys
California: North, Bay and a bit of inland. October 28 - November 5, 2007 This is an account of my first major shoot for The Greenhorns. Really the schedule was […]
Welcome to The Fleet
The Irresistible Fleet of Bicycles is the blog for The Greenhorns, a documentary film about young farmers in America. The purpose it to keep you updated on the progress of […]