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Communities across the country are taking charge.  This one, in Oregon, has a website full of information that will be helpful to all of us. The Multnomah Food Initiative started as an innovative community partnership to develop a shared food system vision, goals, and an action plan that will promote issues of health, social justice, […]

After lengthy deliberations, Heather and I have decided to offer THE WARREN FARM for sale. We have had a great time for the past 20+ years and are getting to the point where we believe it is time for a change. We believe change will be good for both ourselves and the farm. I grew […]

The Battery Conservancy is looking for people with farming experience to assist in running an Urban Farm in Manhattan. The Urban Farm is located at the tip of Manhattan, the first urban farm created on this site since the Dutch planted theirs in 1625.  This one acre farm has more than 100 plots and is […]

Tool lending libraries They are popping up all over, in the city and the country Farmers already barter for and share tools and equipment all the time, here are local, grassroots institutions formalizing that custom http://www.northportlandtoollibrary.org/ http://www.rafiusa.org/NCfarmervoices/listen/

Food & Farm Activist Retreat: August 10 -16 Sedgwick, Maine Contact Food for Maine's Future for program information: 207-244-0908 or [email protected] OVERVIEW Food for Maine's Future will host an informal gathering of food and farm activists at Saving Seeds Farm in coastal Sedgwick, Maine. This event is a lead up to the 2012 North America […]

available now from SARE, a book about 50 young people [one from each state] who are making a difference in agriculture - http://www.sare.org/Learning-Center/Books/Youth-Renewing-the-Countryside free download!

those english! http://www.herepigpig.com/site/home

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Check out this NYT article on conflicts at universities, by good greenhorn friend Jen Washburn  

See him speak at QUIVIRA coalition, NEW MEXICO NOVEMBER 8. December 2009-October 2010  In Sam's own words... Where I Rode, and What I Ride For I like complexity and quiet in cowboying. Ranching can be complicated, but the new leaders of the industry should be equipped to conserve both the land and culture of the […]

Come and tour Open Oak Farm the home of Adaptive Seeds and The Seed Ambassadors Project. August 4th 4-9PM. It is a potluck dinner event and Tour Organized by the Southern Willamette Valley Bean and Grain Project. Parking is limited so RSVP is required. Contact Dan Armstrong at [email protected] if you would like to come.

RAFI is proud to announce our new resource, NC Farmer Voices.  NC Farmer Voices is a collection of stories—in photographs, sound, and multimedia—about farmer entrepreneurs on the frontier of agricultural innovation. http://www.rafiusa.org/NCfarmervoices/ Each farmer featured is a participant in RAFI’s Tobacco Communities Reinvestment Program, which provides cost-share grants to farmers and community groups that are developing new sources of […]

  August 13-14, Angelic Organics Farm and Angelic Organics Learning Center, Caledonia IL Please join the Biodynamic Initiative for the Next Generation (BING) and Upper Midwest CRAFT for a summer gathering of young (and young at heart) farmers and friends! Come meet and mingle with fellow young agrarians and take part in a lively weekend […]

Tomorrow (Tuesday) - Greenhorns will be representing! Art + Agriculture Old Field Farm and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise will be holding talks at the gallery in July 2011 on subjects related to agriculture, land and water rights, art, community and production.  This event is the first in the series. For the full calendar, visit: gavinbrown.biz “A […]

Rural Electrification In the 1930's the rural electrification strategy was brought by Roosevelt -- looks like Obama is starting to source some of his ideas from FDR times. Let's keep up the pressure.  

Carolina Farm Credit is now accepting applications for the third class to participate in an e-learning financial and business planning course.  The Ag Biz Planner curriculum includes financial and business planning, budgeting and other money matters essential to a farm’s success. Carolina Farm Credit is offering the Farm Credit University on-line program in conjunction with […]

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learn about them HERE: http://www.bestofneworleans.com/gambit/young-farmers/Content?oid=1752043    

designed by woody robinson - http://farm-crops-county.findthebest.com/ - which allows you to find & compare practices of different crops and season cycles in different locations.

The National Heirloom Exposition, the "World's Pure Food Fair," this September 13-15 at the Santa Rosa Fairgrounds in beautiful Sonoma County, CA.  The first gathering of its kind, the Heirloom Expo will include the world's largest display of heirloom produce, chef demonstrations, workshops and speakers including Dr. Vandana Shiva from India and Alice Waters, live […]

Join the Washington Young Farmers Coalition and Full Circle Farmstead for a summer social and crop mob - Sunday, July 31st. 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, and 2 acres in […]

@ Spring Wind Farm - 5770 115th St. E, Northfield, MN + bring your dancin' shoes and a few dollars to help pay the band if you're interested in helping out with cooking, publicity, and/or set-up, contact Emily Hanson: [email protected]

    Calabria to California, a feature documentary over two years in the making, explores stories of artisan food producers from both regions.  Their narratives illustrate oppositional and yet complimentary alimentary atmospheres of loss, knowledge, economics and the eternal tension between pleasure and pain. support the finishing of this film on kickstarter: http://www.indiegogo.com/Finishing-funds-for-Calabria-to-California

from the american pastured poultry produces association: http://www.apppa.org/producer_resources.htm

Organizing Internship The Center for Rural Affairs is seeking an intern to work with our organizing staff to support rural communities, small business owners, family farmers and rancher. This position will primarily focus on issues related to health care, renewable energy and clean energy transmission. The position is located in our office in Lyons, Nebraska. […]

WCSJ: Plant Diseases, Farmer Suicides And The Peril of A Hungry Future By Maryn McKenna Here’s my second report from the World Conference of Science Journalists — and if you thought the first one on diabetes in China was depressing, just wait for this one. Since I wrote SUPERBUG the book and started this blog, […]

showing leadership. Food Systems Coordinator $35.38 – 53.07/hour plus Excellent Benefits The Office of Sustainability and Environment is seeking candidates interested in furthering the City of Seattle’s Food Initiative, an effort to increase access to healthy and affordable food for all, promote urban agriculture and foster the growth of local food economies.  Currently, a part-time […]

Big news, Greenhorns is opening up an office space in Hudson. Young Farmer support, library, publications and in-person pep talks. Look for business hours in mid August. In the meantime, check out Mess Hall.

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Where are all the agricultural wiki-ists? We need to update this woefully inadequate listing of American agricultural writers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_agricultural_writers Aldo Leopold Thoreau Emerson Carson holy smokes. There is a job for a graduate student if I ever saw one. A wonderful way to learn history and contribute to public understanding

cheap tickets, cheap beers, and gowanus. At The Bell House The struggle and Valor of young farmers in America Come see the film and bring friends! Purchase Advance Tickets. Visit the Facebook Event Page

a book about farm workers, Floria and the fast food fruit. Read the Washington Post's review here, the NY Times' here.  

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dMQtHJYl9w] After 15 years of consecutive organic farming on these beautiful 20 acres of brown sandy soil in Ogelthorpe County, the much-revered Backyard Harvest farm is available for lease!  Better yet, it’s available as a “turn key” operation, ready to go to work for YOU, earning true solar dollars effective September 1.  Historically, this has […]

Greyrock Farm is a diversified, year-round, horse-powered CSA farm located in Central New York. We produce grass-fed beef and lamb, pasture-raised pork and chicken, seasonal vegetables and storage crops, eggs and raw milk. We are currently in the midst of our first season but have already developed a good position in the local market and […]

Let's Be Frank - a hot dog shop featuring meats from local, pasture-based farms and ranches.  Find their carts and trailers around San Francisco and LA and Check out this video.

This season, the 1-acre Youth Farm at the High School For Public Service in Crown Heights is expanding to include over 50 varieties of specialty cut flowers, grown by farmer Molly Culver and a crew of adult “flower apprentices.” “Youth Farm Flowers” will be sold as a “CSA” (community-supported agriculture) share to local community members, […]

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 […]

this just in! August 7 - Greenhorns shows at the Queens Museum of the Moving Image with Rural Routes Films. followed by panel of rockstar young farmers. followed by beers and short films on the Brooklyn grange down the street. Screening is Free with admission to the Museum ($10 adults)

http://www.theyrule.net/ of course, the young farmer mafia is also quite strong. OUR SKILLS are worth more than THEIR JEWELS .