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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 […]

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 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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

  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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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, […]

@ 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 […]

    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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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