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"The Wonders of Raw Milk", a cheesemaking class this Saturday at Hawthorne Valley Farm from 1-4pm.  Cheesemaker Peter Kindel will cover how to make a few fresh, raw milk cheeses (including Camembert and Gouda) and yogurt and then will discuss the world of non-pasteurized products along with a tasting of a few locally available raw milk […]

An article on the all--but-vanished herbs and vegetables of our colonial predecessors: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/garden/ye-olde-kitchen-garden.html?ref=style

FORAGE: #2 in The Seed Circus Series, Oakland Museum of CA Sunday July 10th, 2011 / 1:00 pm Foraging has provided sustenance to all kinds of communities of all kinds since the earliest days of California, but the practice has captured new interest as an alternative to the industrial food system.This event begins with a […]

fire roasted catering. check out a video of some swell summer roasts - http://vimeo.com/11621973

Binnewater Farm Project is seeking a grower for the 2012 season to start up a new 60-100 member CSA farm, located on 6 acres of land owned by Legacy Farm Cohousing community in Rosendale, NY [Ulster County]. Our purpose is to supply fresh locally grown vegetables (and eventually fruits, berries, eggs, and honey) to cohousing […]

Remember. Big things start small. Large, young farmers at risk if land prices tumble A rise in borrowings for buying tractors has raised the threat of agriculture insolvencies if the farmland market collapses, with large operations, and younger farmers, at greatest risk, America's central bank has warned. The debt-to-asset ratio on farms run by bosses […]

  Afghanistan’s Last Locavores By PATRICIA McARDLE MANY urban Americans idealize “green living” and “slow food.” But few realize that one of the most promising models for sustainable living is not to be found on organic farms in the United States, but in Afghanistan. A majority of its 30 million citizens still grow and process […]

August 12-14 @ UMass Amherst Register Now Online!  Workshops in the Beginning Farmer Track: 4) Farmer Maintenance: Ergonomics & Self-care – Lydia Irons & Rachel Scherer 5) Getting Started with Farm Planning and Management – Jeffrey Froikin Gordon & Giulia Stellari 39) Soil Fertility in Organic Farming – Joseph Heckman, Rutgers 40) Starting a CSA […]

young farmer doesn't like the climate of agriculture... Levees Save a Farmhouse, but Farming Is Still a Risk By Campbell Robertson; June 20, 2011 in the New York Times

Oregon Tilth is hiring for two positions, check them out! Certification Directorhttp://tilth.org/about/job-openings/certification-director Inspector/Reviewerhttp://tilth.org/about/job-openings/inspector-reviewer ----------------------------- PCC Farmland Trust hiring Conservation Project Manager PCC Farmland Trust (PCC FT) is seeking an experienced, organized, highly-motivated professional to serve as Conservation Project Manager. PCC FT secures, preserves and stewards threatened farmland in the Northwest, ensuring that generations of local […]

Penn State Extension is presently accepting candidates for an Extension Educator for Northampton County who will function as a team member of the Penn State Extension Horticulture, Entrepreneurship and Livestock Teams working directly with statewide faculty and staff.  Major responsibilities will include planning, implementing, conducting and evaluating a broad range of educational programs for adults who […]

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                Join the Washington Young Farmers Coalition and Full Circle Farmstead for a summer social and crop mob! 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, […]

follow the blog of a group of engaged bike riders, as they take to the streets of New England on their bikes, raising their voices and urging all generations to join together to address issues of climate change.

  Learn more here: http://www.latimes.com/features/home/la-hm-seed-library-20110618,0,5748959,full.story and here: http://slola.blogspot.com/

New Spirit Farmland Partnerships is accepting applications for their newly launched Organic Farm Succession Program. This program helps young farmers by allowing them to take over a mature certified organic operation from a retiring farmer who wants to keep his or her land in organic production. They are seeking a farmer who wants to expand […]

Advice for Young Farmers from Swanton Berry Owners by Vera Chang In a recent talk for Seattle Arts & Lectures, Wendell Berry told aspiring young farmers to “listen to the old-timers.” I’m taking the revered American poet, philosopher, and farmer up on his recommendation, and I’m especially interested in veteran farmers’ views on farm labor […]

Invitation for Input & Proposals Deadline: July 1, 2011 Sixth Organic Seed Growers Conference  Strengthening Community Seed Systems January 19 - 21, 2012 Port Townsend, Washington Organic Seed Alliance invites you to help shape the Sixth Organic Seed Growers Conference by providing suggestions for content and speakers and submitting proposals for presentations, posters, panels and roundtable […]

rabble is rising in my veins. can everyone please call again call again let them know its crazy/ sev From the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition: The agriculture appropriations bill the House of Representatives just passed slashes $1 billion from mandatory farm bill conservation funding and tells USDA to drop the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food […]

From NCPR: Beginning and veteran farmers will gather in the Champlain Valley on Saturday for a chance to network, learn and socialize. The event, at the historic Whallonsburg Grange in Essex, will feature food, music and the screening of a documentary that focuses on a new generation of young farmers. Todd Moe talks with Hudson […]

We love these guys, and what a great idea! Let's help make it happen. Farmstead Meatsmith, an animal processing business on Vashon Island, WA is campaigning to fund a series of instructional web videos focusing on home pork butchery and cookery. Each will focus on a particular process or dish, like 'curing bacon' or 'shoulder butchery', and […]

We need to see this more and more.  If you are part of a land trust that doesn't have an explicit goal of getting young farmers, or active farmers of any age onto the conserved land.. then please pick up the telephone and start making a fuss. Young Farmers Come to Western New York Town […]

You may remember Anthill Farm from a mixer we held there last year.  Check out their new website - it's beautifully designed and a good model if you're working on one yourself. **  www.anthillfarm.com **  

tomorrow!  There will abstracts available online after the event. 2011 UMaine Sustainable Agriculture Field Day Featuring Small Scale Vegetable Production Wednesday, June 29  –  5:00 to 7:30 pm University of Maine Rogers Research Farm, Stillwater, Maine (directions below) FREE – no pre-registration required;  1 Pesticide credit and 2.5 Certified Crop Advisor (CCA) credits offered 4:45‐5:00 […]

Help fund Anna Mumford's film about her family's Indiana Farm!  15 days to go on her kickstarter campaign. A year ago, inspired by the work I'd been doing with the local food community in NYC, I began a film project about my family's corn and soybeans farm in Indiana. The farm, located in Griffin, Indiana […]

Cornell University's Vegetable MD Online a resource for vegetable farmers with a little crisis on their hands.

Internships Available at Rainbeau Ridge Farm 49 David’s Way Bedford Hills, NY 10507 Westchester County NY—one hour from NYC Positions are available, with possible housing and stipend, that will incorporate responsibilities in the areas of livestock, cheesemaking, market gardening and ag education (for children); Specific job descriptions will be crafted to match candidates depending upon […]

A Facebook page wants to help. Understanding the Farm Bill The support for local farmers, fresh and healthy food, gardening, and farmers markets has reached new levels of enthusiasm. That enthusiasm for a new food system, however, has yet to be translated into new food policy. All of us have seen the impacts of bad […]

Deb Shoval, 33 year old farmer in northeast PA made the short film AWOL while running her CSA, Fertile Grounds http://sundance.slated.com/2011/films/awol_sundance2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/movies/palm-springs-international-shortfest.html?_r=1&hpw

Antique Farm Tools.info What a collection!  There's much to learn from these tools.  Seed fiddle, anyone? Peter Charles Dorrington collected and restored over 750 antique farm tools between 1985 and 2001. Most of these tools were agricultural hand implements and fenland tools that were used in England, Wales and Scotland, dating from about 1600 to […]

Join the Heritage Grain Conservancy July 14-15 for a Grain Festival sponsored by Northeast SARE to share seed and skills. In contrast to the corporate seed system with patented seed, we are reinvigorating the traditional knowledge and skills of seed-saving, integrating grains in diversified farms, and local grain production. July 14 - Growing and Breeding […]

a film series: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/blueprintamerica/reports/the-next-american-system/video-beyond-the-motor-city/939/

you can find us in in Hudson July 9 and in Brooklyn July 24!

Billy Bragg sang an electric version of an old english ballad about the DIGGERS and the uprising of the peasantry - "World Turned Upside Down" at this weekend's Clearwater festival in Croton on Hudson, where greenhorns were selling homemade elderflower cordials and proselytizing to the thirsty. which is a good tactic by the way Here's a […]

this article in the NYtimes sheds some light: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/23/us/23crop.html?_r=2&emc=tnt&tntemail1=y

Sunday, September 25 from 12 PM - 5 PM (upstate NY) Agrarian Acts, presented by NACL and The Greenhorns.   Come one, come all, to Agrarian Acts-- a contemporary county fair celebrating the multifarious ideas, enterprise, and creative work of a New Generation of Farmers. The day’s events will include a screening of the new […]

First summer social for the New CT Farmers Alliance to include an illustrious farm tour, wood-fired pizza, drinks, and good times (and sparklers!).  Bring farmers friends and family. Tour: 4-7pm & Social 7-9pm Meet, greet, learn, eat!

greenhorns are hosting an agrarian children's book read-in at yale in october. here's one that might make the list. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/22/books/review/childrens-books-farmyard-beat-and-moo-moo-brown-cow-have-you-any-milk.html?_r=1&hpw

Join us for late season farm walks! Mark your calendar & visit our upcoming farm walk page to register. Here is the line up: Monday, June 27 - Templeton Farm, Chewelah Small Scale Poultry & Marketing Operation Monday, July 11 - Cloudview EcoFarms Diverse Organic Vegetable Operation Meets Community & Biodiversity Monday, July 18 - […]

pay heed. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/05/03/us/FLOOD.html?ref=mississippiriver these are profound images of agriculture being forced to absorb the overrun of the missisippi. Paving, channelling, developing wetlands. over tiling, distrurbing hydrology, climate change. The waters are rising. The gasoline prices are rising. Farmers feel this first.