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2nd Annual Living Lands Farm Tour -July 17th A celebration of Farming, Local Food & Community We only offer the event once a year! You’ll have the opportunity to tour three of our local farm sites and see first hand how Living Lands Agrarian Network is creating more local food and more local farmers in […]

Dear Essex Grange Hall Mixer attendees.Here is a list of the workshops on the day, the day's schedule, and travel information on the Grange hall mixer Front. To answer your first question: yes! you can help with setup and cleanup, and yes there is camping nearby.  Yes! please organize a carpool full, yes! please bring […]

Are any of you out there?  We have an opportunity to do a fun project at Farm Aid if we can get some local support peeps out there.  I know there is a strong urban farmer network... email [email protected]

They’re composting and they’re earnest. Amanda Austin and Dan Moon met here in the hudson valley on apprenticeships-and even stopped in for dinner with the greenhorns one night. Now, Amanda’s returned to her hometown, recruited Dan to come join her, and they’ve launched a community farm right in the heart of Texas.  

Maine greenhorns Taryn Hammer and Ben Marcus are celebrating the grand opening of their general store in Whitefield - Sheepscot General - this Saturday! We love projects like this! Congratulations, guys.

beer-brewing is the hip/hop thing to do, it seems check out this article in the Riverhead News-Review, a 23 year-old growing hops on his family farm

Try planting something different! a radical suggestion by conservative farm service providers. Grow something different! http://americanagriculturist.com/story.aspx/cornplanting/season/past/now/what/9/50153

John Whitman Davis, known to everyone as “Whit,” is proprietor of one of the oldest farms in the state. Located on a gorgeous plot of land bordered by Long Island Sound, the Stanton Davis farm was established in the middle 1600s by Thomas Stanton, the interpreter general for the crown colonies of New England: http://www.workingtheland.com/interview-davis.htm

the need for health insurance for young farmers is a hot topic - learn more by reading this article from the Center for Rural Affairs: http://www.cfra.org/node/3384        

Connect with your fuzzy side on Sunday, June 19th, at the Oakland Museum of California.The Greenhorns' have organized a series of four events titled Seed Circus to celebrate young farmers and the spread of agrarian knowledge. This Sunday we kick off with "FELT". Watch a sheep shearing, ride a bicycle-powered wool carder, help make a giant felt […]

a critical step for fairness in the meat industry here is a good place to learn about it http://kpcw.org/2011/05/community-voices-may-26-2011/

unofficial commercial for trader joes, ya dig? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdB7GDZY3Pk]

to co host Training camp for YOuth activists of the north american via campesina movement. Volunteers and trainers are still needed. Talk to patrick ([email protected]) if you are interested. August 10-14 Blue Hill and Sedgewick MAINE> blueberries for all.

Farm Service Agency County Committee Nomination Period Begins June 15 WASHINGTON, June 8, 2011 — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced today that the nomination period for local Farm Service Agency (FSA) county committees begins on Wednesday, June 15.      "I urge all farmers and ranchers to participate in this year's county committee elections by nominating […]

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Did you see The Colbert Report the other night? If you missed it, Stephen Colbert had on Tom Ridge, the former Homeland Security chief who is now getting paid as a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry to push their fracking plan in Pennsylvania. Stephen called out Tom Ridge and the oil industry for […]

I'm not the hugest fan of this paper, but he references a lot of historical texts that I've begun digging into. Currently on the bed: Agricultural Discontent in the Middle West  It is a history of American Populism (which was born in the farmer cooperatives and state level leadership of Wisconsin, Iowa, etc). The galvanizing […]

An exceptional opportunity to farm for two years with MOFGA - one of the top organic farming organizations in the country and a major greenhorns ally. MOFGA's Farmer-in-Residence (F.I.R.) Program offers aspiring farmers committed to organic agriculture and public outreach the opportunity to live and farm at MOFGA's Common Ground Education Center in Unity, Maine. […]

PETER NADIN June 29 – July 30, 2011 Opening reception: Gavin Brown’s enterprise  620 Greenwich Street, New York 212 627 5258 T – Sa, 10AM – 6PM Peter Nadin was born in 1954 in Bromborough in the north of England and moved to New York in 1976, after being presented with the Max Beckman Award at […]

These are good people. Social Saturday: Mark Dion with guest chefs Caroline Woolard and Emcee CM 4:30 pm If you want to tour around Mildred's Lane 6:00 pm Dinner (Seating and Chef presentations at 5:30 sharp.) Please make reservations at [email protected] as seating is limited. BYOB Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in […]

a must-see film.  At the Anthology  Film Archives in NYC just til Thursday! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj4eHeo_l7g] Anthology Film Archives 32 2nd Ave 4:15 PM, 6:45 PM, 9:15 PM In Uruphong Raksasad’s ravishing documentary/fiction hybrid, two rural families, facing the seizure of their lands, come together to work the same rice paddy for a season, using pre-industrial farming […]

Time to step it up, Greenhorns. Go Go Northwest Farmerfolk! We need to find a home (or as many homes as possible) for a group of pure blood, AHA Registered Hereford hogs ASAP!  These are top-notch, of the highest quality breeding stock, fully accustomed to each other and are of prime breeding age. You could […]

Partner wanted for new farm We’re looking for a farmer / farm couple with expertise in any of vegetables, berries, fruit, mushrooms, medicinal herbs and / or livestock to help re-create a farm, preferably using permaculture principles, on this 150-year-old former dairy farm. It’s 200 acres, about 50 acres pasture / meadow, most of the […]

In case you haven't heard, Greenhorns are hosting a Grange hall mixer at the historic Whallonsburg, NY Grange Hall on the shores of Lake Champlain on Saturday, June 25th beginning at 10am and into the night. More than 150 aspiring, young, beginning and veteran farmers from the Hudson Valley, Champlain Valley, Capital Region, Adirondacks, and […]

Calling All Fuzz-Loving Greenhorns! We are looking for 3-5 Oakland-area Greenhorns to help run the kick-off the Greenhorn's SEED CIRCUS 2011. The first event is called FELT and is about sheep, wool, fiber, fuzz, and love for local herds. Event runs from 1-4 p.m on Sunday, June 19th. Volunteers report by 12:15 p.m. and can […]

Check out the State Program section of SARE's new website to learn more about SARE activities near you, including: An overview of SARE's State Coordinator Program Contact information for your state coordinator. Grant summaries by state The state grants lists include every grant awarded in the state through 2010 by title, including project leader and […]

an interview with the lovely debra eschmeyer in the faster times: http://thefastertimes.com/foodpolitics/2011/05/27/tft-interview-debra-eschmeyer-of-foodcorps/ + learn more about her latest groundbreaking undertaking - FoodCorps.

coming to a theater near you! http://www.buckthefilm.com/ (can't really be beat NATIONAL VELVET)

Create the solutions. Become the change. All are welcome to apply. The Marin Organic School Lunch and Gleaning Program is helping to transform the school lunch choices for our kids. Six years ago, Marin Organic saw the potential in creatively connecting local farms to local schools to help our communities thrive. Now this extraordinary program […]

La Via Campesina – North America Movimiento campesino internacional – Norte America Mouvement paysan international – L’Amerique du Nord North American Food Sovereignty Youth Training Camp When: August 10-16, 2011 Where: Saving Seeds Farm, Sedgwick, Maine (USA)

Here are some upcoming NOFA-NY Events: Safe Produce Harvest and Handling for Organic Producers Friday, June 3rd 10:00am – 12:00pm Pedersen Farms: 1798 County Road 4, Seneca Castle, NY 14547 FREE for NOFA-NY Members / $15 All Others How do GAPs regulations translate onto a large scale diverse organic produce farm? Rick Pedersen will show […]

2011 Monteillet Fromagerie Internship Opportunity: Monteillet Fromagerie is the first artisan-farmstead cheese maker in the lush wine country of Walla Walla Valley. Featuring a Grade A dairy and cheese making facility, the Monteillets have been producing traditional hand-ladled chevres (goat) and brebis (sheep) milk cheese since 2002. In addition to pasture-grazed Alpine goats and East […]

They are seed savers! Check it out: We Are Jeneric Team up with Ocean Future Society. More on Jen's Blog.   You can listen to some of their music on their myspace page Our Essex Mixer is June 25th, all day.  Whallonsburg NY. More on that very soon!

Town of Cato Adopts Plan for Agriculture and Farmland Protection Town demonstrates its commitment to enhancing its agricultural economy and protecting farmland by adopting new, forward-thinking plan and its 13 strategies   (Cato, NY) – Tonight the Town of Cato will adopt a plan that provides 13 strategic actions that the Town intends to take to enhance […]

Resources & models for creatives in small post-industrial cities. Yes! Abundant they are: The Sanctuary for Independent Media: http://www.mediasanctuary.org/ EMPAC @ RPI: http://empac.rpi.edu/ Otto's Bakery (My friends who have an intentionally-empty storefront in South Albany. They've also bought some abandoned lots in the neighborhood and are calling that project "Streetlight Gardens."): Travis: [email protected]

The Reverend Billy Project After many years of stealing away to work on it we are thrilled to announce our new book is really done, and forthcoming from The  University of Michigan Press. Please join us at the release party Monday June 13th, 7 PM at The Housing Works Bookstore & Cafe on Crosby Street. […]

Grand Prize at Strolling of the Heifers' first-ever film festival! Read more in the Brattleboro Reformer.

"If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man." - Albert Einstein BEEKEEPING WITH A WILD HEART PLEASE JOIN US FOR A DAY OF OBSERVATION AND EXPLORATION OF THE […]

Good for everyone to watch it again. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW7LcNAYBWg] http://www.permacultureportal.com/network_resources.html

an all-around amazing place. Hawthorne Valley Farm (www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org) is looking for a field manager to join its team of farmers. This is a full time position with benefits and housing. Main responsibilities are tillage, compost management, all aspects of forage harvest, application of the biodynamic preparations and equipment maintenance. The field manager joins the livestock […]