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tis wedding seasing you know, not just weeding season. www.ascfg.org

        RFD is a reader written journal for gay people which focuses on country living and encourages alternative lifestyles. It fosters community building and networking, explore the diverse expressions of our sexuality, care for the environment, radical faerie consciousness, nature-centered spirituality, and share experiences of our lives. Quarterly issues are 64 pages, […]

but notice how buggy and busted all these ag sites are? http://sheepgoatmarketing.info/PageLoad.cfm?page=directory/marketReport.cfm&type=3 (scroll down to see auction listings) WE need spiffy web designers to gallop down from the hills and repair this !

Our friend Hanna at Threshold Farm in the Hudson Valley is in need of some apple thinners! Good food and warm fuzzy feelings to all who help out. Call ahead if you are able to lend a hand -  518-672-5509.

The first screening will take place at The Speakeasy at Local 121 in Providence at 8pm on June 16, and the second at The Jane Pickens Theater & Event Center in Newport at 6pm on June 17. Advance tickets for the Newport screening are available athttp://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/179700.

small and beginner farmers of nh. they have a newsletter, a huge board of county leadership, gatherings, workshops, all the best ideas come from the state of freedom rock on new hampshire www.sbfnh.org you can make donations payable sandy brocaar, trasurere SBFNH po box 310 madison nh 03849

QUIVIRA COALITION 10TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE: NEW AGRARIANS  Quivira Coalition is proud to present our 10th Anniversary Conference - NEW AGRARIANS: How the Next Generation of Leaders Tackle 21STCentury Challenges Tuesday - Thursday, November 8 - 10, 2011 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  What is New Agrarianism: “New Agrarianism is an ecological economy centered on food and land health that builds […]

Dairy Goat internship at St John Creamery and Farmer's Market manager at Boisfort Valley Farm. See below for more info.

Tool Making Supplies from Kestrel Tool The Northwest coast has a long tradition of tool making. Building your own saves money and is often the only way to obtain the exact tool required. All our raw steel is supplied with with heat treating instructions.

Benefiting SEMAP, a terrific organization that runs a Buy Fresh Buy Local campaign as well as Farms Forever. 4TH ANNUAL FARM TO TABLE DINNER Join us on a culinary adventure set between the soil & the stars! SEMAP's premiere fundraising event! Support SEMAP in its mission to preserve & expand access to local food & […]

Learn no-till, natural farming: an Internship opportunity at Good Earth, San Juan Island, WA Unlike most commercial growing ventures, Good Earth is centered on the holistic well-being of people and planet. We try not to separate the physical, mental and spiritual. Everything is connected to everything else. Our project reaches out as an educational resource […]

women, food and agriculture network.  we've talked about them before, but can't say it enough. A tremendous listserv out of Iowa, a great community of women thinking long term, practically and transparently about the future of agriculture.   Check them out and sign up.  

couldn't make it?  Here's a video. In late April, The Greenhorns brought the farmstorm to the nation's capital for a screening of their film and a bicycle tour of the urban farms in the city. Unfortunately, the springtime rains graced the city streets that day, recommending that we postpone the bicycle portion of the festivities. […]

Keith Good of FarmPolicy, Inc. Tune in and turn on your farmbill mojo. Farm Bill; Ag Economy; Trade; and Animal Agriculture Posted By Keith Good On May 27, 2011 Farm Bill: Senate Ag Committee Hearing Sara Wyant reported yesterday at Agri-Pulse Online that, “Citing the need to focus on ‘principles, not programs,’ Senate Agriculture Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich, […]

Join us for the 15th annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival honoring women and their contributions to the development of Idaho and the west. 

Farmers and Rural Broadband Internet Access The blog site Geekinthecountry.com is seeking small, organic, sustainable, or biodynamic farmers to interview for a book and possible podcast series. The subject centers on how broadband internet access, or the lack of it, affects the way farmers learn new techniques, connect with other like- minded people, find resources […]

Up to 67 acres of prime farmland will soon be available for lease in Northampton, MA. Interested farmers please apply. The non-profit organization, Grow Food Northampton, Inc. has purchased 120 acres of farmland in Florence, MA to create the Northampton Community Farm. Grow Food Northampton intends to lease up to 67 acres of this land […]

Shared Use Value-added Commercial Kitchen Resources Funding Sources: As far as funding is concerned, check out the grant resource section of the USDA “Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food” website at http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/knowyourfarmer?navtype=KYF&navid=KYF_GRANTS. Kitchen Examples: Citrus County Canning Center Community Food Processing (value added) Centers in NC Community Food Processing, LLC, Wisconsin Franklin County, MA Food Processing […]

we met the Concrete Beet Farmers  - an up and coming urban farm in the Phillips neighborhood of Minneapolis - at the Macalester screening event in MN - check them out!

devon sproule steps with the best. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltJHe1JdKKk&feature=related]  

Saturday, June 25, 9:30am – 4pm at Glynwood Farm (Cold Spring, NY) - $60, registration and advanced payment required This all day workshop by Jim McLaughlin will teach you the necessary skills to process poultry on your own farm. Conducted in both classroom and in Glynwood’s onsite poultry processing facility, students will learn: * proper techniques […]

Greetings,There has been some discussion expressing concerns about the concept of food sovereignty possibly being used to deny food to those who really need it. Actually, that would be a fundamental violation of food sovereignty since this concept defends access to healthy, nutritious, culturally appropriate food as a human right, and is opposed to the […]

Angelic Organics Learning Center - http://www.farmbeginningscollaborative.org/ Food Works - http://www.eatsouthernillinois.org/Training/Training.html  Dakota Rural Action - http://dakotarural.org/grow-sustainable-farming/farm-beginnings/ Hawthorne Valley Farm- http://www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org/education/farmbeginnings.htm Nebraska Sustainable Agriculture Society - http://www.nebsusag.org/farmbeginningsnebraska.htm Nuestras Raices - http://www.nuestras-raices.org/ The Farm School - http://www.farmschool.org/ Farm School NYC - http://www.justfood.org/farmschoolnyc Rogue Farm Corps - http://www.roguefarmcorps.org/farms-next-internship-program Groundswell - http://www.groundswellcenter.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&Itemid=83

a la videographer extraordinare, Andrew Plotksy. check it out HERE: http://www.vimeo.com/24284432   In late April, The Greenhorns brought the farmstorm to the nation's capital for a screening of their film and a bicycle tour of the urban farms in the city. Unfortunately, the springtime rains graced the city streets that day, recommending that we postpone the […]

From National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition: Yesterday afternoon, the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee adopted a government funding bill that if passed would turn back decades of progress to achieve a more sustainable and just food and farming system This 2012 bill makes a second round of steep cuts to conservation, extension, research, renewable energy, and rural […]

The latest On Being podcast is a long interview with Dan Barber, chef at Stone Barns. He's just the sort of chef that farmers like us need! http://being.publicradio.org/index.shtml

Just getting out of college & want to work on a farm this summer? Some farms are still hiring. Let Us Farm LLC in Oakville, WA is looking for 1-2 more interns to round out their crew. They are a direct market vegetable farm (with chickens too) on the banks of the Chehalis River selling […]

They do this monthly...sign up for it! May 2011 Small Farms Update Prefer to print out the update for easier reading? Download this month's Small Farms Update as a WORD document. Announcements Thinking of Growing Hops? Specialist Now Available to Assist You Greenhorns Documentary Film Hits the Road Upcoming Events Beginning Farmer Events Other Featured […]

The South Central Farm/ers: The Dream Reborn The Los Angeles Times editorial board recently announced its support for restoring the South Central Farm (see below), once a fourteen-acre miracle of family agriculture in the heart of industrial Los Angeles. What the Times isn't saying here is that the land that was the Farm is in […]

Greenhorns, you can suggest this app to all your iphone-using customers. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/22962283] Farmanac is an iPhone app that empowers consumers to make better decisions when shopping for fruits and vegetables. Farmanac does the work for you, telling you exactly when produce is in season locally; what its pesticide level is (indicating whether to splurge […]

It's an image by our friend and greenhorn Trace Ramsey in the Rochester Contemporary Art Center's 6x6x2011.   Vote for it HERE!! 6x6 began as a small fundraising exhibition, but has grown into an international art phenomenon. 6x6x2011: Global is the fourth exhibition of thousands of original artworks, made and donated by celebrities, international and local […]

They've got a podcast of a recent radio show for you to listen to HERE. If you're curious about the work of Fertile Underground, be sure to listen! Michael has also finalized a series of presentations planned for early June, described in the image below. And what's more, they need some good workers for the […]

Mission: In order to better understand where are our food comes from and the work that farmers do to feed us, we operate our own Sonoma farm, Placerville orchard and San Francisco garden.  The Sonoma farm gives Bi-Rite the opportunity to educate the staff and community, by giving them a chance to get their hands […]

I may be a cloudy eyed springtime mud hopper, but these sharky speculators pushing buttons on wall street with our nation's food supply get me all riled up and FURIOUS. Hedge Farm! The Doomsday Food Price Scenario Turning Hedgies into Survivalists By Foster Kamer, May 17, 2011 for the New York Observer On the rare […]

Turtle Tree Seed ( www.turtletreeseed.org/aboutus.html) is looking for a garden helper and seed cleaner. We are looking for someone with plant/garden experience, who is good with fix-it tasks, comfortable around people, plants and machines, and willing to learn seed cleaning, both hand cleaning and working with seed cleaning machines. This person will be asked to […]

Here’s a Great Place to Cut from NY Times It seems hard to believe, but the federal farm subsidy program — wasteful, inefficient and virtually indestructible — may at last be headed for serious downsizing. Our hopes have been dashed before, most recently when the farm lobby and its Congressional patrons shredded admirable reforms proposed […]

You'd think that milking upwards of a hundred cows a day would be enough to keep a man in professional pay. Sadly, the milk situation in this nation is pitiful. (See The Milkweed). Young Wattsburg farmer happy to buck trend By Jim Martin for the Erie Times-News; May 15, 2011 You'll find Evan Nickerson scrambling […]

This must fit some of you greenhorns out there... Small Farm Central is making a push to design new templates for it's farmer-only CMS in the summer of 2011. We need 2-3 great, farm-focused web designers to design 2-3 design templates each for our farmers. A successful design will apply an aesthetic that represents farmers […]

By Reverend Billy on Sunday! 7:30 PM at Theatre 80 in NYC's East Village, and at our LIVE WEBSTREAM. Tickets are $10, but no one will be turned away. This week's service (5/22/11): Celebrating greenhorns & Farmer's Markets We need more farmers in our society, to feed us, yes, but also to help us interpret the […]