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The NOFA-NY Education Team pleased to announce our newest addition to the NOFA-NY Beginning Farmer Summer Workshop Series.  This event will take place on three farms in the Ithaca, NY area on May 16th, focusing on working season-extension infrastructure into a farm’s yearly production plan.  Each farm will give insight into the types of season […]

There are ways for individuals to build their wealth. These strategies would pay particular benefits in rural America. http://www.dailyyonder.com/building-wealth-rural-america/2011/04/18/3282

a pretty sweet map featuring tons of outdoor art projects, including one tent-making one by greenhorns. come streetfest with us on may 7 and share in the tent-making effort!http://www.festivalofideasnyc.com/map

here is a great tool~ http://calshort-lamp.cit.cornell.edu/bjorkman/covercrops/decision-tool.php

Tilth Producers and WSU Small Farms Program 2011 Early Season Farm Walks Cost:  $10 for Tilth Producers members, students and interns. $15 for non-members For more information: [email protected] or call 206-632-7506 These farm walks are always informative and amazing. Highly recommended! Check out all the young farmers featured this year: Red Dog Farm, Welcome Table […]

Success to the Farmer Come all jolly fellows who delight in being mellow Attend unto me, I beseech you For a pint when it's quiet, come lads let us try it Dull thinking will drive a man crazy I have lawns, I have bowers I have fields, I have flowers And the lark is my […]

Have you felt the glory of the No-Strap Kneepads yet? Works beautifully with those double front pants from Carhartt or Duluth Trading Co. The foam pads could be easily farmhacked. Save your knees with all that weeding!

These folks have written up a nice breakdown on the greens (not grains) that they grow to feed poultry.  Useful information for small-scale poultry raisers! Growing Forage for Poultry This year I managed to implement a pretty good schedule for keeping a plot of forage growing all season to feed to the chickens (broilers & […]

catch the wind like a May catkin does... Join us for a foraging bike ride! And drop five bucks to see Boston premiere afterwards. http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/170762

and the price has been lowered to $89,000. Amazingly enough we are selling Foundation Farm. We are "rebooting" our farming dream-machine yet another time with a new farm projected out for 2010/2011 not very far from here.  Our plan is to attract an organic farmer to our community by offering Foundation Farm, a reputed  farm with […]

Greenhorn Olivia Sargent just wrote this piece for Civil Eats.  How do you fit into our food economy? Changing Roles in the Local Food Economy The DIY craze has shacked up with the local food movement to produce some inspiring examples of entrepreneurialism: Mason jar magic made by suburban fruit salvagers powered by pedals; workshops […]

Wild Hive Farm has an opening. Miller Trainee Position Learn to operate a stone grist milling operation. No milling experience necessary. Mechanical aptitude and farming experience necessary. The candidate will manage and maintain several micro-mills to process grains and flours and also do light farm work raising and processing chickens in a small-scale operation at […]

Don’t Bank On It – the product of a collaborative effort between Farm Aid, Food & Water Watch, the National Family Farm Coalition (NFFC) and the Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA (RAFI-USA). As you know, the past few years presented the country with an economic downturn that strained the financial health of American households and dramatically tightened credit […]

The Real Food Challenge, a national student network and campaign for just and sustainable food, is looking for an energetic person committed to student empowerment, food, and justice to become our National Programs Coordinator for a minimum 2-year commitment.

For Washington but applicable for those fighting this good fight in other states Including resources on selling to schools: http://www.wafarmtoschool.org/Page/14/Farm-to-School-Farms

But she's a little off if she thinks all those farms are small businesses... http://news.thehandthatfeedsus.org/e_article002073711.cfm?x=bjld4nP,bgBrJVB4 "Can we feed a growing world population, fuel our economy, and still offer wholesome food choices to Americans? Sure, just as long as we avoid weakening the very infrastructure that makes it all possible. As I write this, America has […]

a good recipe suggestion out of the essex farm newsletter: "We’re forecasting the end of the root cellar produce in the next two months, looking forward to the green shoots of spring. The carrots and the cabbages should hold out until mid-June. If you’d like to put up some carrots to fill in the gap before the […]

grow up. show up. dress up. http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/wanted-frack-busters-costume-preferred/

Spoils: Extraordinary Harvest is a short documentary that captures intimate portraits of 3 New Yorkers on a journey through the culture of dumpster diving, illuminating a practice as old as agriculture. Support this project on kickstarter!

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Matthew Garrett, a 24-year-old farmer, is transitioning a 40 acre tobacco farm to organic produce. He's in the second year of the three-year transition requirement to certify a farm organic. In this process, Matthew is also finding ways to convert old tobacco farm equipment for his organic produce needs. Watch the video: http://vimeo.com/21811937

greenhorns are looking for a potter for a project at a very special museum Do you mix silicas with muds and have fun squishing them around? Do you dream of being a shepherdess in ancient greece carrying a staff and a clay lantern through nighttime cyprus groves? You might be just the one. please write [email protected]

The Sustainable Ag Tool Lending Library-- George Oneal, a young farm, started it, and it's ONLY for young, beginning farmers, none of which who could afford equipment on their own. So they formed the tool lending library in order to support each other. This video is about 4 minutes long-- they're all North Carolina.  http://vimeo.com/21811545

Midwest Organic Farming Retreat Prepares Veterans for Careers on America’s Farms Now Accepting Applications from Vets for July 2011 “Coming Home to Farm” Retreat in Iowa  April 12, 2011 – Davis, CA – The Farmer Veteran Coalition is accepting applications from veterans who seek a career in farming and wish to attend “Coming Home to […]

now here's a great idea... weed dating. Finally! What you've dreamed of...the details for the Weed Dating. Cost $25 Total capacity-50 participants Gay? Straight? We don't discriminate! You must RSVP and prepay to save your spot (working out the pre-payment details now...probably through our online store, which we need to get up and running...) Starts […]

the 3rd annual, coming right up! The Farm-to-Consumer Foundation and the Foundation for Consumer Free Choice will co-host the Third Annual Raw Milk Symposium: Producer-Consumer-Choice in Bloomington, Minnesota. The event will be held on Saturday, May 7, 2011, 8:30 am - 4:30 pm at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Bloomington. It is open to the […]

From Ancient Giants, Finding New Life to Help the Planet By JESSE McKINLEY,  April 9, 2011 in the New York Times FORT DICK, Calif. — Shooting skyward like a jagged knife, the giant stump in a cul-de-sac in this Northern California town is by all appearances dead and gone: ashen gray, hollowed by fire and […]

While agri-players, including some organic ones, look to play at the carbon table... via campesina has made a different decision. Useful to know about. La Via Campesina opposes the inclusion of agriculture in carbon markets JAKARTA, 11 APRIL 2011, As the first session of climate negotiations for the year come to a close in Bangkok, […]

Vilsack seeks biotech/organic co-existence, not a USDA-dictated solution By Jon H. Harsch © Copyright Agri-Pulse Communications, Inc. WASHINGTON, April 6 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told organic producers Wednesday that changes are needed to protect farmers' ability to farm they way they like, whether using biotech, conventional, or organic practices. Speaking at an Organic Trade […]

Southern Vermont Beginning Farmers Summit Saturday April 30th, 2011 at Bennington College 10am-12pm The Southern Vermont Beginning Farmers Summit is a free event for young and beginning farmers (both practicing and aspiring) who are located in Southern Vermont and surrounding areas. The event is centered around discussing and workshopping through  issues facing beginning farmers, including […]

Battery Park landing an urban farm The city's Parks Department will devote an acre of land to cultivating vegetables as an educational experience. By Lisa Fickenscher, April 8,2011 for Crain's New York On Monday, the city's Parks Department will announce the details of a plan to devote an entire acre at Battery Park to an […]

An interesting letter to The Telegraph, with some comments following.  Do you have thoughts on this issue?  Write an essay. we'll post it. Young farmers with nowhere to farm The reality of farming. SIR – It is easy to see farming through rose-tinted glasses but, as a member of the National Federation of Young Farmers’ […]

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Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On This inaugural exhibition at Chapel Hill’s new temporary art space at 523 E. Franklin Street, Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On, explores Alfredo Jaar’s idea that “place can not be global” Issues of histories and institutions of communities, family, place; commemorative responses; heroes; folklore and buried truths; […]

The annual farm tour at Nash's Organic Produce in Sequim is coming up. Special discount price for farmers if you call into the PCC Farmland Trust office to sign up (206) 547-9855. Also, word is there's a barn dance that evening, so stick around for that too Cultivating the Next Generation of Farmers Join PCC […]

Smartphones on the Farm: An Introduction to Apps for Agriculture Wednesday, April 6, 2011; 7:00 PM ­ 8:30 PM Cornell Cooperative Extension 480 North Main Street, Canandaigua, NY 14424 If a smartphone seems like a techno-luxury instead of a hard-working farm tool, think again. There is a world of handy applications and record-keeping functions on […]

there's a workshop coming up in Santa Rosa, CA and more to follow around the country.  We'll keep you in the loop! Make Money as an Urban Farmer! May 1st & 2nd, 2011, 8am - 6pm, Santa Rosa, California A 2-day workshop presented by the Sustainable Commercial Urban Farm Incubator (SCUFI) program and sponsored by […]

First Seed Lending Library Opens in San Francisco with Two Initial Locations in Potrero Branch of San Francisco Public Library and Hayes Valley Farm Next Seed Saving class is on June 4, 3:30-5:30 in the Potrero Branch Program Room, 1616 20th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 Seed Lending libraries are sprouting up across the state […]

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 […]