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Location: Maitland, Nova Scotia Four Seasons Farm offers a unique "seed to plate" experience to learn about sustainable growing in a supportive environment. Family-run since 1992, we specialize in small-scale, organic practices and provide quality vegetables and herbs for restaurants and the Halifax Farmers Market, the largest market in the Maritimes. We are currently seeking […]

More Oregon greenhorns, keeping a great blog! Here's a letter from Eric of Wild Garden Seeds. Wild Garden Seeds grows organic, open pollinated vegetable seeds in Philomath, Oregon, seven miles west of Corvallis. Most of what we grow are various salad crops, including lettuces, mustards, brassicas, chard and beets. The company was started by Frank […]

Can we conduct a thought experiment together? http://newdeal.feri.org/wallace/haw06.htm Back in the times-- the government worked to protect growers from cheapening prices. IN this case in Cotton. Very bold maneuvers taken. Similarly bold maneuvers of incentivized land use could convert thousands of metro-accessible acres to be put into active use for vegetable production.

pretty dinky effort to ' reframe the conversation' using happy mommies. come on corn association, soy bean association. put a bird on it

February already almost done, wobbly weather on the east coast, blossoms started on the west coast. All of us bracing for a big year. The weather certainly is wobbly this season -- "lash down the hoophouse matey!" Good weather source: Accuweather has a farmer option, with estimated soil temp and moisture. In case you haven't quite gotten your […]

Consider this an early promo photo, featuring Andy Wekin at pedal power, for the bicycle powered tent build in NYC-New Museum StreetFest. Bring your needles, thread, pedaling legs. and a cool drink May 7-8  Greenhorns' Seed Circus launches in NYC as we sew the fashion city’s fabric reserves into a community-sized tent fit for the future […]

Founder and director of the non-profit organization The Greenhorns, Severine von Tscharner Fleming will give an introductory overview of many issues surrounding new + beginning farmers. Learn more about the Greenhorns organization, receive help interpreting other institutions in the agricultural arena, and discuss how to organize and support farmers in your community and across the […]

In the spring of 2009 Douglas Gayeton and Laura Howard-Gayeton hired researchers and assembled a Lexicon featuring terms from 13 different areas of sustainability, from air to water, manufacturing to conservation, food to farming, energy to architecture and health to spirituality. The initial idea was to publish these terms in a book along with selected photographs by […]

In the last three weeks. New crops. ALfalfa, sugar beets, ethanol corn. What is going on ? obama? You need us to show you the movement? You need us to get direct up in your space? You need some squealing piglets on the white house lawn? These developments erode the resiliency of our agricultural system, […]

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Who is Building Farmers in the West For? Farmers who want to start a market farm enterprise Farmers who have a market farm business but have farmed less than10 years Farmers who desire to improve their business management & marketing skills Farmers who would like to network closely with other market farm producers Farmers who […]

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"The Greenhorns" will be showing at this student-organized conference in Wisconsin. We like what Sophie is doing as a student farmer-organizer in the midwest. Her campus garden wasn't big enough, so they made a deal to grow more on local farmland. That's thinking laterally and enterprising beyond the campus container. College student farmers: you are […]

a good model. from the  The European Council of Young Farmers

Want to Learn to Make Cheese?  Milk Cows? A Small Dairy in Massachusetts is Looking for Interns! Cricket Creek Farm is a small grass-based dairy in Western Massachusetts.  We make several award-winning cheeses from the milk of our registered herd of Brown Swiss and Jersey cows (currently milking about 20 cows).  In addition to the cheese, we […]

Using fruit as our lens, Fallen Fruit investigates urban space, ideas of neighborhood and new forms of located citizenship and community. From protests to proposals for new urban green spaces, we aim to reconfigure the relation between those who have resources and those who do not, to examine the nature of & in the city, […]

Small Farms Update is intended as a resource for farmers and agricultural service providers in New York, and is provided to you by Cornell’s Small Farms Program. Our mission is to foster the sustainability of diverse, thriving small farms that contribute to food security, healthy rural communities, and the environment. Our work is made possible […]

Greener Partners Community Farm seeks Farm Manager About Greener Partners Greener Partners (www. greenerpartners.org) is a non-profit organization dedicated to building community through sustainable farming projects and farm- based education. It is our mission to inspire individuals and communities to support and eat locally grown, seasonal food.

We love hearing from young people who want to farm!  If you're a teen aspiring agrarian and want to share your story, we'd like to hear it: [email protected] Hello, I am Ariel, and I write the blog, The Future Farmer, at http://joyoffarming.blogspot.com/. I am currently in my sophomore year of high school, and I intend […]

Below the themes still sought for the Storey publishing book project.  An anthology of Greenhorns essays. READ THIS LINK FOR ESSAY GUIDANCE. Drop Dead deadline March 12th. questions? [email protected]/ [email protected]   biodynamics living in a trailer crop mob farmers markets, comporting yourself for maximum sales wholesale, not getting fleeced by the fancy chefs construction skills welding for women taking dorky […]

nice book, nice radio podcast. brought to you by the Leonard Lopate show: http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2010/nov/23/son-farmer-child-earth/ "Fourth-generation farmer Eric Herm discusses commercial agriculture's strain on natural resources, ecosystems, and the farmer. Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth, a Path to Agriculture’s Higher Consciousness looks at the harsh economic realities and complicated legislation facing farmers, as well as GMO […]

HOW IT WORKS: On-site cheesemaking classes in the Bay Area. You gather the people. I bring milk and all the supplies. Classes are suited for up to 15 students though not limited to. Choose fromclasses that last an hour to ones that last several. Learn anything from yogurt to feta to mozzarella to farmstead cheddar. […]

Coming soon to Manhattan- a two-day Yes Men workshop on food issues and activism - coming to NYC Feb. 26-27 If you would like to participate in the workshop, and afterwards help out with a little activism, shoot an email to [email protected] and tell them about yourself, why you'd like to participate, and how you think you […]

Calling all Oregon friends and farmers! Be sure to head out to Salem, OR for the Family Farmer and Rancher Day at the Capitol on March 15th.  Talk to your legislators about the importance of local agriculture, support our farmers and ranchers, and help create the kind of food system you would like to see […]

Symphony of the Soil is an upcoming documentary series currently in production by Deborah Koons Garcia - The Future of Food (2004) - that explores the soil community from the microscopic to the global. Three of the short films (Sekem Vision, Transition Town Totnes, and Portrait of a Winemaker) from the Symphony of the Soil […]

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Greenhorns! Here are two opportunities to grow food for some fancy local food resaurants in Washington, sent to us by our friends at Cascade Harvest Coalition: Trellis is seeking interns and farm hands to work in our kitchen garden, greenhouses and orchard for the 2011 season. Please contact Brian Scheehser:  [email protected] and from the Herbfarm: […]

Farmer objects to bill on livestock treatment from the Daily Progress By Bryan McKenzie On Davis Creek Farm in bucolic Nelson County near the non-incorporated community of Old Myndus they raise animals for people to eat, but that doesn’t mean the family farmers don’t want the animals to be well treated. In fact, that’s why […]

Reminder - there's a public hearing happening today (Thursday, February 17!) in San Francisco about a proposed new zoning code for urban agriculture! Here's a note from Brook Budner (greenhors artist extraordinaire) of Little City Gardens, along with a poster she designed. I would love for the broader young agriculturalist community to know that this […]

Thanks, Alisa, for writing this inspiring piece for us! “Where is the midwife!?!” Erin, a young organic apprentice, jokes as the rolling cackle of a hen sharpens and peaks signaling the arrival of a new egg. I turn and smile at the rusty, little hen tucked in the corner of the tool shed. “Just breath […]

WE STAND UNITED IN OPPOSITION TO GE ALFALFA We stand united in opposition to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to once again allow unlimited, nationwide commercial planting of Monsanto's genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa, despite the many risks to organic and conventional farmers. Last spring more than 200,000 people submitted comments to […]

Applications are now available for Rogue Farm Corps 2011 Farms Next Internship Program. Rogue Farm Corps Farms Next Internship Program provides beginning farmers entry-level training in sustainable agriculture through an innovative cooperative education program on numerous small farms in Southern Oregon. Interns participating in the Farms Next Internship Program live and work full time on […]

Zaac is one of these guys who ends of helping out on farms because he is always biking through them. What if we always stopped to acknowledge these new day wanderers and welcomed them into our routines? They certainly have the muscle and the stamina. If you are one of these Finnegans - join the […]

just launched! New Beginning Farmer Website Unveiled After a year of development, the Northeast Beginning Farmer Project is pleased to unveil a colorful new website with expanded tools and a wealth of new resources.  Point your browser to www.nebeginningfarmers.org to find the enhanced site, which will extend high quality support to aspiring, new and diversifying […]

Organic Seed Alliance's mission is to support the ethical development and stewardship of seed. Our advocacy program pursues the implementation of ethical values in seed systems. In particular we believe that organic agriculture holds the potential for the development of a new model of decentralized seed systems that serve community needs. While there are many […]

Mechanical Innovation in Agriculture:  Farmers + Engineers brainstorming together We hope you will join the National Young Farmers’ Coalition, the Greenhorns and MIT as we bring together farmers and engineers to brainstorm and invent farm tools together, all day on March 5, 2011. If you can’t join us for the full day of roll-up-your-sleeves workshopping, […]

For a market garden in Orange County's Black Dirt region. Greetings, I'm interested in possibly soliciting an investment from you in my farm.   It's a 7 acre plan on, both upland, and bottomland, growing herbs, cut flowers, salad mix, and truck crops.  I'd be retailing at Farmers' Markets, and operating a small CSA.  My […]

greenhorns, here's a great opportunity with our good friends at the seed library. The Seed Library is looking for interns. We really need the help and hope to make each internship a valuable learning experience. In addition to small-farming basics, our interns also get a chance to learn seed saving skills and be part of […]

Lettuce Eat Kale has two solid lists, one of the top 10 Documentaries and one for straight up "food films". Babette's Feast, anyone? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE8ZkMYntdQ]