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SOLEfood is a non-profit, social enterprise that provides urban agriculture employment and training opportunities for Vancouver’s inner-city residents. Working alongside farmer/author Michael Ableman, (www.fieldsofplenty.com, www.foxglovefarmbc.ca) community residents are trained and […]

at the upcoming Urban Ag Conference.  View the full schedule of speakers here. The Horticultural Society of New York invites you to come explore the present state and future of […]

If you like the greenhorns blog, and support young farmers, and feel connected to entrepreneurship in agriculture: PLEASE ACT TODAY. BREAK THE BEEF PORK POULTRY TRUST. Please take a few […]

listen HERE Food prices are through the roof around the world. We look at all the why’s and all the consequences. 2008 was a bad year for global food supplies. […]

Greenhorns will be there! Will you?  They've reached capacity, but you can add your name to the waiting list. The first annual Growing Farmers Conference will be hosted by Hampshire […]

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with a new book, released by a "young publisher" based in Brooklyn!  Our latest title is called Son of a Farmer, Child of the Earth, and is written by 4th generation […]

Join us on March 10th for a farmer mixer hosted by georgia organics and greenhorns at the lovely Moon River Brewing Company.

Real Time Farms is a user-generated, online food guide that helps you follow your food from farm to fork. They help consumers know the story of their food and provide […]

Thanks to Rebecca for sharing Tom's story with us - Trantham's Sustainable 12 Aprils Dairy Grazing Program. "After years of being a conventional farmer in South Carolina, Tom Trantham faced bankruptcy. […]

National Call-In Day February 14th Call the White House Today: Fairness and Justice for Farmers! In the 2008 Farm Bill, Congress passed new rules to protect livestock and poultry farmers from […]

The Center for Rural Affairs is seeking an intern to work with staff to create an online database of information for beginning farmers and ranchers.  The intern will create a […]

Greenhorns will be 'delegates' of this fantastic social art project by our friend Lisa Gross and Hybrid Vigor projects. The power of planting seeds! Check it out and come join […]

Wednesday, March 30, 2011! Join farmers, food advocates, local officials, environmentalists and other New Yorkers to meet with legislators at the State Capitol about the critical importance of farms and […]

Via the Center for Rural Affairs: USDA has created a new tool so that landowners and beginners interested in the Conservation Reserve Program Transition Incentives Program can find each other. […]

From our friend Sandor: Hello friends, I've been in semi-seclusion trying to get my new book written. It's another book on fermentation, more in-depth, more ferments, more variations (many contributed […]

In the film. On the land. Surfing it up-- and dealing with the ASIAN CITRUS PSYLLID the best way he can. So since I have seen you last I have moved […]

National Public Radio Reporter/Correspondent, Agriculture Job Description This full-time, radio and online reporter focuses on food, agriculture and nutrition, putting them in a larger context of consumer safety, federal oversight, […]

The Guemes and Fidalgo Islands Staple Foods Project is setting up a CSA whose goal is helping transition our community to a less energy intensive future. Our focus this season […]

A terrific video of young farmer Alice Holden  HERE.  Alice represents a small group of young people who are choosing a career on the land. She will tell us how […]

Rooted tells the stories of a new generation of farmers and ranchers in Montana through still photography and written profiles. I began this project in the spring of 2010 as […]

check 'em out! http://berkeleystudentfoodcollective.org/ Berkeley co-op aims to educate about food choices by Debra Levi Holtz, The San Francisco Chronicle The brightly colored mural of farmers loading fresh fruits and […]

Have you registered for Greenbelts: Local Solutions for Global Challenges from March 22nd to March 24th? This Global Greenbelts Conference brings together over forty-five speakers from nine countries across the […]

The good folks at SOIL (Stewards of Irreplaceable Land) reached out to us about their terrific apprenticeship program.  Canada welcomes US greenhorns too!  Download the Poster and check out their […]

The latest from our friends at the Hudson Valley Seed Library. Hello gardeners! It's officially Seed Season here in the Northeast. For most gardeners, January is a bit early to […]

The Free Farm Stand, an all-volunteer run project of the No Penny Opera  (a tax exempt organization) is about sharing the wealth of urban farms and gardens. We strive to […]

inspiring! from the women, food & agriculture network.

Okanogan Biodiversity Farm Seeks Farm Manager We  are a small-scale, intensive farm. Crops include vegetables, berries,  medicinal herbs, seeds and propagation material. We experiment with  permaculture and agroforestry systems. We […]

Organic research proceeds apace. http://attra.ncat.org/calendar/br_news.php/2011/02/02/ofrf-awards-first-grants-in-seed-matters-project Interested to do some research on your farm? write it up, get organized, get funded

A heads up from our lawyer friend Anne Linder. I am a lawyer in my day job, and just ran across this article (written by my law firm) that I […]

Help the Lower Eastside Girls Club in NYC win an online vote for a $50,000 charitable award...LESGC provides amazing programs to young women, including all kinds of Fair Trade and […]

amazing video. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EImx-r_kMxA]

A conference coming right up - Feb. 18-20, 2011 at Bluffton University in Bluffton, Ohio. The hope of this conference is to incorporate the conceptual themes of shalom, community, justice […]

Persephone Farm is seeking a couple to round out our 4 person internship program this season. We'll start at the beginning of March and run through Oct. On our 2-3 acres of […]

Salem Art Works is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit art center and sculpture park located in rural Upstate New York on an old dairy farm. Founded in 2005 by artist Anthony Cafritz, Salem Art […]

courtesy of joel w - Here is the second installment in the Trying Something New farmers market promotion series. Thought you guys might like to see it: http://vimeo.com/19446034 It again […]

This just in from the national family farm coalition - a toolkit which includes  an introduction to beginning farmer issues, a research project that explored the strategies and challenges of mentoring organizations, a […]

As I said to the berkeley class I spoke to last night: we have to Choose to choose! http://www.theatlantic.com/food/archive/2011/02/why-you-should-care-about-genetically-modified-alfalfa/70557/

GoodFoodJobs.com is one of the best resources around for finding jobs in education, culiary, non-profit, distribution, and agriculture production. Updated all the time with jobs all over the country - […]

ecology and natural resources students take note. if you read between the lines here you see that opportunities for bridging the allied movements for conservation and sustainable agriculture are rife, […]