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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 employed to install and manage small production farms on leased urban lots.

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 agriculture and the way that we, as city residents, connect with our food and farmers. We are very excited to be joined by seven influential […]

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 moments of your day this Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday to call the White House and tell President Obama that you support the proposed Fair Livestock Competition […]

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. A real pinch. Now, just over two years later, the pinch is back. The U.N.’s global food price index is at a record high. Experts […]

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 College on February 19th, 2010. The student-organized conference will gather young and beginning farmers, activists, students, and enthusiasts from the Pioneer Valley and beyond for […]

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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 farmer Eric Herm, who lives on his farm outside the small town of Ackerly, Western Texas.

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 tools for producers and retailers to share the story of their food. Farms are the heart of Real Time Farms. Real Time Farms was launched […]

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. As he tells it, the paperwork was sitting on his kitchen table ready for him to sign. Needless to say he was reluctant to give […]

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 unfair treatment by big meat companies. The companies are now pressuring the administration not to implement the new rules. It's time to tell President Obama that big […]

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 database of information on our Land Link program, which matches beginning farmers with landowners and retiring farmers and ranchers. The intern will also compile information […]

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 us when we plant trees in May during our elderflower foraging bike ride in the Boston area. Hybrid Vigor Projects (http://www.hybridvigorprojects.org) is a new nonprofit […]

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 food to New York.  Urge state leaders to support funding and legislation that: • Protects farmland for future generations • Increases consumer access to nutritious […]

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. The Conservation Reserve Program Transition Incentives Program (CRP TIP) provides up to two additional Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) annual rental payments to a retired or […]

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 by readers of Wild Fermentation and people who have written to me), more exploration of underlying processes, and more troubleshooting. The new book is coming […]

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 down to Watsonville (just south of Santa Cruz) to set up a new growing grounds for Four Winds Growers. We have 13 acres total, probably […]

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, energy policies, environmental impact, scientific developments, politics, as well as global development and relations. The reporter develops radio ideas/proposals for reports and programs; responds to […]

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 will be on growing staple crops such as small grains,dry beans, garlic, onions, corn and potatoes. We need a farm manager who will be responsible […]

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 and why the work captured her and perhaps even challenge our notions of what it means to be a farmer and our image of farms […]

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 an assignment for a photo-documentary journalism course at the University of Montana. At the end of that course, there was more that I wanted to […]

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 vegetables onto a train illustrates the mission of the city's newest food co-op: to provide healthful alternatives to junk food while educating the UC Berkeley […]

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 globe to discuss the potential of Greenbelts to help manage urban growth, sustain farming and the vibrancy of surrounding communities, and protect valuable ecosystems.

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 website.  Here's a note from Keeley: I work with a great little farm apprenticeship program across Canada (Stewards Of Irreplaceable Land- SOIL) and we're keen […]

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 think about ordering seeds, let alone starting them. Thank you to all the Type A personality (or is it Type G?) gardeners who already ordered […]

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 attain the following goals: •help make locally grown, fresh and nutritious organic produce accessible to all, especially those families and individuals on low-incomes and tight […]

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 are growing in multiple  locations around Tonasket, Washington in the Okanogan Valley. The farm  manager's responsibilities include planting, cultivating, irrigating,  harvesting, processing and marketing crops […]

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 thought might be of interest to greenhorns in New York.   New Law Increases Burdens and Risks For New York State Employers.  The law is called the […]

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 community gardening/local sustainability education. You can vote here: http://tinyurl.com/dvfgc1 Look for the red "Vote For Lyn" button in the upper-right-hand corner. You don't have to […]

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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 and stewardship and link them with the actions of gardening locally and globally, responding to hunger, eating sustainably, decreasing waste and composting. Find more information […]

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 cultivated land we operate a CSA, sell at a farmer's market and to restaurants, as well as grow and arrange a wide variety of cut flowers. We have […]

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 Works (SAW) is dedicated to supporting both emerging and established artists in the creation of new and progressive work, as well as promoting the understanding and appreciation of […]

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 features farm scenes from central WV and showcases the narration skills of the farmers market kids around here. If you have yet to see the […]

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 compilation of resources for experienced farmers interested in becoming mentors, and a directory of mentoring organizations.

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 - as we work together to banish unemployment one full belly at a time.

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, if you are a passionate and land-loving person willing to dig your fangs into public policy http://blog.farmland.org/2011/01/economically-prudent-conservation-for-an-environmentally-healthy-future/