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Hudson Valley farmer farmer Faith Gilbert talks cooperative farming, guidebook writing, and community organizing today on Greenhorns Radio.

Springtime's got us all excited about agricultural innovation, and we're pulling these farm hack videos out of retirement.

Move over Lamb Chop: a market for mutton could be a huge boon for New England farmers.

Nichki Carangelo, of the delightful Hudson Valley-based, cooperative Letterbox Farm Collective, has just finished a publication on the commercial production of pasture rabbits. Funded by a SARE grant, "Pasture Rabbit for Profit" is an easily digestible, practical resource for farmers intended to guide readers through the start-up phase of their own pasture-based rabbitry. It includes a full […]

Regenerative Enterprise, or the idea that business doesn't have to suck so much. Wait! Don't go: before you think I'm about to preach to the choir on creating businesses that go beyond the extractive model, or throw some vague "Be sustainable!" nonsense at you, don't worry. Enter, the Regenerative Business Institute, a nonprofit with its roots in permaculture and […]

Monsanto's Roundup is facing increasing legal pressure with it's active ingredient being labeled as potential carcinogen.  From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s marquee product, Roundup, is coming under fire from hundreds of legal challenges across the U.S., with individuals alleging that the herbicide is carcinogenic and linked to cases of […]

Why are California farms struggling with a labor shortage?

Your artwork could help promote the next EcoFarm Conference in Pacific Grove, CA!

"...why the things are what they are, how the things would be if they were as they should be, and how a path can be made from the things as they are to the things as they should be." These are the words of Peter Maurin who, along with Dorothy Day, cofounded the Catholic Worker […]

A recap of the ten-day campaign to free two young farmworker activists from ICE detention.

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Can New England farmers survive in changing climate? A new podcast says, yes-- and they absolutely need to.

In this feature on the Brooklyn Grange, one of the premier urban farms in the country, we ask: are there ways that rural and urban farms can work together to reform the food system?

Time-honored, totally beloved, the Small Farmers Journal needs and deserves our help.

A step-by-step video series on seed saving for 32 vegetable crops.

Help Happy Boy Farms in their time of need!

Watch this awesome lecture on the relationship between the history of cotton and capitalism.

Interested in knowing what your fellow farmer movements are working towards across the world?

Not using no-till practices yet? Prepare to be inspired.

Inspire food activists around the country: submit your film now!

4 exciting positions available in the western ranch country.

A new bill to provide debt relief to young farmers!

Spoiler alert: tasty food is good for you, and it's good for the earth.

Maine submits a request for a barge route to New York City. Now where have we heard that idea before...?

Greenhorns contributor Helen Zuman has a wild story to tell.

Biannual film fest in Madison is looking for projects focused on this years theme of Land.

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_hvGmoLrE0] You're never seen a sprout look this ghoulish. AMAZING video from band C.A.M.P.O.S. for their song Teosinte, which features incredible slow-mo of the title seed germinating. Most of the sites that reviewed the band mentioned that teosinte is a "form of Mesoamerican corn," but being the horticulture geeks that we are, we can't help […]

Check out the sweet trailer for the the Rural Route Film Tour!

Can we use insects to convert food waste into animal feed?

Farmer in residence position in Huntly, Scotland.

A great initiative coming out of Amsterdam, that brings a community, professionals, and artists together to solve a food waste challenge

"The future we've been sold doesn't work."

Washington's own Oxbow Farm & Conservation Center is hiring team members for their Farm Production Crew!

Looking at a few different crowdsourced financing platforms.

News got you down this week? Our friends at Kiss the Ground serve up another heaping video of hope.

An incredible apprenticeship opportunity at an organic grain farm in Montana.

We've got your back: it's not too soon to study up and start making DIY tick repellant.

The California Institute for Rural Studies takes a strong eye to the lives of farm workers in rural CA. We speak with them on the GH radio today.

Can organic farmers build strong, resilient, local SEED economies? Seed Hack, anyone?