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Thanks to Lettuce Link, you can cut through the tape and get the lowdown on the Farm Bill HERE. + more Farm Bill resources from the Community Alliance for Global […]

get up to speed on all things farm policy by checking out this stellar blog, farmpolicy.com

Small Farm Central is hiring for a sales and marketing position that will direct Small Farm Central's outreach effort. This position will be based right here in Pittsburgh (East Liberty office). […]

Saturday, November 6 PREMIERE SCREENING AND GALA RECEPTION: PERMACULTURE: THE GROWING EDGE A brand-new documentary by Starhawk and Donna Read—the team that made Goddess Remembered, Burning Times, Full Circle and Signs Out […]

The Farmers Arms ‘Let the Wealthy & Great, Roll  in Splendor & State, I envy them not I declare it. I eat my own Lamb, My chickens and Ham, I shear my own Fleece […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfYt7vRHuY] The Austrian Cultural Forum New York presents the US- debut of the first Vienna Vegetable Orchestra. WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 03, 08:00 PM New York Proctors Theater Schenectady Proctors 432 State Street […]

Here's another listing we just found on craigslist! Farm owner looking for part time farmer (3-4 days a week), at Westwind orchard in Accord, NY I need someone with some […]

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South Georgia "Growing Local" Conference November 12, 2010 - November 13, 2010 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Registration is now open for the South Georgia Growing Local Food Conference to […]

A Call to Farms in downloadable pdf format! Download it here

coming right up, at the Center for Land-Based Learning!

that they have set up the rhetoric for ' shock doctrine agronomy' with these patents. frustrated by Monsanto? become a farmer, take back that territory! Surge in Corporate Patents on […]

Practical Poultry Production Webinar--November 11, 2010 at 7 p.m. with Michael Darre of University of Connecticut, coordinated by the UVM Extension New Farmer Project If you're thinking of adding chickens […]

only thing she forgot was that WE DO WANT TO FARM and there are a lot of us. Where Are All the Young, Hot Farmers? by Sarah Parsons It seems […]

13.5 acres in  Plainfield VT - GENTLY SLOPING HILLS, VERY WELL-DRAINED AND COMPLETELY OPEN TO SOUTHERN LIGHT. It was dairy land before 1985. Here is a note from the landowner: I would […]

Another great radio project.  Don't forget to listen in to our radio show on Thursdays! Radio23.org is a non-commercial, freeform radio station dedicated to providing an international artistic platform for […]

Three young farmers share one crazy idea: To learn to farm with giant draft horses instead of tractors… in New Jersey. The Farmer and the Horse makes its New York […]

we love this group - the Michigan young farmer coalition.  Here's a call out from them. The MYFC is gearing up to tour the west side of the Lower Mitten […]

from Sister Corita Kent, nun at the Immaculate Heart Convent in Los Angeles &  teacher in the art department at the Immaculate Heart College.

Thanks to Josh Volk of Slow Hand Farm for the heads up about this workshop he is teaching! Details are at http://www.slowhandfarm.com/Blog/Entries/2010/10/19_More_Crop_Planning_Workshops.html. Download the pdf HERE

Here is a note about some available land outside of Detroit, MI.  Hello young, bright, farm-minded folk, My roommate's mom, Diane, owns 53 acres of farmland in Dearborn MI, right […]

you know we love MAPS.   Here are some beautiful  examples of a mapping project in SF, from 7x7 Magazine . Rebecca Solnit's 'Infinite City' Maps SF in a Whole New […]

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 […]

Successful (older) farmers ready to retire. Let Us Farm has immediate opportunity for young farmers with potential for long-term partnership. A successful sustainably oriented farm, we have land, water, equipment […]

Join fellow NW Greenhorns at this year's conference in Port Townsend, a major hub of dashing young farmers. So much to learn, including a charcuterie workshop from our butcher friend […]

coolio: a video of 5000 fed at an event in London’s Trafalgar Square where 5000 members of the public were given a free lunch made from food that would otherwise […]

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Check it out! Small Farm Business Planning program offered in partnership with the WSU Mason County Small Farm Program

The Viva Farms Incubator Program was launched in June 2009 by GrowFood.org, an international non-profit dedicated to recruiting, training and capitalizing the next generation of sustainable farmers. Viva Farms has been […]

do what you love, love what you do. check out some incredible food-farm-education opportunities HERE.

The 25th Annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference, sponsored by Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA), happening Dec. 3-5, 2010 in Winston-Salem, NC, is an unparalleled opportunity to learn from national experts in […]

We need your help! Vote Greenhorns! for our potential Youtopia grant to make an online version of our event prep toolkit for young farmers. A chance for us to win […]

From the Rodale Institute: The Greenhorns: Next generation agriculturalists Severine von Tscharner Fleming and The Greenhorns are promoting, recruiting and supporting young farmers--and having a whole lot of fun along the way. […]

We are organizing a mixer in ALBANY for young farmers on November 11 and we need help decorating the space, picking up donations, and generally adding to an atmosphere of […]

In his insightful new book, Holy Shit, Managing Manure To Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure—our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource. He begins […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7u2MSMd7RE] Wolftown is a great resource for the NW. They helped sponsor our Washington mixer. They range their sheep in the forest by horseback--pretty sweet! Wildlife Rehabilitation Wolftown rehabilitates injured […]

from our friends at Little City Gardens. report back from the border This summer I took a month off of this urban farming pursuit and went down to the Arizona/Mexico […]

Here's a nice little piece from a greenhorn in Georgia, posted on Civil Eats. Young Farmers Sprouting Up Across the Nation In an attempt to explain what seems to be […]