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who wants candy on halloween when you can have bike blended smoothies? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsP7IncdKv8]

les says: 'do it with parsley'

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 Justice.

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). Here are all the details: http://www.smallfarmcentral.com/content/now-hiring-sales-and-marketing-position

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 of Time! Madrone Studios 1417 15th St.  San Francisco, CA 6:30 pm Gala reception, food, drinks, music by Evelie Posch Sales and Ayla Nereo, meet […]

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 & I wear it I have Lawns, I have Bow’rs, I have Fruits, I have Flow’rs, The Lark is my morning alarmer. So jolly boys now, Here’s […]

[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 Schenectady, NY 12305 For tickets please visit: http://www.proctors.org/events/vienna_vegetable The ensemble plays vegetable instruments: carrots and cucumbers instead of guitars and drums. Bridging the gap between […]

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 experience in farming organic apples, berries, vegetables and operating tractors and sprayer. I own a small organic apple orchard in the hudson valley, 600 apple […]

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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 be held Nov. 12 and 13 at the UGA Black Shank Farm in Tifton, Georgia! The conference is intended to educate and stimulate the local-food […]

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 “Climate-Ready” Crops  Threatens Biodiversity and Signals Grab on Land and Biomass Nagoya, Japan -- Under the guise of developing “climate-ready” crops, the world’s largest seed […]

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 to your farming operations for eggs or meat, join Michael Darre, Professor & Extension Poultry Specialist, at the University of Connecticut, for an intro to […]

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 like scientists, non-profits, and even students consistently receive government grant money. Small farmers, however, rarely see Uncle Sam reach into his wallet and hand them […]

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 like to have a mutually beneficial relationship with a responsible use of the beautiful land I’ve owned for a decade.
 I am becoming  disabled, and can […]

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 innovative and creative home broadcasters. Experience underground music and culture from all parts of the globe created by dozens of weekly live broadcasters. Every two […]

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 City debut at The Tank on November 13 at 9:30 p.m. (354 W. 45th St.). Tickets can be purchased for $10 at the door or […]

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 this November and December to meet & eat with young, new and beginning farmers and our supporters. We are in the preliminary stages of the […]

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 outside of Detroit. I spoke with her last week and she told me she would absolutely love for some young and energetic farmers to use […]

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 Light "I wanted to make maps gorgeous, seductive, delicious, and beautiful again,” says author Rebecca Solnit, whose 13th book, Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas […]

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 […]

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 and good markets, we seek younger partners to keep the land in organic production. Potential for growth and expansion as experience grows. We are a […]

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 Brandon Sheard of Farmstead Meatsmith, who helped with the spit roast at the Washington mixer. Don't forget about the wine & cheese tasting on Saturday […]

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 have been wasted. As Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall remarked, "I think it's a brilliant way of highlighting the problem of food waste."

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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 created as a pilot of a model that may be replicated nationally and globally to help new farmers overcome four common barriers to entry: access […]

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 organic farming. This year, we are excited to announce scholarships to attend the conference for beginning farmers and ranchers in North and South Carolina. The […]

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 $15,000 worth of their expertise to make it happen. But first we have to be one of the top twenty finalists of the 150. Which […]

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. By Amanda Kimble-Evans Severine von Tscharner Fleming is a Pied Piper of sorts--joyfully leading young people into farming--and her goals are lofty. She wants to throw […]

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 merriment and sanity. Want to be involved? Have some ideas to share, some organizer muscles to flex? If you are in NYC and are into […]

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 by lamenting a modern society that not only throws away both animal and human manure—worth billions of dollars in fertilizer value—but that spends a staggering […]

[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 or orphaned wild animals returning them to the wild. We rescue all species, including eagles. We specialize in predators, especially wild canids. Agricultural Program Wolftown […]

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 border to work with a humanitarian aid organization called No More Deaths who’s mission is to end the deaths and suffering of folks migrating to […]

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 the seed of a cosmic shift in how farming is practiced and portrayed in America, I offer you my story: I’m 26 years old, and […]