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2010-2011 Winter/Spring Season Livestock Farmer wanted for diversified Eastern Catskills NY Farm Old Field Farm is looking for a full-time livestock farmer to work and live on-site in Cornwallville, NY, beginning Spring 2011. The end date for the position is currently negotiable. MISSION Our farm explores the interaction and mutual benefit of art and agricultural […]

There are only 3 days left in our kickstarter campaign - we've raised a lot, but we've got a ways to go if we're going to get funded! The Pitch. So what do we want to do now? 1. Take our film all over the country and get many more young people psyched about entering […]

This show featured the Rodale Institute last weekend, and you can watch all of the episodes online! Growing a Greener World on American Public Television.

These great cheese makers  have donated to TWO greenhorns mixers. And their cheese is top o' the notch.  We need to remember to support small cheese makers. They could double or triple production but don't have the markets to do so in some cases.  Seek them out.  Ask for them at the store. Take your […]

a super wonderful mountain project above portland Wealth Underground Farm

This conference is coming right up, and is a good one! The Carbon Ranch: Using Food and Stewardship to Build Soil and Fight Climate Change November 10-12, 2010 – Albuquerque, N.M. Quivira Community, If you have already registered for the conference we look forward to seeing you in just a few weeks, if not, remember […]

Great news as a result of our Washington Young Farmer mixer...here's a note from an attendee. Nine of us carpooled to the WA Greenhorns mixer last week, and were amazed to see about 250 people at the Vashon Grange for the pig roast, potluck, and square dancing. I'd guess that about 200 of those were […]

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Inaugural Issue of JAFSCD Is Online! The inaugural issue of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development(JAFSCD) is now online. The first issue of this international, peer-reviewed journal of applied research and policy analysis is currently open and available free to the public atwww.AgDevJournal.com. This allows you to check out the first issue before […]

it is an amazing program. Part of what is awesome about federally coordinated policy objectives: Sustainable Agriculture Research + Education. here is a podcast intro: http://wsare.usu.edu/

Feeding Health or Disease? The 2012 Farm Bill November 2, 2010, 11 am CT (9 a.m. PT --10am MT --12 pm ET) In this webinar, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Medical Director and IATP Food and Society Fellow alumnus Eduardo Sanchez, MD, MPH, will explore the parallels between health reform and the Farm Bill. Anne Haddix, Ph.D., […]

this one by director of "Real Dirt on Farmer John, taggart siegel http://vimeo.com/10971927

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba97nG2Bvyg] Last month, the University of Minnesota caused a stir when it decided to postpone the release of a film that focuses on the effect agriculture is having on U.S. waterways from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Troubled Waters–a film directed by Larkin McPhee for the University’s Bell Museum of Natural History, part of […]

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Have you seen Anya's photos? They are so good. She's co-curating this photo exhibit in California. A Sense of Place: Contemporary Agrarian Photography - Call for Submissions Farmer-photographers are invited to submit up to 6 images by November 15, 2010 on the theme of "a sense of place." 18 Reasons curators will select 2-3 images […]

With great excitement, we invite you to join us at the first-ever Tri-State Farm & Food Conference to be held in Huntington, West Virginia on Saturday, November 6, 2010.  A release on the conference is below. Registration information and detailed workshop information can be found at: http://smallfarmcenter.ext.wvu.edu/events/Farmfoodconference. This conference was born from the desire to revolutionize […]

PCC Farmland Trust (Seattle, WA) is hiring an Americorps Stewardship Intern to assist with our Farmland Stewardship Program.  This is a great opportunity to learn more about farmland preservation and stewardship, natural resource management, sustainable agriculture, non-profit/land trust management, and issues related to local food systems. This position is in partnership with the Northwest Service Academy […]

Our West Coast Tour continues - join us this Friday at Frey Vineyards!

wonderful programming this fall from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Wednesday, October 13th | 6 to 8 pm Mulch, Leaves, and Cover Crops: How to Protect and Improve Your Soil The key to beautiful, healthy plants is the soil in which they grow. In this workshop, learn the basics of soil structure, organic fertilizers, soil amendment […]

Harvesting Media Coverage: New NSAC Program Champions Farmers' Voices What’s one of the most underutilized assets of the sustainable agriculture movement?  It’s the authentic and inspiring personal stories of the farmer innovators practicing sustainable and organic agriculture across our country.  A new NSAC program aims to tap into this force for change:  Farm & Agriculture […]

It Takes A Region NESAWG Conference.  Greenhorns are throwing a Young & Beginning Farmer Mixer! A  WORKING CONFERENCE TO BUILD OUR NORTHEAST FOOD SYSTEM REGISTRATION NOW OPEN WHEN: November 12-13, 2010 Pre-conference trainings on November 11 WHERE: Desmond Hotel and Conference Center, Albany, NY AGENDA and CONFERENCE INFORMATION: Visit www.ittakesaregion.org. REGISTRATION: EARLY BIRD DEADLINE is […]

Dear Uncle sam, Dear eaters. While young muscles are brave, they are not invincible. We need to improve the odds for new farmers. Here is a sad story: The End of Our Farm

Which is abstract and big. Farming is direct and tangible. It should be easier for us http://www.350.org/en/resources/media

A course starting in December 2010 will provide both new and experienced farmers with the tools to develop agricultural business plans to start or grow their businesses. “Building a Sustainable Business” will be offered in three locations – Rutland, St. Johnsbury, and Berlin, Vermont. The course is designed for farmers who are thinking about a […]

LOCAL ORGANIZATION LANDS MAJOR FEDERAL GRANT The Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming will launch a three-year training program for beginning farmers and market gardeners The EcoVillage at Ithaca Center for Sustainability Education is pleased to announce that its agricultural initiative, the Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming, will receive a three-year grant […]

From WGBY, Episode #211: Thursday, September 9, 2010 http://www.wgby.org/localprograms/ecoexchange/video.html This special edition of Eco Exchange will examine four local farms in Western MA that are using the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) business model. CSA farms, on the rise in America, but especially in New England, are farms that sell shares to individuals and families in […]

News from Stone Barns... This December 2 and 3, Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture will present its third annual Young Farmers Conference: Reviving the Culture of Agriculture, a program especially for young and new farmers. This year’s event will be a forum for over 200 participants to learn from agricultural luminaries, peers, and […]

I am a contaminator of the world via e-waste. I saw this slideshow online. http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/08/04/magazine/20100815-dump.html good for us digital farmy types to tune into the afterlife of our powerful fingertips and maybe we should fight back against the planned obsolescence

Organic Farm Education Internship on Live Earth Farm Interested in spending the school year on the Central Coast of California? Description: Live Earth Farm, established in 1996, is an 80 acre diversified, organic, family farm overlooking the Pajaro Valley in the Santa Cruz area of California.  We offer a year round CSA with 850 members […]

Our friend & fellow punk yeoman greenhorn Shawn McMahon at Out of Step Farms in Goleta is looking for more land. Here is another strapping, hardworking young farmer who wants land, and is hitting some dead ends. Anyone have a connection in Santa Barbara county? Does this story sound familiar to you? Write Shawn at […]

We need agricultural research to support the transition of our foodsystem to regional production-- not making candy bars into little candy coated bite size pieces. Convenience is killing us. Lets begin the awkward and unglamorous logistics of redesigning our foodsystem to feed us properly. GRRR. Obama taps food-industry exec for top ag-research post From Grist.org: […]

a story by Roseanne Pereira in Heavy Table. When I first see Laura Frerichs at her 40-acre farm in Hutchinson, MN, there’s a blue cloudless sky and the sun is shining. As I drive up, I can see the fields to the left, a greenhouse, and Frerichs in jeans, glasses, and a wide hat. She […]

a project of our friend and fellow greenhorns, Trace Ramsey.  Another successful kickstarter campaign that could use an extra push in the last hours! Kickstarter Project HERE

in new york! GROW NUT TREES The fall meeting of the New York Nut Growers Association will be at SUNY, Morrisville, 80 Eaton St., Morrisville, NY 13408, (which is 16 miles south of Exit 34 on US 90, between Syracuse and Utica), on Saturday, October 23 from,  9 to 3.  This fall colors at this […]

another great blog and project. http://www.workingvillages.org/blog/ Working Villages International is founded on the principle that all people deserve access to meaningful employment and a high quality of life. We believe that people don't want to be eternally dependent on others, but instead want a means of supporting themselves and their families with dignity. We provide […]

Knowing about programs like this could turn some people on. There's potential here for farmer activists to work with rural communities (ideally their own) to develop projects that the USDA funds. A cannery or community value add kitchen facility, for example. http://sustainableagriculture.net/blog/community-facilities-grants/

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TONIGHT! The Greenhorns tour kicks off at the Vashon Island Grange Hall at 5pm, with tons of information for young & beginning farmers, live music, spit roasted pig & lamb, delicious local cheeses & rustic bread, root roasted veggies, potato salads, big green salads, black beans rice & sweet potatoes, pickled radishes, cherry tomato salad, […]

we've blogged about them before, but now they've got their facebook page up - check it out: Generation Organic.  The tour starts in 3 days. “Generation Organic”—a group of young, dynamic, organic farmers—is rolling onto college campuses and the Capitol this October in their veggie oil-powered school bus!

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