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A discussion between farmers on mental health and the challenges of being well while you work.

Author and activist David Bollier makes a case for commons based economics.

An excellent infographic.

Stay vigilant: "Save the Rainforest" is not a past decade's issue.

How do we make our farms centers for social justice?

Greenhorns, we want to point you in the direction of two texts on contemporary farm life! The first is The Journal if Peasant Studies, a publication that focuses rural politics and development. If you're a farmer, researcher, activist, or just plain curious about the breadth of the agrarian perspectives this is a great starting point! You can download […]

Featherbed Lane Farm, a full year and daft horse-powered CSA, is seeking a farm assistant for 2017.

New research demonstrates bees pack more smarts into their tiny little brains than we thought.

Intern with the Agricultural Stewardship this summer and gain skills in education, nonprofit project management, and farmland conservation.

A chance to see greenhorns founder talk farming in Ballymaloe.

The Oggún company created an innovative business model to build the perfect tractor-- and to make it affordable to small farmers everywhere.

What can rural farmers and suburban schools learn from New York City's educational urban farms?

Our friends at Kiss the Ground give us some sweet inspiration to get outside and find wild edibles and medicinals.

Dairy farmer apprenticeship training program opportunities in NY state.

California may be climbing out of its drought, but much of West Africa is struggling with the effects 0f climate change.

RFC Chapter Coordinator, Katy Giomboini explains what inspires her about the Rogue Farm Corps training model.

I met Kevin Morin in Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, a town on the outskirts of Montreal, and home to some of the last vestiges of agricultural land on the island metropolis. At the time Kevin was working for the Cooperative farm Tournesol. Recently Keven and Nikaela Lange both won the Beingessner Award for Excellence in Writing for essays outlining hopes for the new […]

Spoken word poet and radical self-love activist Sonya Renee Taylor gives us wisdom, first like a shot to the arm and then like a life-saving transfusion.

The Four Horsemen of the Good Food Movement: identifying weaknesses to make the movement stronger!

Liza Bemis grows veggies on her great-great grandfather's farm and spoke with us about how to create and maintain resilient farms in an ever-changing world.

Tech companies and the digital economy don't have to be all bad!

Registration is now open for delegates who would like to represent their regions at the Slow Food Nations summit in Denver July 14-16, 2017.

The deterioration of the Russian villages draws both eerie and hopeful parallels to rural America.

Vermont Public Radio article on the challenges new and old farmers face when accessing affordable health insurance.

This NPR report suggests that leaving NAFT could hurt American farmers, but we wonder if it could actually help small-scale agriculture.

Urban Adamah in Berkeley, CA is now accepting applications for its spring, summer, and fall fellowships.

Have you taken any time today to think about how great trees are? Andy Lipkis of Tree People in Los Angeles is on Kiss the Ground to right that wrong.

Mark Shepard, restoration agriculture guru, is teaching a workshop in Stephentown, NY.

In a time of heated rhetoric and disillusion how do we find ways to participate and join in with the communities and rural populations that we are moving to?

Applications being accepted now for Parish Farming School in Norwood, OH. All who are interested in the intersection of urban farming, food and faith are invited to submit an application to the Parish Farming School of Eucharistic Discipleship in Norwood, Ohio (a city smack dab in the middle of Cincinnati). It is a chance to […]

Accelerating Appalachia is a "word HUB for sustainable business," providing training to, coordinate mentorship for, and encourage financial investment in organizations who are "solving big problems with their business models." They work predominantly with women entrepreneurs, look to support students, and have even had farms in their accelerator program. If all of this sounds revolutionary […]

In the age of twitter leadership and instagram bill signings occasionally we see something that's worth mention. The Swedish government has just signed a new climate action plan that commits to phasing out greenhouse gas emissions by the year 2045. Really no need to contrast that historic decision with the likes of which we have […]

Miles Teitge is a young biodynamic farmer and educator, and he speaks to why young farmers and sustainable farming should move to Idaho.

There's a bottleneck problem in sustainable meat: increasingly more producers and consumers and fewer slaughterhouses equipped to get meat from one to the other.

Seed saving and small scale cacao farming in Costa Rica.

Celebrate the history of black farmers in the US and abroad with a night of films in Oakland, CA.

The latest post in our ongoing discussion about the inclusion of hydroponics in the National Organic Production standards comes from Helen Lee, a sustainability specialist, consulting and promoting local and sustainable businesses who currently works as a brand ambassador for a maple water company and holds a Master of Science degree in Sustainable Food Systems from Green Mountain College in […]

The NYS Agricultural Mediation Program is offering scholarships for mediation training to folks rooted in rural agrarian communities.

The Sacred Stones Camp at Standing Rock has put out the call for immediate emergency action to stop the drilling below the Missouri River for the Dakota Access Pipeline after yesterday's announcement by the Army Corps of Engineers of their intent to issue permission to proceed with construction, ignoring a previous order to conduct an […]

The Community Farm of Ann Arbor is looking to hire a head farmer.