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From the Working Lands Alliance: contact your HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE today and urge them to vote today in support of HB5419 as amended by LCO 4811, and to co-sponsor the bill.     This is a great bill to keep local food and farms growing in CT, call or email your House Rep today! Find my legislator   […]

those nice websites of the nice farmers are an inspiration to us all. like this one: http://www.bareknucklefarm.com/ do you know of another great farm site? tell us about it: [email protected]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc2JfUBraGw&feature=player_embedded] Kindest Regards, Rob

just out in the nytimes: For Corn Syrup, the Sweet Talk Gets Harder By MELANIE WARNER Published: April 30, 2010 FOR much of 2009, Michael Locascio, an executive at ConAgra Foods, watched with concern as the bad news about high-fructose corn syrup kept coming

here is a little note from our friend Patrick Connors of The Farm School - a wonderful resource for young farmers. Dear Greenhorns, Very cool new web pages have just been launched for The Farm School's adult farmer training program at Maggie's Farm! http://www.farmschool.org/prog_practicalfarm.html Check it out! Tell your friends! And please email us ([email protected]) […]

for your sunday morning enjoyment. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8VHc49ZdP4]

Eating Liberally and the Food Systems Network NYC invite you to join us on May 3rd at 6:30 pm for a screening of Pressure Cooker, an uplifting documentary about a hilariously tough (but loving) high school teacher in Philly named Wilma Stephenson who puts her underprivileged urban students through a kind of culinary boot camp […]

Fresh Produce Safety Training in Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) The Clemson Sustainable Agriculture Program and Clemson Cooperative Extension with support from the South Carolina Department of Agriculture are conducting a series of two-day trainings in Good Agricultural Practices, focusing on fresh produce food safety. All Extension personnel and other agricultural professionals who work with vegetable […]

a summer throwdown! from our friends at germantown community farm in upstate NY: Here it is once more...the burst of spring has got us strapping on our dancing shoes, clearing out the barn, and cooking up a storm for the big old spring hoedown we're calling the "Feed the Radio Benefit Party". Please join us […]

about how much money is in the federal budget. http://www.wimp.com/budgetcuts/

Same guy(s), new post(s) Meatncheese!

This is a wonderful blog discussing NW weather. He has forecasts but also explains weather we've had & why it happens. Helpful for farmers! Cliff Mass Weather Blog (thanks Chandler!)

from Les Blank. In April of 1858, Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy  wrote to Alexandra Tolstoy, his aunt twice-removed and his closest confidante. He called her babushka,or grandmother, as a sort of joke, although she wasn't much older than him. He wrote: "Babushka! It's spring! It is so good to be alive on this earth, for […]

We're looking for a farmer / farm couple with expertise in vegetables, berries, fruit, mushrooms, medicinal herbs and / or livestock to help re-create a farm, preferably using permaculture principles, on this 150-year-old former dairy farm. It's 200 acres, about 50 acres pasture / meadow, most of the rest forest, in East Meredith, NY (Delaware […]

this wonderful film festival is on tour!  With many films, including our 20 minute cut. For a list of tour dates click HERE

This just in from our scientist friend Lucas Patzek.  I have just moved to Washington State University's research station in Mount Vernon, which is about 30 minutes south of Bellingham. I'm finishing up my research on nitrogen use efficiency in organic/low-input wheat-potato systems. There will be some exciting workshops and educational events, including breeding for […]

we cannot wait for this. culture tracker and magic maker: megan prelinger (greenhorn librarian wunderlady ), has produced a book! A marvelous, highly anticipated treatment of marginalia-- as interpreted thru the study of pop zeitgeist blusterdoms. *Read a nice article about the book.

What do women have to do with what America eats? Everything. With a hands-on guide for the sustainable food movement Proving that we all can have an impact Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat by Temra Costa, will change the way you view your relationship with food. Farmer Jane is a compelling work […]

Our farm of 60+ acres mixed use lands was build in the 1830′s – 1840′s. It consists of a main house, a large 4 story post and beam barn, a maple house, and several other out buildings. We work the sugar bush, 4 acres of market crops, a large greenhouse, several acres of pasture which […]

"greenhorn at heart" sarah parker sent us this note about a great farming project in oregon. White Oak Farm & Education Center is a lovely little nonprofit in Williams, Oregon. It's a community-funded venture that functions with the help of some brave young farmers.

a fantastic resource for greenhorns!   dozens of jobs and internships have been posted in the last month. Check it out.

solaro! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GCNPIslTtg via Pacific Renewables Group

A new book by Heather Rogers.  Read the NYTimes review HERE. , or check out one of the discussions and  signings around the country. Green Gone Wrong takes the reader into forests, fields, factories, and boardrooms around the world to draw out the unintended consequences, inherent obstacles, and successes of the products and practices that […]

Re-post of an article recently published in The Root. An Earth Day Solution For Urban Food Deserts With their ''guerrilla'' tactics, black organic farmers are taking Malcolm X's mandate of ''by any means necessary'' and turning it green. It is time, they say, to change an unhealthy paradigm. By: Frank McCoy | April 22, 2010 […]

Severine was recently chosen by Grist as one of 40 people who are "redefining green".  Check it out!

Seeking volunteers for the season! We are two adult daughters and one Dad seeking volunteers for the garden season. We live 45 minutes north of Asheville, NC, 20 minutes from downtown Marshall, 10 minutes from the French Broad River. We Offer: a Yome with a wood stove, outhouse,solar shower over looking stream and pasture, camping […]

Celebrate May Day at SOMArts on Saturday, May 1, 2010 from 12 to 5 p.m. Let's prepare the gardens for summer arts programming. We'll to some weeding, leveling/laying pavers, beating back the bamboo brush, cutting limbs, general upkeep, & maybe even install a drip irrigation system. Light refreshments provided. SOMArts 934 Brannan St, San Francisco, CA 94123 this […]

as paula notes, "Farm life, chic agrarianism, and rural color are inspiring fashion!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTi1qpq1K9Y what do we think of this strange trending?

Another (Sub)Urban Homestead In the City of Petaluma, we are converting a 1950's tract home into a productive and sustainable food source. Packing the yards with gardens, fruit trees and chickens and doing away with the front lawn, we hope to be part of the solution and an inspiration to passers by.

by Fred Bahnson; April 20, 2010 published in Faith & Leadership John Jeavons expects that 20 years from now most of the world’s people will be struggling to eat. Jeavons, a developer of sustainable agriculture methods, delivered this dire message at a three-day workshop I recently attended. Although his vision might seem to approach the […]

Here is a smart project that is in competition for funding from Dell.  To vote, click on "promote" on the project's page. Break it Down’s vision is to divert food wastes to local agricultural production to help feed the hungry. We are a triple-bottom line social enterprise which works to conserve natural resources by providing a […]

By Sarah Murray, FT.com. April 24, 2010. Until a few weeks ago Callum Saunders’ tiny east London balcony was packed with planters – but not only ones containing flowers or herbs. In an experiment to see just what edible produce he could grow at his small flat in Hackney he filled small containers with rocket […]

the tao seeger band is on tour. catch them, quick! http://www.myspace.com/taorodriguezseeger

NSAC is working with the Rural Coalition, National Family Farm Coalition and several other groups to ensure that the costs of paying for improvements to child nutrition programs and for the Pigford settlement do not come at the expense of hard-won gains to USDA conservation programs.  We have written the letter below to call attention […]

The Hudson Valley Seed Library wants to help you show your mama some love, and have put together an all new Mother's Day Gift Basket with five beautiful Art Packs and some New York-grown dried flowers. Their Old World Gift Basket, New World Gift Basket, and Full Set Gift Baskets are available as well. Any can be sent […]

mules and more, missouri ( magazine) western mule ( magazine) ADMS, (american donkey and mule society) courtesy of: Clarence Wilson, Hood River OR mule enthusiast.

When: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 from 9am to 4pm Where: Sauvie Island Organics, Sauvie Island, OR What: Josh Volk, of Slow Hand Farm, will be teaching this intensive which will cover prevention, timing, equipment set up and options, and other strategies for killing weeds in vegetable production systems.   The workshop is aimed at the small to […]

by Ewen MacAskill. guardian.co.uk, Thursday 22 April 2010 Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, donated $30m (£19.5m) to a new fund to help poor farmers today in an effort to push wealthy countries into fulfilling promises to stump up billions in aid. The Gates Foundation has focused primarily on health issues but sees aid for […]

For the record, these constant competitions are a bit repetitious.  Aren't we supposed to be strengthening our team muscles? Almost 400 local food enterprises have been nominated for Slow Money Alliance's "Best Business" competition: from tiny CSAs to growing family farms, local-centric restaurants, retailers, wholesalers, niche organic brands and other fascinating businesses of every shape […]

Severine hits the airwaves on this week's grow-op on Radio Ecoshock, gettin down to business and talking about getting back to the land! getting out, growing where you are, feeding the city, from the city.