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sophomoric, but still relevant. Open Letter to a Cloned Sheep, Pig, Broiler or Dairy Creature by Severine von Tscharner Fleming "Dear Dolly, It seems that the US Food and Drug Administration, in all its wisdom, has decided that US citizens will be safe eating cloned animal products. Yes, Dolly, that means ewe, your lambs and […]

New Exhibition of Photography by Rachel Barrett Baxter & Cook Art Advisors is pleased to announce "Of the Land" the first solo exhibition and the West Coast debut of New York-based photographer Rachel Barrett. Through her photographs we enter into the cohesive intricacy of relationships that exist in Bolinas, the love of and responsibility for the […]

IMPACT A series of stories about films making change How do social issue documentary films do more than just raise awareness? Are you a documentary filmmaker looking for the formula to take your film to the next level? IMPACT is a new series of videos created by Working Films and The Fledgling Fund focused on […]

the winners got a new pick-up.  Young Farmers and Ranchers Take Top Honors SEATTLE, January 12, 2010 – Winners of the Young Farmers & Ranchers (YF&R) Achievement Award, Discussion Meet and Excellence in Agriculture competitions were announced yesterday at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 91st annual meeting. Young farmers from around the United States competed […]

NATIONAL RURAL YOUTH ASSEMBLY in Santa Fe, New Mexico The National Rural Assembly will host a National Rural Youth Assembly on April 22-25, 2010, at the Institute for American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Assembly seeks 50 young adults from rural communities across the country who will gather to discuss the issues they see as critical to […]

The Sterling College Farm Apprentice Program is an experiential, immersive learning and leadership opportunity for passionate, inspired, and enthusiastic individuals seeking to work on a diversified year-round teaching farm and live in a small close-knit college community beginning in July 2010. Apprentices participate in all aspects of daily farm management, supervise Sterling College students in […]

seeing as how NAIS went away because of consumer pressure, perhaps we can work on our freedom to use kava as well. thoughts? Oppose the Freedom-Destroying Dietary Supplement Safety Act New legislation targeting nutritional supplements would considerably broaden the Food and Drug Administration´s (FDA) already expansive regulatory authority by allowing the FDA to impose draconian […]

this takes place March 15. More than ever before, we need to tell our state leaders why they have to invest in New York’s farm and food system.  Severe and disproportionate cuts to New York’s food, environment and agricultural programs have been proposed in Governor Paterson’s 2010-2011 State Budget.

this article just came out in The Atlantic. How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America The Great Recession may be over, but this era of high joblessness is probably just beginning. Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults. It will leave an indelible […]

A lovely lady from Lilac Ridge farm, near brattleboro,  is milking fifty head of Holsteins and Brown Swiss. Together we conspired to hold a young dairy maid - herd management social. Next January. Into Dairy? Get on the list. It will be in the the Champlain Valley somewhere.

presented by our friends at Just Food. The Just Food Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in NYC Conference is an opportunity for CSA members from around the city and farmers to come together for a day of workshops and discussion. In addition to the workshops, there will be a panel discussion with CSA farmers when attendees […]

and very important for us to be publicly grateful for. I recently had a spat with some fancy conference organizers who wanted agrarian presence but weren't willing to cover gas and expenses for the farmers--. We live in an economy that undervalues farmers time, makes them shlepp hustle and burn. But as we form social […]

via our friends at Common Ground Farm, a bit south of us in the Hudson Valley. Old-Time Maple Sugaring-Off Party & Community Dance Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010 Time: 1:00 - 7:00 PM, dinner/dance starts at 5:00 PM Location: The Randolph School, 2467 Rte 9D, Wappingers Falls, NY (1 mile south of the village of […]

On Feb. 5, USDA released the 2010 Request for Applications (RFA) to the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Competitive Grant program. The Application deadline is April 6, 2010 The RFA is available at: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/funding/rfas/bfrdp.html More program information is available at: http://www.csrees.usda.gov/fo/beginningfarmerandrancher.cfm

Frost Valley YMCA Farm Camp is hiring for several positions for the season - cooks and counselors.  Check out the camp here. and download job descriptions here and here

we met Liana at NOFA VT. She's looking for a good crew for the season. I'm the farm manager at The Mountain School in Vershire, VT. I am looking to hire a crew of hard working people for this coming farm season, May-September. We are a small, diversified, organic (not certified) farm producing vegetables and […]

here's a note we received from some aspiring agrarians who are also making some pretty rad tshirts.  Dear Greenhorns Community- I recently wrote to Anne to say how much my husband Brent and I have enjoyed the Greenhorns blog. It's great to know that there are so many young and aspiring farmers out there. We […]

tonight!  the first Local X Local, a monthly event presented by Brooklyn Brewery & Brooklyn Bowl which celebrates Brooklyn’s local art & music community. this edition features The Phenomenal Handclap Band. we will be there with Annie Novak of the Eagle Street Rooftop Farm to plot, plan+ prepare for summer gardens on rooftops, fire escapes, backyards […]

WHAT: Green Edge NYC is partnering with bk farmyards for their monthly BCL Supper Club to raise funds for the Youth Farm developed by bk farmyards and the High School for Public Service in Crown Heights / East Flatbush to start the 1-Acre Farmyard! Come and enjoy a delicious meal, topped off with cocktails from Sister […]

Be there on February 26 for an evening of delicious food, music and conversation to raise funds for New York City's first Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners conference scheduled for April 10, 2010 at Brooklyn College. Where: The Horticultural Society of New York 148 W 37th street, 13th floor New York, NY 10018 When: February […]

Exit Art and Waterpod are excited to introduce a night of multimedia performance from a generation of young artists and innovators. Join the party to benefit Exit Art’s SEA (Social Environmental Aesthetics) program and Waterpod. A New Breed reimagines social space and revises the notion of the Happening in 2010. It presents a group of […]

Greenhorns, this is a terrific opportunity - particularly for the artistic types out there. Holler Farm is an artist-run, 106-acre farm located in Oxford, New York, in the Southern Tier. We are seeking interns who are interested in learning about diverse organic agriculture using manual, tractor, and draft animal power.

is finally talking about these important issues. and you can listen in! Agriculture and Antitrust Enforcement Issues in Our 21st Century Economy Workshop Information The U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will hold a series of joint public workshops to explore competition issues affecting the agricultural sector in […]

Peachcrest Fruit Basket Organic Orchard. There are lots of photos, and a helpful Q&A. FOR SALE BY OWNER $349,000, Negotiable

that many of us wandering activists feel most keenly while driving hours and hours in the volvo.  more info is here [vodpod id=Video.3074238&w=425&h=350&fv=] more about "Ain’t That The Way – St. Eliot & Co.", posted with vodpod

we have found some model leases in our trawls thru the internet and have started compiling them. If you have any could you please send them our way? specifically to [email protected] Here are some examples at Chatham Keep Farming.org. We are looking for truly exemplary ones. Thanks!

Foodprint NYC is the first in a series of international conversations about food and the city. From a cluster analysis of bodega inventories to the cultural impact of the ice-box, and from food deserts to peak phosphorus, panelists will examine the hidden corsetry that gives shape to urban foodscapes, and collaboratively speculate on how to […]

our lovely friend and former intern Anya passed this notice on. My stepfather Paul Clipson is an accomplished experimental film maker, and his most recent film, which I was lucky enough to take part in, will be in this Saturday's "Apparent Motion" fest at the Victoria Theatre in San Francisco.

The Women's Agricultural Network of Vermont (which is a terrific resource in general) is teaching a course on using social marketing.   "Using Facebook as a Marketing Tool for Farm Businesses." It's the 24th of Feb and 24th of March. Online. These two on-line sessions are designed for farm business owners and employees who are not […]

The National Organic Coalition (NOC) today announced its "high praise" for the final rule on the access to pasture requirement for organic livestock published by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). USDA's February 12th action announcing the final rule comes nearly four years after a USDA National Organic Program (NOP) pasture symposium served as […]

The industrial powerhouse of a lost American era has died, and the skeleton left behind is present-day Detroit.  Enter Urban Roots. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ptPuYtmbU] But now, against all odds in the empty lots, in the old factory yards, and in-between the sad, sagging blocks of company housing, seeds of change are taking root.

Decades ago, Dan or Dandy Doodles were one of the country-cured meats delivered to folks throughout rural Southside Virginia. A Dan Doodle (or Tom Thumb) is a unique, hickory-smoked sausage in a natural casing sourced from the lower intestine of the pig, that is still sold today, mostly in rural areas. S. Wallace Edwards & […]

a fundraiser for our good friends at Growing Chefs Join us on Saturday, February 27th as we gather foodies, green thumbs, and chefs to celebrate the art of eating well from field to fork.

so says The Star, a newspaper out of Toronto, in this article. By Jennifer Bain Food Editor The wooden butcher block of food that Mark Trealout and Laura Boyd put out for our visit to their Kawartha Lakes farmhouse is a thing of beauty. Finger-sized slices of ham and free-form sausages, both made from their […]

this is the tension in the movement that keeps us all on our toes. eliot v. gary... The future of farming and food at the Eco Farm Conference by Makenna Goodman Last week I went to California for the 2010 Eco Farm Conference—a three-day organic farming extravaganza featuring big names (and big influences of the […]

the greenhorn circular is a quarterly online trove of young farmer writing, art, activism, and reportage. the first, training-wheels issue came out last december and the next issue will come out on march 15. submit to issue no. 2: "the rides of march" which will focus particularly on the uses of bikes in farming.

in Chatham, NY. tomorrow is the deadline to submit a film! Sunday, March 7 from 1:00-4:00pm Crandell Theatre in Chatham, NY for an afternoon of farming films. We typically show one professionally produced documentary (60-90 minutes) plus a variety of short films made by and/or about local farms and farming issues. If you are a […]

TONIGHT in charlottesville: the musical stylings of paul curreri and devon sproule in at the intimate Southern music hall, it's their annual valentine's duet concert. read on for the rest of paul curreri's trek up the east coast, from VA to NY to ME.

Chefs Chris Kronner of Bar Tartine in San Francisco and Sean Rembold of Diner in Brooklyn team up to create a 4-course dinner featuring Devil's Gulch rabbits. There will be signature cocktails and wine pairings. A portion of the proceeds will go toward the Pasternak's fund to help the community in Haiti that they serve.  WHEN + WHERE […]

our good friend Zoë asked us to pass along word that her farm is looking for a new farmhand! family owned, draft horses, veggies + fruits, and the glorious oregan countryside-- what are you waiting for? Flora Valley Farm is a diversified fresh market farm in Langlois, Oregon, located on the (very) rural Southern Oregon Coast (70 miles […]