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Check out this documentary - Pressure Cooker. [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3277476&w=425&h=350&fv=videofile%3D..%2Ffiles%2Fflv1%2FPCTrailer1.flv%26autoplay%3Dfalse] more about "TakePart | Official Pressure Cooker M...", posted with vodpod Three seniors at Philadelphia's Frankford High School find an unlikely champion in the kitchen of Wilma Stephenson. A legend in the school system, Mrs. Stephenson's hilariously blunt boot-camp method of teaching Culinary Arts is validated […]

WHEN: 3pm Saturday August 29 till Sunday August 30th afternoon WHERE: Smithereen Farm – 286 Pleasantvale Rd. Nevis, NY FEATURING: the Rude Mechanical Orchestra and lively nighttime music by DJs Shan K and Kokle Doodle Dews near the mermaid pond *** Crop mob field party starting Saturday at 3*** FOOD: Smithereen muscovy ducks, rabbits and […]

It's easy - just visit our Serve Your Country Food website and click on "Join the Map" Here's a little blurb from takepart.com: Serve Your Country Food: A Map of Young Farmers You may have heard that more young farmers are joining the sustainable food movement everyday, and now you’re probably saying to yourself, “Great!  […]

More on the Farm Beginnings program... We at Hawthorne Valley Farm are excited about a new program that we will be offering beginning in October 2009, called Hudson Valley Farm Beginnings®. This program will include nine classroom sessions in on-farm goal setting, strategic and business planning, marketing, and financial management, for those interested in developing […]

Some great events this weekend: Food Justice Revival concert in Wassaic, NY August 28th Food Security Roundtable seasonal gathering, also in Wassaic, NY August 29th For more information, check out http://www.foodpower.org/

Big Spuds, Little Spuds The impact of climate change and monoculture on one of the world's staple food crops. a fantastic film from BULLFROG FILMS. about potatoes in peru, and potatoes in idaho. with fantastic talking head Pat Mooney of  ETC group

greenhorns ally Mark Andrew Gravel of Agrarian Art Lab is behind this new mag. Not Your Average Food Porn: Food + Sex Previews Nationwide New collage art food magazine Food + Sex = Us (Food + Sex) previews nationwide late this summer with bicoastal dates scheduled for the Eat Real Festival at Jack London Square […]

Greenhorns - here is a great opportunity from MOFGA - Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association CALL for APPLICATIONS for 2010-2011 MOFGA's Farmer-in-Residence (F.I.R.) Program offers aspiring farmers committed to organic agriculture and public outreach the opportunity to live and farm at MOFGA's Common Ground Education Center in Unity, Maine. Farmers-in-Residence participate in MOFGA's Journeyperson […]

Young Farmers!  This is a 'blast survey'. It should take 2 minutes. Please fill it out by following this link: https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEthMkZQcWR3ZXFpZ1Y2SzFHWVBLVEE6MA.. Some of you may have filled out our longer survey at www.serveyourcountryfood.net But frankly, most of you have not. We are trying to gather quantitative and qualitative data about the experience of young farmers […]

This comes to us via our good friends at the Hudson Valley Seed Library. Greetings! Do you have the blight blues? We do. And we've decided to do something about it! We're biting back with our new Blightee. Many of we tomato-loving farmers and gardeners are devastated this August. During a month that ordinarily finds […]

a re-post from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle Avant-Garde Agriculture, Architecture Meet in B’klyn Futurists’ Workshop Attracts Students From All Over World By Stephen Rex Brown BROOKLYN — When Dr. Mitchell Joachim appeared on the Colbert Report he was only a short subway ride from his laboratory, where he and a group of fellow futurists envision […]

so much going on. so much bloomy fungality on my cucurbits. all the clothes hanging on doorknobs breezes dry overwhelment. feeling a bit like this song: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn22KsLG0wo&NR=1]

and stir up some trouble. Our favorite day of the week around here is Thursday. Why? because that's the day of our favorite radio show. Its called "The MODERN WORLD" and its on WFMU hosted by a zany pixie called DJ trouble http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/LM We're listening to it now. You too can listen online with a […]

This re-post comes to us via a new blog - Friend of the Farmer.  A great opportunity for one of you greenhorns out there! The Race Brook Lodge, a 30-room hotel located on one of the most picturesque roads in The Berkshires, is looking for a farmer. When many young and enthusiastic farmers scramble to […]

new farmers. new foods.  particularly new foods made with green tomatoes! there are some amusing, witty entries here.  let's pepper them with some farm-fresh fare. McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Reviews of New Food Got a new food you'd like to review? Send your review to [email protected]

This site has got a lot of landed farmboys on it. Yes, they are mostly conventional farmers. Let's convert them one by one! Farmers for the Future: http://farmersforthefuture.ning.com/ Here's their latest e-blast: We now have more than 2,000 members from all 50 U.S. states and 100 countries. We’ve generated more than 1.2 million page views […]

with pig as unwilling participant. via boing boing [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZof9PSEB7k&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.boingboing.net%2F2009%2F08%2F17%2Fjapanese-pig-rodeo.html&feature=player_embedded] actually, there is quite an amazing young farmers' movement in japanese, which we will have more to say about later. For now here's some reading material: Civil Eats: Finding a Model in Japan's Young Farmer Corps Global Voices: Go Farm, Young Man! - How Farming in […]

have you been listening? did you know you can hear us interview young farmers and artist ninjas and other fine folk each week? Greenhorn Radio is on the Heritage Radio Network. last week's radio show was at 2pm. which means many of our loyal listeners missed it live. so go to the archive of the […]

Learning from the European Experience to Increase Wheat Production and Quality in New England via the Heritage Wheat Conservancy: Biodiversity is at the heart of a robust community food system. People are seeking the rich flavor and nutrition of heirloom varieties. When peoples immigrated to the New World, they brought landrace wheats from their homelands. […]

'Trees of life' are vital food source Miranda Spitteler BBC News The "famine food" of trees can keep drought-hit communities alive when all other food crops fail, says Miranda Spitteler. In this week's Green Room, she argues that policy makers need to recognise the important role trees play in providing emergency food aid. Food insecurity […]

WHAT: September Field Days WHEN: Sunday, September 13th, 11 AM into the evening WHERE: High Mowing Organic Seeds Trial & Showcase Gardens in Wolcott, VT A celebration of local food and agriculture in the Northeast Kingdom! Hosted by High Mowing Organic Seeds in collaboration with The Center for an Agricultural Economy and the New England […]

As farmers age, plans match aspirants with pros By Sharon Cohen The Associated Press RICHLAND, Iowa — He quit his job and drove his wife and their four young daughters across country, a 21st-century pioneer lured to these faraway farm fields by the promise of a life-changing deal with an older stranger. Isaac Phillips always […]

a love supreme. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1AoSTcdSPU&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmultimedia.slowfood.com%2Findex.php%3Flng%3D2%26method%3Dmultimedia%26action%3Dzoom%26id%3D30131&feature=player_embedded]

An ‘agri-intellectual’ talks back by Tom Philpott for Grist 14 Aug 2009 A lot of folks have asked what I think of the essay “The Omnivore’s Delusion: Against the Agri-intellectuals,” by Missouri corn/soy farmer Blake Hurst, published in The American, the journal of the right-wing American Enterprise Institute. My first reaction is that I’m thrilled […]

Sometimes we feature cool tools. This is a tool designed for outdoor peeing. It's called p-style. http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2007/04/pstyle.html and then there are these Japaneses knives. http://www.hidatool.com/shop/shop.html and Hoes. http://www.hidatool.com/shop/shop.html Do you know of some cool tools we should feature?

Sometimes we find interest in the passionate backs and forths. Studies have shown a decline in the nutrition ( vitamins, minerals and phytochemicals/antioxidents etc) in conventional foods over time. Now some English study contradicts this consensus and is causing a furor. Basically the Organic implication is that soil health affects plant health affects animal and […]

a greenhorns e-blast, anyway. If you'd like to receive more, sign up for our newsletter! all greenhorns - It is August. It is hot. At Smithereen Farm,  our Greenhorns headquarters is full of peaches, yellow squashes+ rosy-cheeked visitors. Yes, we got hit by the blight, but as I type the air is full of vinegar […]

There is such a lot going on this year still. We'd like to keep you abreast of it all. Sign up here: http://www.thegreenhorns.net/mailinglist.html

Severine and many other agricultural folks will be at the Waterpod Project. come join! My event is DIY 4H. we'll be working with amaranthus. see you there. - Severine SUNDAY, AUGUST 16: VISIT WATERPOD TO PARTICIPATE in a full day of events and workshops including Get Your Garden On from 1-7 PM, musical performances from […]

The latest from our friends Annie & Ben at Rooftop Farms: Greetings from the bridge between summer and fall! As tomato season begins, please remember to support our local organic farmers. Many of our upstate growers are looking at losing upwards of $30,000 this year in lost tomatoes and potatoes. Purchasing from them every week […]

howtohomestead.org has an amusing collection of (actually useful) videos on everything from kombucha to humanure.  worth a look.  They're also accepting submissions... [vodpod id=Groupvideo.3189308&w=425&h=350&fv=] more about "» Kombucha and You", posted with vodpod How to Homestead We fancy ourselves the only site on the web providing you with a collection of unique how to homestead […]

important book just released­ by Food First: Food Rebellions! Crisis and the Hunger for Justice By Eric Holt-Giménez and Raj Patel with Annie Shattuck Today there are over a billion hungry people on the planet, more than ever before in history. While the global food crisis dropped out of the news in 2008, it remains […]

but it seems that farming, and interfacing with the wildness, is good for our psyches. Slow Down: How Our Fast-Paced World Is Making Us Sick By Linda Buzzell, AlterNet. Posted July 2, 2009. Not so very long ago, humans -- like the rest of the animals and plants on earth -- moved through our natural […]

Curt Ellis & Ian Cheney, the truck farm-driving, award-winning filmakers responsible  King Corn, have planned an amazing crash course in independent documentary for early September.  Applications are due this week!  Read on, or just download the flyer and application here: Wicked Delicate Film School. WICKED DELICATE FILM SCHOOL a crash course in independent documentary september […]

With business planning, goal setting, marketing, land access. Bottom line: it starts October 17th, runs every saturday afternoon for 9 weeks and costs $1200 I'll be there!   - severine download the brochure here: farm beginnings brochure download the schedule here: farm beginnings schedule

mark your calendars... ( ) watermelon moonshine ( ) a night-time ripening + workparty. When: saturday august 29th afternoon+ sunday all day. What: a campout, flashmob, grill up, farm over. Where: Smithereen farm, Nevis, NY.

Greenhorn & artist Miranda Currie sent us some of her whimsical artwork recently, and we love it.  Here's a note from Miranda about her work and inspiration. I currently work as a farm apprentice and artist-in-residence at a small farm in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Northern California. My step-sister, Willow Hein, began […]

certainly many of you greenhorns out there are into photography.  It could you win you front row Farm Aid tickets!  Read on... (and while we're at it, if any of you would like to pass on some shots of your farm with a witty anecdote or too, or just tell the blogosphere how it's going […]

U.S. WORKING GROUP ON THE FOOD CRISIS CRITICIZES CLINTON/VILSACK TOUR OF KENYAN PRO-BIOTECH INSTITUTE USAID-Monsanto-KARI Spent $6 Million on Failed GM Sweet Potato Project (Washington D.C., Boston, MA, San Francisco, CA) - On the eve of an upcoming visit to the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Secretary of Agriculture […]

we'd like to celebrate and congratulate jeanne, who has created a cultural institution, actually just a list serve.  A nice compilation of NYC foodie events.  Read more & sign up at http://localgourmands.com/ Dear Local Gourmands, I'm writing from a cafe in downtown Astoria, OR where I've been on vacation for the past week visiting my […]