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This is an exciting campaign from UC Santa Cruz... The "Grow a Farmer" Campaign — Help Cultivate the Next Generation of Organic Farmers and Gardeners There’s a revolution underway—from inner city farmers’ markets to community supported agriculture (CSA) programs to school cafeterias serving locally grown food, people across the country and the world are rejecting […]

these guys have been doing this bus for a while now. they do it their own way. with high quality drums and high quality hearts. pounding the pavement. ninjas of logistics and warriors of the light. rockstars of urban forestry. I love common vision. go see them in action!    Here's their update: Greetings, The consensus […]

Updates and events from the crew of Greenhorns at Mustard Seed Farm in Ames Iowa ... Haven't sent a newsletter out lately, and there's some things we'd like you to know about. so; Spring Festival: Saturday, May 16th, from 1-4 PM at the farm (366 W ave., Ames, IA, 50014) We're having our first event […]

via Comfood, some of Rodale's recent work... Carbon, Connections and Culture Toward an ecologically sound, greenhouse-gas reducing and socially just foodshed for New York City. Without factoring in farming systems work for the land and for farmers, big cities can’t develop healthy or sustainable regional food supplies.

Crop Rotation Planning Manual Now Available for Pre-Sale Crop Rotation on Organic Farms: A Planning Manual provides an in-depth review of the applications of crop rotation-including improving soil quality and health, and managing pests, diseases, and weeds. Consulting with expert organic farmers, the authors share rotation strategies that can be applied under various field conditions […]

Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers, Inc., a 501c(3) not-for-profit in Gainesville, Fla., seeks a Community Food Project Coordinator. Duties include serving as Principal Investigator (PI) on a one-year USDA Community Food Planning Grant and coordinating the GIFT Gardens program. Coordinator will work 30 hrs./wk. (15 hrs. per project) at $16/hr. Position is grant-funded; expanded […]

A good catalog for every Greenhorn to have.  No electricity required for any of the products!  This is the kind of resource we like to see.  Sustainable, but accessible - on the internet! Lehman's Non-Electric Catalog For over 25 years, we have published the Lehman's Non-Electric Annual Catalog®. Even though we now have our products […]

If you have to read about Swine Flu, you might as well read this.  And then go eat some pastured pork. The swine flu crisis lays bare the meat industry's monstrous power Mike Davis, guardian.co.uk, Monday, 27 April 2009 The Mexican swine flu, a genetic chimera probably conceived in the faecal mire of an industrial […]

wow! government enters new media... SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education) Outreach is pleased to announce a unique partnership with the online television series Cooking Up a Story to produce a series of videos highlighting SARE grantees and sustainable production and marketing practices. The two year project will produce a series of "how-to" technical videos […]

Blue House Farm Open House 2009 Saturday, May 2, 2-5PM We will be offering ongoing tours of the farm throughout the afternoon. Check out our new greenhouse and the young plants in the field.

Good News from the Biofuel folks out in Berkeley... check out their opening tomorrow if you're in the area. FINALLY!!! After 9 months of labor we are very happy to announce the birth of the NEW BioFuel Oasis!!!! Our new station will open THIS FRIDAY, May 1st (International Worker's Day) at 1441 Ashby Avenue in […]

Lynn Fleming makes some of the best soft goat cheeses around, near New Paltz, NY.  Great opportunity for a goat-loving Greenhorn! Good morning, I find myself in need of an immediate intern to assist in cheesemaking and care of our herd of nubian and lamancha does. Duties will be varied but will include milking, feeding, […]

Greenhorns in California, some great events happening tonight and this weekend! Free screening of The Garden Thursday, April 30, 2009, 6 P.M. Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave, Oakland, CA 94610 Come to the screening of this 2009 Academy Award Nominee for best documentary feature, followed by a panel discussion with the Garden Farm leaders, […]

Join Northeast Organic Wheat in the fields this summer! To farmers, gardeners, bakers and people that like to eat: Join us to liberate the almost-extinct heritage wheats buried in the frigid vaults of world genebanks. Prior to WWII, the reknowned plant explorer Nikolai Vavilov traveled the world to collect superior heritage wheats in remote villages […]

The Hudson Valley Seed Library is rockin' & rollin' this Spring. Lots of events, tips & opportunities. Catch Ken Greene this weekend at the Brooklyn Food Conference - Greenhorns will be there too!

New Hampshire Farm to School, a program of the UNH University Office of Sustainability, is hiring a part-time coordinator. To learn more and to apply, please visit https://www.unhjobs.com and search for NH Farm to School Coordinator, job order #02397.

The 5th GMO-Free Regions Conference just concluded in Europe.  Here is the final declaration of the participants of "Food and Democracy.  For more information, visit http://www.gmo-free-regions.org/food-democracy-april-2009/programme.html Final Declaration : GMO Moratorium: The way forward for Europe The participants of the 5th European Conference of GMO-Free Regions "Food and Democracy" call for an EU-wide moratorium on […]

A re-post from the Green Fork blog, on greenhorns Kristen and Nate Johanson of Wolf Lake Farm in Pennsylvania. Starting Farming on the Cheap: An interview with Kristen and Nate Johanson of Wolf Lake Farm April 16th, 2009 As Kerry Trueman pointed out earlier this week in her post about young farmers (and would-be farmers), […]

Reminder! Greenhorns will be at the Brooklyn Museum on Saturday for a screening & discussion. 7:30-9pm at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art Forum Severine and Laura Hannah discuss the film process and the farm process and the relevancy of all this in a feminist context. Contact [email protected]

The Soil Association, supported by the Daylesford Foundation, are launching 300 Organic Farm School courses over the next two years. The Organic Farm School offers hands-on courses in growing your own food, rearing animals, cooking and rural crafts. Participants will learn practical skills direct from organic farmers, growers and producers with personal experience. Courses include […]

Listen to the USDA on prepared meats, circa 1964: A Mark of Wholesome Meat. Via the Prelinger Archives. http://www.archive.org/details/MarkofWh1964 "No more grinding, mixing, slicing, or even cooking at home.  Unless you want to."

Two upcoming workshops with the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture will be particularly useful for Greenhorns.... Successfully Integrating Interns & Apprentices into Your Farm Cambria County Extension Office - Ebensburg, Cambria County Wednesday, April 29; 5:00-8:00pm $15 PASA Members, $25 all others. Lunch will be provided. Register Online Farm interns and apprentices can tip the […]

Greenhorns ally, the Center for Land-Based Learning, is committed to engaging youth in learning experiences on the land that foster respect for the critical interplay of agriculture, nature and society.  Founded by Walnut Farmer Craig MacNamara, the organization has three main goals: use farms, ranches and natural ecosystems as educational laboratories for inner-city, suburban and […]

Radio is a wonderful medium, and Majora Carter is using it beautifully. Listen to her at thepromisedland.org, Greenhorns, particularly her Earth Day Special. Inspirational, uplifting, important. Majora Carter is founder of Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx), a nonprofit community organization established in 2001 to advance the environmental and economic rebirth of her hometown. With Van Jones, […]

There are plenty of opportunities out there for Urban Agriculture types... Click here to download a full position posting: urbane-dev-internship-grocery-and-agriculture AGENCY DESCRIPTION: Urbane Development is a community and economic development firm, located in Philadelphia, PA, working with urban communities to strengthen their asset base - businesses, real estate, and human capital - to catalyze a truly […]

Join us at Polcum Springs for an innovative forestry workshop with noted permaculture instructor, Dennis Martinez. FORESTRY AND FIRE ECOLOGY: Indian Traditional Landcare Practices and Modern Community-Based Biocultural Restoration May 9 and 10, 2009 At Polcum Springs, near Laytonville, CA Registration Deadline: April 30 This two day workshop will focus on how the land used […]

If you're in NYC, or anywhere close, this will be an amazing day.  There are dozens of workshops planned, including "Passing the hoe: our new farmers share stories and experiences".  See you there... Brooklyn Food Conference A grassroots event for a just, secure, sustainable, healthy and delicious food system. A project of the Brooklyn Food […]

Three Exciting Opportunities at Sea Breeze Farm in Washington State: sea-breeze-livestock-manager-position seabreezeinternfarmad seabreezevegintern Sea Breeze Farm is a diverse, multi-species, "beyond organic", grass-based animal farm. We practice an intensive pasture rotation in lieu of commercial fertilizers. Our freely-ranging poultry flocks effectively forage, fertilize and cleanse the pastures behind our dairy herd. The resulting meat, dairy […]

The mainstream press is catching on: 'Natural patterns' of farming touted in documentary By Joshua Hatch, USA TODAY SWOOPE, Va. - The white metal sign over the desk at Polyface Farm reads, "Joel Salatin: Lunatic Farmer." Salatin is proud of that label. "I'm a third-generation lunatic," he boasts while standing in his lush, green central […]

These spammers are getting awfully clever and progressive! My name is Sidney Cole, working with (WORLD YOUTH ORGANIZATION FOR HUMAN WELFARE) California, U.S.A. We are organizing a global youths combined conferences taking place from MAY 23rd-26st 2009 at California in the United States and in, Cotonou - BENIN from MAY 27th-30st 2009.In our request to […]

Coppicing Learn about the ancient art and science of coppicing! This technique allows multiple uses: fuel, stakes, construction material from trees and woody shrubs. Workshop is outside, in the garden. Dress appropriately, bring gloves and your favorite pruning saw if you have them. (don't worry, we have extra) Workshop will be followed by BYO/potluck lunch. […]

Permaculture Design Course - Orella Ranch, Santa Barbara, CA with Australian Permaculture Teacher Darren Doherty June 20 - July 3 Cost $950 Location:Orella Ranch, Santa Barbara Ca To Register: Guner Tautrim 805.698.8823 or [email protected] Our interactive Permaculture Design Certificate Course is designed to make you a more useful person capable of designing and developing sustainable […]

Greenhorns & Sustainable Foodie Types across the country are harvest and savoring the first green growing things of the season - asparagus, fiddleheads, ramps, radishes.  Here's Greenhorn Zoe Bradbury's take on her first official harvest - Asparagus.  Via Edible Portland. The Asparagus Harvest By Zoë Bradbury April 13, 2009 I had my first official asparagus […]

A great piece by Greenhorn Zoe Bradbury, posted on Civil Eats. Next Spring Break, Get a Real Tan - A Farmer Tan All around the country, classes are back in session this week and a lot of college kids are recovering from week-long hangovers. Fort Lauderdale, Cancún, or Cabo, spring break has earned its rowdy […]

Here's an update from Greenhorn Nic Koontz out in Fort Collins, Colorado.  We posted another letter from him back in February. Native Hill Farm is very much moving forward in this crazy Colorado spring of ours - 80 yesterday and a foot of snow coming tonight. Thankful for the additional snowpack for irrigation water this […]

Some terrific events & resources for Greehorns! From the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. Successfully Integrating Interns & Apprentices into Your Farm April 29, Wednesday - Ebensburg, Cambria County 5 - 8pm, click here for more information and to register. Speakers will share information on housing, salary/stipends, evaluating performance, fair labor expectations, terms of agreement, […]

Recent news from City Slicker Farms Oakland, CA Volunteer with us for the Bay Friendly Gardening Tour 4/26 Coming up next Sunday is Stop Waste's Annual Bay Friendly Garden Tour. This time around, City Slicker Farms' Secret Garden -at 5105 Genoa St.- will be a stop on the North Oakland leg of the tour, highlighting […]

Another Greenhorns Ally, Al Attara, in the News: The Green Economy, A Work in Progress http://blogs.journalism.cuny.edu/nycondeadline/tag/flatbush-avenue/

Another great music find - Hip Hop about Dirt Farming! Click on the image for more info.

Check out the upcoming events from New Amsterdam Market... Dear Friends and Supporters: Monthly Market Begins June 28th, 2009 We are delighted to announce that New Amsterdam Market will commence meeting monthly, beginning Sunday June 28, 2009. More information on the market and market site will follow. We look forward to seeing you in June! […]