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encourage young farmers to attend. Throw in your stake! The 2008 Farm Bill has made available $18 million in fiscal year 2009 to fund a Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program […]

  Bicycle Film Festival 2008

With a new partnership, location and many novel program additions, this year’s conference promises to be an exciting and unique event that will educate and build community across a broad […]

    Holcomb Farm CSA, in West Granby, CT, is now hiring a year-round Assistant Farm Manager. Primary duties include harvest management and field crew supervision. A minimum of two seasons […]

Stone Barns is pleased to announce an upcoming program: The Young Farmers Conference: Reviving the Culture of Agriculture. The conference will take place 12/4-12/5-2008 at Stone Barns Center for Food […]

Maps have that tremendous potency of transparency, the new commons of future potentials. Institutional hindsight made visual. In taking stock of the obstacles, free rides, resource caches and backyard hydrology. […]

Our long-anticipated online mapping program, SERVE YOUR COUNTRY FOOD is now in its final phase of editing.  We are hoping to fill up the map with lots of little dots, […]

Today the letter from a young farmer is written by me, Severine, director and chief logistician of The Greenhorns. After six months on the east coast, I have adopted fully […]

  NYT Magazine Our muscles on behalf of the planet, our bellies aligned with our ethics, our hearts singing in the sunshine.  We are the young farmers!

  Spending a year in boots and a straw hat on the Big Island of Hawaii taught me two things.  The first of these is that I want to devote […]

Come experience how simple it is to make your own kimchi, kefir, and other fermented delicacies. Learn about the healing qualities and nutritional importance of live-culture ferments, as well as […]

Soil Association Organic Apprenticeship Scheme - encouraging young people and new entrants into organic farming 10 October 2008 The Soil Association is officially launching its Organic Apprenticeship Scheme in October […]

  You'll be surprised to hear it.. but it tastes better than diet coke.  and I'm positive it's more nutritious.  Bring on the slander suit! ~sev

The Fair Labor Standards act, amended in 1996, has no stipulations for treatment of children over 16.  Children 14-15 can do non-hazardous agricultural work after or before school. And children 12-13 can […]

Our friends at ATTRA devoted their fall issue of ATTRAnews to young /beginning farmer issues! note little Greenhorns blurb! A great reminder that the government agencies can be our allies […]

"Between 1997 and 2002, the number of people age 45 to 54 who are running farms under 50 acres has jumped by 70 percent." Kaycee Wimbish of Awesome Farm and Greg Swartz […]

  Next week the Greenhorns will travel up to Wrenthem, Massachusetts to hang out with and film Christy Raymond. Here is her story:   Christy Raymond started-up White Barn Farm, […]

A Garden Picnic: How Seeds Travel Saturday Oct, 18, 12-4pm at Southern Exposure Gallery 417 14th Street (@ Valencia), San Francisco RSVP: (415) 863-2141 email: [email protected] web: www.soex.org www.pocketseedlibrary.blogspot.com *** Calling all gardeners, […]

Hello Friends,  So I am down to my last weeks here in Maine-- it has become an amazing autumn, clear light, beautiful leaves. I just wanted to let you all […]

The much anticipated first annual Greenhorns rabbit roast festively came and went a little over a fortnight ago. The weekend sped by with out a hitch, only a broken car […]

Looking for Greenhorns goods? You can buy our handmade merchandise at Etsy store(www.greenhorns.etsy.com) Support the Greenhorns! Buy Greenhorns goods! Check donations to the greenhorns film project are also welcome. Please […]

Bicycle powered blender and all, the Greenhorns seed balled it up at the 23rd annual Farm Aid concert last weekend.The Farm Aid concert, held this year outside of Boston, was […]

Organic Farm on Rickey Creek · 200 Acres: Pasture & Timber · 40+ Acres near level, tillable fields/pastures (10 irrigated, 30 dry land) · 2 Acre garden (w/6 foot deer […]

We're just going to say: given the choices we've got, and the time we've got. And the topsoil that needs saving, and the young farmers that need training, research, support […]

What is good for young farmers is good for all new farmers (young or old). We talk here about a young farmers movement, both because we are young farmers, but […]

by Severine via Grist Coast to coast, though there are thousands inspired to dig in and grow food, but it is currently only a dauntless few who manage to gain […]

This course is aimed at those involved in small, integrated, local farms -- a farm apprentice responsible for building a chicken coop; a new farmer with a farm in need […]

Urban Lifeways Project & Native Movement Artist Collective present Harvest Festival What : Local Foods, Live Art, Music, Bike Parade, Garden Things! When: Saturday September 13th from 2 pm - […]

A few "seats" are still available at this lovely event in the Hudson Valley for young farmers! Call 845.758.3468 right this minute to reserve your spot: What: A young farmer […]

A young energized organizer and dedicated farmer recently passed away after returning home from SFN. Brian Anselmo passed away unexpectedly on September 2, 2008 at 28 years of age. Brian's […]

Energetic, optimistic, responsible, and hardworking farmer(s) sought for small farm located in Sullivan County, approximately 100 miles west of NYC and 2 miles from the Delaware River.  The farm is […]

Small ecological oriented goat farm in the town of Bodega, West Sonoma County, seeks a responsible self directed person or couple interested in joining our farming team. The living space […]

I'm a beginning farmer from Montana. Currently, I'm working with the farmer Bob Quinn on his organic farm in Big Sandy. This area is known as the Golden Triangle and […]

more deets on the seed swap. Join the Greenhorns and Heather Flores, author of Food Not Lawns, for a "how-to-don-a-wreath-of-resistance-and-become-a-seed-saving-pirate" teach-in on Thursday afternoon. We'll swap stories, swap seeds, swap community […]

from Jim Milner Seeking caretaker of +50 acres which is in fruit trees and has vegetable garden that needs attention and to expand growing with sales proceeds going to the […]

a note from Severine so.  Melissa, my friend and budget minxy, recently asked me how to find good food on the road, as she travels across the country to drop […]

People’s Grocery is a community-based organization, founded in 2003, that addresses health disparities in the community of West Oakland stemming from a lack of access to and knowledge of healthy, […]

Sadly, natural farming innovator Masanobu Fukuoka passed away, Saturday, August 16, 2008, at his home in Iyo, Ehime Prefecture, Japan of old age. He was 95. Fukuoka authored a number […]

by Cecily Upton Typically desk bound, it was a treat to get out to the farm (http://www.awesomefarmny.com)  last week and do some work. And by work I mean killing chickens. […]