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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 (BFRDP) through a competitive grants process administered by CSREES. Stakeholder input for the FY 2009 funding cycle will continue through November 14, 2008. The Request […]

  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 spectrum of experience and interest levels. To give you some extra time to make your travel plans, we have extended the early registration period through […]

    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 on a diversified vegetable farm is required. Supervisory experience strongly preferred. Compensation: $26,000/year, medical benefits, 5 weeks of paid vacation. For more information, contact Sam […]

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 & Agriculture. Workshops during the conference will cover topics on four tracks: § Getting Started – the economics of buying land and starting a business […]

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. Strip malls are the problem--Imagine! Clustered housing/commerce/industry villages where we tear out the pavement, build up higher density around the central farmyard, and have high-speed […]

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, each dot representing a young farmer who has taken the online survey, and committed to serving the country food! Help us make this possible by […]

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 the terretorial totems of my river valley. I adore going 'upriver' to the new digs- and 'down the hudson' into the city. There is only […]

  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 my life to alternative agriculture.  To put it simply, I want to be a farmer.  The second thing I learned is that transform my visions […]

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 their illustrious history and integral role in human cultural evolution. Empower yourself with simple techniques for fermenting these healthful foods in your home. Be part […]

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 following a one-year pilot phase.  The Soil Association Organic Apprenticeship Scheme is a two-year programme that is being run in partnership with the Organic Growers Alliance […]

  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 be employed with consent from parents or in the same location as parents place of employment.  Healthier ways of getting your children interested in ag:  […]

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 as we navigate the institutional landscape. They are sitting at a desk somewhere, in relative comfort, ready to pick up the phone and hear from […]

"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 of Hardy Roots Community Farm are interviewed on WNYC about the phenomena of young people going back to the land. Listen to the interview here: […]

  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 vegetable growing operation this year.  She is 29 years old and farming and living on family land with her grandmother in Wrentham, MA.  In Christy’s […]

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, citizen scientists, and picnickers! Enjoy city-grown food and participate in a group planting party. Picnickers will get two mystery seed packets--one to plant right away […]

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 know what I am up to next, and what I have been working on here. I have bought two Fjord horses, a seven year old […]

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 window and a few rabbit pellets scattered around. Twas Brilling but not yet raining as the rabbit roasters trickled in by train, bike or 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 make checks out to The Greenhorns PO 87 Red Hook NY 12571. We're going travelling down to Georgia/Appalachia, and up to Vermont in the next […]

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 founded in 1985 by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John COUGAR Mellancamp. Its purpose: "to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to […]

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 fence) · 5 bedroom farmhouse on creek · Water rights from creeks and springs for irrigation and house · Old barn/shop · 5 miles South […]

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 and infrastructure built. Given that its a tight race and a big country-- we just thought you might want to know that its possible to […]

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 also because we have the bold aspiration to live in a country where young people CAN become farmers-- not only those with existing capital in […]

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 access to the land, capital, market-savvy, and technical skills that are essential to "make it" as a farmer. Those few are brave, strong, and delightful […]

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 of regeneration; an established farmer looking to make capital improvements; or the family homesteader who needs a sheep barn. Topics covered will include energy efficiency […]

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 - Sundown Where: New Start Garden. 415 N Mogollon St. (B/W Cherry and Dale, West of Downtown Flagstaff, AZ) Hi Friends! Come help us celebrate our […]

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 sleepover with workshops, bonfire, picnic- potluck with roasted rabbits, pork sausages, vegetarian yum yums and ice cream. Where: Glynwood Center, Cold Spring NYan educational farm […]

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 joie devivre and sense of humor were a breath of fresh air to those of us fortunate enough to know him. Brian poured a zest […]

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 comprised of approximately 4 - 6 acres of land which have been tilled, and another ¾ of an acre ready for farming. I am seeking […]

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 is a 22' yurt with wood burning stove, gas oven and burners, , small refrigerator, and outdoor sink with detached, shared composting toilet. Rent is […]

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 is mostly small-grain farming and cattle ranching. Bob's developed a brand of wheat called Kamut (the variety is Khorasan, an ancient variety). We're trying to […]

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 organizing tales and watch the Greenhorns trailer, ask and answer some questions and make sure we're all on the same boat…or can at least see […]

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 caretaker who can make as much profit as he can growing and selling at local markets.This is a great oppotunity for farmer who is looking […]

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 her beloved off at grad. school. I told her about the Eat Well Everywhere program offered by Eat Well Guide.  Its a far sight better […]

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, fresh foods. With a goal of addressing local health and nutritional needs while providing employment and training opportunities for low-income residents, People’s Grocery’s mission is […]

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 of books including One Straw Revolution: The Natural Way of Farming and The Natural Way of farming: The Theory and Practice of Green Philosophy, both […]

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. Well, truthfully, I didn't do much of the killing, but I helped. KayCee and Owen, the brains and brawn behind Awesome Farm, had 104 "really, […]