permaculture skills center farm school, july-sept, sebastopol
In the summer of 2016, the Permaculture Skills Center in Sebastopol, CA is offering a Farm School, a 10-week intensive on regenerative farming, followed by an integrated 6-month mentorship on independent projects. […]
peace of earth's amazing cold storage scheme
We have a stubborn and delicious dream that farming can evolve to exist without a constant input of fossil fuels, and Peace of Earth Farm in Albany, VT is dreaming it too! […]
funny in flannel (the greatest tv show that you didn't even know you were missing)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvxwJlSMPP8] Thanks be this morning to Canadians and and the internet! This week, we discovered that there are SO MANY episodes of Canadian sketch series The Red and Green Show up on youtube. […]
conway school of ecological landscape and design-- info session march 19, easthampton, ma
The Conway School, a Landscape Design School in Massachusette's Pioneer Valley, is holding an information session March 19th at its new Easthampton campus. The Conway School is a 40-year old accredited institution […]
how to feed 9 billion in 2050? eat insects
Scientists have suggested eating of insects as a way to address food shortage and improve nutrition. Many edible species of crickets, grasshoppers, caterpillars and termites are highly nutritious, according to […]
bringing back the auroch, jurassic park style
http://static2.businessinsider.de/image/56d73e44dd0895290f8b459e-1200-759/indian_aurochs_b_p_namadicus_3.jpg Until four hundred years ago, a wild, long-horned ancestor of cattle roamed across much of Europe. The last of these stately creatures — known as aurochs — went extinct […]
foodbargehack: planning a new food waterway
Sunday March 13th at the 2016 Just Food Conference New York City The FoodBargeHack is a brainstorming and educational event sponsored by the Lower Hudson Long Island Resource Conservation & […]
tired of not being able to download those awesome scientific papers?
Never fear! Sci Hub is here! It's the first website in the world to provide mass & public access to research papers...FOR FREE. Check it out HERE.
clementine gossip
Native to China and northeastern India, mandarins are one of five original types of citrus (along with pummelos, citrons, kumquats and papedas) from which all others, like oranges and grapefruit, […]
open source mapping through ny public library
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division is very proud to announce the release of more than 20,000 cartographic works as high resolution downloads. We believe these maps have […]
honduran indigenous & environmental organizer berta has been assassinated cáceres
https://www.democracynow.org/images/blog_posts/40/30140/splash/BertaCaceres.jpg Honduran indigenous and environmental organizer Berta Cáceres has been assassinated in her home. She was one of the leading organizers for indigenous land rights in Honduras. In 1993 she […]
fencing never looked so good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49fxlkN27zc
march 8: ny gmo labeling rally and lobby day
For more information, click HERE!
afroculinaria
The culinary historian Michael Twitty has dedicated his career to celebrating the people whose culinary and agricultural contributions to America have been misappropriated throughout history. In August, Twitty spoke at […]
canada: stewards of irreplaceable lands (SOIL) seeks apprentices!
SOIL links Canadian farmers willing to take on and train apprentices with folks wanting to work and learn on an organic farm using sustainable practices. We aim to facilitate apprenticeships […]
march 25: an apres Harvard Just Food event
To hear one of the bands (So Sol), click HERE!
check out resilience.org
https://assets-production-webvanta-com.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/000000/44/16/original/images/resilience-logo.png Resilience.org is a program of the Post Carbon Institute (PCI). From 2004 to 2012 the site was known as "Energy Bulletin." Over the years Energy Bulletin broadened its coverage […]
a farmer's road
'A Farmer’s Road’ tells the story of how two Ph.D. soil scientists (Jarrell and Cooperband) traded the security of academic tenure for the relentless challenges and economic uncertainty of operating […]
the dark act has been introduced into the senate
Monsanto's Dream Bill (H.R. 1599) would prohibit any state efforts to require labeling of genetically engineered foods (GMOs) — and it already passed in the House of Representatives and was […]
foragers, farmers and fossil fuels: how human values evolve
Fundamental long-term changes in values, Morris argues, are driven by the most basic force of all: energy. Humans have found three main ways to get the energy they need—from foraging, […]
looking for branding, packaging and commerce help?
Meet Michelle LaPenai: artist, designer, forager and gardener passionate about food as medicine. She wants to serve those bringing good things into the market place and wants to be a […]
versaland permaculture research farm seeks interns
Versaland is a 145-acre permaculture research farm in Iowa City, Iowa. Science-focused and early stage, Versaland (with you!) will plant 12,000+ trees in the 2016 season while continuing to develop […]
virginia farmers share their stories
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN2tlgMbCmw] Earlier this year, The Virginia Beginning Farmer & Rancher Coalition sat down with the owners of five farms across Virginia to talk with them about their enterprises. They asked […]
experts call on feds to reevaluate acceptable risks
Concerns over use of glyphosate-based herbicides and risks associated with exposures: a consensus statement February 17, 2016, Environmental Health The broad-spectrum herbicide glyphosate (common trade name “Roundup”) was first sold […]
photosynq: open source platform for collaborative problem solving
"PhotosynQ is an open source software and sensor platform where communities can identify, research, and implement new methods to solve their local problems. Our initial focus is on agriculture, where […]
is farming an act of public service? time to prove it.
Enter the Young Farmer Success Act, which would extend the student loan debt forgiveness granted to persons in public service by the Higher Education Act of 1965 to full time […]
sting of the bee, canton, ny, feb 24
Join us for this informal monthly gathering of bee enthusiasts - a chat fest of beekeeping information! We meet on the LAST Wednesday of every month - mark your calendars! […]
cartoon life advice soul medicine
If a comic illustration can read like an heart-stirring anthem plays, then the one below would have all of us on our feet hollering along with our eyes closed. Quite honestly, greenhorns, […]
matador network article featuring severine vt fleming!
14 women who work every day to improve your food 3. Severine Von Tscharner Fleming Based in Chaplain Valley, NY, Fleming is an activist, farmer, founder and director of The […]
cooperative design lab
cooperative development where ecology and economics meet Cooperative Design Lab (CDL) is 9-month cooperative development program serving cooperative projects in any stage of formation. Originally a collaborative between the Resilience […]
the diggers' song
The "Diggers' Song" (also known as "Levellers and Diggers") is a 17th-century ballad, in terms of content a protest song concerned with land rights, inspired by the Diggers movement, composed […]
the plow that broke the plains
The film presents the social and economic history of the Great Plains -- from the time of the settlement of the prairies, through the World War I boom, to the […]
decolonizing permaculture
As a quick thumbnail sketch, permaculture is an ecological approach to the design of whole systems. It is an ethically bounded framework of ecological design that can be used to […]
edible agroforestry design templates!
These design templates are meant to be implemented on common landscapes. While they use temperate climate species that grow in the northern hemisphere (hardiness zones 4-7), documentation about underlying patterns […]
making market bouquets
...Let’s say last season I had a 70 foot bed (roughly 500 plants) of Bells of Ireland. Each plant produces between 6-8 stems that are tall enough for bouquets, for […]