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Our friend Jonathan Shepard is a documentary film maker who is the mastermind behind "The Sharecroppers." Recently, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver borrowed some of his chicken footage for […]

Hormel Foods Corp. agreed to buy Applegate Farms LLC for about $775 million, a move that would give the maker of Spam a foothold in the organic-meats category. Closely held […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department has developed a new government certification and labeling for foods that are free of genetically modified ingredients. USDA's move comes as some consumer groups […]

Well-meaning people have, for a good many years now, been forming a “consciousness” about where their food comes from, who produces it, and how. This gets tedious. But it’s also […]

Uma Rapiti Farm New Zealand: We are a family who have a small, organic farm on Waiheke Island, New Zealand.  We are looking for someone with experience in organic farming/permaculture […]

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Tickets for the tasting are $15 and can be purchased online at maine-fare.org OR by calling 207-338-6575. Ticket holders receive 10 3oz pours, and must be 21 years of age […]

Here is the updated schedule: Mendocino Farm Hack Mendocino County will host its first FarmHack at the Little Lake Grange and Ridgewood Ranch in Willits, CA this December 6-7. This weekend […]

Ecopolis Iowa City: Community Forum Launches Regenerative City Initiative by Jeff Briggers, Huffington Post A broad range of community members in Iowa City, Iowa kicked off the "Ecopolis Forum" today, […]

Watch the trailer for the new documentary Food Chains! Here's the scoop: "There is more interest in food these days than ever, yet there is very little interest in the […]

Growing Heart Farm (growingheartfarm.com) is hiring a young farmer or farming team to operate 1.5 acres in cultivation for the 2015 growing season.  Private 2 bedroom apartment provided on our […]

Ferguson Action has released their demands for racial justice, divided into "Our Vision for a New America" and "National Demands." The demands are ambitious and utopian, but also simple and […]

There's a new resource for learning about how to grow good, sustainable food, who's growing it, and how you can better understand your place in the new ecosystem we're all […]

Mark Bittman's article in the New York Times, Nov. 25, 2014. There are four basic ways to change the food system. I talk about three of them a lot: The […]

When: 12/6/2014 Where: Grange Ag School. 16200 Willits Road. Willits, CA 95490 Mendocino County will host its first FarmHack at the Little Lake Grange and Ridgewood Ranch in Willits, CA […]

There is a wealth of information and data online about land governance. However, much of this content is fragmented and difficult to locate, and often it is not openly licensed […]

Noon, December 6, 2014 at Sub Edge Farm, 199 Town Farm Rd., Farmington, Connecticut Presented by Bennett Konesni, Edith Gawler, and friends. Join Bennett Konesni and Edith Gawler (of Sylvester […]

Though the XL Keystone Pipeline failed to pass the Senate, other measures in the house  passed H.R. 4012, which places restrictions on scientists and creates room for industry experts with  financial ties […]

(From the Wall Street Journal and Shareable.net) There are an estimated 300 so-called seed libraries in towns and cities across the U.S., including Boston, Cleveland, Nashville and Tucson, up from […]

via Truth-out.org by Penn Loh of YES! Magazine When Glynn Lloyd couldn’t source enough locally grown produce, he decided to grow his own. Since 1994, Lloyd has run City Fresh […]

Winona LaDuke, a Native American activist and author, gives a clear, impassioned rundown of why the federal government will not return land taken from Indian people and why they should […]

This film examines a cooperative of the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST) in the South of Brazil, which struggled for access to land and then transitioned to ecological agriculture, or agroecology. […]

Mark Bittman of the New York Times, Michael Pollan of the University of California, Berkeley, Ricardo Salvador of the Union of Concerned Scientists, and Olivier De Schutter of the Catholic […]

Join Reverend Billy & the Stop Shopping Choir on Thanksgiving Day in St. Louis, Missouri for a communal dinner on Monsanto's front lawn. It should be a great time! The […]

Greenhorns, in partnership with Organic Consumers Association were in attendance last month at the national gathering of the FFA. The FFA National Convention in Louisville, Kentucky, saw a sea of 60,000 students representing every nook and cranny of America (and its territories) gathered together for fellowship, belonging, education and scholarly competition. Between the ages of 13 and 18, many of these students are next-in-line to the family farm and occupy a strategically powerful position in the future of American Agriculture; they are kids with land. With a self-confidence rarely seen in teenagers and impeccable public speaking skills, these students in their blue corduroy jackets cut quite the impressive figure, particularly in a stadium context.
They are team-spirited, motivated and articulate, and most of them credit these qualities to the organization that brought them together, the FFA. The FFA is turning these next-in-line farmers, agriscientists, ag teachers and farm sympathizers into successful leaders, fierce entrepreneurs, and good Samaritans...for Big Ag.
This polished youth constituency at the FFA sing the praises, almost exclusively, of Big Ag. How did this happen? Lets start with the obvious place; let’s follow the money.

You might not know it, but a legislative battle is being waged over who can produce food, where they can sell it, and when the government can shut them down. […]

from KWMR in partnership with the Post Carbon Institute. KWMR 2-Hour Special: Leaders of the Young Agrarian Movement Facing the Future Monday, Nov. 10th - 12pm to 2pm (Pacific Time) […]

Kick off the holiday season with an evening of good music, local food, and the release of the brand new Farmers Guild Cookbook, a collection of recipes from our favorite […]

New Farmers Needed. Be one in a million— Join Rogue Farm Corps in 2015! Applications are now open for positions throughout Oregon. FarmsNext is an entire season of hands-on training […]

(Photo courtesy of Pete Walton, taken at the National FFA Conference) From NPR: Top agribusiness companies, including Monsanto, DuPont, John Deere and Dow, have moved into the information business, offering […]

Sometimes the most compelling way to expose an injustice is to flip it around and visit it upon the powerful. Remember the great scene from “Erin Brockovich” where the hero […]

Lauren Markham, author of  The New Farmers, an article in Orion Magazine, recently spoke on Wisconsin Public Radio about the young farmer movement. Have a listen, she gives the Greenhorns […]

Extra! Extra! Come out this Friday Nov 21st in NYC for a short talk by esteemed author and University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaigne professor of Law Eric Freyfogle, followed by drinks and […]

Todays post is the text of an opinion piece written by William C Gehrke and published in The Kansas Union Farmer on April 16, 1936! Gehrke does an incredible job […]

Check out the text of Richard Heinberg's talk at the recent Techno-Utopianism conference in New York. -- How to Shrink the Economy without Crashing It: A Ten-Point Plan The human […]

Check out this video from The Rules, a non-profit dedicated to rethinking the consolidation of power in the global economy! Learn more about their vision HERE.

45 LEADING SCHOLARS, AUTHORS AND ACTIVISTS (including our own Severine von Tscharner-Fleming) convened at The Great Hall of Cooper Union, New York City, for a public “TEACH-IN” on the profound impacts—environmental, […]