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[vimeo http://vimeo.com/73245404] "We know that a lot of things contribute to poor nutrition and obesity but access is a key issue," says Dr. Giridhar Mallya of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health. "People don't have the ability to get healthy foods in their community at an affordable price. That makes it that much harder for […]

Some of us farm and some of us want to farm but we all enjoy sharing and learning from each other at the annual Fall Harvest Gathering for Women in Sustainable Agriculture. PLEASE PLAN TO JOIN US AND SAVE THE DATE!!!   November 7-8-9, 2014 at Cedar Valley Resort in Whalen, MN.Costs are reasonable and scholarships are available. […]

Saturday, July 19, 2014 9:30 am to 5:00 pm  Winvian, Morris, CT This summer's gathering is a high-energy, interactive and fun, yet serious educational event targeted at the grassroots, with an in-depth single focus on the fusion of food, sustainable agriculture and related issues with a call to action. Our goal is to help a broad audience from […]

another new film... Organic Rising. [vimeo 87896825 w=500 h=281] Today’s food crisis is the civil rights movement of our time. As Americans slowly awaken to the shocking realities of our industrial food system, interest and curiosity flourish across the country about what healthy food is and how to access it. With organic food sales projected […]

How China's young idealists are turning to the soil by Carrie Gracie for the BBC In June 1989, on the orders of China's ruling Communist Party, the army crushed pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square, killing hundreds of people. Twenty-five years on, a different type of protest against the values of modern China has emerged. My […]

We hope you will join us in early summer, for an evening event exploring possibilities for a Maine Sail Freight Project along our fine seacoast. On June 22 we’ll join with Penobscot Marine Museum, MOFGA, Maine Farmland Trust for a Grange-hosted potluck dinner, and panel presenters from around New England. If you’ve been following the revival of […]

An interesting model in Vancouver.  They've raised 30% of their goal so far.  Check it out! And pitch in if you can. Soul Food has a plan to double Vancouver's local food production. If you would like to see more beautiful, delicious and healthy food grown right in your neighbourhood, help us set up two […]

Tigers on Market Street! The Western Tiger Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio rutulus) has found habitat on San Francisco's Market Street. Over the next two years, while Market Street's ultimate design is in the lurch, the City's "Make Your Market Street" campaign has invited us to tell this unique story of urban ecological adaptation. The Action Grant […]

We are what we eat, as the saying goes, but we are also how we eat, and when, and where. Our eating habits reveal as much about our society as the food on our plates, and our national identity is written in the eating schedules we follow and the customs we observe at the table […]

    Click here to download this video on June 1st! The orchard can be a magical place; endless acres of peaches, pears, or apples in gorgeous bloom by the roadside, producing delicious fruit. But an orchard, by definition, is a monocultural crop - nothing but one type of fruit tree that requires a lot […]

June 6,7,8 Brattleboro, VT Join us in beautiful, historic Brattleboro for a weekend of activities honoring farmers and celebrating local food, all built around our signature event, the world-famous Strolling of the Heifers Parade, Saturday, June 7 at 10 a.m. sharp! Check out the full weekend entertainment schedule, as well as entertainer bios and pictures, and […]

Sequatchie Cove Farm is a family-run farm in Tennessee's Sequatchie Valley. Four generations of Keeners live in the Cove. They have succeeded in creating a culture of food that puts the land back on people's minds and dinner tables. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/47286647] To see move videos and stills from Luke Padgett, check out  

The Field Liberation Movement and its sympathisers promote sustainable solutions for farmers and consumers and a transparent research funding of science in the interest of society. Public funds should benefit sustainable agriculture, and not the patenting of genes and crops by a handful of multinationals. The position of farmers in the food chain should be […]

Join Max and Elias for a raucous, foot-pounding evening of southern traditional songs and tunes.  Max Godfrey and Elias Alexander play Southern American music with rare soul, striking a dynamic balance between rootedness and spontaneity.  Their performance will include mountain ballads, fiddle tunes, work songs and country blues on fiddle, guitar, banjo, harmonica, and cajon. […]

Versaland Farm Iowa City, IA  Tuesday July 22nd, 2-7pm A critical piece of farm profitability is having the tools to work efficiently.  Beginning farmers, those quickly and earnestly tackling a new production model often have limited capital or skills.  So…if you can’t afford a $3,000 root washer, you may try to build one…if you can […]

A great news source from Agrarian Trust: Land News worldwide agricultural news about land access and land tenure  

Tres Hombres Tall Ship Loads Rum and More in Caribbean; Additional Ship Readied for Europe Only by Jan Lundberg The Tres Hombres schooner brig continues its trade mission for European markets. On this its fifth voyage to the Caribbean, cargo was sailed to the Western Hemisphere as well: wine and olive oil to Brazil. From there, local "superfoods" […]

The Organic Life Following a year in the life of Austin, a hopeful organic farmer, and his skeptical girlfriend Casey, this illuminating documentary chronicles farm living and shows not only who grows your food, but also how it is grown.  In the face of minute profit margins, passion alone fuels their commitment to shaping their […]

Jane Kleeb vs. the Keystone Pipelineby Saul Elbein, May 16, 2014 Terry Van Housen had a question. What he wanted to know from the 30 or so other Nebraska farmers and ranchers gathered in February at the York Community Center was this: What do you do with 10,000 dead cows? continue reading HERE

Farmier is a web-based platform for farmers, producers, and individuals, built on open source technologies, with the goal of providing a whole set of data management tools under one roof.    

High Mowing Organic Seed Company (HMOS) announced today that it is launching the first full line of organic, Non-GMO Project Verified vegetable seeds for farmers and gardeners. With over 90% of its varieties verified to date, HMOS’s entire line of over 650 varieties will be verified by late summer 2014. HMOS seeds are already Certified […]

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 2014 7 Carver Street, Granby, MA Every year, we have an unbelievable selection of amazing and often award-winning tomatoes for you to taste. It's a great day at the farm, with everything from a 5K Tomato Trot field race to hay rides to cooking demonstrations to live music to crafters and a […]

Text by Kristin Moe, photos by Garth Lenz, for the International League of Conservation Photographers. On April 22, 2014, the dozen or so leather-booted ranchers mounted their horses and lined up in the midday sun. Facing them were an equal number of American Indians, in the regalia of tribes from across the U.S. The two […]

Urgent request to address and halt the spread of genetically organisms into the environment! Several examples of the uncontrolled spread of genetically engineered plants into wild populations and ecosystems have been documented: cotton in Mexico, oilseed rape in North America, Japan, Switzerland and Australia and grasses in the USA. There are also cases of repeated […]

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Seeking support for starting a farm in Nova Scotia? ThinkFARM is an amazing government resource. Follow this LINK for more information on the services offered below.

Mark your calendars. And stay in the loop! Mechanicville, NY  Saturday June 7th.  Market at the dock.  Hours TBA Waterford, NY  Sunday June 8th.  Attending Waterford Farmers Market 10am – 1pm Coxsackie, NY Wednesday June 11th, Attending Coxsackie Farmers Market 4-7 pm Croton-on-Hudson NY, Ferry Sloops, Shattemuc Yacht Club, June 18th, Market, hours TBA Croton-on-Hudson, Clearwater Festival, June 21st-22nd Manhattan, NY, New […]

The implausible truth: Over one billion people in the world are hungry and over one billion are overweight. Far from complete opposites, hunger and obesity are in fact different manifestations of the same problem: It’s increasingly difficult to find and eat nutritious food. By examining the global industrial food system using the deceptively simple template […]

URBAN GREEN: HOOP HOUSES REPLACE ROW HOUSES IN BALTIMORE'S SANDTOWN by Alia Malek BALTIMORE, Md. — In Sandtown, Douglas Wheeler looks out with satisfaction over the abandoned city-block-turned-farm where he works growing all sorts of greens and lettuce — “but never iceberg” — and remembers how it used to be. “This lot was a garden […]

New CT Farmer Alliance May Farm Tour and Potluck Sunday May 25th 4pm-6pm Truelove Farms122 Thomaston Rd Morris, CT 06763 Truelove Farms is a small, sustainable farm focused on using natural, grass-based practices to ethically raise pork, beef, eggs, and poultry.  They use no growth hormones or sub-theraputic antibiotics and animals are brought up on pasture for a better […]

Writers, apply now! More than ever, writers need time and space to think deeply, recharge their imagination and write without distraction.  The Mesa Refuge provides these in an absolutely sublime setting.    If you’ve been thinking about getting away to write, please consider applying for one of our fall sessions.  The available dates are listed […]

if you've got roots and/or connections in the Southeast, spread the word! Whistlepig Productions Presents: "I'm Goin' Home: Worksongs, Chanteys and Roots Music with Max and Maggie." Join Max and Maggie for a raucous, foot-stomping evening of singing.  With simple call-and-response structures, these work songs and sea chanteys can be learned quickly, require no prior experience, and […]

The International Theatre of the Oppressed Organisation will not be just one Center more, but an Organisation dedicated to help all Centers to develop themselves, so that they can help other TO groups to grow and develop. The Organisation is carried by the combined power of experienced Jokers across the globe. We dream of having a Virtual Libraries […]

  From Examiner.com, February 18, 2014 New evidence points to glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, as the culprit in the rise of gluten intolerance, celiac disease and irritable bowel syndrome. A study just published in the Journal of Interdisciplinary Toxicology (Vol. 6(4): 159–184 ) by Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff explains how the nearly ubiquitous use of […]

October 2014  Amherst, MA Thursday through Sunday, October 16-19th at 5:00 All things fall: The 7th Annual Surrealist Cabaret Pumpkin Walk The Surrealist Cabaret and Pumpkin Walk is a buffet for the dream senses; a performance installation that draws on images familiar and ethereal, haunting and campy. With the wind full of the breath of apples, […]

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Realities of Shifting to a Sustainable Economy by John Fullerton “The true nature of the international system under which we were living was not realized until it failed.”  —Karl Polanyi A transition to a sustainable economy requires not only population stabilization, breakthroughs in resource productivity and checks on material consumption, but also constraints on aggregate […]

So many people asked, "Whatever happened to Small Farm Field Day?" that a group of dedicated volunteers decided to resurrect the event as Farm & Homestead Day at MOFGA. The emphasis is on teaching rural living skills through a variety of hands-on activities. The event will be held this year on Saturday, June 14, from 9 a.m. […]