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  This year’s ASFS/AFHVS Annual meeting and Conference invites dialogue about the importance of collaboration and innovation across the food system. Such dialogue can occur at many levels: across disciplines, between locations, amongst community members. Vermont is a perfect location to consider both the present realities and future possibilities of an integrated and sustainable food […]

we highly recommend a few online archives of useful content https://openlibrary.org/ to find any book at a public  library near you www.archive.org to find online books, movies, music.. and a copy of the internet from any period in time www.freemusicarchive.org a non corporate version of grooveshark/pandora that lets you experiment with new music that others have posted FOR […]

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Rebuilding America's Economy with Family Farm Centered Food Systems Seeds of hope lie in America’s family farmers and ranchers despite the grim economic conditions facing the nation. Our new report seeks to underscore what we at Farm Aid know as a simple truth: supporting family farmers and family farm centered food systems is a powerful […]

and what would that mean? Secret trade agenda threatens shift toward sustainable food system October 24, 2013 by Karen Hansen-Kuhn After being delayed by the U.S. government shutdown, talks for a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are quietly gearing up again. Tariff barriers between the U.S. and EU are already low, so these negotiations […]

Worth a watch if you haven't seen it already. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM]

Map it!  With Farmland Monitor Create a Digital Postcard Add a PDF You can also alert us to land grabbing activity through one of the following channels and we will post the information on your behalf: Email: [email protected] Call: (202) 543 - 5675 Fax: (202) 543 - 0978 Mail: National Family Farm Coalition, 110 Maryland […]

We know that many of you are writing books, or working on other projects, right now, and we wanted to share information about this amazing Adirondack retreat/residency center which has an application period ending in February. http://www.bluemountaincenter.org/programs/residencies/application

who will soon be celebrating their big anniversary. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjitiULIHPs&w=640&h=360] Brazil’s Landless Worker's Movement was born from the concrete, isolated struggles for land that rural workers were developing in southern Brazil at the end of the 1970's. Brazil was going through a politically opening process towards the end of the military regime. Brazilian capitalism was not […]

One of the pre-conference offerings at EcoFarm is a seminar on low-stress livestock handling which will be held at Asilomar on Wed., Jan. 22, 2014 from 8-5. Download the flier HERE  

worthwhile winter reading!  Subscribe here.   The Baffler, est. 1988, is a printed and digital magazine of art and criticism appearing three times annually—spring, summer, and fall. We’re headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts; edited by John Summers,Thomas Frank, and Chris Lehmann; designed by Patrick Flynn; distributed byMIT Press; and delivered to subscribers and bookstores in all fifty U.S. states. The Baffler is now […]

A unique and inspiring model.  Here's the scoop from one of the founders. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIaO9o4unK4&w=640&h=360] An exciting project is under way in Indiana, which I am proud to be a part of. Green Bridge Growers is an urban farming business in South Bend that my mom, Jan Pilarski, and I have founded together. Our business is in the […]

A beautiful film: http://soskentilevigtid.no/home/ [vimeo http://vimeo.com/73042105] "Siblings are Forever" is a warm and poetic documentary about a brother-and-sister couple, Magnar and Oddny. Both are about 70 years old. They live on the family farm at Kleiva in Naustdal, a few miles from Førde in Sogn & Fjordane county. The siblings run the farm in about the […]

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http://preview.grazeful-living.com/   * CSA directory   * Market vendor directory   * Market product availability   * Farm Facebook integration Available now is Facebook integration with many of the markets when you click a map marker, a local events listing based (mostly) around an interest in farmers' markets and suggested sites.  The events and sites […]

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At Bob-White Systems in South Royalton, VT, we aim to provide small farmers with access to affordable and appropriately scaled equipment  (something that is hard to find outside the industrial large dairy model) in addition to other services, such as start-up consultations and milk testing. We would love to see more young farmers out there starting small dairies. Having […]

this one in berlin http://contemporaryfoodlab.com/

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vVR5Pdufqs] A series of six videos about farming grains and healthy soils: http://www.youtube.com/user/BluebirdGrainFarms/videos

Another webinar from UVM. What are Lenders looking for?  A UVM Extension New Farmer Project webinar.   Join Benneth Phelps, Loan and Outreach Coordinator for the Carrot Project for a webinar on the “tools” that every farm business should have to help them obtain financing, even if they don’t need it now. Improve your understanding of available […]

The Right to Food. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74n5I0h4kUQ]

Here's a  little bit of Wendell Berry for your day. The Mad Farmer, Flying the Flag of Rough Branch, Secedes from the Union From the union of power and money From the union of power and secrecy, From the union of government and science, From the union of government and art, From the union of […]

another important film. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/15693148] TASTE THE WASTE A film by Valentin Thurn Why do we throw away so much food? And how can we stop this kind of waste? Amazing but true: On the way from the farm to the dining-room table, more than half the food lands on the dump. Most of it […]

Amazing! http://ca.statewater.org/ The California Water Atlas, a book published in 1979, continues to inspire map-makers and water lovers alike. We are making a new version of this Atlas for our generation as a public work for Californians using dynamic maps, open data and lots of citizen involvement. Learn more

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or orphaned animals-- on your land. Is to call the wildlife rehabilitation professionals. DO NOT FEED wild animals, this will cause them to be shot dead as they will now seek food from humans for the rest of their lives.

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I have been pursuing self education in technology criticism here is a good one "[People] somehow assume that the Internet is going to be the catalyst of change that will push young people into the streets, while in fact it may actually be the new opium for the masses which will keep the same people […]

Another nice video: http://foodmyths.org/ [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWOcP-bXuO8]

particularly those in and around Minnesota. Help New Farmers by Taking this Quick Survey Adjust 2015 is an initiative to gather and share information that will help new farmers learn to address challenges in farming by adjusting their farm plans to be more resilient to difficulties.

Young farmers planting futures in San Mateo County By Max A. Cherney Tony Cozzolino and his wife, Stephanie, are not your typical millennials. While the majority of their peers live in the increasingly connected and tech-savvy Bay Area, the Cozzolinos have chosen another way of life: Farming. Almost entirely by himself, Tony, 28, plants 12 […]

"Man of Aran" Man of Aran (1934) is a fictional documentary (docufiction) by Robert J. Flaherty about life on the Aran Islands off the western coast of Ireland. It portrays characters living in premodern conditions, documenting their daily routines such as fishing off high cliffs, farming potatoes where there is little soil, and hunting for […]

WHO WILL FOLLOW IN OUR FARMERS' FOOTSTEPS? Succession Planning the Topic of February Conference Craryville, New York, December 5, 2013 - "Succession" refers to farmers handing the reins to the next generation, or to the next farmers, and stories about succession from the Hudson Valley and the Tri-State region will be highlighted in the keynote […]

Greenhorns ally Owen Hablutzel will be speaking at, or involved with, the following events: January 18-19, 2014   -  Am Keynote Speaking at Nevada-County Sustainable Food and Farm Conference  - come hear Wes Jackson, Dr. Elaine Ingham, myself and many others… topics:  Drought-Resilience in the Twenty First Century  and a second talk -Power and Potential of Holistic Planned Grazing March […]

Thank you, Bob St. Peter! The list is just a start. Wendell Berry wrote in Conserving Communities of the need for farmers to stop looking for help where we continually fail to find it. Sadly, in my decade of food work in Maine I have found little direct financial support for farmers, and about zero […]

Making a profit off of real estate investment is no new thing, even when it comes to farmland. Land grabs make the land valuable without valuing the land. There are some investment groups, though, that aim to invest in land sustainably. One such group is The Entrepreneur Agrarian Fund (EAF), a private equity fund establishing a […]

  Ring of Power ‘The Circle,’ by Dave Eggers By ELLEN ULLMAN Mae Holland, a woman in her 20s, arrives for her first day of work at a company called the Circle. She marvels at the beautiful campus, the fountain, the tennis and volleyball courts, the squeals of children from the day care center “weaving […]

Arizona Food, Farm and Ranch Finance Forum, January 13-15 Biosphere Two: What’s in it for YOU? If you are a social impact investor or venture capitalist: Come and hear Slow Money founder Woody Tasch tell how $30 million in dollars of investing locally in 220 food and farm businesses since 2010 is creating viable options […]

ENSSER Comments on the Retraction of the Séralini et al. 2012 Study Journal's retraction of rat feeding paper is a travesty of science and looks like a bow to industry Elsevier's journal Food and Chemical Toxicology has retracted the paper by Prof. Gilles-Eric Séralini's group which found severe toxic effects (including liver congestions and necrosis […]

I suppose this is a tradition in england. "naked old ladies raise money for local hospital"...etc Their traditional boots and hats help keep dignity, but not totally. S http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2510460/Young-farmers-pose-flat-caps-wellies-risqu-charity-calendar.html