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Vermont Sail Freight is live now on Good Eggs. For anyone hungry living along the Hudson or in NYC. We deliver into your lap by sail barge in October. Stock up on shelf-stable goods for winter. Dockside deliveries to: Mechanicville, Troy, Albany, Hudson, Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Beacon, Peekskill, Nyack, Yonkers, Brooklyn, Manhattan. Sick a lot? […]

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You're invited to join a celebration of Meatpaper Issue Twenty, the Future of Meat Issue! Featuring an incredible group of chef friends and local wine- and beer-makers to provide beautiful tastes and drinks. Tickets are now on sale here. WHAT A launch party for Meatpaper Twenty, the Future of Meat issue. This is also Meatpaper’s last issue. We are […]

calling all greenhorns who love delicious, artisanal, farm-raised cured meats! today's the day to support the enterprising crew at Raven & Boar Farm who have set out to bring you the best charcuterie that the Hudson Valley has to offer. Hudson Valley Charcuterie's goal is to build a kitchen to produce small batch artisanal products […]

Allegheny Mountain School is seeking seven to nine inspiring individuals to participate in the fourth cohort of our 18 month fully-funded fellowship program.   Applications are available on our website,www.alleghenymountainschool.org.  The deadline to submit your application is December 15, 2013.  Interviews begin January, 2014. Allegheny Mountain School (AMS) was founded in 2011 as a not-for-profit experiential fellowship […]

A reminder: If you are interested in landownership, investment, access and equity issues please visit our sister project, Agrarian Trust, housed at the Schumacher Center for New Economics.

Hi there Greenhorns, Many of you have heard that we've launched our Farm Hack IndieGogo Campaign!  Yippee! Some of you have attended Farm Hack events in the past, or looked at the online tools. But perhaps a few of you are not yet comfortable navigating the site, Here are some intro links that Dorn made to help […]

Scientists have compiled the first soil atlas of Africa to help the general public, policymakers, land users, and scientists understand and manage the continent’s key resource. Put together by a team of experts from the European Commission, the African Union, and the U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) over the past four years, the 176-page […]

Rural Academy Theatre   In horse pulled wagons stocked with a bicycle powered silent cinema, an Appalachian-balkan-brass-klezmer-dixieland-string ensemble, kinetic sculpture and their signature low-tech theater appliances, the newly formedRural Academy Theater have staged their innovative performances in the town greens, theaters, college campuses, and pastures of Western North Carolina. “By not relying on gasoline powered propulsion or […]

Hello loyal blog readers,  Our occasional, random requests have been so fruitful that we're coming back for more! Can you send in  your favorite: 1. Farm / farm-affiliated bands 2. WORK SONGS 3. Sea Shanties/ pirate songs 4. Topic songs about farming Please email [email protected]. We've got such a great start on this. Here are some […]

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a slideshow of the contaminated area

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Hey ME and NH farmers! It's time to celebrate the harvest and connect with fellow young farmers! On Saturday, September 28th, join us for the kick-off event of the Greater Portland Young Farmers Coalition, the newest chapter of the National Young Farmers Coalition! NYFC chapters bring farmers together to share meals, opportunities and strategies for […]

tonight! Advance Film Screening: Growing Cities (7:30-10pm) Filene Hall at Skidmore College  815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY (This is Skidmore College's official address. Filene Hall is pinpointed in the Google Map link.) Farm Aid and Skidmore College present Growing Cities, a new documentary about urban farming. Join us for an advanced screening (doors at 7:30pm, film at 8pm), followed by a […]

Diverse, Innovative Small Farm Production Practices Date: Monday, September 23, 2013 Location: Creekside Meadows Farm, Deruyter, NY On-line registration closes Monday, September 17! Our Creekside Meadows Farm Day is part of HMI's new Open Gate On-Farm Learning Series. Open Gate is an action-based approach to learning. At the Creekside Meadows Farm Day you'll see how […]

Dear Greenhorns, We have a short, intense period of canning ahead of us at the Grange Co-packer Coop, located at the Whallonsburg Grange in Essex, NY. We are looking for an able-minded, culinary person to come up here and process with us. Long hours, massive quantities of glorious produce. Urgent timeframe. Room and board, Greenhorns […]

event this saturday on the hudson waterfront.

Be it tractor or truck. A film about text accidents by werner hertzog. From One Second to the Next [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BqFkRwdFZ0]

in  their struggle for land access . Attend their harvest event, and speak up for community agriculture. Locavore Challenge and Harvest Music Festival Saturday, October 5, 12 pm – 4 pm. Ticket prices: Adults $18.95 Family of Four $45.95 Student $15.95 Children 7-12 $9.95 Children under 6 Free Get your tickets online at www.slowfoodhv.org. * Harvest Music Festival   4 – […]

engagement with a mucky ecosystem. 70.8% - a great blog with beautiful images HERE. Seventy point eight is the percentage of ocean to landmass on our planet. get wet...a rambling personal collection of news, books, images, ideas, and whatever else I find interesting relating to our aqueous environment..with an emphasis on small boats, sailing, boat […]

Who were both co-founders of National Young Farmers Coalition (sister organization to Greenhorns).  They have won the Glynwood Harvest Award.  We are very glad to see the NYFC in capable hands and winning awards. Ben Shute was also co-founder of Farmhack, which is now an independent 501c(3) as well, headed up by Dorn Cox, of […]

It's not everyday that we find a product so PERFECTLY in synch with  small  research projects. We've been learning about waterproofing for canvas / nautical applications, and here is a home kitchen version! Beeswrap

They're still seeking some funding. Check out the indiegogo campaign Hudson Rising: Stories of Revival from the Hudson Valley We're trying to complete our movie about the Hudson Valley - and we need your help to do it! After three years, production of Hudson Rising is nearly complete and the premiere is scheduled for October 26th 2013! Hudson Rising is […]

Coming right up: Food Sovereignty Conference, September 14–15, 2013 at Yale University. A fundamentally contested concept, food sovereignty has — as a political project and campaign, an alternative, a social movement, and an analytical framework — barged into global agrarian discourse over the last two decades. Since then, it has inspired and mobilized diverse publics: workers, […]

Where land prices rose 26% in 2012, mostly because of fracking speculation. Satellite Fields SATELLITE FIELDS is a series of large-scale tree formations planted in North Dakota. Covering 4 acres of land, each piece will be large enough to appear in satellite surveillance of the area, so that the formations can be visited two ways: […]

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How can we, the grassroots, work with the power of living systems to truly heal and transform toxic and damaged landscapes into thriving, healthy, and fertile places once more? How can we respond to environmental disasters in accessible and community empowering ways? Earth Repair explores a host of powerful grassroots bioremediation techniques to assist with the recovery […]

USDA Announces Harvest Prices for 2013 Crop Year Small Grains and Canola Revenue Products SPOKANE, Wash., September 5, 2013 — USDA’s Risk Management Agency (RMA) announced approved harvest prices for the 2013 crop year for revenue protection insurance plans within the Common Crop Insurance Policy for wheat, barley, fall canola, and rapeseed in Alaska, Idaho, […]

Marissa Codey is well known in the Hudson Valley for her balanced, grounded evaluation of farm properties ( under easement and not) and matching beginning farmers with good lease situations. Now she is working on a new program. It is called CALF. If only land transition were as easy as calving. Read about more great […]

Taylor Farms, Big Food Supplier, Grapples With Frequent Recalls By STEPHANIE STROM Taylor Farms, the large vegetable producer whose salad mix is being investigated in connection with an outbreak of illness involving hundreds of people in 22 states, has had an unusual number of voluntary recalls for potentially tainted products in the last three years. […]

We like it! Shu Lea Cheang’s Garlic=Rich Air was an interactive online project that anticipated the year 2030 as a postcapitalist society where the global economy and currencies have collapsed and network media has nearly crashed. In this future world, organic garlic is the new social currency–bought, sold, and traded to establish a new, free […]

good work by the AP! Selling Farms Sometimes Calls for Creative DealsALBANY, N.Y. September 1, 2013 (AP)By MICHAEL HILL Associated Press After four decades of farming, Kevin Carley was ready to pass along his dairy operation in central New York. And his son-in-law was eager to take charge. But simply selling operating farms — pricey […]

We are live, people! you can now buy product from the sail boat, online. as a person as a restaurant as a retailer http://vtsailfreight.com/

Tuesday, 24 September, 2013 at 7:00pm – Thursday, 26 September, 2013 at 10:00pm Option to participate in harvest on Friday, 27 September, morning Cost: $295 + applicable taxes (includes lunch and dinner on Wednesday & Thursday) The resurgence of interest and demand for regionally produced food has created a huge opportunity for those who want […]

A pleasure to read.  And in other VSF news, cargo wholesale orders went out yesterdayI If you have a place for us to mail flyers about the sail barge please send your mailing address to Cara @thegreenhorns.net There is much to report since my last post here three weeks ago.  Since our first spaghetti dinner […]

Dear Loyal blog readers. We've got a request today. Brooke is illustrating farmer sayings for the next almanac. And is looking for suggestions from the crowd. " Knee high by the fourth of july" " Make Hay while the sun shines" We 'd love if you could send us some suggestions... email [email protected] Looking forward! […]

The Greenhorns are looking for a few more helpers to man the booth with us at Common Ground Fair this year.  Helpers needed for Friday and Saturday; send your info to [email protected] if you want in!