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MR Harvest Farm, a sustainable/organic mixed vegetable farm in Grand Isle, VT seeks an experienced vegetable grower to join our team. This is a full-time, year-around position available immediately. In addition to being a reliable, hands-on individual; candidates must possess knowledge/skills in an Organic commercial setting: -Minimum 5 years’ experience working with Organic Mixed Vegetables […]

A worth indiegogo campaign: Anyone Can Farm from Bakers Green Acres The goal of Anyone Can Farm is to provide knowledge and training in fundamental areas of farming such as: raising and processing poultry & livestock, soil management, gardening & seed harvesting, and traditional or diversified farm/ecosystem managment. We wish to someday have an Anyone […]

in vegetable seed growing  and grass based dairying. We are a 492 acre certified organic and Demeter certified Biodynamic farm in Scottsbluff Nebraska located in western Nebraska, on the North Platte river along the Oregon Trail.. We do intensive horticultural production on 5 acres with a focus on vegetable seed production integrated into a CSA/Market […]

  A new book by Judy Wicks "Judy Wicks' brilliance redefines what a business can be. The White Dog Café modeled what commerce will become if we are to create a livable future. This is business as spiritual practice, business as kindness, business as community, business as justice, joy, transformation, leadership, and generosity. There is […]

Sand Creek Farm and Dairy is a 170 acre farm located in Cameron, Texas. We provide raw milk, raw milk cheese, yogurt, kefir, organically (non-certified) grown vegetables, grass fed beef, pastured pork, pastured chicken eggs, pastured broilers and various other products to over two hundred families.  This year we are added three aquaponic greenhouses for […]

Meriwether’s Skyline Farm Manager Position, Portland, OR About the Farm: Meriwether’s Skyline Farm is owned by Meriwether’s Restaurant in Portland, OR, and provides the majority of its produce.  The farm is located at ~850 feet elevation on the 20-acre home site of the restaurant owners, located in the West hills near Cornelius Pass. Produce is delivered twice […]

JOIN MAINE'S CITIZEN CAMPAIGN TO LABEL GMOS Help Food for Maine's Future continue the fight for GMO labeling In late 2011, an Aroostook County farmer tipped off Food for Maine's Future (FMF) about a meeting in Caribou on canola seed trials conducted by the Cooperative Extension. The evening would be hosted by an area seed […]

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Brook Farm invites you to apply for one of the following positions: Full Season Farm Apprentice Full Season Farm Intern Summer Season Farm Intern A B O U T  B R O O K  F A R M Brook Farm is a 20-acre sustainable farm located 2 ½  miles west of New Paltz at the […]

NPR: Farmer's Fight with Monsanto Reaches the Supreme Court NYTimes: Farmer's Supreme Court Challenge Puts Monsanto Patents at Risk And this from The Chronicle of Higher Education: In Standing Up for Big Ag, Are Universities Undercutting Their Own Researchers? "Some two dozen research universities and higher-education organizations, including the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities […]

Summer Teacher-in-Residence at Slide Ranch (Muir Beach, CA) Slide Ranch Mission: Slide Ranch teaches visitors the impact our choices have on food, health, and the environment, through hands-on activities and independent exploration of our farm and coastal wild lands. Every bite of food connects us to the soil, sun, water, and air, and to the […]

Agriculture Supported Communities Internship Positions At the Rodale Institute We are now accepting applications for Internship Positions in our Agriculture Supported Communities (ASC) Program for the 2013 growing season.  The ASC Program is a modified farm share program offering affordable payment plans to make fresh, local, organic produce accessible to just about anyone in the […]

Registration for the 2013 Agricultural History Society's Annual Conference is now open. Keynote address by Dr. James Scott, Yale University More than 50 panels with nearly 200 scholars scheduled to participate register soon. After April 6, registration rates will increase.

and many more events from Cornell Cooperative Extension, Tompkins County Community Seed Swap Join us for the first ever Seedy Sunday in Ithaca on Sunday February 24, from 11:00am to 3:00pm! Bring your extra seeds to swap and share with others - they can be home-saved seeds or purchased seeds that you have in surplus. Plus […]

Pachamama Organic Farm in Boulder, Colorado is now accepting applications for seasonal employees and interns. Pachamama is seeking to hire full-time employees and interns to participate in all areas of the farm during the 2013 season, including seeding, planting, weeding, watering, harvesting and marketing vegetables, and various other farm projects. Both positions require living on […]

2013 Maine Grain Conference / Commercial Production for New Small Grain Markets: Food, Organic Feed, and Seed WHEN: Friday, March 1st, 2013 WHERE: Spectacular Events Center, Bangor (395 Griffin Rd., near the airport) Market Overview and Resources for Small Grain Farmers Converting a Potato Farm to Organic Grains – Markets, Infrastructure, Rotations, Production, and Processing Producing Food Quality Grains – Rotation, Fertility, and Disease Managing Problem Weeds […]

a request from our friends and fierce leaders at the Oakland Institute: Dear friends, Since 2008, our research and advocacy has shed light on large-scale land investments, exposing the theft of poor peoples’ land and natural resources. The “Dracula effect” has worked in several countries, from South Sudan to Tanzania: public outcry has forced energy and food corporations, hedge funds, […]

Brookford Farm is a 650-acre diversified farm that grows vegetables, raises dairy cows, pigs, chickens. We produce an assortment of cheeses and yogurts, grows grain, and has a small bakery on site. Located in Canterbury, NH on the banks of the Merrimack River and located 15 minutes north of Concord, NH, Brookford Farm uses organic […]

  WHEN: March 23, 2013 (all day) WHERE: Louisville, KY RSVP to: [email protected] With Kentucky Ag Legacy/Community Food Alliance. Time and specific location TBD, check out the website as the date approaches! http://communityfarmalliance.org/?page_id=749

Stone Barns is a non profit educational farm in Westchester NY. Stone Barns by virtue of its press power and new USDA funding ( 735k) has the potential to become quite a big guerilla in the young farmer scene of NY state, and even nationally. They host an annual young farmer conference ( 350 attendees). They have […]

When: February 20, 2013 @ 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm Where: Haven Coffeebar & Bakery 3 Water Street Port Hawkesbury,NS B9A 2H5 Canada Categories: SCREENING Part of a mini February Foodie Film Festival FarmWorks and ThinkFarm crew plus farmer friends and customers will be joining us!  

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Dad would want everyone to know who his teachers were. Den Berry The Holy Earth by Liberty Hyde Bailey. Farmers of Forty Centuries by F. H. King. Becoming Native to This Place by Wes Jackson. Counterpoint Press, 1996. An Agricultural Testament by Sir Albert Howard. A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold. Tree Crops : […]

Entrepreneurs Take to the Seas for Inspiration By Eric Tyler, New America Foundation What happens when you mix 11 budding startups with Google executives, Stanford professors, a Nobel Peace Laureate and 600 college students and put them on a ship to circumnavigate the world? An experiment launched this month called Unreasonable at Sea hopes that […]

this one in San Francisco bay:  http://www.seaforager.com/ We've got an aquaculture man coming up on Greenhorn radio soon as well.

As part of Whole Foods' Do Something Reel Film Fest! Friday, Feb. 22 at 6pm, 115 Empire Street, Providence, RI FREE  

Farm Apprentices are either full time or part time and either full-season or partial-season. The position requires fun-loving, strong-backed individuals who love to work and who are eager to gain farming experience and skills. Previous farming experience is not required, but we do ask for an eagerness to learn and be a part of a […]

Because that farmer is all alone out there facing a MEGA corporation with fangs. In a front page story on Saturday, the Post writes up a case that might go to the Supreme Court about a farmer who planted surplus seed from a grain elevator and is being sued by Monsanto, because some of it […]

The beauty of the intern system is that there is a constant rotation of fresh faces, new energy, and a myriad of interesting people to meet. However, this is inherently intertwined with the sad part of the intern system - those who blossom and grow dear move on and out of our lives. So it […]

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Cajun Grain is a non-certified rice and vegetable farm in south central Louisiana.  We are looking for one or two people to fill an internship for our vegetable CSA. We are hoping the candidates will commit to at least the spring season, which should run from mid-February to the end of June.  We had two […]

The Meadowview Farmers' Guild and Harvest Table Restaurant are currently accepting applications for the position of farm manager for the Harvest Table Farm. This position is a salaried and full-time position, and requires that the person occupy the residence at the farm. The position has three primary responsibility categories. First, to operate the 3-acre sustainable […]

Located in Amagansett, NY, Quail Hill Farm is a stewardship project of the Peconic Land Trust. Quail Hill was one of the first CSA farms in the U.S., and since its first season in 1990, Quail Hill Farm has grown to 30 acres of production. The farm serves over 250 CSA member families, provides produce […]

TALMAR Gardens and Horticultural Therapy Center is a non-profit farm established to provide a therapeutic and recreational environment offering horticultural therapy and vocational skills training opportunities for people with special needs. With frequent help from our program participants, we grow flowers, vegetables and herbs using sustainable and organic methods. talmar.org Interns will participate in a […]

for beginning farmers. Coming up tomorrow at 7 PM EST,  February 12, 2013: Filing a Schedule F: Federal Tax Preparation for Farmers. AND, Check out the archives,  Including: Filing Farm Taxes (January 2012). Ins and Out of Insurance (September 2010) Reaping the Rewards of Farm Financial Records (December 2012). Tax Time Techniques for Beginning Farmers […]

Shake off the winter blues with a potluck gathering in Southeastern MA ! Wednesday, Feb. 20th, 2013 - 5:30pm @ The Anawan Grange Hall, Rehoboth, MA [DIRECTIONS]. Meet new farmers and old friends while enjoying home cooked (and grown) potluck delights. YFN is teaming up with the Southeastern Massachusetts Agricultural Partnership (SEMAP) and the Beginning Farmer Network of MA (BFN) […]

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friends, networkers, good food fighters, farmers.... please see the various announcements for the plethora of events that the southeastern young & beginning farmers alliance is hosting during the georgia organics conference feb 22-23 at the georgia convention center. we'd greatly appreciate if you broadcast widely through your networks. our newsletter has all full details of four events. […]

Whole Foods' Do Something Reel film festival is showing the Greenhorns documentary, this month, all month!  If you haven't seen it, this is a great chance.  Online access makes it easy! www.dosomethingreel.com

Le jardinier-maraîcher, written by Jean-Martin Fortier, provides an overview of all aspects of vegetable production at les Jardins de la Grelinette, a farm in Quebec that is well known for its intensive methods of production. This book demonstrates how adopting intensive methods of production can allow the grower to concentrate on growing better instead of bigger, […]