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we'll share them with you all.  THANK YOU CARRIE, our letter press is working and lovely.  BOOKS: INTAGLIO: Practical Guide to Etching and Other Intaglio Printmaking Techniques / (ISBN 10: 0486251659 / ISBN 13: 9780486251653 ) / Manly Banister / Published by Dover, might be out of print LETTERPRESS: "General Printing, An illustrated Guide to Letterpress Printing" Cleeton, Pitkin & Cornwell / Liber Apertus […]

The National Center forAppropriate Technology (NCAT) is seeking a Coordinator for Grow Montana, a statewide food and agriculture policy council. This is a great opportunity for an individual to work with an innovative team of leaders in food and agriculture from across the state. Founded in 2005, the Grow Montana collaborative promotes policies that support sustainable Montana-owned food […]

Common Vision is bringing back fruit trees to california schools check out their new video! http://commonvision.org/give/

Upcoming classes: Primitive Goat Harvest This week-long workshop is the uncompromising embodiment of responsibility.  As we take life from two goats, we confidently assume the task before us: to use every ounce.  Kfir of Two Wolves will walk us through how our ancestors, who could not indulge in the luxury of waste, brain-tanned hides and […]

Organic Farm Business for Lease Sunny Pine Farm in Twisp, WA is an organic goat dairy milking 50-55 goats.  There is an established market for cheese and yogurt.  This is a great business opportunity for the right couple.  Goat dairy management experience is required. Please send resume to [email protected]

A sweet gig for an entrepreneurial type. Operations/Kitchen Manager We are hiring an operations manager to work with us through the creation/operation of Forage Kitchen. This job is an overall manager of  the business activities of forageSF, as well as kitchen manager for Forage Kitchen. Essentially the Operations Manager is the person most intimately involved […]

More great resources for you Midwest greenhorns. The Land Connection is an educational nonprofit dedicated to preserving  and protecting our agricultural heritage through farmer training programs, sharing resources on how to acquire farmland and facilitating connections between people who own farmland, want to farm, and love healthy food.  The organization is based out of central Illinois, […]

via Adaptive Seeds: We here at Adaptive Seeds are not big on sending out mass e-mails, but have made an exception today: There is an immediate threat to our food supplybecause the Oregon Department of Agriculture has fast-tracked the approval of canola production here in the Willamette Valley of Oregon. As many of you may […]

The New Farmer Training Program and Agricultural Incubator at the Seed Farm in Emmaus Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for the 2013 season. This intensive organic vegetable training program includes 500 hours of on farm training and 100 hours of formal workshops and classes. Participants build skills and create their own production and business plans. […]

[vimeo http://vimeo.com/45492632] Preserves is a feature length experimental narrative/documentary that takes place in Southern Taiwan exploring agriculture, food processing, and its effects on individuals. It’s one part observational documentary following the process of making pickled mustard greens and another part about a restaurant owner that attempts to make his own.

2 open positions with this wonderful organization! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqarhchA9NU] The Global Growers Network, in partnership with Refugee Family Services, creates new agricultural opportunities in Georgia for international farmers who were forced to flee their homelands as refugees, due to war, genocide and persecution.The Network uses a whole-systems approach to produce good food, train and place farmers […]

This weekend! August 10-12, 2012 at UMass Amherst in Massachusetts. View a list of the 200+ workshops offered for 2012 on organic farming, gardening, land care, draft animals, homesteading, sustainability, nutrition, food politics, activism, and much, much more. Every year, there are special workshops designed for kids and teens. An educational, fun opportunity for your […]

And a nice family that distributes them right here in Columbia County, NY. Meadowsweet Naturals - Stick Crayons

DIY.orgjust released the first of their Skills pages. Included in these is a Gardener Skill page. DIY has many enthusiastic gardeners already in the fold, now there's a curated curriculum where these budding agrarians can challenge themselves. What do you think, Greenhorns?  They have plans to release Landscaper, Hydrologist, Rancher, Animal Keeper, Mycologist, Forester and […]

FarmLink 101: A Starting Point for Aspiring & Beginning Farmers Tuesday, August 21, 2012; 7:00 - 9:00 pm @ WSU Snohomish County Extension, Cougar Auditorium (Everett, WA) Free workshop.  Registration required at: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/263272 This workshop will give you a foundation for taking the next step, connect you to resources, farm networks, and ideas, and arm you with […]

..with nudie press stunt what a good idea! http://www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Young-farmers-protest-milky-bath-kids/story-16543182-detail/story.html

Sept. 22, from 10am to 3pm: Seaside Day of Dyes Ocean water, California chaparral dye color, and regional fiber come together on one of our most pristine Northern California beaches. Come to a day on the coast for a wood fire dye day where we will experiment with seawater as a binding agent. Bring one item […]

on the radio!  Thanks for Charlotte Heyrman for sending us the link. Listen HERE to the segment on the Marc Steiner show. This week on the show, we’ll speak with three farmers who work small parcels of land in Baltimore County. Becky and Jack Gurly operate Calvert’s Gift Farm in Sparks, MD, where they grow […]

there are lots more Australians in our ranks. Check out this post from some Australian greenhorns: http://milkwood.net/2012/07/29/greenhorns-stickers-and-badges-and-kerchiefs-and/  

New breed of ranchers shapes a sustainable West by Todd Wilkinson for the Christian Science Monitor harlowton, mont. Zachary Jones is a saddle-hardened fifth-generation rancher even though, on the surface, he may not look like one. As he threads his pickup truck through the back pasture of a quintessential Western expanse – one carpeted in […]

Harvesting Opportunities: Growing Local Food Economies and Protecting Farmland A Conference to Inspire and Educate New Yorkers to Support Agriculture, Strengthen Local Farm and Food Economies and Get Involved in Protecting Farmland Keynote Speaker: Verlyn Klinkenborg, author The Rural Life and Making Hay Join American Farmland Trust on November 15th for an exciting conference in […]

The good folks of Wood Prairie Farm have raised $15,000 but they've got a ways to go and only 3 days left in their fundraising campaign. More information here: http://www.indiegogo.com/help-woodprairie-build-repair-shop and check out this great video of one of the Gerritsen boys, Caleb, talking about the project. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzO-wPViKOo]

On the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary, Orion asked thirty writers and thinkers to name one thing we will increasingly need over the next thirty years if humans are going to find a way to live happily, sustainably, redeemably on earth. Our director, Severine von Tscharner Fleming, is one of the 30 authors of this […]

Rock the Barn, put together by three friends, is a (non-funded) promotional bicycle tour for prop 37, the labeling of GMO ingredients in California, and for small organic farms in California. We're going from San Francisco to Los Angeles on August 6 - 17.  We're bringing a guitar, saxophone, and hand drum. Our band is […]

New England Farmers Union Education Foundation is seeking to add a Communications Coordinator to our team.  NEFUEF is the charitable arm (501c3 organization) of the New England Farmers Union, a member driven organization of farmers and non-farmers.  Our focus area is all six New England states:  Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.  […]

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BITTER SEEDS is a beautiful film that examines the impact of GMO seeds on farmers in India. Join with other anti-GMO activists nationwide who are organizing screenings of this film as an outreach and organizing tool.  FREE DVDs are available to your organization if you're interested in hosting a screening. For more information or to […]

2012 Seed Camp @ Saving Seeds Farm, Sedgwick, Maine  August 17 - 20, 2012 A weekend-long intensive course on small-scale farming and seed production. Includes full-day workshop with master seedsman Will Bonsall, founder of Scatterseed Project and major curator for Seed Savers Exchange.

Turns out that poke berry was used in the ink for the Declaration of Independance.  So perhaps this year. Make a salty mash , and write something bold! dye: http://osbornfiber.com/2010/09/27/dyeing-with-pokeberries/ ink: http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/index.php?/topic/120765-making-fermented-pokeberry-ink/

Here is a whole nice toolkit of useful thinking featured resource, from Nebraska. http://www.cfra.org/renewrural/grocery

yes way. check out the trailer: http://www.filmbuff.com/movies/the-unforeseen/?trailer + description: Presented by Robert Redford and Terrence Malick and featuring interviews with Redford, Willie Nelson, Texas Governor Ann Richards, environmentalist Wendell Berry and many others, THE UNFORESEEN is a powerful meditation on the American dream - on the destruction of the natural world as it falls victim to the […]

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Building a Local Young Farmers Coalition from NYFC

I've been spending a lot of time this year further developing an improved garden cart idea that I originally built at Sauvie Island Organics about 5 years ago. There are now seven versions of this cart in use on farms around the NW. I've put up an explanation of the basic design features and also […]

Monday, July 16, 2012 Colombia: Putumayo farmers build a better future by planting cocoa The ICRC supports a cocoa-farming project being spearheaded by farmers in the San Miguel region of Putumayo department. For the families taking part in the project, cocoa is a livelihood alternative, enabling them to support themselves and strengthen their foothold in […]

In the Gilded Age and beyond, high fashion decreed that violets were the flower of choice for Valentine's Day, Easter, and a fragrant corsage. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/30913277] At its height, in the years before World War I, Rhinebeck, New York growers shipped millions of sweet violets (viola odorata) to New York City, Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago and […]

The Annual Cornell Sheep and Goat Symposium will be held Saturday, October 27 in  Morrison Hall on the Cornell University campus in Ithaca. On Friday 26 October from 11 am to 5 pm there will be a pre-symposium hands-on practical day (advance sign-up required) for novice sheep and goat farmers at the Cornell Sheep Farm […]

Kevin Labenz.  Here's his pitch: On June 12th, I officially launched my campaign for Minnesota State House of Representatives in the newly outlined District 23A. Many of you know me well and have graciously supported me over the past month as my campaign took off. A big hearty thank you for your time, donations, and […]

For young farmers: No land but plenty of climate change to go around by Jared Flesher, cross-posted from Grist & Edible Jersey We desperately need more young farmers in this country. “If we do not repopulate our working lands, I don’t know where to begin to talk about the woes,” U.S. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhuhuO2ysKc] The line-up has been announced for the 2012 Rural Route Film Festival!  We're serving up choice-cuts of premieres & sneak previews of some of the year's best indie fare, along with a stunning 70mm print in one of the best theatres in the city.  There are features by Latvian, Indian & Tibetan directors, shorts […]