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The Northeast Beginning Farmer Program has a jam-packed summer schedule for those of you out there who might be trying to help young farmers start up.  Sign up for their e-newsletter to get registration info for the webinars. The One-Stop Shopping Approach for Beginning Farmer Training Mon, June 25, 12-1pm Jennifer Hashley from New Entry […]

UMaine Small Grain and Forage Field Day Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:30 to 8:00pm (registration starts at 5:15) University of Maine Rogers Forage and Crops Research Farm Stillwater, Maine (1.5 miles from I-95 Exit 193) Please join us to learn about: · Small grain varieties for organic production (wheat, spelt, flax) · Wheat and spelt varieties […]

Neversink Farm Presents an Afternoon Supper to Benefit Catskill Mountainkeeper Come join Catskill Mountainkeeper for an incredible intimate afternoon supper at Neversink Farm in Claryville, NY.  Tour the farm while sampling cuisine and non-alcoholic beverages sourced from the Catskills – all beautifully prepared by Chef Patrick Connolly.  There will be food stations by the river, […]

  [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z5a5XgBkgc&feature=plcp] video montage brought to you by the East of Hudson Program -- who in 2011 worked with farmers, forest landowners and volunteers throughout the Croton Watershed. Be it concrete pours at composting sites, livestock grazing plans, or streamside tree plantings, we did it together on behalf of clean drinking water and working landscapes […]

RESTORING HERITAGE WHEAT FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 11 - 6 MOFGA, UNITY, MAINE Restore Almost-Extinct Wheat Biodiversity & Learn Seed-Saving Arts for Gluten-Safe Foods with Gary Nabhan; Dr. Thomas Payne, Director of World's Largest Gene Wheatbank;  Eli Rogosa, Heritage Grain Conservancy;  Glenn Robertson, Anson Mills Heritage Grains;  Will Bonsall; Mark Fulford, Living Soil register on growseed.org // funded by […]

SPRINGING FORWARD WITH NEW WEBSITE, BOOK, DVD HUDSON, NY (June 8, 2012) –  From their main street headquarters, the Greenhorns, a grassroots non-profit organization working to promote, support, and recruit young farmers in America, announces a big step forward. The Greenhorns have gone live with a website redesign. The new site carries the same utility, free literature, […]

It's June, there are more things to be done than can ever be finished, and the Senate is taking critical votes that will affect our farms for the next 5 years. That means it's time to multitask. Today, whether you're feeding the chickens, hoeing the carrots or milking the cows, we ask you to grab your […]

ALL THE LABOR is the story of five Austin, Texas musicians collectively-known as The Gourds.  Kevin Russell, Keith Langford, Max Johnston, Jimmy Smith, and Claude Bernard are some of the hardest working musicians in the business. We began filming ALL THE LABOR in August 2011 when the band rented an abandoned kitchen in a former […]

Greetings farmers and farmer-friends! The Washington Young Farmers' Coalition invites you to attend our next crop mob:  City Grown Seattle Crop Mob: Sunday, June 17 11am to 4pm:  Work party at City Grown's Crown Hill Community Center plot WHERE: 9250 14th Ave NW, Seattle 98117 WHAT: Constructing pole-bean trellises and weeding paths where the sod is trying to come […]

Localize This! Artful Activism - Strategy, Creative Tactics & Community Organizing Intensive Vashon Island, WA July 29 - Aug. 4, 2012 Join us this year July 29-Aug 4 at Localize This! Online updates can't compare to hanging out with the amazing network of action oriented activists and organizers from around the country who gather each […]

New Family Farm, bridge to a simpler past By ANDREA GRANAHAN / West County Correspondent The young farmers at New Family Farm were not born to their trade. They chose it with a great deal of thought in a way that is reminiscent of the Back to the Land movement of the 1970s. But in […]

Farm Hack:Iowa Wednesday, June 20th + Thursday, June 21st @ University of Iowa, Iowa City + Echollective CSA, Mechanicsville, IA. Farm Hack seeks to bring together farmers and allies to promote the time-honored agricultural traditions of tinkering, inventing, fixing and improving agricultural tools and machinery that fit the needs of the diverse and creative people working […]

The Pickers by Adam Chodzko UK, 2009, 17 minutes 52 seconds Colour, Sound (stereo), HD Video The Pickers shows a group of Romanian migrant workers at a UK strawberry farm who alternate their intensive strawberry picking with the editing and mediation of a 20th century film archive of British migrant hop pickers. Sited in a […]

A wonderful new film by Pull-Start Pictures. We love these guys, and this milk! The film is having its world premier screening at Silverdocs this month. Betting the Farm Website Facebook Page A group of Maine dairy farmers—dropped by their national milk company—launch their own milk company in a bid to save their farms. Owned […]

First Super Weeds, Now Super Insects -- Thanks to Monsanto May 30, 2012 by Dr. Mercola A new generation of insect larvae is eating the roots of genetically engineered corn intended to be resistant to such pests.  The failure of Monsanto's genetically modified Bt corn could be the most serious threat ever to a genetically […]

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 workshops on producing a variety of seeds for the garden to small farm. Farm tours, workshops, hands-on learning, and time for socializing. Deadline for registration is July 31. Tenting and […]

  Wow! That's a lot of articles. The Value of Our Produce 4.11.12 by Ben James The Greenhorns new book, "Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches From the New Farmers' Movement," got ANOTHER excerpt in The Atlantic! This one from Ben James of Town Farm in Northampton, MA.  

a great niche crop to consider for your farm--mushrooms! Cultivating Edible Mushrooms! Learn how easy it is to grow and harvest your own mushrooms! BREMERTON - Learn how easy it can be to grow your own mushrooms in the workshop, "Cultivating Edible Mushrooms" to be held at the Norm Dicks Government Center from 2:00pm to […]

What Do the World's Most Powerful Pesticide Honchos Eat for Dinner? By Tom Philpott on Wed. May 23, 2012 I've made a career of sorts writing about the "big six" agrichemical companies—Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont, Syngenta, and BASF—that produce the great bulk of the world's pesticides and, increasingly, seeds. But last week, I did something […]

New book teaches farmers to manage money aspects of farming Spring Valley, WI – The new book Fearless Farm Finances: Farm Financial Management Demystified tackles one of the biggest stumbling blocks to farm success—managing the financial aspects of a farm. This easy-to-follow book offers how-to guidance, tips and tools to help farmers feel comfortable managing […]

Darthia Farm - Urgent Outreach Darthia Farm is an organic farm on the Downeast coast of Maine. Darthia Farm has been certified organic by Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association for 33 years. They are a family-run farm and each year accept several apprentices who help with the farm work in exchange for room board, and a […]

Op-Ed: Merrigan and O'Gorman - Lending a hand to veterans  By Kathleen Merrigan and Michael O'Gorman What would you do with $10,000? For a returning veteran, it could help launch a new career. Around the country, veterans are returning home from tours of duty and reintegrating into civilian life. Roughly 20 percent of our service […]

Made by a nice man in the UK out of Chesnut: http://www.gardentrugs.com/trugs-gallery.html These Myrtlewood trugs are made in Oregon. Less expensive Tubtrugs are made in Spain of food grade plastic and can be purchased from Johnny's.

Tuesday, May 29, 7 pm EST. Farming for Life: Using body mechanics & other tools to do what you love longer. Taking care of your body can ensure a future of doing what you love—farming, gardening, or simply living. In this webinar, Ann Adams & Liz Brensinger, from Green Heron tools, share secrets from the […]

Greenhorns has just signed on to this important new alliance, NY GRASS, (GrassRoots Alliance to Save our State) to fight for an ABSOLUTE BAN on fracking, and all its related activities.   Here is an announcement and information on how to sign on yourself: NY GRASS.  You can also contact Clare at clare at saneenergyproject.org for […]

Education + urban farming - important stuff. Here's their story: We are Courtney Leeds and Justin Davidson, and together with the students, parents, teachers and neighbors of the school where our farm is located, we are Schoolyard Farms. We have each spent the last three years learning and growing and apprenticing at varying farms on […]

Here's a note from Meleana Judd of Waihuena Farm: Since earning a PDC with Robyn Francis in Australia in 2003 I committed to bring more ‘permaculture’ to Oahu. The PDC provides a framework & skill-set to approach living sustainably and is an experience I feel you, our community & the planet will benefit from. Please join […]

GREENHORNS SCREENING CHATHAM, NEW YORK June 02, 2012 6:30PMat the chatham public library, 11 woodbridge ave. join severine and the co-creators of the new farmer narrative project — anna duhon and ginny moore from hawthorne valley farm — for an opening reception, greenhorns screening and book signing, and a q & a. free and open to the public.

USDA at 150: Farms, food, jobs By Val Dolcini One hundred and fifty years ago, in the midst of a great Civil War, President Lincoln signed legislation to establish a Department of Agriculture to “acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture … and to […]

COLLABORATIVE HEALING ARTS CSA SHARES! massage - acupuncture herbs - allied modalities // accessibility & opportunity for families, farmers & community WHY A HEALING ARTS CSA SHARE? We believe that the healing arts we practice can be of great benefit to many people, but so-called complementary therapies are often only available at prices that for many people are […]

Tuesday, May 29, 2012, Mission Pie (25th and Mission in SF) 6:00pm until 8:00pm Come learn how local leaders and communities are pushing for a healthier, more sustainable food system! Join us for an exciting evening about Bay Area food politics, the Farm Bill--and why it matters for us city folk! Featuring: Supervisors Eric Mar and David […]

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seed to harvest // a pretty nifty off-line farming app. made by a 19 year old no less ! http://seedstock.com/2012/05/16/19-year-old-combines-farming-and-tech-experience-develops-iphone-app-for-organic-farmers/

24 may 2012 THE INTERWEBS @ shindig shindig online book talk: join the interactive online discussion of "greenhorns: 50 dispatches from the new farmer movement" with editors severine von tscharner fleming, zoe ida bradbury, and paula manalo. shindig is an online platform that hosts virtual book talks and other events. this is your chance to ask questions! you must RSVP/register […]

26 may 2012 GRAFTON, VERMONT @ the nature museum, 186 townshend rd. food for thought symposium: exploring food systems which nourish producers, consumers, communities, and the earth. registration check in begins at 8am at the white church, 55 main street. keynotes will be held in the white church, while workshops will be held in a variety of […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NmELr58dxPY] SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 16, 2012) – The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today honors four remarkable food visionaries for their trailblazing work to make our food systems healthier and more sustainable at the fourth annual “Growing Green Awards”. The winners, who are leaders in regenerative ranch management, farmworker justice, farm-to-school food, and making […]

[vimeo=https://vimeo.com/42436481] Introducing 'The Butcher's Salt' a culinary ebook from Farmstead Meatsmith purchase them atfarmsteadmeatsmith.com

Civil Eats is currently seeking an editorial intern for the summer. Candidates must possess editorial and writing experience and have a basic understanding of general food systems issues and a willingness to learn more as they go. Previous experience with WordPress is a bonus, but not absolutely necessary. Duties will include writing articles for publication […]

 http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Team_Role_Descriptions Its pretty darn late in the season, but these eutopian entrepreneurs/ hackers/engineers are looking for a farmer out in MIssouri. Check them out. Seriously ambitious project Sev

Viva Farms and Growing Washington are hiring 20+ positions in Skagit, Whatcom and King counties! We are launching a new partnership to expand our regional food hub, which includes a 1000+ member multi-farm CSA. Both of our organizations are dedicated to training and launching the next generation of sustainable farmers. This partnership will give beginning […]