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WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS 7:30pm@ williams college, the paresky performance space and luetkemeyer lounge, paresky center  screening + book signing: join us for our official "greenhorns" book launch with storey publishing! screening followed by reading and q & a with severine. including free grilled cheese sandwiches from the young farmers of cricket creek farm. http://www.facebook.com/events/232234493539554/

About Wild Hive Farm: The Wild Hive Farm Store and Café combines an artisanal bakery, a local food store and a wonderful neighborhood space where folks come together. Wild Hive baked goods are hand crafted from own freshly milled flours from locally grown organic grains. We also carry a large supply of local meats, cheeses, […]

The next three weeks are critical to the national Just Label It campaign for genetically engineered (GE) food labeling and here is an update: With only three weeks left until March 27, when the FDA must respond publicly to the petition calling for GE-foods labeling, the national Just Label It campaign is launching a major push to flood the FDA with an unprecedented one million comments.  As […]

MIXER AT GREENHORNS HQ< hudson NY. 624 Warren street at the park TUesday march 13th. noon to six silk screening. networking. refreshments. come see our resource library. gossip and bring a tee shirt if you want to screen on it. and spread the word!

Sounds, Stories and Springtime – An Audio Retreat  Spend a weekend in the Catskills honing your recording and storytelling skills while reinvigorating your creative spirit. Join Jim Metzner and Eileen McAdam for an immersive experience in field recording, listening, and learning how to use sound to bring stories to life. This retreat offers personal attention […]

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Alliances are being formed, globally of Indigenous and non-indigenous groups and individuals committed to creating a system of jurisprudence that sees and treats nature and Mother Earth as a fundamental, rights bearing entity. A paradigm, that is based on Indigenous thought and philosophy needs to be forwarded which grants equal rights to nature and which honors the interrelation […]

Judge Sides With Monsanto: Ridicules Farmers’ Right to Grow Food Without Fear, Contamination and Economic Harm By Jane Ayers On February 24, Judge Naomi Buchwald handed down her ruling on a motion to dismiss in the case of Organic Seed Growers and Trade Assn et al v. Monsanto after hearing oral argument on January 31st […]

UVM Extension New Farmer Project:  Pricing Clinics for Direct Marketing Farmers Are you uncertain how much to charge for your farm products?  Are you unclear how to determine your costs of production? Do you need help determining prices for your farm products that support your business sustainability?  These FREE one-day clinics will provide hands-on opportunities […]

Farmer Party & Screening of the new Our Land web series Presented by The Greenhorns and the Texas Young Farmers Coalition March 16th 6-9pm Green Gate Farms, 8310 Canoga Ave. Austin, TX [email protected] http://thegreenhorns.net/SXSW Join us for a free film screening, discussion panel and farmer mixer over delicious locally-produced food, drink and live music.

Two positions available at Georgia Organics. ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, GEORGIA ORGANICS Georgia Organics is currently seeking a full-time administrative assistant to work at its office in Atlanta. This position provides important administrative, accounting and office management for Georgia Organics’ operations. Deadline for applications is March 28. To see a job description, click this link. FARMER SERVICES […]

http://labelityourself.wordpress.com/ The Label It Yourself (#LIY) campaign empowers people to make educated decisions about what is in their food, without waiting for government or corporations to do it for them.

Grassland Organic Farm is a 300 acre diversified certified organic operation looking for an assistant vegetable manager for three+ acres sold through three farmers' markets and direct wholesale to local stores and a multi-farm CSA. Our farm is owned and managed by us, Garin and Sarah Smith, along with our three young children. In addition […]

9th Annual Ride to Farm Saturday, June 2, 2012                                Ride to Farm is a bicycle ride to raise awareness and funds for the Wisconsin School for Beginning Dairy and Livestock Farmers (WSBDF). Retiring farmers are leaving farming at a much faster rate than new farmers are starting. The school meets the critical need to train, […]

New Entry in Lowell, MA, is currently hiring 3 full-time, year round fully benefited positions and would love to add some diversity to their staff. Looking for folks who have a good agricultural background, are highly organized and love working with people from diverse cultures (and if you speak any extra languages, even better) 1.       […]

On The Anatomy of Thrift from mister plotsky of farmrun

Two Positions Available at Boont Berry Community Farm, located in downtown Boonville, CA. Farm Partner (Co-Manager) and Farm Apprentice Full Season (Mar. 1- Nov.1) commitment required, with possibility for longer involvement. Farm Mission:  Develop a stable “closed system” farm that will produce food for the local community and be a learning center about self-sufficient agriculture.

A wonderful project in Appalachia, a region whose youth clearly see agriculture  and forestry as the only basis for their sustainable economic future. http://appvoices.org/ Their August/September issue was devoted to "Living off the Land"

A great concept, apparently under attack. Startup Capital: an obstacle that challenges the continuity of farm sectors other than ours here in the United States. Young farmers face dilemma as councils sell off 'starter farms' by Mark Hennessy for Irish Times LONDON LETTER: Pressured councils in England have sold £308m worth of land, much of it […]

You can be a part of it! WHAT:   Planning Meeting for Floyd Bennett Farm and Education Center WHEN:    March 13, 2012 from 6-8:30 PM WHERE:  Upstairs at 61 Local, 61 Bergen Street, Brooklyn @ Bergen F stop) Imagine a PLACE that brings new farmer development and farm incubation together with community food, agricultural and environmental […]

Dream Music Puppetry Program One of few programs in the country to grow and commission contemporary, adult puppet works, Dream Music provides performance opportunities to puppet artists, and encourages multidisciplinary collaboration to develop new puppetry techniques. This program was inaugurated with the premiere of Basil Twist’s OBIE-award winning Symphonie Fantastique in 1998. Under the artistic […]

Orchard Manager -- Hudson Valley fruit & vegetable farm seeks hardworking individual with farm experience. Job involves technical aspects of fruit production (nutrient, weed, irrigation, and pest control) in addition to field work, harvest, packing, marketing. Unique opportunity to work with an experienced team growing and selling premium organic/eco-certified produce to the local market. Long-term […]

the city of Seattle is creating the nation's largest public edible forest. "Earlier this month, planners broke ground in Seattle's Beacon Hill neighborhood for what will be the nation's largest free and open edible landscape, the Beacon Food Forest, a project three years in the making. Established on the notion that permaculture infrastructure brings about […]

National Beginning Farmer Technical Assistance Coordinator with CTI - New Entry Sustainble Farming Project, Lowell, MA (Nationwide) Responsibilities : • Conduct national planning, outreach, and technical assistance to emerging or developing beginning farmer training and incubator farm programs. In particular:  Recruit clients and engage national partners TA and community of practice (CoP) efforts.  Develop TA […]

Here is an incredible opportunity to speak your mind about the 2012 Farm Bill.  The U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Agriculture has scheduled only 4 field hearings to sit down with the general public about this major bill.  The meetings will take place in Illinois, Kansas, Arkansas and….Saranac Lake, NY!!  This is your chance […]

bringing textiles into the conversation for truly living locally and gently - all beginning with a personal one-year challenge to live in clothes whose fibers and dyes were sourced within 150 miles of Rebecca's home in San Geronimo, California -- thereafter knowns as the "Fibershed" project. http://www.fibershed.com/2012/02/10/stories-from-windrush/

Reconnecting Hands, Mouth & Mind through Food Systems Education - Conference April 20-22, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine Many colleges and universities now have their own farms, where students can learn about food production.  But learning about the rest of the food system—food packaging, processing, distribution, sales, consumption and waste and the policies and institutions that […]

Saturday & Sunday, March 10-11th, 2012 - Hosted on the RISD campus (Providence, RI)  Join us as we work side-by-side with local farmers to develop new tools and ideas to help strengthen sustainable agriculture in Providence and beyond . The weekend will include: Visits to local farms to help frame problems and opportunities An afternoon design […]

inspiration from AGRICULTURAL TEXTILES - Brought to you by the  Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Food for Maine's Future is pleased to announce the release of You Wanted to Be a Farmer: A Discussion of Scale, a new documentary by No Umbrella Media and the Sap Pail profiling Dan and Judy Brown of Gravelwood Farm in Blue Hill, Maine, and the issues surrounding the lawsuit filed against them by the State of Maine and Maine […]

farmer, author, and barefooted inspirational speaker. Jeff runs Long Hungry Creek Farm -- one of the oldest (30 years) and largest (300 acres) organic farms in Tennessee, which offers a wildly popular CSA program to the local community. Jeff has written a few books, has a wildly popular CSA program, and can often be found speaking […]

The New Entry Sustainable Farming Project, a beginning farmer training program, is seeking a full-time, year-round Technical Assistance and Incubator Farm Coordinator, to begin in early to mid-March.  The position is based in Lowell, MA.  Competitive salary and benefits.  Participants from diverse backgrounds are strongly encourage to apply.  Cross-cultural experience required.

SISA Conference 2012 The second annual Student Initiatives in Sustainable Agriculture Conference will take place on March 31st and April 1st of 2012 at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. The conference will include: *A keynote address by agricultural economist John Ikerd *Presentations by students, farmers, and entrepreneurs *Screenings of documentaries "American Meat" and "Queen of […]

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Not that it ever really left, but you might remember a post about ATTRA's  funding being cut last year. Well, we're happy to report that funding is back!  ATTRA is the go-to resource for farm apprenticeships and so much more and we couldn't be more thrilled with the news.  This is a good reminder to check out the ATTRA site and familiarize yourself with […]

Couple needs new home for 30,000-volume Rocky Mountain Land Library By Electa Draper for The Denver Post Give me a home where the stacks of books loom, and the reader and researcher play. Two self-described bookish people with an unusual dream worked a quarter-century and amassed a 30,000-volume collection on "the land and people's connection […]

The Paicines Ranch is hosting a field day on Fri., March 30, with Kirk Gadzia.  We will discuss managing cattle on rangelands during times of drought, along with strategies for monitoring rangelands in California and other subjects related to holistic planned grazing and decision making that come up. This field day should be of interest […]

Greenhorns, here some great opportunities at Tide Mill, one of the most highly respected organic farms in Maine. They produce beef, chicken, pork, milk and vegetables. The view is okay too. Tide Mill Organic Farm is currently looking for apprentices, journey persons and day laborers for the 2012 growing season. If you are interested, please […]