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Some of the biggest names in sustainable agriculture and food -- Joel Salatin, Joan Dye Gussow, Philip Ackerman-Leist, Jenna Woginrich,Frances Moore Lappé, Harvey Ussery, Ira Wallace and more -- will descend on Seven Springs Mountain Resort in Seven Springs, Pa., next month for the Mother Earth News Fair.   Seven Springs, Pa. | Sept. 24-25, 2011 Saturday event hours: 9 a.m. - 7 […]

Looking to sell, lease, or cooperatively work your farmland?  Learn about options for transferring farmland, ways to reduce the cost of holding land, and how to keep working lands in production at the FarmLink Landowner Workshop. *** Please register by Thursday, September 15 *** Registration now OPEN!  https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/192742 WSU Snohomish County Extension Cougar Auditorium 600 128th St SE […]

The Chicago film premiere of Farmageddon opens this Friday, August 26 and plays one show daily at the Gene Siskel Center on August 26-29, 31. Filmmaker, Kristin Canty depicts the struggles of an emerging farm economy, made up of farmers who are returning to traditional, non-industrial farming methods, the kind that existed a plenty at […]

An everlasting meal - you can preorder on Amazon "In chapters about boiling water, cooking eggs and beans, and summoning respectable meals from empty cupboards, Tamar weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on instinctive cooking. Tamar shows how to make the most of everything you buy, demonstrating what the world’s great chefs know: that […]

On 94.9 KUOW in Seattle this morning, featuring our friends Farmstead Meatsmith. If you missed it, check out the link for a download. Meat: Raising, Slaughtering And Butchering Your Own Animals Marcie Sillman 08/26/2011 at 9:00 a.m. As you walk around your neighborhood in the city these days, you're likely to see backyard gardens with […]

here's some inspiration for all you aspiring filmakers and farmers alike we are digging this little film made by Anna Mumford, featuring Joe from Joe Englebrecht's Fourth Generation Orchard - http://vimeo.com/27990139

The Department of Labor & Industries needs your help to determine the level of interest in expanding a program that allows small farms to hire interns legally and get Workers Compensation for them.  This is the only program of its kind in the US, and is a great opportunity to affect decision-making in Olympia.  Please […]

This new edition of a classic in English agrarian lit remains relevant today in the work of the worldwide peasant movement, well represented in the Americas especially by La Via Campesina. Support small local publishers! Publication Studio The True Levellers Standard Advanced by Gerrard Winstanley The True Levellers Standard Advanced is the 1649 manifesto of a proto-anarchist […]

Farm Intern/employee needed.  Working with British White beef cattle which are organically raised (not certified), mowing pastures, weed eating fence lines, hauling and wrapping round bales. General farm duties.  Housing may be available. Rely by email, phone, or letter. Larry & Erna Lampman Fox Hill Farm Grassfed Beef 887 E. Ancram Rd. Ancramdale, NY  12503 […]

More colleges offer organic, sustainable ag courses By Shannon Dininny, Associated Press PULLMAN, Wash. — Misha Manuchehri slowly picks her way through plots of barley, wheat and peas. Every so often, the graduate student in crop science at Washington State University stoops to pluck an errant weed at the farm just off campus. With a […]

  http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2079542,00.html When conditions are so bad that only the most desperate will take the work, and then the state starts cracking down on illegals-- crops wither on the vine. We take issue with the thinking that is in power, and with the injustice that these farmworkers face.

This Thursday! Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy 2104 Stevens Avenue South Minneapolis, Minnesota Part of the Minnesota Global series. 5:30 p.m.–7:00 p.m. Using the synergistic power of photography and storytelling, Dan and Melinda Hemmelgarn’s Food, Art, Revolution, Media (FARM) project blends compelling photographs with relevant stories from rural America to influence public opinion and […]

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Co-hosted by The Brooklyn Food Coalition and The Greenhorns. Saturday, August 27th at the Dekalb Farm 138 Willoughby street - Brooklyn, New York (Take the BDNQR to Dekalb Avenue, G to Fulton Street, 2/3 to Hoyt Street or the ACF to Jay Street) Festivities begin at 5 o'clock with a hands-on Green Roof workshop from […]

In and around Hudson? Grazin' Angus Acres--those authentic, pasture loving, grass fed & finished cattle raisers--are opening a REAL grass fed & finished burger joint in Hudson. Opening in a month or two at the old diner on Warren street across from the park. It just so happens, it's also a hop, skip, and jump […]

photos are UP - and full of bustling young farmers mingling under trees and eating like kings. check them OUT: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegreenhorns/sets/72157627314558295/

a great write-up about a midwest mixer greenhorns just advised on. and nice pictures! http://biodynamicsbda.wordpress.com/2011/08/16/young-farmer-gathering-a-great-success/

http://turnstylenews.com/2011/08/01/why-are-young-educated-americans-going-back-to-the-farm/ just noticed a lot of smart kids heading the other way

rockstar farmer and co-founder of the national young farmer coalition, Benjamin Shute, weighs in on farm labor issues in the NY times: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/08/17/could-farms-survive-without-illegal-labor/we-need-a-new-generation-of-american-farmers

...and yeah, it probably won't create any new ones either. "And above all, the government needs to stop regulating genetic modifications for which there is no scientifically credible evidence of harm." Never mind infiltrating the gene pools of seed crops all over the world, or creating super weeds, or destroying butterfly habitat....but those are not […]

A tale of two droughts By JIM FRENCH in the Kansas City Star Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2011/08/08/3063548/a-tale-of-two-droughts.html#ixzz1VO4z2nMN The telephone rang at 6:30 a.m. It was my wife. Her first sentence: "We had 24-hundredths of an inch of rain last night." I relished every word as if they were drops slowly soaking into parched earth. For the […]

Last chance to donate! Sauerkraut Seth from the Wiyos updating you on the progress of our project. I want to thank all of you who have contributed! We are almost there! $14,000 out of $15000 raised! We have 5 more days to raise $1000. $15 gets you a pre-released CD of this interpretation of L. […]

Organic Poultry Farms Have Fewer Drug-Resistant Bacteria, Study Finds Proponents of organic meat often make the case that it's inherently better for people's health and the environment than meat raised by conventional farming methods. But the actual impacts of organic production can be tough for scientists to prove. A study out today in Environmental Health […]

We need an app that makes an alarm 10 minutes before dusk to remind you to put in the chickens!  Anyone?  

Check them out HERE Our first meeting will take place THIS THURSDAY at Brooklyn Grange, the country's largest green roof and rooftop farm. Sam Comfort of Anarchy Apiaries will be there with us talking about a new pay-it-forward bee program and we will talk a little about why "Backwards is the new forwards". 

in NYC! Monday, August 29 • Recognizing Natural Food Webs Grab a notebook and join Zaac, an organizer with the Connecticut-Westchester Mycological Association, on a guided tour of a bewildering and oft-missed nature within the city. We will seek to recognize an ecologically-sound nourishment from that 'invasive,' 'parasitic,' 'pest,' or otherwise unwanted plant and fungal […]

Union Square Pavilion to Host Public Resource-sharing Event and Community Meal (organized by The Greenhorns and OurGoods “UnSold Supper” Event will Improvise Food, Art, and Business New York, NY – UNSOLD DINNER is a community meal and temporary workshop to be held at the Union Square Pavilion from 6 – 8 PM on September 3rd, […]

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Prince Charles: 'If I didn't do this, who would?' Britain's best known organic farmer on soil, sustainability and the unity of all things by  Tim Adams for The Observer, Sunday 14 August 2011 There is a sign as you turn into the drive at Highgrove that reads: "Beware. You are entering an old-fashioned establishment". After […]

This week an online directory and map called The Color of Food has been launched to the public, listing and locating farmers of color as well as other food system and food movement communities of color. It has become clear that those who control our broken food system do not represent our most impacted communities: […]

Creative Cartography:  Must-Read Books on Maps by Maria Popova From tattoos to Thomas More’s Utopia, or what Moby Dick has to do with the nature of time. We’re obsessed with maps — a fundamental sensemaking mechanism for the world, arguably the earliest form of standardized information design, and a relentless source of visual creativity. Today, […]

by contributing the the design.plot kickstarter project - brought to you by the ambitious folks at domestic-construction - who aim to reclaim an abandoned plot in Brooklyn and turn it into a space which will be open to the community for farming workshops, film screenings, art exhibitions, and pure enjoyment.

The University of Vermont (UVM) Extension’s New Farmer Project recently launched the Vermont Agriculture Land Access Database to help connect farmers seeking land and business opportunities with land and farm owners with available resources.  The database was created to provide a means for new, expanding or relocating farmers to search for land or farms for […]

Don't miss a screening of the Greenhorns on Wednesday, August 17 at 6:30 pm at the Point Reyes Presbyterian Church (11445 Shoreline Highway 1 - up the hill from the gas station in Point Reyes Station).  A couple of young farmers, Mickey Murch and Will Scott of Bolinas, will be part of the discussion period […]

at the rural routes film festival last weekend! a big thanks to everyone who attended the screening at the Museum of the Moving Image

Field Manager at Real Food Farm in Baltimore http://goodfoodjobs.com/jobs/6390/field-manager.html Keep your ears perked for details of a greenhorns event in Baltimore on September 15. Part of the day will have at RFF>

See the exhibit Centers of the USA, at the Centers of the USA! A mobile exhibition unit containing the exhibit Centers of the USA, produced by the Institute of Marking and Measuring and the Center for Land Use Interpretation, will be hitting the road on August 8, 2011, to visit a number of the official […]

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that deserves to be farmed, not paved. Guilderland, NY area. 82 acres on Rt. 146 in Guilderland/Altamont This was a cow farm, not sure for milk or meat...It is for sale by owner and I couldn't find an internet listing for it. 518-295-7179 518-872-0591 45 acres on Rt. 158 in Guilderland/Altamont http://www.coldwellbankerprime.com/Property/NY/12009/Guilderland/0_ROUTE_158 currently a corn […]