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Planting Justice in the Owens Valley: the Indigenous Farming Project  by May Nguyen of Planting Justice  I’ve been working on behalf of Planting Justice with a project called the Indigenous Farming Project (IFP), a tribal agriculture & nutrition pilot program in collaboration with San Francisco artist collective Future Farmers. Inspired by his train travels through the […]

Richard Reynolds has been gardening without boundaries, usually neglected public land around his neighbourhood, for nine years. Through his blog GuerrillaGardening.org he has rallied many to do the same where ever they live. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQdwkm7jZsc&w=560&h=315]

https://zip.kiva.org/trustees/61 Why are you interested in becoming a Trustee? To support young farmers as they begin to capitalize small businesses, establishing good business practices, facilitating access to credit, and exploring the potential to use micro-finance for operating loans. What is the mission of your organization? To promote, recruit and support new farmers in America. To […]

The Complete Illustrated One Page Bulletproof® Diet Common dietary mistakes will sap your energy, lower your immunity, and make you cranky. Basic unsuspected foods can make you weak, soft, and fat. Replace them with Bulletproof foods that fill you up, keep you strong, and even make you smarter. The Bulletproof® Diet is the foundation for […]

This week's Farm Training Project event from MOFGA.  Always a good model for other organizations/educational initiatives. Ecological Pest Control Wednesday, June 26, 5pm at Hatchet Cove Farm, Warren Thursday, June 27, 5pm at Black Kettle Farm, Lyman Effective ecological pest control starts with a farm system design based on the fundamental principles of diversity and […]

news from Shumacher Center for a New Economics On a shelf in the Library of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics sits a small wooden box with worn leather handle—13 inches by 8 inches by 2 inches. It opens to reveal the parts of an apparatus for spinning cotton. Govindra Deshpande presented this traveling […]

Coastal Farms and Foods is an incubator business providing a food processing infrastructure for berry growers, farmers, food processors and food entrepreneurs! Located at 248 Northport Avenue (directions) in Belfast, Maine, Coastal Farms and Foods is the new hub of food processing in the Midcoast, bringing farm products to the facility from farms within a […]

we love seeing new companies pop up.  Fruition Seeds! Check out their Kickstarter, Blog and Facebook page.  Fruition Seeds grows three acres of certified organic seed in the Finger Lakes of New York and collaborates with several other regional certified growers to offer outstanding organic vegetable, herb, flower and grain seed in the Northeast. A life-long […]

Calling all farm interns, apprentices, students of agriculture! Ever wish you had an opportunity which would fill the gap between coursework and internships and the experience of independently owning a farm? The Institute for Sustainable Living, Art & Natural Design is forming a farmer residency program which gives journeyman farmers access to the technical, managerial, […]

Great video, great farm, great tractor. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/67822326] http://www.mudcreekfarm.com/

In this round up of new forms of grocery distribution. A New Wave of Grocery Distribution Models Takes on FreshDirect As New Yorkers grow ever more interested in where their food comes from, a new wave of distribution models has emerged to take on FreshDirect, community-supported agriculture, and the farmers’ market by combining elements of […]

Check out these gals in New Mexico, they gather seed stories from people --> cultural memorybanking. http://seedbroadcast.blogspot.com/

Family bequeaths farm to PFI By Jean Caspers-Simmet, Published 3/05/2013 AMES, Iowa —Tom and Irene Frantzen's desire to preserve their New Hampton land for generations to come led them to bequeath the 300-acre certified organic farm to Practical Farmers of Iowa. They announced the transition plan at the recent PFI conference in Ames. Their voices […]

The Berkshire Food Guild is a community of local food crafters with a mission to support and celebrate the regional foodshed. We partner with area farms to host seasonal feasts and workshops that explore food in the context of the field, the kitchen, and the table.  

TED is a non-profit devoted to "ideas worth spreading" and you can find literally thousands of free--inspiring and awesome--talks from experts and innovators around the world. We've decided to highlight 24 TED talks specifically around food issues that we found compelling and worth sharing.  Please check out and watch as many of these as you can. […]

For all of the apprentices in their system and other aspiring farmers.  Such a great model.  Here's what they're up to this week: Greenhouse Management. Wednesday, May 29, 5pm at Peacemeal Farm, Dixmont Thursday, May 30, 5pm at Broadturn Farm, Scarborough The greenhouse is a key part of any organic farm. As “the place where […]

The Young Agrarians! Who are the Young Agrarians? Young Agrarians is a grassroots initiative made up of agriculturalists and media conspirators intent on growing food sustainably. Inspired by The Greenhorns to build a network Canada-side to celebrate, connect and recruit young farmers – the Young Agrarians are the movers and shakers of a new agrarians movement: young agriculturalists, […]

the BBC collects these each year.  Listen to their selection of 2012's big food ideas HERE.

from the Union of Concerned Scientists. Check it out HERE Congress Should Prioritize Modern, “Healthy Farm” Practices When Farm Bill Debate Re-Starts This Month Industrial Model of Agriculture Is a Dead End, Scientists Say WASHINGTON (May 9, 2013) — U.S. agriculture is at a crossroads: continue the polluting, soil-depleting industrialized farming methods of the past, […]

making it happen!  Check out their kickstarter campaign Chicago ‘Cooperation Operation’ to Transform South Side Lot into Creative Farm-scapeby Whitney Richardson The Cooperation Operation (Coop Op) is a diverse group of young social & food justice activists working to create a cooperatively run urban community garden in Chicago's South Side Pullman neighborhood. A quarter of […]

Great concept, similar to the way our friends at the Hudson Valley Seed Library got started. How to Start a Seed Library at Your Public Library: http://newdream.s3.amazonaws.com/19/20/3/3063/webinar_slides_seed_library.pdf  

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on young farmer issues.  Check out their templates, grants and mentorship program. Young Entrants Support Scheme

An excellent program. From New Agrarian Program Director, Virginie Pointeau  Introducing the 2013 New Agrarian Program Apprentices: With the arrival of spring comes the graduation of our 2012-2013 San Juan Ranch apprentice—Martha Skelley—who who will continue her training in agriculture as a 2013 apprentice with Tooley’s Trees in Truchas, New Mexico. Warm weather also brings the official […]

16 days to go on their kickstarter campaign! Vermont Farmer Building Sailboat To Transport Produce To NYC by Neil Casey for Gothamist The city has lots of rooftop farms and greenmarkets for feeding your crippling ramps addiction, but a Vermont farmer wants to add produce-via-sailboat to the mix. Rice farmer Erik Andrus has begun a […]

Around the turn of the century, the Salvation Army founded three intentional communities in Colorado, Ohio, and California in an effort to relieve urban poverty that followed in the wake of rapid industrialization. Conceived by founder William Booth, the project was organized by his son-in-law Frederick Booth-Tucker, commander of the Salvation Army in the United […]

Summer of Soil is a 5-week, multi-disciplinary accelerator program designed to awaken and inspire a collaborative movement to rebuild and maintain living soils. The program will include a series of hands-on soil-related Courses, an exhibition of regenerative growing practices and the 5-day Living Soil Forum for bringing conversation to action. The Summer of Soil presents the 5-day Living Soil […]

Tech-Savvy Maine farmer Clayton Carter of Fail Better Farm created this sweet crop-planning software and has offered it up for free!  If you've always wanted to be more organized but couldn't find the time, this is your lucky day.  Here's the deal: You've found a sweet piece of land, ordered a pile of seeds, rigged […]

from the Utopia Fund.  Microcredit in Leelanau County, MI The Utopia Foundation is committed to creating sustainable change through domestic and international microloan programs. Microcredit provides small loans to people that may not qualify for funding through conventional banking systems. This financial resource allows an individual to begin, or build the capacity of a microenterprise, […]

What rockers, self organizing in Rhode Island. Hey Everyone! Just a reminder our next YFN is at the Urban Food Lab, 6pm,  Tuesday, April 23!!  110 Mineral Spring Ave, Pawtucket. Bring a potluck dish, and forward this invitation to anyone who might be interested! Other upcoming events: **Value Added Producer Grant application workshops - check […]

For our friends are the Hudson Valley Seed Library. Seems like a pretty useful bit of subsidy.  Even if the slots are filled for the cash it's worth participating. Dear Growers, Greetings from the Hudson Valley Seed Library! You're receiving this e-mail because you have expressed interest at some point (as recently as yesterday, as […]

Flooded rice field is tested as salmon nursery in Yolo Bypass By Matt Weiser Decades of experience have proved that Sacramento Valley rice farmers can use their fields to grow healthy ducks. Now, research under way in the Yolo Bypass aims to find out if they can grow salmon, too. On Tuesday, researchers from UC […]

DEAR COOPERATIVE FARM DREAMERS: The Greenhorns, Land for Good, and the Cooperative Development Institute have launched a project this year to provide the necessary information and support to make land sharing and co-managing farm businesses a viable and accessible model.  Are you pursuing a vision of a collaborative farm project?  Looking to share land with […]

ISLAND (Institute for Sustainable Living, Art & Natural Design) is creating an enclosed trailer that unpacks into a high-efficiency, three-season food preservation kitchen and workshop space. This is a lightweight trailer that can be pulled onto small farms at the peak of produce ripeness. From the trailer we unload tents, tables and outdoor stoves. The […]

listening, speaking. The Farmhand Listening Project About the Farm Hand Listening Project: My name is Sonia Acevedo, and I am one of many beginning farmers trying to return to the land, committed to growing  food for my family and my local community. I have been a farm worker and small farmer in Maine since 2005.  I was inspired to […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yr4tGi6bZ4&feature=player_embedded] SOS Juice, is a solar-powered for-profit/non-profit hybrid that will sell juice, smoothies, and compost in order to improve health, promote sustainable agriculture, and create green jobs for low-income youth and the formerly incarcerated individuals. To launch our business we need your help. We will pilot our idea in Oakland, Ca to prove the benefits of the model and […]

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 […]

As an operating system: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=XMPOf4iMDe8&NR=1]

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 […]