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Antique Farm Tools.info What a collection!  There's much to learn from these tools.  Seed fiddle, anyone? Peter Charles Dorrington collected and restored over 750 antique farm tools between 1985 and […]

2nd Annual Living Lands Farm Tour -July 17th A celebration of Farming, Local Food & Community We only offer the event once a year! You’ll have the opportunity to tour […]

Maine greenhorns Taryn Hammer and Ben Marcus are celebrating the grand opening of their general store in Whitefield - Sheepscot General - this Saturday! We love projects like this! Congratulations, […]

Town of Cato Adopts Plan for Agriculture and Farmland Protection Town demonstrates its commitment to enhancing its agricultural economy and protecting farmland by adopting new, forward-thinking plan and its 13 […]

Resources & models for creatives in small post-industrial cities. Yes! Abundant they are: The Sanctuary for Independent Media: http://www.mediasanctuary.org/ EMPAC @ RPI: http://empac.rpi.edu/ Otto's Bakery (My friends who have an intentionally-empty storefront […]

Tool Making Supplies from Kestrel Tool The Northwest coast has a long tradition of tool making. Building your own saves money and is often the only way to obtain the […]

at Sylvestor Manor.   Young Farmers ages 8-12 and Farm Instructors in Training ages 13-16. Excellent! Looking for a greener summer program for your kids? Enroll your children ages 8-12 for […]

La Cocina - an incubator kitchen in San Francisco. a model to be replicated across the country need a kitchen? check it OUT

There are thousands of old timber frame barns around the country in need of the kind of love this one is getting at Broadturn Farm in Scarborough, ME. Check out […]

Here's a wikipedia bit on Distributed Economies: "There is no official definition for DE, but it could be described as a regional approach to promote innovation by small and medium […]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIUfeKt_LwQ&feature=related] The farmer comes to you, within the Portland, Gresham, Lake Oswego and Milwaukie areas. Pioneered in March of 2006, Your Backyard Farmer is an innovative approach to community supported […]

lots of these mommy-helpful CSA type buying clubs popping up these days. http://www.field-goods.com/how-to-order.html Cool to see entrepreneurship, cooperation, buyers collectives. LOCAL FOOD: the scaffold of small business development

[ted id=1122] Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from […]

Nora of Strongtree Organic Coffee Roasters in Hudson says that the specialty coffee market is screaming about global climate change, crop failures, drought, supply chain dysfunction, and in general the […]

These folks have written up a nice breakdown on the greens (not grains) that they grow to feed poultry.  Useful information for small-scale poultry raisers! Growing Forage for Poultry This […]

now here's a great idea... weed dating. Finally! What you've dreamed of...the details for the Weed Dating. Cost $25 Total capacity-50 participants Gay? Straight? We don't discriminate! You must RSVP […]

check it out: Lancaster Farmacy  

an awesome philly institution and a good model to keep in mind. Weavers Way Co-op

an artist agricultural initiative in Providence, Rhode Island. They've got a new project, which you can help support through kickstarter. Here's the scoop: Our mission primarily involves reclaiming "vacant" land […]

useful for greenhorns... and some good press for our cause! A Mad Scientist's 50 Tools for Sustainable Communities By Leah Messinger, March 23, 2010, The Atlantic In the middle of […]

meeting up with other young farmers on marathon missions http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1429384230/marathon-farm-an-urban-agriculture-project

Check out the Farm Boat Floating Market Why Deliver Farm Goods by Boat? Thousands of vessels plied the waters between Puget Sound and Alaska a century ago, delivering fresh local […]

Their website is chock full of resources, projects, events and more. Check out their media section, and the "Young Farmers of 2010" page!

oldest future farmers of america program. This is a place where urban youth are beginning their careers . An old article, but a good one. Whole student body eats their […]

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Sandhill Farm is a 35 year old intentional community located in rural, northeast Missouri. Our current population is 6 adults, a 15-year old, and a 2 year old child. We […]

University of Vermont's Farmer Apprentice Program The University of Vermont, in partnership with the Intervale Center, has created a five-month intensive program for aspiring farmers that provides a hands-on, entrepreneurial […]

"The Greenhorns" will be showing at this student-organized conference in Wisconsin. We like what Sophie is doing as a student farmer-organizer in the midwest. Her campus garden wasn't big enough, […]

a good model. from the  The European Council of Young Farmers

Using fruit as our lens, Fallen Fruit investigates urban space, ideas of neighborhood and new forms of located citizenship and community. From protests to proposals for new urban green spaces, […]

Zaac is one of these guys who ends of helping out on farms because he is always biking through them. What if we always stopped to acknowledge these new day […]

Mechanical Innovation in Agriculture:  Farmers + Engineers brainstorming together We hope you will join the National Young Farmers’ Coalition, the Greenhorns and MIT as we bring together farmers and engineers […]

check 'em out! http://berkeleystudentfoodcollective.org/ Berkeley co-op aims to educate about food choices by Debra Levi Holtz, The San Francisco Chronicle The brightly colored mural of farmers loading fresh fruits and […]

The Free Farm Stand, an all-volunteer run project of the No Penny Opera  (a tax exempt organization) is about sharing the wealth of urban farms and gardens. We strive to […]

What a terrific twist on "trade schools". Starting today! Trade School classes begin on Wednesday, February 2nd at 32 Prince Street, NYC. At Trade School, students barter with teachers. Here’s […]

more farm tech! Heritage Chickens Go High-Tech In response to the chicken movement sweeping the United States, Mother Earth News and Funny Farm Industries recently launched the Pickin’ Chicken app, […]

check out this program from the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture.  Read an article about the program, published in the High Plains Journal, HERE NCTA's new 100 Beef Cow Ownership […]

The Farmer Fund offers members of the local community in Ann Arbor, MI an opportunity to support local farmers by partnering with us on each of our projects.  By working […]

A new program from High Mowing Seeds.  It's too late to join for 2011, but what a super model! Join our Community Supported Seeds program and receive 10% off seeds […]