equity trust, inc. works to preserve “farms for farmers”. here’s a bit about their work:
Land Tenure Issues and Preserving Farms for Farmers
This Program’s Goals
* To encourage exploration of alternative approaches to the ownership of land;
* To help local land trusts and others to preserve the affordability of farms for farmers;
* To help local groups increase community access to locally produced food. Continue Reading »
VIA CAMPESINA is an international peasant organization to which we belong. This is their release about the activities in Honduras. It is a reminder that we too, as the neo-peasantry of our nation must continue to articulate our democratic wishes, publicly, powerfully, and on behalf of the future.
*an update is included at the bottom of this post
Denouncing Repression in Honduras
Audio files and radio at http://albatv.org/
Today, Monday 29 June at 2.45pm in Honduras, the Armed Forces and National Police suppressed more than 50,000 protestors who were in front of the Casa de Gobierno (Government House) defending their democracy based on the rule of law. Continue Reading »
this is the latest from Schoharie Co-op Cannery
Hello, Everyone:
I thought it would be a good idea to update everyone on Schoharie Co-op Cannery’s status and progress, as well as to ask for a little help. A visit to our website will tell you what’s happening: www.schohariecannery.org
If you’re San Francisco or Wyoming, you might want to catch this:
The First Millimeter: Healing the Earth
This important documentary is coming soon to a PBS station near you.
The film features ranchers and farmers managing holistically, explaining how grazing animals and working with nature can return land to health. Continue Reading »
The Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese at the University of Vermont is the nation`s first and only comprehensive center devoted to artisan cheese. By providing education, research, technical services, and public service to increase knowledge, 
appreciation, and expansion of artisan cheese, the Institute supports artisan cheese producers in Vermont and throughout the United States, contributes to the latest scientific research and expertise related to dairy and cheese products, and encourages the sustainability of the small-farm culture in Vermont and other rural landscapes.
Summer Programs Include:
- Cheesemaking Certificate Program (CC) for beginning cheesemakers.
- Public Education courses that range from cheese tasting to technical practices
- Advanced Cheesemaking Certificate Program (ACC) for experienced cheesemakers. This program includes cross-cultural, national and international exchange programs and visiting guest experts in our International Artisan Practices workshops, which are a key function of the Institute`s teaching mission.
Check out their full calendar here
The Northeast Organic Farming Association has lots of appealing happenings coming up.
NOFA 2009 Organic Field Days
- sweet little summer calender of workshops and various farm events– free, open to all (unless noted to register)
2009 NOFA Summer Conference
The NOFA Summer Conference is the Northeast’s largest and most comprehensive gathering of growers and enthusiasts of organic food. Continue Reading »
greenhorns, this is a most fabulous, understated dutch publication.
a worthwhile subscription, and available online–such a lot of academic research avail to us:
directories
case studies
post graduate programs
for the academic agriculturalists especially.
LEISA: The Center for Information on Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture
Here is their latest e-newsletter… you can also read it and subscribe online
E-LEISA carries highlights from LEISA Magazine and keeps you in touch with the LEISA Network at www.leisa.info.
IN THIS ISSUE
• Out now: Farmers as entrepreneurs
• A renewed LEISA Magazine: what information do you need?
• What does family farming mean to you?
• Open Forum: How sustainable is organic farming/Value chains
• Meet our editors in…
• On our blog
• News from the Global LEISA Network
• Upcoming issue: food sovereignty Continue Reading »
4H just got a nice facelift on their website. I noticed.
and then this PSA
http://4-h.org/b/Pages/Layouts/GroupPage2889.html?SiteId=2323&PersistentTheme=4H
about 1 million new scientists. and the companies who are supporting 4H to make it happen. including Monsanto, who recently donating $1.5 million.
4H isn’t about making technology. Its about raising animals.
we’ve been gazing at these posters for over a week now, and we can’t get enough. we think you’ll love them just as much as we do. Available on our etsy site now.
A series of poster size pen and ink drawings by brooke budner. “use your tools wisely”, “spend some time in the kitchen with your friends”, and “the fruit of your labor”… about the beauty in the ordinary, the forms that surround us in our homes, in the fields and on the table. silkscreens available as a series or individually.
spend some time in the kitchen with your friends
Any artistic hudson valley-based greenhorns out there? The Hudson Valley Seed Library is seeking artists to illustrate their seed packs! Read on…
Hello from Seedy Farm!
I’m excited to say that the Hudson Valley Seed Library is going to offer more Art Packs in our next seed catalog. Please help us in our search for new artists to design the covers of our seed packs. If you are an artist, consider sumbitting your work; if you know any artists, feel free to forward this email to them. The deadline is soon as we need to move quickly in order to give enough time for each selected artist to create his or her work of art.
The guidelines are included below and are now posted on the Seed Library website.
Thanks for being part of our community effort to save seeds and support artists. Continue Reading »
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- greenhorns: today we mulched our paths. most of them.
i've had quite enough of this rain.
plants benefited from that sunny interval.
still- too wet. July 2, 2009greenhorns: today we mulched our paths. most of them. i've had quite enough of this rain. plants benefited from that sunny interval. still- too wet.
- greenhorns: moving the pigs down to their newly fenced territory. A porcine gauntlet against the deer. i suffered some rosebush injuries. but its done. June 24, 2009greenhorns: moving the pigs down to their newly fenced territory. A porcine gauntlet against the deer. i suffered some rosebush injuries. but its done.
- greenhorns: @SeedLibrary of course. our seed came from synergy seeds in orleans california.. you know them? June 24, 2009greenhorns: @SeedLibrary of course. our seed came from synergy seeds in orleans california.. you know them?
- greenhorns: well well. we are delighted. muddy- and with 6 gallons of milk to drink. Goat spit an utter and most profoundly delightful success. onwards! June 22, 2009greenhorns: well well. we are delighted. muddy- and with 6 gallons of milk to drink. Goat spit an utter and most profoundly delightful success. onwards!
- greenhorns: 12 kinds of lettuces harvested into red buckets
pea shoots and mayonaise for dinner.
life is a rounded teaspoon
+the kittens keep purring June 20, 2009greenhorns: 12 kinds of lettuces harvested into red buckets pea shoots and mayonaise for dinner. life is a rounded teaspoon +the kittens keep purring
- greenhorns: HARDWICK young farmer mixer--magic networking+bonfire.
GOAT SPIT tomorrow in brooklyn-- happily harvesting marjoram!
strawberry fingers. June 19, 2009greenhorns: HARDWICK young farmer mixer--magic networking+bonfire. GOAT SPIT tomorrow in brooklyn-- happily harvesting marjoram! strawberry fingers.
- greenhorns: busting beds. moving chickens.
farming seems to be about 80% fixing things, and moving things around.
seems like fixing america is similar. June 3, 2009greenhorns: busting beds. moving chickens. farming seems to be about 80% fixing things, and moving things around. seems like fixing america is similar.
- greenhorns: moth bodies- a great pulse of them. Slamming around the house chased by kittens. acceleration of summer, and my psychic, literary output- May 21, 2009greenhorns: moth bodies- a great pulse of them. Slamming around the house chased by kittens. acceleration of summer, and my psychic, literary output-
- greenhorns: today we install deer fence around the ( thusfar vulnerable) baby frisee+ reine des glaces and forellenschluss lettuces. for the goatspit ! May 12, 2009greenhorns: today we install deer fence around the ( thusfar vulnerable) baby frisee+ reine des glaces and forellenschluss lettuces. for the goatspit !
- greenhorns: thank you lord. for most this amazing day. for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and the true blue dream of sky. for SMITHEREEN FARM !!! May 11, 2009greenhorns: thank you lord. for most this amazing day. for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and the true blue dream of sky. for SMITHEREEN FARM !!!
- greenhorns: today we mulched our paths. most of them.
i've had quite enough of this rain.
plants benefited from that sunny interval.
still- too wet. July 2, 2009
