Harland’s Creek Farm
Certified Organic Produce and Flowers–Pasture Raised Poultry
FARM MANAGER APPRENTICE
FULL TIME—March 2010 through October 2010
Harland Creek’s Farm, a certified organic farm, seeks an apprentice to work closely with the Farm Manager on all farming operations for the 2010 main farming season. Harland’s Creek Farm grows produce and flowers using certified organic methods and has a pasture raised poultry operation. This is a significant opportunity to learn about the operation and management of an organic farm. Our farming operations are dedicated to preserving the land and to creating a positive working environment. Continue Reading »
and asked our friend at Cornell. He recommended this fantastic resource. Thanks to Cornell + Geneva Pomologia
If you know the common name, you might be able to find it here:
making your own food. Instead of just watching other people make the food on television.
We think probably we should all learn how to make other things as well.
Such as buttons
Or
OUR future. We’ll have to learn to make that as well.
Plants, Earth and Cosmos
A workshop for farmers, gardeners and others seeking a working relation to the land
February 14-19 and/or February 21-26
Led by The Nature Institute and the Hawthorne Valley Farm Learning Center in partnership with the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association
The Nature Institute and the Hawthorne Valley Farm Learning Center are offering two complementary weeks of instruction to those seeking a fuller understanding of biodynamic agriculture. Continue Reading »
Here are some thoughts from our new friend Nathan Ballantine, aka “Man in Overalls”. He’s a budding greenhorn, himself. with a terrific blog.
Back in July while visiting my good friend Jane Shuput, I attended the Greenhorns benefit at the Farmacy in Brooklyn. She spoke highly of the film in progress and the folks behind its production. I remember y’all had some fun stickers. The folks at the door to the upstairs let us sneak past in order to take a quick look at the roof-top gardens.
I’m a huge fan. This is an excerpt from her book, Our Farm
My life as a smallholder
by Rosie Boycott
When Rosie Boycott lost her job as a Fleet Street editor, she sank into depression and drinking and was seriously injured in a car crash. But as she describes in a magical new book, she found an unlikely way to fight back from the brink – running a smallholding in Somerset with a menagerie of pigs, chickens and ducks. This is our second extract . . .
Standing in the Victorian potting shed in our walled garden, I shake a tiny coriander seed out of its packet and drop it into the soil in a pot. I then do the same with marjoram, green basil, purple basil, flat-leaf parsley, curly parsley, chervil, oregano and peppermint.
This process of planting makes me happy. All my life I’ve lived within a political system which believes that sustained economic growth will lead us towards happier, fulfilled lives: more holidays, more cars, more gadgets and gizmos. Continue Reading »
Here is our friend + fellow greenhorn Oliver’s account of the Futurist Banquet held at the MOMA in San Francisco a few weeks ago… it seems epic butchery events are the latest thing.
So much meat, steer, beast. I’m still reeling from the experience, still reminded by the smoke on my flannel, singed armhairs and stung eyeballs.
Friday before last I left Green String farm in Petaluma, Ca, where I am currently an intern, and hopped on a bus headed for San Francisco. I knew there was an OPENrestaurant performance to take place Saturday night in the atrium of the SFMOMA, of futuristic proportions & many months in the making, of which I was going to be a part. My role as I understood it, as in my past performances, was quite vague heading in and particularly ethereal in hindsight. There was a whole cow to be spit roasted for the centerpiece — not merely spectacle, but as an experience to be shared by all who joined, in this case the carving of a massive animal that would feed the entire room. Continue Reading »
those of you who thought that value added was witchcraft…
were right!
here’s a fine example:
order seed early to save trouble later. Catalog Request Form
We also just received this note from our friend Tom Stearns of High Mowing:
I thought that you would like to see and spread the word about Dan Rather’s story on the Hardwick, VT and the young, collaborative ag. scene. Check it out at: http://www.highmowingseeds.com/HMS-on-Dan-Rather-Reports.html
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- greenhorns: rabbits trailered to Dina's farm in Connecticut.chickens gone tomorrow. very sad at having to liquidate animals. wishing hard for own farm November 25, 2009greenhorns: rabbits trailered to Dina's farm in Connecticut.chickens gone tomorrow. very sad at having to liquidate animals. wishing hard for own farm
- greenhorns: rabbit diner super. very productive well run sessions with the USDA beginning farmer working group. I like being part of a municipal effort November 18, 2009greenhorns: rabbit diner super. very productive well run sessions with the USDA beginning farmer working group. I like being part of a municipal effort
- greenhorns: cornell. ithaca. its gloriously warm.
yesterday we did the preview screening, good feedback. hustling along rural highways clakity carsnaks November 16, 2009greenhorns: cornell. ithaca. its gloriously warm. yesterday we did the preview screening, good feedback. hustling along rural highways clakity carsnaks
- greenhorns: now we are improvising with a maple cure--relishing the bits of skittlens trimmed off an added to kale with chillis. oh oh oh. belly yum November 11, 2009greenhorns: now we are improvising with a maple cure--relishing the bits of skittlens trimmed off an added to kale with chillis. oh oh oh. belly yum
- greenhorns: our first bacon just came out of the oven. fresh applesausce. tyler is in the living room saving lettuce seeds with the kittens. farm life! November 11, 2009greenhorns: our first bacon just came out of the oven. fresh applesausce. tyler is in the living room saving lettuce seeds with the kittens. farm life!
- greenhorns: farmhome. warm still. officially 2 roosters, tomorrow rabbit slaughter- hustling film for conference this weekend. irrigation tape rolled. November 10, 2009greenhorns: farmhome. warm still. officially 2 roosters, tomorrow rabbit slaughter- hustling film for conference this weekend. irrigation tape rolled.
- greenhorns: but these new media folks have cool online platforms, much more textured than ning-sites, and broader than our current blog. i'm excited November 9, 2009greenhorns: but these new media folks have cool online platforms, much more textured than ning-sites, and broader than our current blog. i'm excited
- greenhorns: greenhorns has been brainstorming the format for future publications--have been leaning towards a broadsheet with classified ads, events etc November 9, 2009greenhorns: greenhorns has been brainstorming the format for future publications--have been leaning towards a broadsheet with classified ads, events etc
- greenhorns: in washington dc. learning about new media platforms from jlab and the mccormick found.. surprise! young montana farmer courtney is here too November 9, 2009greenhorns: in washington dc. learning about new media platforms from jlab and the mccormick found.. surprise! young montana farmer courtney is here too
- greenhorns: the cats in virginia are huge! must be something in the water here. We're = harvest festival tomorrow. sadly no more pawpaws boo November 7, 2009greenhorns: the cats in virginia are huge! must be something in the water here. We're = harvest festival tomorrow. sadly no more pawpaws boo
- greenhorns: rabbits trailered to Dina's farm in Connecticut.chickens gone tomorrow. very sad at having to liquidate animals. wishing hard for own farm November 25, 2009
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