Archive for February, 2009
Update: Cookies brown but not burned. All systems go! Bring your appetites, your snazzy selves, your good ideas. We’ll see you tomorrow. WHEN: Monday February 16th, 2009… 11AM – 1PM WHAT: ORGANIC 2009 WINTER COLLECTION, Men’s and Women’s & GREENHORNS Bakesale Extravaganza (think walnut butter cookies!) WHERE: CHI, 128 West 37th Street, New York, NY [...]
Recently, we received an inspiring note from “fledgling greenhorn” Stephanie Pierce. In part, it read: Hello Severine (and other Fleetsters), I am an avid follower of the blog and Greenhorns, as I consider myself to be a fledgling greenhorn. I am currently interning at the Yestermorrow Design/Build School in Vermont, and I think that some [...]
Greenhorns Ally, & co-founder of growfood.org , Sarita Role Schaffer, just clued us in to this tidbit from the recently released 2007 farm census: “One of the most significant changes in the 2007 Census of Agriculture is the increase in female farm operators, both in terms of the absolute number and the percentage of all [...]
This is good news. We welcome new Greenhorns, gardeners, food preservers! Seed merchants reap benefit of need to cut bills By Jonathan Birchall in New York Published: February 5 2009 02:00 | Last updated: February 5 2009 02:00 Americans are turning in increasing numbers to their back yards to save money, with leading US seed [...]
The Carolina Farm Stewardship Association recently held a webinar on Building New Farm Programs. You can now access this great farm incubator resource online at http://www.carolinafarmstewards.org/ Hello to all, I hope everyone is having a great year so far. I am happy to send out this information that the webinar on Building New farm Programs [...]
What’s not to love? Ok you NYC peoples, here’s the haps… Greenhorns is organizing a Young Farmer Bake Sale– at an Organic Fashion Show, during fashion week in New York City. Its cold here on the east coast, its slippy and slushy and drippy. But in the church basement we’ll be doing a little educational [...]
Greenhorns & Real Food Lovers – decorate your walls with Greenhorns stuff! We’ve got a new poster for sale on the Greenhorns’ etsy site. This is an18 x 20 inch poster, eco-printed by unionized leftists in Berkeley, CA. Full color with an image from the prelinger archive (www.prelingerlibrary.org) And a mini essay by Severine at [...]
It’s cool when libertarians are down with raw milk. That make sense in the new America. This is announcement comes from The Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund, a great resource and cause. http://www.ftcldf.org/news/news-01feb2009.htm Ron Paul Introduces Bill to End Interstate Raw Milk Ban On January 28 Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX) introduced HR 778, a [...]
Greenhorns is planning an installation this spring at California College of the Arts. It’s a collaborative project already, but we’d like to make it even more so. Specifically– we invite your contributions to the exhibit. You! Young Farmers of America! The Installation is called “Land. Sunshine. Stamina.” We’d like to put up your silkscreens and [...]
have you ever been really happy to smell something not that pleasant??’ to me, the smell of burning trash as i walk down the rocky roads of agua buena brings back such good memories. it´s not a pleasant smell in and of itself, but for me, the context is golden. for it´s here that the [...]
Solidarity between farmers, farm workers, farm families and farm neighbors. Please take a moment to send an email to Florida Governor Charlie Crist, asking him to take a stand against modern-day slavery in our food system: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/Governor_Crist_stand_against_slavery Background Just this past December, farm labor supervisors were sentenced in federal court for enslaving tomato pickers, including [...]
A beautiful new business model… this was circulated on a local listserve. I own a local, award-winning remodeling and historical Restoration company, Community Building and Restoration. We’ve been working to adapt to economic changes (are we nearing the end of the era of the 1000 square foot master-bath suite? I hope so, but that does [...]
For the San Franciscans among you… Dear Friends, Please join us for the event below on February 12, 2009, observing the closing of our exhibit called “Shorelines and Timelines” at the Exploratorium. The exhibit went public Tuesday, January 27, and will close February 15. We are very pleased to be part of the Observing show, [...]
The Geography of Hope Conference celebrates “Writing on Farming and Rural Life”, and Greenhorns – they want YOU! From the organizers: The conference is gearing up to be an exciting three days. You can find the latest information at: www.ptreyesbooks.com/geohope.html We’ve finalized the roster of conference presenters, but we’d like to encourage younger folks to [...]
The Rodale Institute wrote up a great review of our new Greenhorns Guide for Beginning Farmers. Check out http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/20090206/nf2 or read on for the full text! E-guidebook forming online for emerging agriculturists: farmer-to-farmer wisdom-in-the-making meets Web 2.0 By Greg Bowman Emblematic of the wonderfully tangible but somewhat invisible youth farming movement in the United States [...]
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