Archive for April, 2009
It’s a worldwide trend – young folks getting back to the land. This time, in a government-sanctioned program. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/16/business/global/16farmer.html?emc=eta1 excerpt: YOKOSHIBAHIKARI, Japan – A motley group of unlikely farmers descended on the countryside here one recent Sunday, fresh towels around their necks, shiny boots on their feet. “This is harder than it looks,” said Tatsunori [...]
City Slicker Farms, a non-profit urban farming program in West Oakland, California is seeking qualified applicants for our Community Market Farm Coordinator position. The Coordinator will be running the opening and operations of a new Community Market Farm with the City of Oakland Parks and Recreation. This will include community outreach, building coordination, farming, volunteer/staff [...]
NPR on Seed Balls… http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103129515 Neighborhood organizations across the U.S. that want to improve the environment are using a surprising weapon: seed balls. It’s a technique for planting in abandoned places and often inhospitable land that was developed in Japan by Masanobu Fukuoka, a pioneer in “natural farming.” The technique has worked its way to [...]
Greenhorns, nominate yourselves or those you know who are doing important work! 2009 marks the 7th Glynwood Harvest Awards. To find out more about the Awards and Glynwood go to http://www.glynwood.org/Programs/HarvestAwards/ThisYearOverview.html Glynwood is doing something a little different this year recognizing farmers are VERY busy folks in the summer – when applications for the Awards [...]
This is good follow-up on that controversial op-ed piece in the New York Times… http://food.theatlantic.com/the-food-channel/free-range-pork-really-riskier.php Curator’s note: Like pretty much every advocate of sustainable agriculture, including our own Bill and Nicolette Hahn Niman, I took immediate and sharp notice of James McWilliams’s New York Times op-ed suggesting that pigs raised in the very epitome of [...]
Exploring the Small Farm Dream – May 13&14, 2009 Orientation & Train the Trainer Session The New England Small Farm Institute (NESFI) will offer a training session to introduce its course and workbook, Exploring the Small Farm Dream: Is Starting an Agricultural Business Right for You?, to potential course sponsors and instructors. The 1-1/2 day [...]
Need a place to stay in Providence this summer? Here’s the latest from Dirt Palace Some Dirt Palace News! First off – The Secret Restaurant of the Dirt Palace is BACK!! Sunday April 26th HAPPY EASTER! OK, maybe it’s not really easter – however, We are going to have a very special “Peaster” day Brunch. [...]
via East Bay Permaculture: I have found a “trailer” (2 bedrooms with a third huge room built on) that I want to live in and am looking for a roommate (couple considered). It’s on an organic farm just outside of Woodland, California, about 67 miles from Berkeley (about 13 miles from downtown Davis). You’d need [...]
Hi Friends! Underground Food Collective is back in New York City with a series of three multi-course dinners celebrating Spring Bounty and Foraged Foods, May 15, 17 and 18, 2009. After sold-out, highly praised Pre-Industrial Pig Dinners in January, Wisconsin’s celebrated Underground Food Collective is returning to Brooklyn. This time we’re joining up with local [...]
California folks, here are some great fermenting events & celebrations… Ferment Change! On the Dance Floor! Brass Liberation Orchestra, Stratosphere 68, Clar Mooncalf, Sabrina followed by DJ One Chance & more… A benefit for Oakland’s own: City Slicker Farms http://www.cityslickerfarms.org/ & Tristan Anderson http://justicefortristan.org/ At the Oakland Noodle Factory Union St & 26th St (entrance [...]
Greenhorns. cowboys. young farmer icons — we welcome submissions of ‘graphic identity’ totems. The American Farmer Needs A Cowboy Image by Gary Truit No image of America is more widespread and more enduring than that of the cowboy. Over a century after the heyday of the western cattleman, the image of the tough, independent, hardworking [...]
Forage Oakland Anthology Call for Submissions Forage Oakland is a neighborhood backyard barter network by which anyone living in North Oakland or South Berkeley, California, USA can join the project and barter their surplus backyard bounty (of which there is much in this neighborhood). Inter-seasonal exchanges can be made, for example brown turkey figs in [...]
Here’s another blog worth keeping up with: http://www.freshmanfarmer.com/ … Witty, engaging and a great resource for Greenhorns out there. Six new farmers, all posting about the trials & tribulations, successes & celebrations of farming. Six farms are starting from scratch They are turning the dirt and hoping to be successful enough to turn a profit, [...]
NYCers, check this out on Saturday! Third Annual Food For Thought Film Festival April 11 & 18, 2009 Naniola Productions presents the annual Food For Thought Film Festival presenting films about our most important life sustaining resource; food. The purpose of the film festival is to educate the public on issues regarding our current food [...]
This piece was written by Greenhorns ally Twilight Greenaway for Culinate. Great work, Twilight! The Young and the Landless here’s an excerpt: They’re not wearing overalls or brandishing pitchforks, but the young farmers who appear in the trailer for the documentary film “The Greenhorns” are the real thing. Their faces are sun-worn, the dirt under [...]
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