Archive for May, 2009
Greenhorns in and around NC - this work weekend & Crop Mob will be pretty awesome. Who: Crop Mob What: a million things, eating good food, building community Where: Circle Acres farm 160 A W Buckner Rd (1964 Jessie Bridges Rd) – Silk Hope, NC Why: why not When: 10am-3:30pm Sunday May 24th
Paisley Farm CSA still has some shares available. IN NYC! You thought that all the CSAs were full…but Mike and Jan are my landlords, and very gracious lords too. This is their first year doing CSA after 20 years growing for local markets and fancy restaurants in the city. – Severine Mike is generous with [...]
Some light reading for a drizzly day… Seriously people. BUY MILK! not sodapop Young Dairy Farmers Worry About Future – Brattleboro Reformer, May 8 bootstrap optimism. but only to a point. we need to change the structures ( POLITICAL! EDUCATIONAL! CULTURAL! ECONOMIC!) that govern the American food system. Stubbornness and Optimism Drive Many Farmers – [...]
The Rodale Institute is making this happen. Field day to explore farmer resources for converting to organic State and federal incentive programs make the Institute’s free online training course and its field demonstrations more useful than ever. “The right people at the right place at the right time” is the best way to describe the [...]
The latest from the greenhorns at White Barn Farm… Hi there farm-supporting team! Two main points: 1. We are selling wonderful varieties of vegetable seedlings as well as flower and herb starts next weekend: May 16 & 17. 9am-4pm both days. rain or shine. Our idea is: Grow your own organic garden. it is time [...]
The first of an series of tours to local farms with the Seattle, with a work-trade focus. Get your hands dirty! Teach Out! Engaging our Local Food Cycle An opportunity to learn about and work for a local farm. Coordinated by the Food Justice Project of the Community Alliance for Global Justice Marra Farm; Saturday, [...]
FRESH the Movie. From Director Ana Sofia Joanes FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system. Each has witnessed the rapid transformation of our agriculture into an industrial model, and confronted the consequences: food contamination, environmental pollution, depletion of natural resources, and morbid obesity. Forging healthier, sustainable [...]
Contamination is a crime against humanity. And this piece is brilliant. LONG, but worth the time. Immoral Maize: Extract from Don’t Worry, It’s Safe to Eat by Andrew Rowell I don’t want to be a martyr by any means, but I cannot avoid now realising that this is a very, very well concerted and coordinated [...]
Check out this punky direct action garden celebration from Time’s Up! With the Rude Mechanical Orchestra, a 300-piece radical marching band and dance troupe. “Stop! Plant! Grow!”
Fans, friends, farmers, The greenhorns trailer is up at http://views.newhope.com/organicfilm/Videos/tabid/79/Default.aspx! Check it out and vote for us! The Organic Film Trailer Competition “Pick of the Harvest” award will be determined by public votes and the votes of the Organic Summit attendees with the award being announced the evening of June 3.
But she is Sexy. Liz Hurley shares her country “estate” with four labradors, two cats, three geese, eight chickens, 49 cows, 63 sheep and 82 pigs, and thinks people look “sexier in the country”. here here! Sexier than the City: Liz Hurley reveals the naughty secrets of life in the country By Jo Clements Perhaps [...]
ok kiddos. We all say: “Organic certification is great. I wish it weren’t so costly and time consuming” We all say: “the government should help growers get certified so that more people would do it and less poison would go into our food, water, air and the bodies of hapless creatures” well. here it is. [...]
Another side of the young farmers scene… Future Farmers of America – Founded in 1928, the Future Farmers of America brought together students, teachers and agribusiness to solidify support for agricultural education. In Kansas City’s Baltimore Hotel, 33 young farmboys charted a course for the future. They could not have foreseen how the organization would [...]
Rising to the Challenge: Entrepreneurs Building Living Economies Denver Colorado, May 21-23, 2009. Register Online BALLE’s 7th Annual Conference will be in Denver, Colorado, one of America’s leading cities committed to economic sustainability. We invite you to join fellow business owners, community investors, economic development experts, and sustainability leaders as we share best practices, discover [...]
Want more Greenhorns news in your life? Check out the Greenhorns radio show online via the Heritage Radio Network. Each show is archived and worth a listen. This week Severine interviewed Kevin Skvorak of Regeneration CSA in High Falls, NY. Regeneration CSA is a community supported farm growing with permaculture based, no-till systems that use [...]
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