Archive for July, 2009
it’s beer friday. and this is our choice: New Belgium’s Fat Tire. Or, in fact, any of their beers. more about “Fat Tire | New Belgium“, posted with vodpod
Our only comment: Boys! Get some Land! Drive Through: A Truck Farm Grows in Brooklyn by Curt Ellis When my buddy Ian suggested we turn his ’86 Dodge half-ton into a planter, I thought the pickup had finally blown its engine. When Ian said he intended to keep the old truck on the road in [...]
we like this film. And particularly the vista/spoonbread fetishism. more at http://www.room609.com/films/promisedland/trailer.html more about “The Promised Land – A Swamp Pop Journey“, posted with vodpod
Our friend Chandler Briggs, a greenhorn at Island Meadow Farm on Vashon Island, sent us this great article on some rad young farmers in Texas at Windy Hill Organics. Organic Veggies Grown in Area, Sold in Abilene By Celinda Emison (Contact) Saturday, June 27, 2009 COMANCHE, Tx — Ty Wolosin loves Mother Earth, which is [...]
Almost all towns have a few extra acres of land around their transportation department, police department, water department headquarters. They currently just mow that land. Why not follow the model of the USDA’s offices and plant gardens, or even better–provide grant money, a competitive design process, and some city support to young farmers who use [...]
for market farmers, specifically. Growing for Market Growing for Market is America’s most respected publication about growing and direct marketing vegetables, fruits, herbs, cut flowers, plants, eggs, meat, cheese, and other farm products. Growing for Market covers farmers markets, Community Supported Agriculture, the local food movement, organic growing, cut flowers, and much more. Growing for [...]
Dear greenhorns, we need a boson- based collaborator for a special covert operation… not actually covert. just special. we’re needing art materials for our upcoming workshops– bike safety badge stations– that we’re setting up at monticello and at Farm Aid.
Click here to download the March 2008 Farm Country Magazine (a publication of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation) highlighting Mississippi’s young farmers. Scroll past the Beef Council ads and the plug for NAIS and there’s some interesting commentary. Any Missippi greenhorns out there care to comment? There are some questionable statements in the “President’s Message”, [...]
thanks to greehorns ally Paige Churchman for alerting us to this and sending this note. Sign the petition at the end of the post! Bed-Stuy Farm (started by Brooklyn Rescue Mission, which was one of the Brooklyn Food Conference sponsors) is at risk of losing half its land. For five years the Jacksons have tried [...]
beautiful and inspiring video of horse-powered farming at Beech Grove Farm. “Eric and Anne Nordell have developed a farming system that integrates cover cropping, composting, crop rotation, and horse-drawn cultivation in an economically viable extensive organic vegetable farm. Anne and Eric have been growing organic vegetables, herbs, and flowers for over 20 years at Beech [...]
No we’re not talking Simpsons. Here at Greenhorns headquarters on Smithereen farm we are teeming with Smithers ready to be passed out in exchange for good work or just our goshdarn downright appreciation. As the value of the dollar depreciates around the world, our chickens keep plopping out eggs and our cucumbers are fat and [...]
of King Corn fame.
We’re just sayin’. Greenhorns, front page of USA Today. On tiny plots, a new generation of farmers emerges by Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY ROCHESTER, Wash. — Joseph Gabiou walks the fields of Wobbly Cart Farm with a practiced eye. He kicks dirt into place to keep the wind from blowing the protective covering off a [...]
Editor’s note: As always with these types of opportunties — all land comes with baggage–sometimes its toxic legacy, sometimes is family drama, sometimes its degraded soil. Thomas Jefferson himself got onto a plantation that was fiercely degraded- he spent the first four years building back the soil, supporting his efforts with off-farm income. So, land-beggar [...]
several of our friends are battling this right now, and we are watchful and vigilant that we are not the next struck It’s deeply traumatizing. We coddle our tomatoes, give them the best, start them from seed 3 months ahead (in some cases) and then — a black beasty rears its head and the mandate [...]
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