Archive for October, 2009
Well, the pigs are back from Hilltown pork. There’s a lot of backfat, their toes look like ballerinas, and shortly we’ll be tossing one side (wrapped in burlap and bound in chicken wire) into a 6′x3′x3′ helluva hole that we dug this afternoon with 4 of us strapping young farmers. The burlap used to hold [...]
but we’re all dorkily bobbing along with our ambitions and our careful planning. From the NY Beginning Farmer Project: In this new video series, “Voices of Experience,” you’ll find the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails advice that can only come from someone who’s been there. Check out clips on marketing, profitability, financing start-up, and more. Some clips [...]
check this one out: Jones Valley Urban Farm is a community-based non-profit organization in Birmingham, Alabama. Utilizing over 3 acres of vacant downtown property, JVUF grows organic produce and flowers, educates the community about healthy food, and helps make Birmingham a vibrant community.
One of our rockstar summer interns, Michelle, is currently snuggling with wild ponies in Iceland. And she has this tidbit to share: “To sustain the sacred in farming, we must find harmony among things economic, social, and ecological – among the personal, interpersonal, and spiritual.” How lucky was I to have stumbled on the words [...]
If you’re a faithful blog reader, you may remember Ibti, the plucky young woman who’d decided to bike across the country visiting local, sustainable farms. Having heard she’d made it as far as Niman Ranche, we thought we’d check in with her to see how it’s all going. Here’s a note from the biking champion, [...]
more resources for young farmers! Ready to Farm – Guide for New and Transitioning Farmers The FarmStart mission is to facilitate, support and encourage a new generation of farmers to develop economically viable, locally based, and ecological agricultural enterprises.
hilarious! there are quite a few greenhorns to be found in this slideshow… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/21/photos-your-favorite-hot_n_324182.html?slidenumber=0#slide_image
more about “FRONTLINE/World . Video | PBS“, posted with vodpod you can also watch here: http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/watch/player.html?pkg=entrepreneur&seg=7&mod=0
Nominations are due in December! How about some greenhorns? Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has just announced this year’s Growing Green Awards 2010, a sustainable food award contest hosted by NRDC to honor extraordinary individual contributions to the sustainable food world.
Since the enactment of the 18th amendment, in 1919, wine has not been made or sold from the land that is now Scribe Winery. So it is with reverence for the land’s past and excitement for its future that we announce the Inaugural Release from Scribe Winery. This release debuts two wines that have been [...]
He used to be my neighbor. Now I like listening to how he promotes ruckus making against big pharma. – Sev
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@ Jimmy’s No. 43 Thursday, October 29, 7 – 9 pm 43 E 7th Street Beekeepers of NYC: come out and share a little bit of your sweetness! (Non-beekeeping pollinator lovers and honey connoisseurs are welcome, too.) Just Food and Jimmy’s No. 43 are thrilled to bring you this unique opportunity to taste and swap [...]
have a gander over at our friend and advisor sandor katz’s fabulous website. and chop chop chop those cabbages. even the outer leaves make great kimchee! http://www.wildfermentation.com/events.php?id=121
from PopTech… Author: Rachel Barenblat “This is one of the sessions I’ve been most looking forward to,” says Andrew Zolli, calling it a session of “incredible bounty.” (He adds that he is a “recovering hyperbolic,” given how often he calls things here ‘incredible’ and ‘wonderful’ — though it does seem to me that often as [...]
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