Archive for June, 2010
July 25th! Check it out here. Formaggio Kitchen, one of our favorite places, is making a field trip out of it. Climb aboard the Formaggio Kitchen bus to lovely Shelburne Farms, Vermont, for the second-annual Vermont Cheesemakers Festival, Sunday, July 25, featuring 50 cheesemakers, 20 wineries and breweries and a host of artisan foodmakers.
The Journal of Extension recently published a short paper called “Best Management Practices for Beginning Farmer Support,” documenting strategies and recommendations shared by great CCE educators who have a long history of helping new farmers. You can view the article at: http://www.joe.org/joe/2010june/tt9.php
Greenhorn Neysa King keeps a blog about her transition to a career in organic farming, Dissertation to Dirt. Recently, She sent us this new post about her first year working on farms as a farm intern. http://www.dissertationtodirt.com/2010/06/people-who-like-farming-are-crazy.html
The USDA has provided funding for Beginning Women Farmers in Connecticut to learn more about whole farm planning in a Beginning Farmer Program developed specifically for women– brought to you by CT NOFA. The next on-farm workshop in this series is “Integrating Livestock on Your Farm” on July 10, 2010 at Millstone Farm in Wilton, [...]
Forage Crop Identification and Fall Seeding Webinar–July 8, 2010 at 7 p.m. with Sid Bosworth, UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture coordinated by the UVM Extension New Farmer Project Join Sid Bosworth, Extension Associate Professor of the UVM Plant and Soil Science Department for an introduction on how to choose forage crops and prepare the soil [...]
4th Annual Farm & Food Leadership Conference, “Taking Back Control of Our Food Supply”. Jim Hightower will be the keynote speaker, and the lunches will be prepared with local, sustainably raised foods. WHEN: Monday and Tuesday, September 13-14, 2010 WHERE: Mexican-American Cultural Center, 600 River Street, Austin, TX 78701 WHAT: An exciting gathering of activists, [...]
Missouri Young Farmers & Young Farm Wives Tour hosted by the Bolivar Chapter. Registration starts on Sunday, August 1 from 4:00 – 6:30. … ozarksfirst.com/index.php?option=com_jevents… In Switzerland there are schools for farmers’ wives. we’ve posted about it before. Frankly, alpha fem that i am — there are many such courses I’d love to take: drying food — [...]
add some farmer swag to your life and get one (or four) of greenhorns artist brooke budner’s posters, available on on etsy.
Little Dog Orchard, Hudson Valley NY, needs irrigation and that means we need your help! Our goal is to raise $5,000 to offset the costs of installing a drip irrigation system, so we need to lease at least 100 trees by the 4th of July. This year, things are a bit different but essentially the [...]
6 New Farmer Training Workshops in the Rutland Region of Vermont this summer, starting July 14th brought to you by Rutland Area Farm and Food Link: July 14 • Marketing Strategies for the Small Farm • Kilpatrick Family Farm July 28 • Building Soils: Soil Testing, Composting, Amendments • Dutchess Farm August 11 • Business [...]
in spirit of the ongoing US Social Forum, here are a few nifty mapping tools for tracking agriculture activity in Detroit: www.detroitgreenmap.org www.opengreenmap.org/greenmap/detroit-metro google maps: detroit food security network
August 21-22nd – Kingdom Farm and Food Days (Formerly High Mowing’s Field Days) High Mowing Organic Seeds, Center for an Agricultural Economy and New England Culinary Institute are once again hosting the Kingdom Farm & Food Days, a free, fun-filled event in celebration of good food and Vermont agriculture. Participating farms in the Northeast Kingdom will [...]
usjobs.gov to get a job making trails at yosemite, glacier, kings oh my!
earthworks resources for all you midwestern and upper midwestern types http://www.freewebs.com/strawbalestudio/resources.html
The Trustees of the New Castle Common, a private Land Trust first chartered in 1764 by William Penn, is looking for an innovative farmer via the attached RFP. This could be an ideal arrangement for the right farm operation, as the 112 acre farm is situated in an area that is well suited for a [...]
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