Archive for October, 2010
Check it out! Small Farm Business Planning program offered in partnership with the WSU Mason County Small Farm Program
The Viva Farms Incubator Program was launched in June 2009 by GrowFood.org, an international non-profit dedicated to recruiting, training and capitalizing the next generation of sustainable farmers. Viva Farms has been created as a pilot of a model that may be replicated nationally and globally to help new farmers overcome four common barriers to entry: access [...]
do what you love, love what you do. check out some incredible food-farm-education opportunities HERE.
The 25th Annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference, sponsored by Carolina Farm Stewardship Association (CFSA), happening Dec. 3-5, 2010 in Winston-Salem, NC, is an unparalleled opportunity to learn from national experts in organic farming. This year, we are excited to announce scholarships to attend the conference for beginning farmers and ranchers in North and South Carolina. The [...]
We need your help! Vote Greenhorns! for our potential Youtopia grant to make an online version of our event prep toolkit for young farmers. A chance for us to win $15,000 worth of their expertise to make it happen. But first we have to be one of the top twenty finalists of the 150. Which [...]
From the Rodale Institute: The Greenhorns: Next generation agriculturalists Severine von Tscharner Fleming and The Greenhorns are promoting, recruiting and supporting young farmers–and having a whole lot of fun along the way. By Amanda Kimble-Evans Severine von Tscharner Fleming is a Pied Piper of sorts–joyfully leading young people into farming–and her goals are lofty. She wants to throw [...]
We are organizing a mixer in ALBANY for young farmers on November 11 and we need help decorating the space, picking up donations, and generally adding to an atmosphere of merriment and sanity. Want to be involved? Have some ideas to share, some organizer muscles to flex? If you are in NYC and are into [...]
In his insightful new book, Holy Shit, Managing Manure To Save Mankind, contrary farmer Gene Logsdon provides the inside story of manure—our greatest, yet most misunderstood, natural resource. He begins by lamenting a modern society that not only throws away both animal and human manure—worth billions of dollars in fertilizer value—but that spends a staggering [...]
Wolftown is a great resource for the NW. They helped sponsor our Washington mixer. They range their sheep in the forest by horseback–pretty sweet! Wildlife Rehabilitation Wolftown rehabilitates injured or orphaned wild animals returning them to the wild. We rescue all species, including eagles. We specialize in predators, especially wild canids. Agricultural Program Wolftown teaches [...]
from our friends at Little City Gardens. report back from the border This summer I took a month off of this urban farming pursuit and went down to the Arizona/Mexico border to work with a humanitarian aid organization called No More Deaths who’s mission is to end the deaths and suffering of folks migrating to [...]
Here’s a nice little piece from a greenhorn in Georgia, posted on Civil Eats. Young Farmers Sprouting Up Across the Nation In an attempt to explain what seems to be the seed of a cosmic shift in how farming is practiced and portrayed in America, I offer you my story: I’m 26 years old, and [...]
2010-2011 Winter/Spring Season Livestock Farmer wanted for diversified Eastern Catskills NY Farm Old Field Farm is looking for a full-time livestock farmer to work and live on-site in Cornwallville, NY, beginning Spring 2011. The end date for the position is currently negotiable. MISSION Our farm explores the interaction and mutual benefit of art and agricultural [...]
There are only 3 days left in our kickstarter campaign – we’ve raised a lot, but we’ve got a ways to go if we’re going to get funded! The Pitch. So what do we want to do now? 1. Take our film all over the country and get many more young people psyched about entering [...]
This show featured the Rodale Institute last weekend, and you can watch all of the episodes online! Growing a Greener World on American Public Television.
These great cheese makers have donated to TWO greenhorns mixers. And their cheese is top o’ the notch. We need to remember to support small cheese makers. They could double or triple production but don’t have the markets to do so in some cases. Seek them out. Ask for them at the store. Take your [...]
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