Archive for November, 2010
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 10, 2010 Prop 84 Funding for City Slicker Farms Brings Land Security to West Oakland’s Urban Agriculture Movement. City Slicker Farms is awarded $4,000,000 to purchase land in West Oakland to create a Community Market Farm and park.Oakland, CA (November 10, 2010)—On Monday, November 8, 2010 City Slicker Farms was awarded [...]
The Organicology Conference is February 10-12, 2011 in Portland, OR at the Doubletree Hotel, put on in part by the Organic Seed Alliance from Port Townsend. The “Food and Farm Policy – Inter-Generational Farm Bill Thinking” will be led by a group of leaders with decades of experience in shaping agricultural and food policy. Panelists will present the [...]
because there’s always room for more in this ever growing blogosphere – check out- Ecocentric – its a new environmental blog about food, water and energy, educating consumers, advocates and policy makers through programs like Sustainable Table, Eat Well Guide, The Meatrix, Network for New Energy Choices and H2O Conserve.
Don’t forget! Enter your photos into this exhibition that our Anya is co-curating! *A Sense of Place: Contemporary Agrarian Photography – Call for Submissions* Farmer-photographers are invited to submit up to 6 images by December 5, 2010 on the theme of “a sense of place.”
It’s out! Our friend Kristin Kimball recounts her first year farming, after leaving the big city for upstate New York to fall in love–with a man & with the land. Essex Farm is a horse-powered, year round, full diet CSA. Woah. We’ve read it & we love it! http://authors.simonandschuster.com/Kristin-Kimball/44726842
South Dakota Solar-Powered Bike Shop http://www.spearfishbikecoop.blogspot.com/
“it’s actually made of chicken!!!” we can’t resist. anya found this one.
There’s a resurgence of small scale grain growers these days – many of them greenhorns! Check out these folks in western Mass: http://www.localgrain.org
The Horticultural Society of New York is pleased to present Contemporary Heirlooms: Art from the Hudson Valley Seed Library as part of its continuing exhibitions program featuring plant-based art. The exhibition showcases for the first time in New York City original artworks commissioned by the Hudson Valley Seed Library for their unique Art Pack seed [...]
Our own Patrick Kiley cleaned them for our mixer at NESAWG last week, and here’s a little something he wrote. I scrubbed each one with a little squirt of lavender soap and hot water, again and again, until they sparkled. Out with mouse shit, in with sparkle. These jars are for drinking Red Jacket Orchards [...]
GROWING THE NEXT SEASON OF FARMERS Young people looking for satisfying environmental work By Whitney Pipkins for the Skagit Valley Herald Customers of Hedlin Farms’ community supported agriculture program get a special treat in their boxes of produce each week: Kai Ottesen’s odes to farming. With an English degree in his back pocket, Ottesen can [...]
Here’s a piece about the brilliant folks at Farmstead Meatsmith, and posted on the website of an equally brilliant project called Farmrun. Nauseatingly Predictable The conditions are nauseatingly predictable. It’s a miracle I’vnt vomited on my keyboard just thinking about using myself sitting next to Lauren in a car to grab your attention. She is [...]
Deutsches Zusatzstoff Museum and here is how you can translate it: http://translate.google.com/#
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