Archive for February, 2011
Location: Maitland, Nova Scotia Four Seasons Farm offers a unique “seed to plate” experience to learn about sustainable growing in a supportive environment. Family-run since 1992, we specialize in small-scale, organic practices and provide quality vegetables and herbs for restaurants and the Halifax Farmers Market, the largest market in the Maritimes. We are currently seeking [...]
More Oregon greenhorns, keeping a great blog! Here’s a letter from Eric of Wild Garden Seeds. Wild Garden Seeds grows organic, open pollinated vegetable seeds in Philomath, Oregon, seven miles west of Corvallis. Most of what we grow are various salad crops, including lettuces, mustards, brassicas, chard and beets. The company was started by Frank [...]
Can we conduct a thought experiment together? http://newdeal.feri.org/wallace/haw06.htm Back in the times– the government worked to protect growers from cheapening prices. IN this case in Cotton. Very bold maneuvers taken. Similarly bold maneuvers of incentivized land use could convert thousands of metro-accessible acres to be put into active use for vegetable production.
pretty dinky effort to ‘ reframe the conversation‘ using happy mommies. come on corn association, soy bean association. put a bird on it
February already almost done, wobbly weather on the east coast, blossoms started on the west coast. All of us bracing for a big year. The weather certainly is wobbly this season — “lash down the hoophouse matey!” Good weather source: Accuweather has a farmer option, with estimated soil temp and moisture. In case you haven’t quite gotten your [...]
Consider this an early promo photo, featuring Andy Wekin at pedal power, for the bicycle powered tent build in NYC-New Museum StreetFest. Bring your needles, thread, pedaling legs. and a cool drink May 7-8 Greenhorns’ Seed Circus launches in NYC as we sew the fashion city’s fabric reserves into a community-sized tent fit for the future [...]
Founder and director of the non-profit organization The Greenhorns, Severine von Tscharner Fleming will give an introductory overview of many issues surrounding new + beginning farmers. Learn more about the Greenhorns organization, receive help interpreting other institutions in the agricultural arena, and discuss how to organize and support farmers in your community and across the [...]
In the spring of 2009 Douglas Gayeton and Laura Howard-Gayeton hired researchers and assembled a Lexicon featuring terms from 13 different areas of sustainability, from air to water, manufacturing to conservation, food to farming, energy to architecture and health to spirituality. The initial idea was to publish these terms in a book along with selected photographs by [...]
In the last three weeks. New crops. ALfalfa, sugar beets, ethanol corn. What is going on ? obama? You need us to show you the movement? You need us to get direct up in your space? You need some squealing piglets on the white house lawn? These developments erode the resiliency of our agricultural system, [...]
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Who is Building Farmers in the West For? Farmers who want to start a market farm enterprise Farmers who have a market farm business but have farmed less than10 years Farmers who desire to improve their business management & marketing skills Farmers who would like to network closely with other market farm producers Farmers who [...]
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“The Greenhorns” will be showing at this student-organized conference in Wisconsin. We like what Sophie is doing as a student farmer-organizer in the midwest. Her campus garden wasn’t big enough, so they made a deal to grow more on local farmland. That’s thinking laterally and enterprising beyond the campus container. College student farmers: you are [...]
a good model. from the The European Council of Young Farmers
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