Archive for April, 2011
Women are shaping the future of food. The number of female-owned farms is soaring and women are responsible for 80% of consumer spending. Local agriculture can remain viable if we support local farmers. She grows food wants to create a sisterhood of support between women consumers and women farmers. Can we count on you to join in? [...]
here, a few states are passing laws to prevent media from penetrating factory farms http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/27/opinion/27wed3.html?_r=1&ref=editorials
making it happen with marketing. for all you feisty young things biking across the country and change the world - when you settle down on your own farms you’ll have to sell sell sell. here is one online tool for that: http://www.smallfarmcentral.com/
Austin has young farmers too! With the scorching heat and blazing sun, farmers in Central Texas wear their farmers’ tan year round. But that’s not keeping young Austinites from joining the movement. Recently, the local news highlighted Austin area farms and a young couple taking the leap from farmhands to farmers. Skip Connett and [...]
lots of these mommy-helpful CSA type buying clubs popping up these days. http://www.field-goods.com/how-to-order.html Cool to see entrepreneurship, cooperation, buyers collectives. LOCAL FOOD: the scaffold of small business development
The Washington Young Farmers Coalition is hosting a Spring Farmers Social! Sunday, May 22nd 2pm crop mob, 6pm potluck @ Dog Mountain Farm 7026 Tolt Highlands Road NE, Carnation, WA Join us for an afternoon & evening of mingling, working together & celebrating spring!
From the folks at Mildred’s Lane: We are happy to announce that many of our spots for fellows are full for this year, but we do have a select few left! Please apply (and encourage friends to do so) if you are interested in an engaging, challenging, and immersive experience at Mildred’s Lane this summer. [...]
Using wikis and digital fabrication tools, TED Fellow Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing the blueprints for 50 farm machines, allowing anyone to build their own tractor or harvester from scratch. And that’s only the first step in a project to write an instruction set for an entire self-sustaining village (starting cost: $10,000). Marcin Jakubowski is open-sourcing [...]
FARM FINANCING: Helping New Farmers Scale the Capital Access Barriers Monday, May 9 from 12pm – 1pm Dorothy Suput, founder and executive director of The Carrot Project, will summarize the findings and recommendations of a national working group on farm financing, whose report Farm Financing: Opportunities to Improve the Financial and Business Environment for Small [...]
Nora of Strongtree Organic Coffee Roasters in Hudson says that the specialty coffee market is screaming about global climate change, crop failures, drought, supply chain dysfunction, and in general the feeling that their sector is a canary in the coal mine of the global food system. here is a small project that is quite hopeful, [...]
there is a festival coming right up in San Francisco! Check it out.
Gaia Rising Farm on Guemes Island is beginning its first season selling shares as a member supported farm whose goal is helping transition our community to a less energy intensive future. Our focus this season will be on growing staple crops such as small grains, dry beans, onions, corn and potatoes. We need a farm [...]
with The National Young Farmers’ Coalition get your tickets here: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/172440 and RSVP here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205789559451617&ref=ts
lots of times people wonder how this local food movement is going to ‘Feed the masses’ Those of you here likely have your own favorite answer to this question, but recently mine has had to do with Succession. the succession of local farm operations, that grow more sophisticated, more logisticated, more formalized and diversified with [...]
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