Archive for June, 2011
Advice for Young Farmers from Swanton Berry Owners by Vera Chang In a recent talk for Seattle Arts & Lectures, Wendell Berry told aspiring young farmers to “listen to the old-timers.” I’m taking the revered American poet, philosopher, and farmer up on his recommendation, and I’m especially interested in veteran farmers’ views on farm labor [...]
Invitation for Input & Proposals Deadline: July 1, 2011 Sixth Organic Seed Growers Conference Strengthening Community Seed Systems January 19 – 21, 2012 Port Townsend, Washington Organic Seed Alliance invites you to help shape the Sixth Organic Seed Growers Conference by providing suggestions for content and speakers and submitting proposals for presentations, posters, panels and roundtable [...]
rabble is rising in my veins. can everyone please call again call again let them know its crazy/ sev From the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition: The agriculture appropriations bill the House of Representatives just passed slashes $1 billion from mandatory farm bill conservation funding and tells USDA to drop the Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food [...]
From NCPR: Beginning and veteran farmers will gather in the Champlain Valley on Saturday for a chance to network, learn and socialize. The event, at the historic Whallonsburg Grange in Essex, will feature food, music and the screening of a documentary that focuses on a new generation of young farmers. Todd Moe talks with Hudson [...]
We love these guys, and what a great idea! Let’s help make it happen. Farmstead Meatsmith, an animal processing business on Vashon Island, WA is campaigning to fund a series of instructional web videos focusing on home pork butchery and cookery. Each will focus on a particular process or dish, like ‘curing bacon’ or ‘shoulder butchery’, and [...]
We need to see this more and more. If you are part of a land trust that doesn’t have an explicit goal of getting young farmers, or active farmers of any age onto the conserved land.. then please pick up the telephone and start making a fuss. Young Farmers Come to Western New York Town [...]
You may remember Anthill Farm from a mixer we held there last year. Check out their new website – it’s beautifully designed and a good model if you’re working on one yourself. ** www.anthillfarm.com **
tomorrow! There will abstracts available online after the event. 2011 UMaine Sustainable Agriculture Field Day Featuring Small Scale Vegetable Production Wednesday, June 29 – 5:00 to 7:30 pm University of Maine Rogers Research Farm, Stillwater, Maine (directions below) FREE – no pre-registration required; 1 Pesticide credit and 2.5 Certified Crop Advisor (CCA) credits offered 4:45‐5:00 [...]
Help fund Anna Mumford’s film about her family’s Indiana Farm! 15 days to go on her kickstarter campaign. A year ago, inspired by the work I’d been doing with the local food community in NYC, I began a film project about my family’s corn and soybeans farm in Indiana. The farm, located in Griffin, Indiana [...]
Cornell University’s Vegetable MD Online a resource for vegetable farmers with a little crisis on their hands.
Internships Available at Rainbeau Ridge Farm 49 David’s Way Bedford Hills, NY 10507 Westchester County NY—one hour from NYC Positions are available, with possible housing and stipend, that will incorporate responsibilities in the areas of livestock, cheesemaking, market gardening and ag education (for children); Specific job descriptions will be crafted to match candidates depending upon [...]
A Facebook page wants to help. Understanding the Farm Bill The support for local farmers, fresh and healthy food, gardening, and farmers markets has reached new levels of enthusiasm. That enthusiasm for a new food system, however, has yet to be translated into new food policy. All of us have seen the impacts of bad [...]
Deb Shoval, 33 year old farmer in northeast PA made the short film AWOL while running her CSA, Fertile Grounds http://sundance.slated.com/2011/films/awol_sundance2011 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/19/movies/palm-springs-international-shortfest.html?_r=1&hpw
Antique Farm Tools.info What a collection! There’s much to learn from these tools. Seed fiddle, anyone? Peter Charles Dorrington collected and restored over 750 antique farm tools between 1985 and 2001. Most of these tools were agricultural hand implements and fenland tools that were used in England, Wales and Scotland, dating from about 1600 to [...]
Join the Heritage Grain Conservancy July 14-15 for a Grain Festival sponsored by Northeast SARE to share seed and skills. In contrast to the corporate seed system with patented seed, we are reinvigorating the traditional knowledge and skills of seed-saving, integrating grains in diversified farms, and local grain production. July 14 – Growing and Breeding [...]
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