Archive for August, 2011
The Central New York Resource Conservation and Development Project is accepting applications for a year long, statewide training program for beginning women farmers. Women farmers – and aspiring farmers – from around New York State are encouraged to signup for the course that promotes goal setting; financial, business, and marketing plans; land and infrastructure planning; soil [...]
an interesting concept… Creating Rural Wealth For too long, the resources and assets of rural communities – their natural resources, agricultural bounty, workers, and young people – have flowed out of rural areas. Low-wealth areas, in particular, have struggled to create wealth that stays local. Rural America needs a new way forward.
Sept 28 at the Brattle Theater
This fall I’ve decided to open up my home to New Yorkers interested in the possibilities of backyard food production and self reliance. I’m offering an intensive, all day course on “backyard homesteading” on Sunday, September 25th from 9 a.m.-5.p.m. Some of the topics that will be covered are: -Raised Bed Gardening (building beds, planning [...]
http://www.pedal-power.com/ Pedal Power Engineering (PPE) is a small engineering firm that designs and builds human-powered devices. We focus on stationary pedal-powered machines called dynapods. Our first dynapod will be available for purchase in the fall of 2011. We also build custom machines.
FiBL publications: important tools for disseminating information FiBL media place the results of FiBL research within the reach of farmers and other people with an active interest in agriculture, and disseminate these results to extension workers. Many of FiBL’s publications are available in several languages and some are distributed internationally. FiBL technical leaflets give concise [...]
Tomorrrow! The Greenhorns documentary will be shown at the Santa Barbara Public Library’s Faulkner Gallery on Wednesday, August 31, 6-8 p.m. The film will be introduced by Olivia Sargeant and followed by discussion with a panel of young local farmers. and check out this article from the Santa Barbara Independent: The Greening of Agriculture New Generation of [...]
what are your thoughts? http://themillbrookindependent.com/content/life-farm-wife
please email farmer@thegreenhorns.net with subject: HELPING SEPTEMBER 3 cooking crafting welcoming decorating engaging in deliberate hospitality gestures with the general public bring your skills and your willing spirit s www.thegreenhorns.net
in solidarity with all those getting soaked by Irene, a little ditty to cheer up your soggy fields
here are the rompin festivals and state fairs in maine. all organized so you can organize a road trip http://www.maine.info/events/festivals.php
Some of the biggest names in sustainable agriculture and food – Joel Salatin, Joan Dye Gussow, Philip Ackerman-Leist, Jenna Woginrich,Frances Moore Lappé, Harvey Ussery, Ira Wallace and more — will descend on Seven Springs Mountain Resort in Seven Springs, Pa., next month for the Mother Earth News Fair. Seven Springs, Pa. | Sept. 24-25, 2011 Saturday event hours: 9 a.m. – 7 [...]
Looking to sell, lease, or cooperatively work your farmland? Learn about options for transferring farmland, ways to reduce the cost of holding land, and how to keep working lands in production at the FarmLink Landowner Workshop. *** Please register by Thursday, September 15 *** Registration now OPEN! https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/192742 WSU Snohomish County Extension Cougar Auditorium 600 128th St SE [...]
The Chicago film premiere of Farmageddon opens this Friday, August 26 and plays one show daily at the Gene Siskel Center on August 26-29, 31. Filmmaker, Kristin Canty depicts the struggles of an emerging farm economy, made up of farmers who are returning to traditional, non-industrial farming methods, the kind that existed a plenty at [...]
An everlasting meal – you can preorder on Amazon “In chapters about boiling water, cooking eggs and beans, and summoning respectable meals from empty cupboards, Tamar weaves philosophy and instruction into approachable lessons on instinctive cooking. Tamar shows how to make the most of everything you buy, demonstrating what the world’s great chefs know: that [...]
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