Archive for September, 2011
Please RSVP for the Squeeze here: http://tinyurl.com/2011squeeze
Join the Accokeek Foundation on the banks of the beautiful Potomac River for a community potluck, speakers, a screening of the film “The Greenhorns,” and a campout! You’ll want to bring lawn chairs, camping gear, flashlights (grounds are totally dark at night), a potluck dish to share, and hiking boots to check out the site and [...]
Flooded Farmers Learn to Be Creative By PETE WELLS Published: September 27, 2011 in the NYTimes NEW PALTZ, N.Y. - RAY BRADLEY has always earned money from his laying hens, but until Sunday he’d never enlisted one to work in a fund-raiser. Each fall Mr. Bradley holds a big party at his farm here, always with a [...]
but hey, if you didn’t know about it it is one of the best lists for job searchers.. particularly in academic and non profit food work. For subscribing and unsubscribing to comfood, and for all posting guidlines, please click the following link: http://foodsecurity.org/Comfood_Posting_Guidelines.pdf
Internship at Sweet Briar Herb Farm Full time position working on a market gardening farm. The farm is certified organic and some restrictions apply. The applicant will be working a minimum of 40 hours a week and often 6 days, meals and housing are provided. The intern will work in greenhouses and outside gardens. Planting [...]
Friends, Family, Good Samaritans, I’m writing to introduce my very first book, An Everlasting Meal, on sale October 18th. I’d be incredibly grateful if you’d take a look at this brand new website, which contains information about me and the book, and where to find us, and forwarded it along to anyone else you thought might be [...]
High Costs Make It Harder To Grow Young Farmers Published: September 23, 2011 by Clay Masters In farm country, business is still booming. Commodity prices remain high, and investors are funneling millions of dollars into buying farmland, making it quite enticing for the would-be farmer who wants to leave the rat race. But surprisingly, these [...]
people keep asking me where to find them. Here are some really lovely ones: http://www.rosasharnfarm.com/dogs.html
Come to the first Hudson Valley Young Farmer Roundup October 1st, 2011 Germantown Farm
facilitated networking between farmers and landowners. SO RELEVANT. so visionary. So Southwest! Quivira Coalition’s “New Agrarian Career Connection” Tuesday, November 9, 2011 @ 6:30-8:30 pm Embassy Suites, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Here’s a little post about it from food on the food.
Join the National Young Farmers’ Coalition on Sunday, Oct. 2 in Santa Fe, New Mexico for a FREE New Agrarian Farm Tour & Mixer!! *Meet at the Santa Fe Farmers Market Pavilion at 7am (sharp), and then carpool to Taos, NM to tour the Taos County Economic Development Corporation (TCEDC) facility with a special Mobile [...]
Community By Design has purchased a 58 acre property in Sherwood, Oregon, is hiring a few positions to move forward the first phases of the project and will soon also be looking for farmers who are looking for land to start new operations. The project contains aspects of a farm incubator, with cooperative aspects designed [...]
big ups to mc carrot, bicycle-powered pumpkin smoothies, all NACL, scott sell, vachel lindsay, lettuce, Challey Comer and Pure Catskills, the mountains and the lake, stilts, majestic farm, the chickens and the corn, and the weathermore photos and Andrew Plotsky video to come. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thegreenhorns/sets/72157627758658212/
This October 16th, World Food Day, Oxfam is encouraging people around the globe to take a simple yet profound action—hold a Sunday Dinner Conversation about where our food comes from, who cultivates it, and how we can make the food system more just and sustainable. visit their site HERE
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