Archive for December, 2011
If you’re a farmer looking for a way to easily expand your wholesale business, a new company called FarmersWeb (FarmersWeb.com) aims to help you with just that. FarmersWeb connects local farmers and producers with wholesale buyers online through their custom-built site. So far, the list of participating buyers includes restaurants, schools, country clubs, institutional kitchens, [...]
Check out the TRAILER for The GMO Film Project – which tells the story of a father’s discovery of GMO’s through the symbolic act of poor Haitian farmers burning seeds in defiance of Monsanto’s gift of 475 tons of hybrid corn and vegetable seeds to Haiti shortly after the devastating earthquake. After a journey to [...]
Please ‘save the date’ for the 2012 NYS Small Farms Summit scheduled for Wednesday, February 29th, from 9:30am – 3pm. The Summit is an interactive meeting with an opportunity for all participants to take part in lively discussion and provide important feedback, both locally, and across the state. We will be gathering in Ithaca, NY [...]
Greyrock Farm CSA is looking for an experienced dairy manager to grow our small herd of Brown Swiss cows. We currently milk three cows and sell raw milk through our CSA and farmstand. Our farm is located in Cazenovia, NY, just SE of Syracuse. In addition to raw milk, we also grow vegetables on about [...]
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From Iowa State University Extension & Outreach: We are pleased to present you with the 2011 Iowa Farm and Rural Life Poll Summary Report. This year’s survey was completed during January and February 2011 by 1,276 Iowa farmers. The 2011 Farm Poll survey focused on a range of issues that are important not only to [...]
Another great opportunity! We recently bought 76 acres in the Ozarks (in the defunct town of McClurg, MO) and are planning on retiring there. We both love gardening and are looking for someone who might be interested in doing caretaker work for our raised gardens, small cattle herd, and small flock of chickens while we [...]
Congratulations to the 2011 USDA BFRDP Award Winners in the Northeast! For a list of all award winners, please visit: http://www.nifa.usda.gov/newsroom/news/2011news/beginning_farmer_awards.html University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt., $659,784 – This project will support the Vermont New Farmer Network, which will provide education, technical assistance, coaching and mentoring to beginning farmers. The Rhode Island Association of Conservation Districts, Johnston, [...]
Check out Flavor Magazine’s new piece: Meet the Future of Farming
Here’s a note from Landowner Heather Halsey – this is a wonderful opportunity for the right greenhorn! I have a 100 acre farm – Second Chance Farm in Limestone, TN – that I am no longer working. I have a new job with a land trust organization in Maine (where I am from). I would [...]
Backbone Food Farm is hiring an Assistant Farm Manager to work with us for the 2012 growing season and subsequent years to come. We are looking for a person to join our crew to supervise, in conjunction with the two head farmers, our 12 acre produce operation. Our season runs March 15- October 30. About [...]
Brunswick is a film about landscape change, told through the personal story of a farmer’s lifelong connection to his now-threatened land. The film weaves together the plight of Sanford Bonesteel, an aging farmer in his 90s, with the dynamics of small-town politics as a residential development is planned on Sanford’s former land. The film takes [...]
Here are some reddit pages to follow: http://www.reddit.com/r/farming/ http://www.reddit.com/r/argriculture What’s reddit, you ask? Wikipedia says: “reddit (pronounced /ˈrɛdɪt/)[3] is a social news website where the registered users submit content, in the form of either a link or a text “self” post. Other users then vote the submission “up” or “down,” which is used to rank [...]
Huguenot Street Farm is a dynamic, innovative, CSA-focused agricultural project in New Paltz in New York’s Hudson Valley Region. This will be our 14th year of CSA and we do a small number of wholesale and restaurant sales as well. Our website is at www.flyingbeet.com. We have an opening for an assistant farm manager position [...]
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