if you can’t afford the Stone Barns Young Farmers Conference this week, here is a great opportunity.
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I wanted to add one other exciting piece about our conference this year. As part of NOFA-NY’s partnership with Cornell Small Farm Programs on our USDA Beginning Farmer grant we are able to offer 75 scholarships to Beginning Farmers (Beginning Farmer as defined by the USDA as someone who has started farming within the last 10 years).
The application can be downloaded from the Conference Homepage of our website: http://www.events.org/nofany-conference/cpage.aspx?e=21411
organizations, staff, and their clients in the Hudson Valley. Permaculture is a design science that takes a holistic approach to long term sustainability. We hope these workshops can help your organization and members in thinking thru how to better approach the challenges that are coming our way in the 21st century; climate change, energy descent (peak oil), food security, and much more.
at Outback Farm
81 Clove Valley Rd, High Falls NY 12440
http://www.regenerationcsa.org/
Euro Gusto & Terra Madre Young Europeans
An opportunity to rethink the future of food in Europe.
France – This new international Slow Food event is being held from November 27 to 30 in Tours, in the heart of the Loire Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
At Euro Gusto you will find a host of attractions…
- The French and European market presenting hundreds of producers of high quality artisan food, selected according to Slow Food principles of good, clean and fair. Continue Reading »
for hopenhagen. she needs it.
Kerry has entered the Huffington Post contest for Hopenhagen Ambassador. If she wins they will send her to Copenhagen for the UN Climate Change Conference to report back daily as the citizen voice with press credentials etc.
Click the link below to watch/find her video and cast your vote:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/19/hopenhagen-ambassador-con_n_363672.html
on the radio! awesome. this is from Outdoor Chattanooga. They also have Bike Chattanooga. 
We have partnered with Pulse News WLPZ-95.3FM to bring Chattanoogan ears DAILY BICYCLE TRAFFIC REPORTS. Yes. Everyday alongside typical traffic reports, thousands of morning news listeners will also hear about the whereabouts and wellbeing of our bike commuters! This is a super cool thing. Most importantly, this will provide a new opportunity for us to “normalize” bike commuting. To remind thousands of listeners that we too are riding to and from work, the grocery store, school and that we might even be your neighbor. Ultimately, of course, we hope to increase ridership while improving roadway safety and awareness. Continue Reading »
Limited Growth Opportunities in Farming
By Sarah Shemkus
November 29, 2009
BREWSTER — In April, Eldredge Farm consisted of two greenhouses, a dozen chickens and one very ambitious plan.
“I have to screen out the loam, prepare the beds, install the posts and chicken wire, and install the irrigation,” farmer Jeff Eldredge said at the time, making just a partial list of the tasks ahead of him.
Eldredge was gearing up for his first season running a community supported agriculture — or CSA — farm, a model in which members buy shares in the year’s crops and receive a portion of each week’s harvest. Neon orange ribbons fluttered on wooden stakes, defining the dimensions of the vegetable garden he was planning for one corner of the tree-ringed lot. In the greenhouses, tiny green slivers of garlic and onion plants emerged from the soil in small, black starter pots. Continue Reading »
greenhorns’ friend Amy Franceschini of Future Farmers is a part of this.
Open Engagement is a three-day conference that is an initiative of the Portland State University Art and Social Practice concentration and co-sponsored by Pacific Northwest College of Art and Portland Community College. Directed by Jen Delos Reyes and Harrell Fletcher and planned in conjunction with the Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series, this conference features three nationally and internationally renowned artists: Mark Dion, Amy Franceschini and Nils Norman. The conference will showcase work by Temporary Services, InCUBATE, and a new project by Mark Dion created in collaboration with the PSU Art and Social Practice concentration. Continue Reading »
the tough get weird.
Greenhorns: if you haven’t already stopped, here’s yet another reason to stop the shopping:
Reverend Billy’s “Blessed are the Jobless! Blessed are the Broke!” Christmas Tour
With the Life After Shopping Gospel Choir!
Buy Nothing!
We start on Buy Nothing Day, Friday Nov 27, 5 AM – trying to convert the Consumers at the front-door of Macy’s. Then off to the Valley Stream Wal-Mart to remember Jdimytai Damour. The on-the-road part of the tour starts with the Rev in Minneapolis and St. Paul, then Savitri joining him in Los Angeles andPasadena. They return to the 40 voice gospel singathon at the Christmas Revival at the Brooklyn Lyceum on Saturday December 12th. Then on the17th, 18th and 19th, the full choir buses up to Albany, Troy and east toGreenfield, Massachusetts. Continue Reading »
is still accepting applications for two administrative internships for the 2010 season
- Live in the beautiful setting that is OAEC!
- Participate in our work and take courses!
- Experience a thriving intentional community!
Position Available: Farm Manager
The Seed Farm, a program of Lehigh County, provides land, training and infrastructure for new farmers, increasing farm start-up success and the vitality of farming in the Lehigh Valley.
The Seed Farm Manager will help mentor apprentices and new farmers, manage on farm demonstrations and educational activities, and coordinate maintenance of our 2 acre, organic market garden and surrounding fields.
For more details: theseedfarm.org.
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- greenhorns: awesome tufters. tuned in and fierce. off to western mass to look at land prospects, if only there were train service. lots of driving. December 1, 2009greenhorns: awesome tufters. tuned in and fierce. off to western mass to look at land prospects, if only there were train service. lots of driving.
- greenhorns: flat tire on way to TUFTS graduate school for GREENHORNS talk. hoping to find some gutsy masters students to spearhead coalition. November 30, 2009greenhorns: flat tire on way to TUFTS graduate school for GREENHORNS talk. hoping to find some gutsy masters students to spearhead coalition.
- greenhorns: rabbits trailered to Dina's farm in Connecticut.chickens gone tomorrow. very sad at having to liquidate animals. wishing hard for own farm November 25, 2009greenhorns: rabbits trailered to Dina's farm in Connecticut.chickens gone tomorrow. very sad at having to liquidate animals. wishing hard for own farm
- greenhorns: rabbit diner super. very productive well run sessions with the USDA beginning farmer working group. I like being part of a municipal effort November 18, 2009greenhorns: rabbit diner super. very productive well run sessions with the USDA beginning farmer working group. I like being part of a municipal effort
- greenhorns: cornell. ithaca. its gloriously warm.
yesterday we did the preview screening, good feedback. hustling along rural highways clakity carsnaks November 16, 2009greenhorns: cornell. ithaca. its gloriously warm. yesterday we did the preview screening, good feedback. hustling along rural highways clakity carsnaks
- greenhorns: now we are improvising with a maple cure--relishing the bits of skittlens trimmed off an added to kale with chillis. oh oh oh. belly yum November 11, 2009greenhorns: now we are improvising with a maple cure--relishing the bits of skittlens trimmed off an added to kale with chillis. oh oh oh. belly yum
- greenhorns: our first bacon just came out of the oven. fresh applesausce. tyler is in the living room saving lettuce seeds with the kittens. farm life! November 11, 2009greenhorns: our first bacon just came out of the oven. fresh applesausce. tyler is in the living room saving lettuce seeds with the kittens. farm life!
- greenhorns: farmhome. warm still. officially 2 roosters, tomorrow rabbit slaughter- hustling film for conference this weekend. irrigation tape rolled. November 10, 2009greenhorns: farmhome. warm still. officially 2 roosters, tomorrow rabbit slaughter- hustling film for conference this weekend. irrigation tape rolled.
- greenhorns: but these new media folks have cool online platforms, much more textured than ning-sites, and broader than our current blog. i'm excited November 9, 2009greenhorns: but these new media folks have cool online platforms, much more textured than ning-sites, and broader than our current blog. i'm excited
- greenhorns: greenhorns has been brainstorming the format for future publications--have been leaning towards a broadsheet with classified ads, events etc November 9, 2009greenhorns: greenhorns has been brainstorming the format for future publications--have been leaning towards a broadsheet with classified ads, events etc
- greenhorns: awesome tufters. tuned in and fierce. off to western mass to look at land prospects, if only there were train service. lots of driving. December 1, 2009
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