Category Archives: Art
sprouts society
Sprouts Society
Media Art at Farms in the Catskills
futurefarmers / flatbread society workshop
Hi Friends of Futurefarmers,
Michael and Amy are debuting a line of aprons and props for their project in Oslo (
http://www.flatbreadsociety.net
)
http://www.flatbreadsociety.net
)
Saturday, March 23rd, 2013, from 12pm to 4pm
@ the Workshop Residence
We would love to see you: (kids under 13 get in free)
Sign up here: (space is limited to 20)
a tip for our artist readership… amazing residency in SF
you get to make nice things, and then get proceeds from what sells.
Amazing way to incubate new craft product lines.
check it out
GRANGE EVENT: Feburary 15th Save the date
Bread and Puppet Theater’sTHE CIRCUS OF THE POSSIBILITARIANS at
The Whallonsburg Grange Hall, mainstage
15th February, 2013
a family friendly performance
7pm- pm
$
Come one, come all, bring your friends from out of town. It isn’t everyday that Bread and Puppet comes thru the Adirondack region with their rollicking good humor, songs and delightful costumes.
BUY YOUR TICKETS NOW, this show will sell out!
at: Dogwood Bakery, Essex Ice Cream Cafe or reserve via email: ghall@westelcom.com
www.thegrangehall.org
www.thegreenhorns.net
http://breadandpuppet.org/
to volunteer/ usher/ host performers
please contact farmer@thegreenhorns.net
naked lady holiday calendars
A Naked Lady farmer calendar from Rosharn Farm in Rehobeth.
They are raising money for a ‘ Pasture to plate” mobile slaughter house and processing kitchen. Read all about it. And order their calendar for your farming ladies~!
western new york book arts center
This is a community letter press shop and non profit organization in buffalo.
They have 12 letter presses, workshops, supply store, commercial customers and educational field trips.
They take commercial work for broshures, flyers, gigs and events
Consider using them, they are very very nice and talented.
picnic power
announcing a much, anticipated, 2-years in the making book release: A Variation on Powers of Ten.
In ten picnics, Futurefarmers journeys through fields of inquiry ranging from philosophy to ecology, microbiology, astrobiology, environmental science, geography, and urban studies. Comparing today’s practices with those in 1968, researchers discuss the changing landscape of their field and the tools they use or invent to gather, quantify, and measure their research.
frog juice
nice letterpress man gave us some tips
we’ll share them with you all.
THANK YOU CARRIE, our letter press is working and lovely.
BOOKS:
INTAGLIO:
Practical Guide to Etching and Other Intaglio Printmaking Techniques / (ISBN 10: 0486251659 / ISBN 13: 9780486251653 ) / Manly Banister / Published by Dover, might be out of print
LETTERPRESS:
“General Printing, An illustrated Guide to Letterpress Printing”
Cleeton, Pitkin & Cornwell / Liber Apertus Press / ISBN 0-9785881-4-2
Good supplier for intaglio and general printmaking is Graphic Chemical and Ink in Chicago:
https://www.graphicchemical.com
Good supplier for letterpress tools, equiptment and kowledge: John Barrett at Letterpress Things in Chicopee, MA /
http://letterpressthings.com
+ “American” in Long Island seems to have everything for production printing:
http://www.americanprintingequipment.com
the nicest biodynamic crayons
And a nice family that distributes them right here in Columbia County, NY.
a tree map, for your enjoyment
young farmer slideshow
check out a crop of sassy, tan-shouldered young farmers from coast to coast — hot off the press at GOOD.is – Photos courtesy of FarmPlate.com. To learn more, check out FarmPlate’s young farmers profile series.
farmrun, at your service
our good friend, andrew plotsky:
http://farmrun.com
HYper local young farmer project = deserves attention
This is a traveling exhibit about the young farmers of the Hudson Valley. Photos and narratives about how they succeeded. It is a hyper local WONDERFUL project that is directly working to change the local story about agriculture. What champions.
New Farmer Narrative Project Kickoff!
Friday, May 18th, 4-7pm
Opening Reception @ Chatham Real Food Market Co-op
15 Church St., Chatham, NY
Opening Reception @ Chatham Real Food Market Co-op
15 Church St., Chatham, NY
The reception celebrates the unveiling of the New Farmer Narrative Project’s Journey Into Farming exhibit, a traveling photo- and story-based display featuring 20 Columbia County farmers who have started farms in the last ten years. At the kickoff event, the public will have the opportunity to meet some of the County’s new farmers while enjoying light food and beverages sourced from local farms.
Featured farms include Blue Star, Common Hands, Cool Whisper, Cowberry Crossing, Full Field, Hand Hollow, Lineage, New Leaf, Oakwood, Pigasso, Sol Flower, Sparrowbush, Tousey Winery, and Whole Hog Farm.
The Project is based on interviews and farm tours conducted by the Hawthorne Valley Farmscape Ecology Program, and will travel throughout the County this spring, summer and fall. For more information and a full schedule of events: www.hawthornevalleyfarm.org/fep/newfarmer
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