new england young farmers, get on this list serve!

Hey everyone,

Just a reminder that our next YFN is TOMORROW!  All are welcome – don’t let the “Young” part of “Young Farmer Night” keep you away!!

We will be meeting at 6pm at the Anawan Grange, 118 Bay State Rd, Rehoboth, MA.  There will be a meet & greet, potluck, and panel discussion featuring folks involved with organizations such as the Farm Bureau, RI Agricultural Partnership, National Young Farmers’ Coalition and the New England Farmers’ Union.  Please bring a potluck dish to share and your own plate & fork!

Carpool update: 

Rides needed from Boston and Berkley, MA

Rides offered from South County (leaving from Richmond, RI) and Providence

Reply to this email and post on the Facebook page if you need a ride or have one to offer!

Hope to see you all there!

-Becca, Margiana & Tess

COMPLETE YFN 2013 SCHEDULE

washington state crop mobs!

Tilth Producers of Washington and

Washington Young Farmers Coalition

 HANDS-ON LEARNING WORKSHOPS (aka “Crop Mobs”)

Like an old-fashioned barn-raising, these workshops provide an opportunity to join together and support a fellow grower while learning valuable skills from experienced farmers. We will engage in fun, hands-on, educational farming tasks while helping a grower complete a large project.

Join us:

Farming with Perennial and Annual Crops: Hands-on orchard management, diverse interplanting, and nursery production @ Skipley Farm – Saturday, May 11, 2013, Snohomish, 11:00 am – 5:30 pm
Learn pruning, propagation, vegetable production, and soil fertility practices.

Diversified Vegetable Operations for All Seasons @ Persephone Farm – Sunday, June 16, 2013, Indianola, 11:30 am – 6:00 pm
Engage in hands-on activities with mixed vegetables and greenhouse management, planting winter crops, garlic harvest, processing, regenerative ecological farm practices.

Socializing, networking, potluck dinner occurs with each event. On-farm camping available!

Register:   www.tilthproducers.org

young farmer nights

What rockers, self organizing in Rhode Island.

Hey Everyone!

Just a reminder our next YFN is at the Urban Food Lab, 6pm,  Tuesday, April 23!!  110 Mineral Spring Ave, Pawtucket.

Bring a potluck dish, and forward this invitation to anyone who might be interested!

Other upcoming events:

**Value Added Producer Grant application workshops – check out the attached flier!  Three workshops coming up designed to teach farmers how to apply for VAPG funds, including time for one-on-one discussions with expert Nessa Richman.

**NRCS workshops – Come learn about funding available from the Natural Resource Conservation Service for things like high tunnels, irrigation systems, nutrient management plans, erosion control, etc.  March 26 in Chepachet, April 6 in Middletown and April 9 in Ashaway.  Flier attached, contact me for more info!

young farmers @ georgia organics conference

3rd Annual GO Conference Farmer Mixer
Kick off the conference on the Thursday night prior with another awesome mixer,  this year hosted by our very own Alliance and the generous Chef Shaun Doty at his Bantam + Biddy chicken joint. We’ve got the patio to ourselves for our shindig, and B+B will be donating chicken-y and veggie snacks. There’s no cost to attend, cash bar, and you won’t want to miss it.
Thursday Feb 21, 8-11pm
Bantam + Biddy
1544 Piedmont Road, Suite 301 in the Ansley Mall Shopping Center
RSVP on our Facebook event page here

Farmer Storytelling Photo Project
As part of our goal to tell the stories of young & beginning farmers in the southeast loud and clear, we’ve dreamed up a multimedia project to gather and project YOUR thoughts and words. Friday evening during the Conference Expo, we’ll have a photo booth set up to snap your pretty mug and listen to your tall tales — that time you shot yourself with the nail gun while finishing the mobile chicken coop, the very first exuberant sale you made at your very first farmer’s market, how you got your mini loan, why you chose the crops you did and which ones the flea beetles eat…we want to hear it all.

if you’re going to the MOSES conference…

 

You’ll want to check out this event.

The Farm Beginnings Collaborative will host an evening Shindig on Friday, February 22nd. Farm Beginnings® is a Land Stewardship Project (LSP) initiative that provides participants a wide range of opportunities to learn firsthand about low-cost, sustainable methods of farming. Launched in 1997, Farm Beginnings is a farmer-led, community based training and support program aimed at getting more farmers on the land farming sustainably.

Anyone who is interested in how Farm Beginnings can help them start their farm business is welcome to attend and network with Farm Beginnings graduates, instructors and service providers.

Taking place during the MOSES Conference.

events, events, events !

if you haven’t checked out the spankin’ snazzy new greenhorns events page, we HIGHLY recommend you do so,

right NOW.

because 2013 is already chock full of film screenings, farmer mixers, conferences, performances, and ohsomuch more.

check out the next event near you! http://www.thegreenhorns.net/?page_id=777

 

oregon young/elder farmers!

Grayhorns/Greenhorns Mixer
Sponsored by the OSU Small Farms Program

Join us for this epic event after the Small Farms Conference featuring local food, music, and beverages! Network with farmers, new and experienced, from all over the state and beyond.

When: March 2, 2013
Location: Mary’s River Grange
Time: 6pm – Midnight
Food: by Gathering Together Farm - will be served at 6:30 (GTF sausage, sauerkraut, salad, veggie sloppy joes)
Music: Psych Country Review opening for Sassparilla – starts at 8pm
Beverages: 2 Towns Ciderhouse will be selling their cider (not included in the ticket price, buy separately)
Cost: $25 per person

Only 150 spaces available, so register early!

Supported by:  Friends of Family Farmers, Vibe Control Studios, Wild Garden Seed

nofa-nh beginning farmer mixer

NOFA-NH Beginner Farmer Mixer

Hosted by Phoenix Hill Farm

December 8th, 6-12pm

 

Join us in celebrating and connecting a vibrant community of homegrown and handmade makers. This NOFA-NH farmer mixer is dedicated to connecting farmers and food producers with each other, and to artisans and people who are expanding our local creative economy.

This event will close off a weeklong art/farm pop up shop at Phoenix Hill Farm celebrating a resurgence of a rich tradition of growing and making in New Hampshire. There will be local art, local food, live music, and community. This is an opportunity to celebrate what you grow and make! Bring something from your farm to share! (BYOB.)

Address: 322 High Street. Boscawen NH, 03303

Time: 6pm
RSVP at bof@nofanh.org

weed dating!

3rd annual washington young farmers mixer!

The Washington Young Farmers Coalitionis ever-so-pleased to announce:

Its 3rd Annual Washington Young Farmers Mixer!

That’s right, the Washington Young Farmers Coalition is doing it again, and this year, we’re teaming up with Viva Farms and Happy Little Farm to present you with a better-than-ever, not-to-be-missed night of potluck and revelry, spit-roast and dancing with the Tuckborough Stringband, farm jokes and celebration.

Put it on your calendar now, and plan to help us wrap up the 2012 growing season in high farm style!

Monday, October 8th, 2012
5:00 PM
Happy Little Farm
18385 Torset Road
Conway, WA 98273 (Skagit County)

What to bring: friends, a potluck dish to share, your dancing shoes, and a tent if you plan to stay overnight.

olympic peninsula mixer

On Saturday June 9th, the Quimper Grange, in collaboration with the Washington Young Farmers Coalition and Port Townsend Community Dance, will be presenting an Olympic Peninsula Young Farmer Mixer.  Pot luck @ 4:30 PM either inside or outside the grange, depending on weather. Please bring your favorite farm dish to share with your fellow farmers, farmer lovers, farmer friends, farmer supporters and families. Contra dance @ 7:30 PM a contra dance + live music provided by the Port Townsend Community Dance inside the grange. Much merriment and libations will ensue.  Bring your  instruments!

The Washington Young Farmers Coalition is also looking for volunteers to help set up and deconstruct before and after the event.  If you are interested in volunteering please contact Brandon at btwickes@gmail.com.

The Washington Young Farmers Coalition is also actively seeking donations in the form of food or drink for this event.  If you are interested in donating food or drink for the event, please contact Brandon or the Washington Young Farmers.  Monetary, tax-deductible donations are also gladly accepted.

CA central coast young farmers potluck/meeting/ film screening

Young Farmers of the Central Coast: Introductory Meeting, Potluck and Film Screening

Sunday May 20th @ Windrose Farm, Paso Robles

What:     Join us for an evening of good food, a screening of “The Greenhorns” documentary film, and to discuss the formation of a local chapter of the National Young Farmer’s coalition

Why:     Because we can’t do this alone! Young Farmers of the Central Coast will work for young farmers by strengthening our social networks, helping us hone our skills through the facilitation of peer-to-peer learning, and fighting for the policies that will keep us farming for a lifetime

Who:      Young and aspiring farmers and their mentor farmers welcome

When: Sunday May 20^th – Dinner/ film screening 5pm; Introductory meeting 7pm till- feel free to arrive early to help set-up and/or tour the farm

Details:   This is a free event, but please bring a large dish to share if you can. Free camping in our orchard is available for those who wish to stay overnight.

RSVP: Please RSVP by May15 by sending an email to Melissa: mh.windrose@gmail.com

GH screening + panel in NJ

19 may 2012
NEWTON, NEW JERSEY
@ halsted middle school auditorium, 50 halsted st.
screening + panel discussion: hosted by transition newton in collaboration with the newton high school coordinated health program. free screening followed by a panel discussion of local young farmers. following the screening, a farmers market will also be held at the school.
10am – screening
11am – panel
12-2pm – farmers market

TODAY @ scribe winery / OUR LAND tour

“our land” wine land tour: building on the success of “the greenhorns” documentary film, we continue the conversation and inspiration with a new series of web films,”our land.”

join us march 30
@ scribe winery, 2300 napa road
SONOMA, CALIFORNIA
6pm screening
space limited to 30; please RSVP to ourlandwinelandRSVP (at) gmail (dot) com

social practice: land, food, water, and energy

Kickoff event: APRIL 21 at the Broad Art Museum at MSU

Taking place in the former Barnes and Nobles space on Grand River, this event is part symposium, part Town Hall discussion forum, and part community celebration.

The space:

The Barnes and Nobles building (formerly the Jacobson’s department store) is a major economic and development site in East Lansing. We will “activate” this now very raw space for a day as a model of the ways these kinds of projects and ideas can grab a moment in the history of place and change its meaning for a brief time.

 The events:

3pm-5pm: The Town Hall discussion will provide a forum for dialogue and learning between artists and thinkers. With short (20-30 minute) presentations, artists and academics will put each others work in new contexts and stimulate conversation about what the Social Practice commissioning program might look like at MSU.

3-5 pm: Possible children’s events

5-6:30: Screening of the Greenhorns Film

6:30-10: Food, drink, music! We will turn the Barnes and Nobles building into a community celebration, with local food and beverage producers selling their goods (an indoors farmers market of sorts) with a programmed series of bands and sound artists.