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Category Archives: Young Farmers in the News
we applaud the leadership of quivira
The Staff and the Board of the Quivira Coalition are very pleased to announce a major leadership transition. On November 1, 2012, the Board formally appointed Avery C. Anderson as Quivira’s new Executive Director! Courtney will assume the title of Founder and Creative Director and will focus on fundraising, writing and outreach activities. This transition is heartily supported by everyone at the organization and honors both Avery’s leadership skills and the need to think about long-range planning to keep Quivira resilient. We’re excited about this transition and look forward to the Next Steps it represents.
ny times talks with young farmers
After Graduating From College, It’s Time to Plow, Plant and Harvest
RED HOOK, N.Y. — It was harvest time, and several farm hands were hunched over a bed of sweet potatoes under the midday sun, elbow deep in soil for $10 an hour. But they were not typical laborers.
Jeff Arnold, 28, who has learned how to expertly maneuver a tractor, graduated from Colorado State University. Abe Bobman, 24, who studied sociology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, was clearing vines alongside Nate Krauss-Malett, 25, who went to Skidmore College.
Mr. Krauss-Malett said he became interested in farming after working in a restaurant and seeing how much food was wasted. Mr. Bobman had the same realization working in the produce section at a grocery store before college.
They had been in the fields here at Hearty Roots Community Farm in the Hudson Valley since 7 a.m. They all said they could not imagine doing any other job.
lots of young farmers working with drafts
New Family Farm, bridge to a simpler past
By ANDREA GRANAHAN / West County Correspondent
The young farmers at New Family Farm were not born to their trade. They chose it with a great deal of thought in a way that is reminiscent of the Back to the Land movement of the 1970s. But in many ways these folks are not your Mama’s hippies.
Ryan Power, 26, his fiance Felicja Channing, 26, their 22-month-old baby, Aniela, and partner Adam Davidoff, 25, support themselves on 15 acres they lease outside of Sebastopol. With hired hand Jenny Hertzog, they grow certified organic vegetables on three and a half acres. The rest are devoted to animals, including the draft horses that pull their plows and the wildlife that travels on the fenced off corridor along the creek below their fields. Continue Reading →
farmers of the future
please do check out NPR’s Farmer of the Future series, via Harvest Public Media.
where you can learn about the likes of William Powers and his Darby Springs Farm near Lincoln, NB !
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
Continue Reading →
young agrarians in canada
What are Young Agrarians? Young Agrarians (YA) are promoters of the new agrarian movement. Young agriculturalists, farmers, urban farmers, market gardeners and their supporters using the power of media and the internet to build a community that can feed the people of Canada. The Young Agrarians are the trumpet blowers, promoters, marketeers and designers who want to rebuild, promote and inspire the agriculture of our country, from the country to the city.Modelled after the Greenhorns movement in the United States, we are excited to launch Young Agrarians (YA) Canada side Spring 2012 in B.C. YA’s goal is to grow more young farmers and food producers and connect existing ones under one umbrella. YA Founder Seann Dory and YA Coordinator Sara Dent, met with the National Farm Unions Youth Committee in March of 2011 during their annual retreat. There was a resounding “yes!” to the idea of a grassroots, cross-Canada, on-the-ground and on-line campaign that supports young farmers. We are now moving this concept into production, and aim to go national in 2013.
my mom saw this article & sent it to me
Good thing our parents are paying attention!
More young people see opportunity in farming from CBS News
(AP) MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin factory worker worried about layoffs became a dairy farmer. An employee at a Minnesota nonprofit found an escape from her cubicle by buying a vegetable farm. A nuclear engineer tired of office bureaucracy decided to get into cattle ranching in Texas.
While fresh demographic information on U.S. farmers won’t be available until after the next agricultural census is done next year, there are signs more people in their 20s and 30s are going into farming: Enrollment in university agriculture programs has increased, as has interest in farmer-training programs.
Young people are turning up at farmers markets and are blogging, tweeting and promoting their agricultural endeavors through other social media. Continue Reading →
meat on the radio
On 94.9 KUOW in Seattle this morning, featuring our friends Farmstead Meatsmith. If you missed it, check out the link for a download.
Meat: Raising, Slaughtering And Butchering Your Own Animals
Marcie Sillman
08/26/2011 at 9:00 a.m.
As you walk around your neighborhood in the city these days, you’re likely to see backyard gardens with a bounty of fresh vegetables. You might also see a few chickens scratching away in the dirt. Or maybe even a pig. Growing vegetables is one thing, but how do you go about raising animals? How do you bring yourself to slaughter the animals you share your yard with, and what do you do with them once they’re dead?
Even if you don’t want to raise your own animals, you might not want to buy from industrial scale meat operations. Of course that kind of meat can be very expensive, partly because small scale farmers face a number of challenges getting their meat to market. KUOW’s Marcie Sillman takes up the issues around raising animals for meat. Continue Reading →
times are a changin
Seeds of Change
A new generation is bringing back small-scale, sustainable farming. Jordy Byrd
She’s running. Her sandals kick up a cloud of dirt, which floats over the field of chickpeas and swirls in the wind. The view is part pastoral, part urban wasteland. Rusted freezer boxes and a multicolored school bus lie abandoned, slowly being swallowed by weeds.
Mary Kate Wheeler is running after a marmot, and neither it nor the wind will get the best of her today.
“The marmots have the first third, the weeds have the second third and we’ve got all the rest,” she says of Ornery Heron Farm, a small organic farm she shares with her boyfriend in Latah Valley, about a mile from downtown Spokane.
Wheeler is protective of her chickpeas. She’s raised them from seeds that had been stored in Washington State University’s seed vault for more than 30 years, making them older than she is. Wheeler, 26, wears rolled-up Carhartt pants and a floppy cowboy hat over her blond hair. Dirt smears her upper lip. A farmer’s tan streaks her forearms and lower back from hours bent picking weeds.
This is her first attempt at farming.
severine on the radio
From NCPR: Beginning and veteran farmers will gather in the Champlain Valley on Saturday for a chance to network, learn and socialize. The event, at the historic Whallonsburg Grange in Essex, will feature food, music and the screening of a documentary that focuses on a new generation of young farmers.
Todd Moe talks with Hudson valley farmer Severine von Tscharner Fleming, a co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition, one of the groups sponsoring Saturday’s gathering. She also directed the documentary The Greenhorns, a film about the young farmer movement.
they’re doin’ it.
They’re composting and they’re earnest. Amanda Austin and Dan Moon met here in the hudson valley on apprenticeships-and even stopped in for dinner with the greenhorns one night. Now, Amanda’s returned to her hometown, recruited Dan to come join her, and they’ve launched a community farm right in the heart of Texas. Continue Reading →
keep it great people!!
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/22/food-six-things-to-feel-good-about/
we got a call out! from mark bittman:
Farming is becoming hip | The number of farms is at last increasing, although it’s no secret that farmers are an endangered species: the average age of the principal operator on farms in the United States is 57. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently noted that our farmers are “aging at a rapid rate,” and when he asked, “Who’s going to replace those folks?” it wasn’t a rhetorical question. But efforts by nonprofits like the eagerly awaited FoodCorps and The Greenhorns, both of which aim to introduce farming to a new generation of young people, are giving farming a new cachet of cool. Meanwhile, the Nebraska-based Land Link program matches beginning farmers and ranchers with retirees so that the newbies gain the skills (and land) they need.
louella, magical cheesemaker, coming soon to greenhorn radio
http://www.rimonthly.com/Rhode-Island-Monthly/February-2008/The-Cheese-Stands-Alone/
and coordinator of Seed Circus, Oakland Museum.
brooke in the news
our tireless artist and a brilliant urban greenhorn - brooke budner.
Urban agriculture: S.F. considers allowing sales
by Robert Selna, in the San Francisco Chronicle
Thursday, December 23, 2010
With all the talk about locavores, victory garden revivals and residents raising chickens and bees, a San Franciscan might be surprised to learn that he can’t just sell produce out of his backyard. Not without running afoul of the law, that is.
While vacant real estate increasingly is being reclaimed for nonprofit and community gardens, old zoning laws prohibit selling homegrown produce without a costly permit and a hearing in front of the city Planning Commission.
But that could soon change.
Continue reading on the San Francisco Chronicle’s Website -
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/22/MNK81GRCSB.DTL#ixzz19bYqiXfQ
