Posts Tagged ‘Severine’
I’m a huge fan. This is an excerpt from her book, Our Farm
My life as a smallholder
by Rosie Boycott
When Rosie Boycott lost her job as a Fleet Street editor, she sank into depression and drinking and was seriously injured in a car crash. But as she describes in a magical new book, she found an [...]
meatpaper, tartine, chez panisse kids in brooklyn
they told me that they did a performance with a bike and a bull!
I was so excited
here it is: http://openrestaurant.org/
- sev
Its a university in St. Louis Missouri.
I visited a history of agriculture class.
The professor was making a lot of assertions about sustainability, and the obsolescence of various simple yet sophisticated farming practices/equipment. It was quite infuriating.
Luckily I had a tiny chance for rebuttal. The Long Now Foundation in San Francisco recently sponsored a talk about [...]
Well. Many of you have been asking how our pig event was. Honestly, it took us a few days to digest the weekend, and the pork. Now that our many brilliant photographers have edited and uploaded their photos, and we’re ready to fill you in. We think the pictures say quite a bit.
Photos + More [...]
http://www.sunfrost.com/refrigerator_models.html
this is my dream refrigerator.
i also have a dream woodstove, dream cooktop, and dream deydrator.
but my dreams will have to wait for a little while longer
hi there readers– tell us about your dream gear?
a greenhorns e-blast, anyway. If you’d like to receive more, sign up for our newsletter!
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It is August. It is hot. At Smithereen Farm, our Greenhorns headquarters is full of peaches, yellow squashes+ rosy-cheeked visitors.
Yes, we got hit by the blight, but as I type the air is full of vinegar vapors from [...]
We’re just sayin’. Greenhorns, front page of USA Today.
On tiny plots, a new generation of farmers emerges
by Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY
ROCHESTER, Wash. — Joseph Gabiou walks the fields of Wobbly Cart Farm with a practiced eye. He kicks dirt into place to keep the wind from blowing the protective covering off a row of organic [...]
4H just got a nice facelift on their website. I noticed.
and then this PSA
http://4-h.org/b/Pages/Layouts/GroupPage2889.html?SiteId=2323&PersistentTheme=4H
about 1 million new scientists. and the companies who are supporting 4H to make it happen. including Monsanto, who recently donating $1.5 million.
4H isn’t about making technology. Its about raising animals.
Food, Inc. is screening on Wednesday in Brooklyn and greenhorns will be tabling there! will we see you?
we love pollan. we love schlosser. we love kenner.
Almost two years after its founding in a basement in Berkeley, California, The Greenhorns has matured from an idea for a recruitment film into a widespread national community. We are now happily rooted on my first commercial farm, Smithereen, on rented land in the Hudson Valley of New York.
In the autumn of 2007 we [...]










