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Beginning Farmers Recently Updated

August 12, 2009 // 0 Comments

Greetings All, Just wanted everyone who uses this site to know that I have recently updated the Production, Marketing, and Web Links pages on this site. There are some new [...]

New Website for Trading, Buying, and Selling Local Produce

August 11, 2009 // 0 Comments

A new website has caught my eye. It’s called Veggie Trader, and was conceived as a way to arrange vegetable swapping between individuals within local communities. [...]

Michigan Farm and Grazing Tour August 28th

August 11, 2009 // 0 Comments

2009 Farm and Grazing Tour Hosted by the Michigan Food and Farming Systems (MIFFS) Agricultural Stewardship Committee Friday, August 28, 2009 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. 1st Stop: [...]

Farmers Market Design Competition

August 11, 2009 // 0 Comments

How can better design ensure that food grown by local farmers is delivered and distributed to urban residents? A contest sponsored by GOOD, The Architect’s Newspaper, The [...]

Legal Services for Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Groups

August 10, 2009 // 1 Comment

Press Release Fund Announces New Affiliate Membership Program In Celebration of National Farmer’s Market Week Offering Legal Services to Rapidly Growing and Increasingly [...]

Sign up for the Conservation Stewardship Program 8/10-9/30

August 10, 2009 // 0 Comments

The USDA has announced the first sign up period for farmers who want take advantage of the new Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP). The CSP will make payments to [...]

Blight and Weather = Bad Year for Tomatoes

August 10, 2009 // 1 Comment

There is a fairly good article about the the potato/tomato blight sweeping the Northeastern U.S. in last Sunday’s New York Times. I was just there, and the damage is [...]

Job at Organing Farming Research Foundation

August 6, 2009 // 1 Comment

The Organic Farming Research Foundation (OFRF), based in Santa Cruz, CA, is recruiting an Administrative Assistant (AA). OFRF’s mission is the improvement and [...]

Internship with Greenhorns New Farmers Project

August 5, 2009 // 2 Comments

For those of you who don’t know about the Greenhorns project, it is a multi-level organization focused specifically on young beginning farmers, and includes an [...]

New Publication on Finding Farmland from ATTRA

August 1, 2009 // 0 Comments

A new publication called Finding Land to Farm: Six Ways to Secure Farmland is now available from The National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service (ATTRA). ATTRA [...]