Article and Slides: The bold new faces of urban farming
From Salon.com It’s not just kids and dirt. From indoor fish farms to business training for refugees, a slide show of 11 pioneers Urban farmers are coming to the rescue [...]
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A Roundup of Articles from Roots of Change
Roots of Change Roots of Change (ROC) believes that the best way to make the food system sustainable is to connect and support the people and parts within the system that [...]
New Entry Field Training: Nutrient Management, 5/20/10
Join us on May 20, 2010 at 4:00 pm for a workshop on Nutrient Management for Vegetable Crops. The training will be held at 1471 Bridge St, Dracut, Ma. The Field Training [...]
National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service on Biochar
From: https://www.scribd.com/doc/30908774/Biochar-and-Sustainable-Agriculture Biochar has the potential to produce farm-based renewable energy in a climate-friendly manner [...]
Crop Mobs: Volunteerism Returns to Farming – Video, Articles
Volunteerism as Backbone of Farming: Return of the Barn Raising by Sami Grover – with video from UNC-TV Conceived originally as a means for landless farmers to get [...]
Act to Support Local Meat: Comments on HAACP System Validation
In response to a blog post on Beginning Farmers on April 27th regarding a Salon article entitled ‘Will the USDA doom locally produced meat?’ (see the link below), [...]
Farm bill changes sought
By DAVE WILKINS (Capital Press) NAMPA, Idaho — Idaho ag producers made the most of an opportunity to provide input on the next farm bill during a field hearing May 1 [...]
Senator Hagan co-sponsors amendments to food safety bill
Senator Hagan is co-sponsoring the amendments introduced by Senator Tester to exempt small-scale food processors and direct-marketing farmers from provisions of the [...]
Agriculture Department: Public Input Sought for May 13 Food Safety Listening Session
SOURCE: Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (See original article HERE) State, Federal Officials Seek Insight on Fresh Produce Processing, Handling HARRISBURG, Pa., April [...]
Chickens, Ducks, Rabbits Skill Swap, Michigan
Chickens, Ducks and Rabbits Skill Swap A partnership with the Williamsburg Collective Sunday, June 6th, 1-5pm 8325 Hawley Road, Williamsburg Learn chicken, rabbit and duck [...]
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