Changing Economics in the Bay Area: March Summit
Now in its second edition, The Transform Finance Institute for Social Justice Leaders brings together progressive Bay Area practitioners to learn about how finance is affecting communities – and how it can be turned into a tool for real, transformative social change. The Institute provides a safe and welcoming learning space where community leaders can […]
The Farm School is Accepting Scholarship Applications!
Our friends at The Farm School’s Learn to Farm program – which is now in its 13th year and licensed as a private occupational school – continue to make a great case for tuition-based farmer training, providing extraordinary breath and depth in all aspects of the field and turning out graduates who go on to farm successfully. And […]
Big Pay Day for Local Agriculture in Canada
A big push for building the next generation of farmers at The University of British Columbia sets the stage for working educational models. Local farming has been given a boost thanks to a $1 million investment from the Real Estate Foundation of British Columbia (REFBC) in support of the Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (CSFS) at the […]
Film About the Hudson Valley Revival!
Hudson Rising Trailer from jasper goldman on Vimeo.
Women on the Land Film
Documenting women farmers. Available on DVD or schedule a showing in your town! http://www.womenontheland.com/index.html
Succession and Sustainability
The family farm that passes from generation to generation is what we are trying to plan for with our endeavors, and also to offer solutions for farmers without that time-old tradition. Allred Farm in Ackerly, Texas is keeping it in the family and planning for the future in more ways that one. From their website: […]
Harvard buys up water rights in drought-hit wine country
link to article Thu Jan 22, 2015 3:34pm EST By Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) – Harvard University has quietly become one of the biggest grape growers in California’s drought-stricken Paso Robles wine region, securing water well drilling permits to feed its vineyards days before lawmakers banned new pumping, according to records reviewed by Reuters. The […]
The Corporate Takeover of Ukrainian Agriculture
link to story Inter Press Service Jan 27 2015 The Corporate Takeover of Ukrainian Agriculture The foreign-driven agricultural reform roadmap provided to Ukraine includes facilitating the acquisition of agricultural land, cutting food and plant regulations and controls, and reducing corporate taxes and custom duties. Western corporations have not just taken control of certain […]
Agricultural Law Program Accepting Applications
From University of Arkansas School of Law: For anyone who is interested in food and agricultural law course work or an advanced law degree in agricultural & food law – The LL.M. Program in Agricultural & Food Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law now has both a face-to-face program in Arkansas and […]
Credit Unions Investing in Maine Farmers
A story, published in the Bangor Daily News looks at how financiers are beginning to focus on small farmers. From the article by Darren Fishell: The 100-acre organic farm that Rufus Percy and his wife started working a decade ago is mix of leased land, family land and mortgaged land. Finding used farm equipment took […]