Roadmap to Generosity Kickstarter
From Giles Blunden, one of the leading green architects in the Southeast US. He designed and developed the highly successful co-housing communities of Arcadia and Pacifica in Carrboro, North Carolina. Giles sent out this note yesterday: “Today I launched a kickstarter campaign to raise $15,000 for a book that I will complete this year. It’s […]
Hear the Succession Play!
Listen to the recording of Land Succession play Look Who’s Knockin’!
Midwestern Land Linking
Are you a beginning farmer looking to rent or purchase farmland in the Upper Midwest? Or are you an established farmer/landowner in the Upper Midwest who is seeking a beginning farmer to purchase or rent your land, or to work with in a partnership situation? The Land Stewardship Project’s Farm Beginnings program has simple application […]
Incubator Farm Training!
from the National Incubator Farm Training Initiative Third Annual National Incubator Farm Training Initiative (NIFTI) Field School Conference Wednesday, October 1-Friday, October 3 Portland, Oregon Registration is now open! The NIFTI Field School comes to the West Coast for the first time! Please join us for this annual event that brings together practitioners […]
Why is Wall Street Getting Involved With Our Supper?
From the New York Times Cash Crops With Dividends: Financiers Transforming Strawberries Into Securities by Alexandra Stevenson His boots were caked with mud when Thomas S. T. Gimbel, a longtime hedge fund executive, slipped in a strawberry patch. It was the plumpness of a strawberry that had distracted him. Mr. Gimbel, who once headed the […]
New York Farmland Legislation
From American Farmland Trust Dear Friend, One of the biggest challenges young farmers face is access to affordable farmland. At the same time, farms being passed from one generation to the next are vulnerable to being lost to development as families grapple with the challenges of successfully transferring their land and businesses. Contact […]
MESA Fundraiser: The Future of Food
From the MESA program BUILD Pizzeria Roma (2286 Shattuck Ave) in downtown Berkeley will be hosting a fundraising event for the Multinational Exchange for Sustainable Agriculture (MESA) on TUESDAY, JULY 22 FROM 5:00 TO 10:00 PM. *** MESA (www.mesaprogram.org) is dedicated to supporting sustainable agriculture by connecting farming leaders around the world for participatory training […]
What is Our Food Narrative?
by Melody Meyer from The Huffington Post I am attending the Sustainable Ag and Food Systems Funders (SASFS) conference in Denver this week and a provocative subject was raised about the dominant story we harken to regarding our agricultural system. The message is everywhere: in subway stations, at the baseball game and of course on […]
Free Journal on Cooperatives and Alternative Food Systems Initiatives
From the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD). A new issue on Cooperatives and Alternative Food Systems Initiatives has just been completed and will be freely available — no subscription needed! — through the month of July. http://www.agdevjournal.com/volume-4-issue-3.html. We are doing this to make these papers more readily available to researchers and practitioners. It also offers […]
Registration Open for NOFA Summer Conference
http://www.nofasummerconference.org/index.php