Greenhorns Media
The Greenhorns, our sister organization, is a grassroots movement of young farmers creating a community for those new to ecological farming. They create videos, podcasts and more which are shared here.
The GREENHORNS believe “we humans must reform agriculture to survive on this planet. Our mission is to create a welcoming cultural space and a practical professional resource for those new to ecological farming. We make books, films, radio, parties, symposia, workshops, networking and online curriculum. We are based in rural Maine where we farm and host campers, researchers, media producers, artists and collaborators. Our community is the international movement of LA VIA CAMPESINA. Our activism helps us express our solidarity with future generations and the non-human world. Come! We can do it together.”
Introductory Videos:
Greenhorns Podcasts
Greenhorns Radio
Greenhorns Radio is radio for young farmers, by young farmers. Hosted by acclaimed activist, farmer and film-maker Severine von Tscharner Fleming, Greenhorn Radio is a weekly phone interview with next generation farmers and ranchers, surveying the issues critical to their success. They hold no punches. Greenhorns is a grassroots cultural organization with a mission to recruit, promote and support young farmers in America by producing media, events and stunts that connect and and inspire.
Earthlife Podcast
TUNE IN TO EARTHLIFE, where The Greenhorns talk about nature, natural history, restoration, foraging, anthropology, food, land politics. They’re looking upriver, downstream and out to sea, to try and discover the destiny of their home region, and how they might intervene to make it a more resilient, more prosperous, and more diverse place on earth.
EARTHLIFE, is their learning journey where they meet and speak with people doing the work, and interpreting the potential of their landscapes.
More Videos from The Greenhorns
The Greenhorns work to create a welcoming and hospitable culture for new entrants in sustainable agriculture. They have made films, radio, guidebooks, parties+trainings, almanacs, anthologies, song collections, exhibits, mixers, art-stunts and trans-media collaboratives that defy classification.
The Greenhorns
A short film giving a flavour of the Oxford Real Farming Conference 2014 “Building the Renaissance”.
The conference featured technical days on both arable and livestock farming, agriculture policy and economics sessions, plenty of case studies on small, medium and urban farming, and a lot of time for informal discussion.
As part of 2017 Prairie Festival, Severine von Tscharner Fleming of Greenhorns and The Agrarian Trust delivers the annual Strachan Donnelley Lecture on Conservation and Restoration: New customary rights – Greenhorns, Buckaroos, Family Farms and the Future Tense.
In the next 20 years, farmland ownership will shift on a continental scale—400 million acres, yet 70% of American farmland is owned by people 65 and older. How can we help young, motivated agrarians survive daunting structural obstacles and become successful farmers to whom retiring organic farmers can transmit their wisdom? How can we invest in the democratization of our land base? These questions drive Agrarian Trust, started by Greenhorns founder Severine von Tscharner Fleming, one of the most dynamic leaders in the young farmers’ movement.
The Greenhorns documentary film explores the lives of America’s young farming community – its spirit, practices, and needs. It is the filmmaker’s hope that by broadcasting the stories and voices of these young farmers, we can build the case for those considering a career in agriculture – to embolden them, to entice them, and to recruit them into farming. The production of The Greenhorns is part of our grassroots nonprofit’s larger campaign for agricultural reform.
From the Greenhorns YouTube channel: A teach in at the Blue Hill Grange, July 25 2021 with Lucy Lippard, Ralph Chapman, Jan Morrill, and Andy Burt.
Earthlife.TV
The Greenhorns
In a conversation with Passamaquoddy Chief Hugh Akagi, we discuss the restoration of the St. Croix River and the populations of Alewives and other fish within it.
Smoked alewives are now a cottage industry, a rural delicacy you are likely to find along Route 3 in May as you drive north from Lamoine. Nevertheless, the opportunity exists for a sustainable and economically viable natural resource economy, one that celebrates both the abundance of small fish and the health of local communities. The key is that with relatively cheap inputs – alewives, sardines, even mussels – could be processed into an added-value product using low-input technology: a wooden smokehouse or clay pot, for example.
Join us as we learn how to smoke Alewives with Brett Ciccotelli, Alewife Ambassador of the Downeast Salmon Federation.
From the farm, we enjoy a lovely view of the salty sea, which in Maine has always been viewed as a source of abundance and resource. But there is another story – ecosystem scientists tell us that it is the thousands of rivers and streams flowing through Washington County forests, bogs and wetlands that drive the productivity in our coastal fisheries. Each spring millions of ‘forage fish’ surge upstreams and rivers to the warm lakes to spawn, a predictable and abundant buffet for all the others in the foodchain. Seemingly endless waves of alewives create cover for larger shad and for atlantic salmon; all contribute – with their lives, their bodies, their waste.
There are hundreds of thousands in alewives in single streams today, yet in the 19th century they say one could walk across river on the backs of the fish. Restoration of river systems, stewardship of watersheds, and respect for alewives will not only impact the ecological health of our region, it can also be a spring source of great pleasure and prosperity in the form of locally produced food, agricultural systems and ways of life that are tied to the land.
OurLand.TV
The Greenhorns created this series of films to celebrate and interpret intervention, undertaken by individuals and communities, to shift our food and farm economy. These episodes each address a major systemic failure of the old food economy: toxicity, monoculture, monopoly, inequity, exploitation, drought, vulnerability to climate change etc. Each of these characteristics of our current system makes it inadequate to our needs, but our critique counts for nothing if we do not act. Each film introduces us to the people who have identified a point of intervention, and have put their shoulder to the task. It will likely take a generation-long commitment to rebuild a healthy, regional farm economy.
This is OUR LAND and our future. It’s an opportunity: Let’s fight for it.
