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Comment by beckydevlin on April 8, 2010 at 9:55am

Hi guys,
I am in the market for a hardworking individual (or couple) to work on my sustainable flower farm in Virginia Beach, Virginia. I do not have housing at the farm, so candidate must live locally to work here. I am looking for someone for full time work starting this June and will need another full-timer (or multiple part-timers) by late June/early July. Experience is not necessary, but is always nice. I am more interested in a great attitude, interest and enthusiasm for sustainable growing, and preferably at least one people-person to help with our market and taking orders/talking to customers. Contact me at beckydevlin(at)mac(dot)com if interested. Thanks!!

Comment by Randy Hughes on March 5, 2010 at 3:15pm

Found this great site and thought it would be a good look for this group...may also be a good fit for those in a urban area.
http://home.centurytel.net/thecitychicken/index.html

Comment by Cornelia on January 25, 2010 at 11:37am

Joel Salatin's keynote address at the Northeast Organic Farming Association / Massachusetts Winter Conference can be downloaded here: Grace Note Farm: Rendezvous with a Genius.

Comment by bee on January 15, 2010 at 5:08pm

Hey, Im starting a new Urban Farm in Brooklyn, check it out at www.bkfarmyards.com

also want to help?
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bkfarmyards/bk-farmyards-develo...

Comment by Cornelia on January 8, 2010 at 5:08pm

A cool small business that makes it easy for your farm to have an online presence. Small Farm Central.

Comment by Cornelia on December 9, 2009 at 5:22pm

A phenomenal online compendium of beginning farmer resources here: http://beginningfarmers.org/

Comment by Cornelia on December 3, 2009 at 4:40pm

The Stone Barns Center For Food & Agriculture Young Farmer Conf... is happening now!

Comment by Simon on November 18, 2009 at 5:49pm

www.locavore365.org is a cool website I found where you can sell your excess home/farm grown produce. Also you can find produce local to you.

Comment by Cornelia on November 6, 2009 at 10:20am

Scholarships for Beginning Farmers to attend the EcoFarm Conference.

The 30th Anniversary Ecological Farming Conference (http://www.eco-farm.org/efc) will take place January 20-23, 2010 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California.
 
EcoFarm is the largest conference on sustainable and organic agriculture in the western United States, with more than 1,400 conference participants and over 60 workshops featuring prominent speakers on the latest advances in agricultural techniques, marketing strategies, research and other important food system issues, along with organic meals and live entertainment. This year's conference theme "EcoFarm: Where the Future is planted," will celebrate 30 years of advancing sustainable and organic agriculture through education, alliance building and advocacy.

Thanks to the EcoFarm GenNext partnership with California FarmLink (http://www.californiafarmlink.org), funded by the USDA Beginning Farmers and Ranchers Development Program, we are pleased to offer 7 beginning farmer scholarships worth $250/each for EcoFarm 2010.

Awardees may use the funds for any combination of conference attendance, lodging, or bus tours. For the purposes of this program, you are considered a beginning farmer if you are currently farming and have been farming for 10 years or less.

GenNext Scholarship Application for Beginning Farmers is available at http://eco-farm.org/efc/worktrade_discounts_scholarships/.

Please complete and return forms by Monday, November 30, 2009 to Kristin Rosenow (kristin@eco-farm.org) by Email,
FAX: 831-763-2112 or MAIL: 406 Main St., Suite 313, Watsonville, CA 95076.

Comment by Cornelia on November 3, 2009 at 11:14am

From the Farm Aid blog:
New and transitioning farmers, this "Farminar" is for you!
JoelBeginning at 7 p.m. CST on Tuesday, November 3rd and continuing each Tuesday through December 22nd, there will be a series of eight, 90-minute "Farminars" for beginning and transitioning farmers. Our friends at Practical Farmers of Iowa and the Iowa Beginning Farming Center are collaborating on the series, and each Tuesday's Farminar will focus on a topic relevant to new farmers and farmers in generational transition: whole farm planning, legal issues in succession, estate planning, enterprise and market identification, enterprise budgeting, product placement/pricing/promotion, and financing your enterprise. Every Farminar will include farmer presenters who will share their experience and expertise on these issues.

What's a "Farminar," you ask? A farminar is a farm-focused "webinar," an interactive presentation broadcast over the internet that includes both visual and audio elements, with live presentations coupled with slideshow images. What this means, of course, is that anyone anywhere with internet access can click on their browser to watch, listen, learn, and take part. To participate, simply click here at the time of the broadcast. Or visit this page to get more information prior to the first broadcast.

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