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VT Earthworks is offering it’s third year of the Grower’s Academy. If you do not have a land to start your business, don’t let that stop you, Growers Academy graduates are eligible to lease space at the Catawba Sustainability Center. More info here. More info about the Catawba Sustainability Center here. Come join us for the Future Harvest CASA’s (Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture) 13th Annual Conference, Farm to Institutions: Making Local Food Economies a Reality, this January 13 & 14th, 2012 a the National Conference Center in Landsdowne, Virginia. A great story in Flavor Magazine about the aging farmer population and how youth is exploring farming in our area.Meet the Future of Farming Greenhorns. Evocative term for an organization promoting young farmers with a film. Part of the trend of expanding Organic farming: investment group buys conventional farmland and converts it into organic farmland. A great periodical and vital resource on Non-GMO. Must read. Online and subscription. Come see us at the Acres Conference, next Thursday – Saturday, December 8 – 10. Booth 110. Please stop by. More information here. There is a new name for industrial agriculture: Everything But Food. Local is solidifying, strengthening and growing. It’s reaching places Big Ag can’t reach anymore. Regional farm-to-institution in Illinois. Useful tools for civic urban farming planning. Grassroots and Sustainable Food Activists: Virginia Buy Fresh, Buy Local: Virginia We are thankful for your custom, your wisdom and your commitment to organics, sustainability and nutrient-dense farming and food. Have a safe and blessed holiday! Initial news about the Super Committee Failure appears to be mostly financial conjecture regarding credit ratings. Here are some other stories: A quick and incomplete gloss of the internal machinations, secrecy and leaks. Wikipedia page on Super Committee. Not a single use of the word “farm” in the entire article. If you google farm bill you are going to see a non-organic cornucopia of industry-derived stories (propaganda) hitting the ether. Yikes. We are heading to Durham, NC, for a power packed weekend of events at the 2011 Sustainable Ag Conference. This is the 26th Annual presentation of the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association. Enjoy a weekend of local food, terrific presentations and the movers and shakers of Carolina bio and organic farming and local food production. Come see us at our booth! Commodity pricing on grains continues to rise due to increased world demand, biofuels pressure and, with a silver lining, increasing interest in organic products. We are doing our best to keep the prices on our Certified Organic, Soy-Free Feeds as low as possible. In classic Countryside style we have put off raising our feed prices for as long as possible, but ultimately they had to move, and so we are raising our feed prices. The current price hike is pretty much consistent at $1 per bag on our feeds and organic grains. Thank you for your understanding and your custom. And thank-you for choosing organic and sustainable. |
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