Debt-Free Housing Experiment Begins
From Brewster Kahle: Purchasing the first “Foundation House”– Debt-Free Housing Experiment is Starting! Posted on September 14, 2013 by brewster We are purchasing the first apartment building to be a […]
Slow Money Conference November 10-12
Fixing the economy, starting with food! http://slowmoney.org/ [gview file=”https://www.agrariantrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Dropbox-Beetcoin_postcard.pdf”]
Hub Camps: Rethinking Food Systems
New food systems for a new world! From Local Orbit: Local Orbit’s Hub Camps are Back! Local Orbit is excited to announce three new Hub Camps: Hub Camp: The Nuts […]
The Global Struggle for Food Sovereignty – Upcoming Event
From the Community Alliance for Social Justice Seattle, WA: African and US Food Movement Leaders Unite in Opposition to the Gates Foundation’s Agricultural Development Program On October 12th, several of […]
USDA Funding Goes to Tenancy Research in Vermont
U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy announced $759,000 in U.S. Department of Agriculture funding for a three-year partnership between the Center for Agriculture and Food Systems (CAFS) at VLS and the National Agricultural Library (NAL). […]
More on the Wall Street Interest in Farmland
by Jim Hightower from his website We know from the childhood song that Old McDonald had a farm – but e-i-e-i-o – look who’s got his farm now! It’s groups […]
Cooperative Farms in Upstate New York
By Kathryn Shattuck from The New York Times It was time for the running of the bulls. As Ron Cieri watched from his ATV this summer, his farm manager, Jim […]
Going Rural to Get the Farm
By Kathryn Flagg from Seven Days VT When Lila Bennett and David Robb set out to buy a farm in central Vermont, they had to get used to disappointment: Multiple […]
Project Profile: SOLEfood Farms
Across the country, continent and worldwide, urban agriculture is becoming a real solution for growers. Keep Growing Detroit aims to grow all of Detroit’s food within city limits and 596 […]
Workers in Maine Buy Out their Jobs
By Rob Brown, Noemi Giszpenc and Brian Van Slyke from truthout.org On remote Deer Isle, Maine, the movement for a more just and democratic economy won a major victory this summer. […]