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Agrarian Revival: New Blood In The Old Body (Crob Mob video)

By Jason Fowler on 11/09/2011

Kudos to Trace Ramsey (aka Cricket Bread) for this brilliantly profound essay and video: Crop Mob: An Introduction…

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Posted in Food & Agriculture, Videos, Voice of One Calling | Tagged crop mob, farming, new agrarians, Sustainable Agriculture, video, young agrarians, young farmers | 2 Responses

Church-based sustainable agriculture (the other CSA)

Congregational Supported Agriculture (The Other CSA)

By Lee McBride on 09/27/2011

Traditionally, churches or faith congregations reach out and serve those around them, meeting spiritual needs, of course, but also dealing with physical needs in the community. Food is a great way to fulfill both needs…

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Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged caring for the poor, christian faith, church-based agriculture, community gardens, CSA, ecclesia, economy, farmers, farming, food and faith, food deserts, GOD, Jesus, local food, local food movement, ministry, Poverty, serve local, slow church, Sustainable Agriculture, urban farming | 4 Responses

We are the Mad Farmer (your face here)

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 5)

By Thomas Turner on 07/29/2011

The mad farmer says of the farmer who has given in to industrialization “If he raises a good crop at the cost of belittling himself and diminishing the ground, he has gained nothing…The Mad Farmer encourages us to stop thinking about money and goods and to return to thinking about our communities and land…

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Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian, community gardens, culturemaking, eco-agriculture, farming, Homesteading, intellectual agrarian, literature, local food, localism, Mad Farmer, natural farming, new agrarians, permaculture, poetry, rethinking agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, unorthodox agriculture, Wendell Berry | Leave a response

Life is not perfect - but we are abundantly blessed.

Back to the Land: the View From Here

By Jason Fowler on 07/22/2011

We slowly are settling back in to life among the mountains and streams again here in Bedford County, Virginia. Our life is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination – but we are abundantly blessed…

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Posted in Features, Voice of One Calling | Tagged agrarianism, Community and Ecclesia, family, farming, GOD, Intentional Living, Jesus, Simple Living, sustainable christian living | 6 Responses

The Colors of Hope by Richard Dahlstrom

The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice and Love (book excerpt)

By Jason Fowler on 07/22/2011

The new book by Seattle pastor Richard Dahlstrom just recently hit the shelves. Check out this excerpt from the chapter titled ‘Art in the Garden-So Sow…’ from this new book ‘The Colors of Hope: Becoming People of Mercy, Justice and Love’…

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Posted in Excerpts, Features | Tagged Bible, book, book excerpt, christian living, faith, farming, Gardening, GOD, Jesus, justice, love, mercy, parable, seeds, Simple Living, soil | Leave a response

Signs of life are springing up everywhere

Local Churches Launch Fresh-Food Market (Seattle)

By Christine Sine on 07/21/2011

It is encouraging to see what churches are doing to help in this challenging economic times and what better place to find out what is happening than in the local newspaper. Someone just sent me this article Local Churches Launch fresh-food market to change the way we eat…

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Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agriculture, churches, farming, food, food and faith, Gardening, local food, local food movement, Sustainable Agriculture | Leave a response

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 4)

The Mad Farmer: Wendell Berry’s Agrarian Poetic (Part 4)

By Thomas Turner on 04/05/2011

We are reminded that we are to cultivate an agricultural and communal vision that marries the wisdom from the past with a view towards the distant future. If the result is unorthodox and against the popular opinion of the day- than so be it- we are contrarian as a means to enact a restoration of what has been broken…

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Posted in Features, Food & Agriculture | Tagged agrarian, community gardens, contrarian agrarian, culturemaking, eco-agriculture, farming, Homesteading, intellectual agrarian, literature, local food, localism, Mad Farmer, permaculture, poetry, rethinking agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture, unorthodox agriculture, urban homesteading, Wendell Berry | Leave a response

Farmageddon (movie trailer)

Farmageddon (movie trailer)

By Jason Fowler on 03/27/2011

“Farmageddon exposes the battle over food rights in America. Farmer’s and consumers start food co-ops and buying clubs or homesteads, and then are shut down by the government in the name of food safety.”

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Posted in Videos | Tagged agriculture, America, farming, food, food production, food rights, poltics, Sustainable Agriculture, the State, USDA | 2 Responses

Presbyterian camp seeks farming pioneer/camp coordinator in NE Ohio

Presbyterian Camp Seeks Farming Pioneer/Camp Coordinator in NE Ohio

By Jason Fowler on 03/15/2011

Farm pioneering opportunity for well-focused social entrepreneur within a 235-acre property in Northeast Ohio. Joseph Badger Meadows, an underutilized Presbyterian USA camp and conference center, is looking for an on-site camp coordinator…

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Posted in Opportunities | Tagged agriculture, barter, Christian camp, Christianity, farming, land, local, new economy, Ohio, opportunity | Leave a response

(image based on screen capture from: Truck Farm- the film)

Truck Farm: An Experiment In Urban Community Farming

By Jason Fowler on 03/06/2011

One of my favorite (and the most fun) sustainable agriculture experiments that I have heard of is Wicked Delicate’s film and food project: Truck Farm- which is a “mobile community farm, a documentary about urban agriculture and – a public art and education project.”

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