Farm Blogs from Around the World: June 2009

Tuesday, 2 June 2009

Sweet Local Farm, MA, USA (Recommended)

I've been checking outwww.sweetlocalfarm.comafter Luke, from the farm and blog wrote to me.

This is what he had to say:

Sweet Local Farm is an idea as much as it is a place. It is our response to growing up in the suburbs, moving to the city, but having this nagging feeling that there was a better way to live. Our grandmothers were born on farms. They ate food they grew and drank milk they raised. As children of the 1980’s and 90’s, we are a generation raised on processed foods. Inspired by the modern local food movement, we planted a garden in our small urban yard. We enjoyed the fresh, affordable, sustainable food so much that we wanted grow food on a larger scale.

Sweet Local Farm is the three acre homestead where we are learning to be self sustaining. It is located in Western Massachusetts’ Pioneer Valley, USDA zone 5b.

Sweetlocalfarm.com is where we document the challenges and joys of learning to live, in some ways, more like our grandmothers.

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Sharecropper Art in New York City this Summer

Leah Gauthier is an artist doing a project called Sharecropper in New York city this summer.

If you're near NYC this summer and want to check it out and/or get your hands dirty please do so.

There's more info below or you can visit www.sharecropperart.org

Sharecropper invites you to participate in this public art project and micro farming installation by artist Leah Gauthier for one growing season in New York City, Summer 2009.

Leah will be using organic growing methods to plant rare and endangered heirloom vegetables and herbs, and to cultivate wild edibles on 17 parcels of donated land or growing spaces located in each of the five boroughs. A portion of the harvest will be shared with local soup kitchens, and series of public programming, including urban farming panel discussions, art happenings, and cooking performances around the city are being planned.

This is a personal journey exploring agricultural plant matter and wild edibles as sculptural material, community building through growing and cooking food, re-imagining land use, and re-incorporating agrarian sensibilities and simplicity into modern life.

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Monday, 1 June 2009

Traditional Agriculture from Portugal: Recommended

I'm very pleased to recommend our first blog from Portugal. Carlos' blog Agricultura Tradicional is in Portuguese, but the pictures give a very good impression of his farm, as does his email below to me here at Farm Blogs.

I am particularly pleased that it helps him not to feel so isolated (one of the purposes behind Farm Blogs and I think farm blogging in general) and I encourage you to visit his blog and drop him a line of support.

Hi,

I'm a Portuguese farmer, and I've been looking for other blogs about Portuguese farmers but without success.

Being a farmer in Portugal is very, very difficult, because we have nothing: no information, no associations, NOTHING.

We must have a lot of courage, power and love to do what we do.

I want to say THANK YOU about the your work at Farm Blogs from Around the World. It's great work!

I can see what's going on with other farmers around the world, and this is very important to me. It's like I am not on my own.

I live in the middle of mountain of Monchique, and my farm is about recouperating the abandoned, old land from the past, now fill of bad grass and weeds.

You can visite my blog in:

http://agriculturastradicionais.blogspot.com/

I hope you can undertand my english.

A VERY GOOD LUCK TO YOU!

Carlos