Farming Concrete (www.farmingconcrete.com) is a project partnering with GreenThumb and Just Food to measure food production in NYC community gardens. We will be mapping areas under cultivation and weighing produce throughout the growing season.

* Outreach to community gardens to talk about policy and gather participants
* Coordinate and create map of areas under cultivation in community gardens
* Train and support gardeners in weighing produce
* Be at the gardens often and help out with whatever is needed
* Blog, take photos, make films, document, paint, write, speak
* Data entry of old GreenThumb community garden data – perhaps for a map of gardens over time? Trends? Let’s get creative.

We are actively fund-raising to pay interns, but for now the position is unpaid. Start and end dates are flexible. Schedule is also flexible, as it is dependent on the schedules of the community gardeners (we will have regular meetings and check-ins, too). Many hours will be on weekends, when gardens are open and people are outside. That said, interns and researchers would be able to hold a part-time job during the week and still commit the hours necessary to fulfill their duties, but they would have to be hard workers, independent, self-motivated, and wonderfully eager to work/explore/learn in the field of urban agriculture!

To apply, send a cover letter and resume to mara@farmingconcrete.com – feel free to email or call (908.787.2711) with any questions!

From the ComFood Listserve:

We at Hawthorne Valley Farm are excited about a new program that we will be offering beginning in October 2009, called Hudson Valley Farm Beginnings®.  This program will include nine classroom sessions in on-farm goal setting, strategic and business planning, marketing, and financial management, for those interested in developing or expanding farming enterprises. Hudson Valley Farm Beginnings is farmer led and farmer taught so participants will gain access to many local and regional farmer-mentor colleagues during the classroom sessions and during four additional field days at local, sustainably managed farms.  After completing a fully articulated and written business plan, participants will be able to have the plan reviewed by a farmer-mentor of their choosing.

We are excited about bringing apprentices, farmers, landowners and entrepreneurs together to help them all work toward making their agricultural dreams a reality. Hudson Valley Farm Beginnings is a step in this direction. This course is based on curricula developed by the Land Stewardship Project and Angelic Organic’s Learning Center, programs which have graduated over 500 farm entrepreneurs in past years.

E-mail rachel[at]hawthornevalleyfarm.org for details

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Connecticut

New Haven
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New York

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New York City
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