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The New Farmer's Almanac Vol. VI is now available!
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CELEBRATING 16 YEARS!




Greenhorns has reached an important milestone with our 16 year anniversary in
2023! Thanks to many of you, we’ve persisted and evolved as a young agrarian
institution, with an outstanding list of achievements, a beautiful archive of
films and publications, a large national and international network, and a lovely
campus in the historic coastal village of Pembroke, Maine. Thank you for your
support over the years, and here's to a bright future ahead for Greenhorns
everywhere.


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HELP US CONTINUE THIS WORK

Your tax-deductible donation to Greenhorns will help us support ongoing
programs, expand our reach, and continue our work towards agrarian reform and a
healthy future for all.


WELCOMING 2024




2024 will be Greenhorns' seventh season here in Downeast Maine. With a new baby
and a hugely diverse set of projects underway, we're dedicating this year to
intensification, focus, and depth. This means fewer weekend workshops, and more
residency-based programs.

Throughout the spring we'll get our site updated with our latest project
updates. Here is where we're putting our focus this year.

 * We'll host the Third Annual Pennamaquan Alewife Festival on May 24+25,
   alongside the Pennamaquan River in "downtown" Pembroke. Thank you to Maine
   Office of Tourism and Downeast Salmon Federation for supporting this event! 
   
   
 * We'll continue expanding the Smithereen Farmstore and the shared-use Minke
   Kitchen, to feature and sell locally-grown produce and value-added products.
   This is a collaboration between Greenhorns and Smithereen Farm and is funded
   by a grant from the USDA Local Food Promotion Program.
   
   
 * Greenhorns is producing the new "Local Food Map" promoting Washington County
   farm producers and products, based on the precedent-setting map done by
   WCOG's Judy East, ten years ago.
   
   
 * We're hosting our seventh season of seaweed harvest and learning, and we'll
   release our seaweed episode of Earthlife.tv!
   
   
 * We'll install interpretive trail signage along the Pennamaquan River View
   Trail, built by volunteers and our Americorps VISTA for public access.
   
   
 * We'll support Sue van Hook's continuing MycoBuoys program, which is working
   on an alternative to plastic in aquaculture. We'll help especially with
   outreach, distribution, and media documentation. This project was incubated
   in the shed behind Grey Lodge, which it has now outgrown! It's supported by a
   Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education grant.
   
   
 * We'll create and install a FarmHack studio, in the outbuilding behind Grey
   Lodge, showcasing Don Blair's water quality and greenhouse sensors as an
   exhibit. He'll be back for a workshop, as will renaissance "tinker" Lu Yoder,
   all organized by our wonderful FarmHack Fellow, Elizabeth Baumhoff.
   
   
 * We'll hold increased public open hours at the Reversing Hall Agrarian
   Library. Librarian in Residence Lou Judge will host open days, improving
   public access and facilitating "Activist Scholar-in-Residence" programs.
   We'll also give attention to renovations and safety upgrades at Reversing
   Hall, thanks to the Steven and Tabitha King Foundation.
   
   
 * We'll welcome back ARRT (Artist Rapid Response Team), for an art retreat
   working with Sipayik School and local youth to create public art at Pleasant
   Point.
   
   
 * We'll welcome back artist Rosy Keyser, to renew the Minke Whale and Alewife
   signage. We'll have a few other artists coming for week-long residencies,
   details TBA.
   
   
 * We’ll host more visiting chefs to work with Washington County's abuntant
   native plants including wild blueberries, chokecherries, sweet fern, sweet
   bay, and lesser-used seaweeds that are easy to process with our shared drying
   infrastrucure—with the intention of bringing these ingredients to more
   regionally common culinary use.
   
   
 * We'll continue our collaborative work on the Maine Civic Halls Initiative,
   supporting and advocating for the restoration and continued use of civic hall
   infrastructure statewide. Join the list to get notifications about grant
   committee meetings, in-person gatherings, and pop-up exhibits. Write us at
   office@greenhorns.org.
   
   
 * We'll work on the next volume of the New Farmers Almanac, volume 7, theme
   "Premonition." We'll finally print the "Habitat Everywhere" Guide.

There's always a lot going on at Greenhorns HQ! Join us in 2024 as we deepen our
focus and facilitate a shared exploration and celebration of this Downeast
ecosystem we call home.

The GREENHORNS believe we humans must reform agriculture to survive on this
planet. Our mission is to create a welcoming cultural space and a practical
professional resource for those new to ecological farming. We make books, films,
radio, parties, symposia, workshops, networking and online curriculum. We are
based in rural Maine where we farm and host campers, researchers, media
producers, artists and collaborators. Our community is the international
movement of LA VIA CAMPESINA. Our activism helps us express our solidarity with
future generations and the non-human world. Come! We can do it together.

New here?  Check out THE BLOG, THE GUIDEBOOKS, THE RESOURCES MAP, and our sister
organizations: AGRARIAN TRUST, NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION...

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EVENTS

Summer Workshop »All Events »


 * GREENHORNS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: ARTIST RAPID RESPONSE TEAM (ARRT!) RETREAT
   
   June 9 2024 - June 14 2024  
   
   
   Artists Rapid Response Team (ARRT!) creates banners for progressive
   non-profits in Maine on social, economic and environmental justice issues.
   
   
   In June, ARRT! returns to Greenhorns HQ for their annual retreat and to work
   with Passamaquody artists at the Sipayik Elementary School and Sipayik
   Museum.
   
   Stay tuned to our social media and this events page for details on painting
   days that are open to the wider public. 
   
   Learn more about ARRT! here: www.arrteam.org
   
   And learn more about Greenhorns Artists in Residence
   here: greenhorns.org/residency/


 * GREENHORNS ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: ELISE MCMAHON
   
   June 13 2024
   
   
   Greenhorns Artist in Residence Elise McMahon of Likeminded Objects will
   create a public interpretive installation around Greenhorns campus. Come see!
   
   Learn more about Elise's work here: likemindedobjects.com
   
   Learn more about Greenhorns Residency here:
   greenhorns.org/residency


 * FARM HACK AT MOFGA'S FARM & HOMESTEAD DAY
   
   June 22 2024
   
   
   Farm & Homestead Day at MOFGA is a free day of hands-on learning and fun.
   From its beginnings in 2012 it has been presented by volunteers who delight
   in sharing their expertise in skills for rural and sustainable living. There
   are activities for all ages.
   
   This year, Farm Hack Fellow Elizabeth Baumhoff will take part.
   
   Event takes place at Common Ground Education Center in Unity, ME 
   
   Come find us!
   
   Read about MOFGA's Farm & Homestead
   Day: www.mofga.org/trainings/annual-events/farm-and-homestead-day/
   
   Learn more about Farm hack here: farmhack.org/wiki/getting-started




A DIGITAL MAGAZINE & PODCAST FOR THE INTREPID YOUNG FARMER

Check out our series EARTHLIFE. Our first episode is ALEWIVES, exploring the
landscape, looking upstream, downriver and out to sea to discover the destiny of
our home region. See our episodes on BERRIES, CIVIC HALLS, and SEAWEED.
Alongside our films, we've created a multimedia learning-experience with audio
interviews, articles, out-links, archival and contemporary materials that inform
an approach to ecological farming, rural enterprise and coalition building.

dive in »




THE NEW FARMERS ALMANAC


ORDER VOLUME VI: ADJUSTMENTS AND ACCOMMODATIONS TODAY!

This latest volume seeks to recognize our own collective agency in the face of
sizable uncertainties. The morphing climate, ongoing culture of land
dispossession, continuing global pandemic, shifting and intensifying weather
patterns, and migrations of all species—spurned by political and environmental
upheaval—are considered within. There is adaptability in each bloom of algae;
tiny particles of inspiration can enliven lives and farm systems; the natural
currents and connected sentience of the living earth moves genetic material.
Dynamic flux and rapid change remain possible.

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→ SUBMISSION PERIOD NOW OPEN FOR NEW FARMERS ALMANAC VOLUME 7

As a literary journal powered by farmers, for farmers, with farmers—in daily
relation with the living world. Vol. 7 is called PREMONITION. Literature, as in
dreamworld allows our human psyches to sort, unfold and reorganize memories and
meaning. Evolutionary life, learning from extremity, unfolds with inspiration,
trembles towards survival. We are earth-bound beings tuned to a world wide web
of soil, it is a response to narratives of inevitability and selfishness taught
by these machines. This Almanac challenges us to share our premonitions: what
transmissions we are receiving from the living world?

Email your abstracts ASAP (no later than February 28, 2024) to
almanac@greenhorns.org

Learn more about volume 7: Premonition >


MAINE CIVIC HALLS INITIATIVE

The Maine Civic Halls Initiative seeks to preserve, restore, and support the
role of civic halls as critical rural community-building resources in Maine.

Drawing on the expertise of historians, government officials, community leaders,
business owners, economists, and active grangers/Masons, and citing original
research, Greenhorns and project partners Maine Preservation and Friends of
Liberty Hall produced a report on the current status of civic halls of Hancock
and Washington counties. 

Learn more and read the report here>


SEAWEED COMMONS NETWORK

We are part of an international collective of seaweed growers, lifelong
harvesters, scientists and advocates. We believe that the seaweed aquaculture
industry should be developed with a precautionary approach: conservation minded,
at an appropriate scale, and with local ownership and control. Farms should be
small scale until knowledge gaps can be satisfactorily filled and the impact on
wild coastal ecosystems and coastal communities is shown to be minimal.

Visit The SITE »

Read our position paper: A Precautionary Approach to Seaweed Aquaculture in
North America

Read our contribution to LUMA ARLES AR#1: Aquaculture

Read the ETC group's paper: The Seaweed Delusion




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