
Santa Rosa Press Democrat

"It's about growing food responsibly, using the Earth sustainably and giving back whenever possible. It truly is a way of life." |
TriplePundit.com

"It's tempting to paint a rosy picture, but the obstacles young farmers face must be recognized if they are going to make any headway in creating a new agricultural landscape for America." |
My Midwest (Midwest Airlines Mag)

"I had an instinct that these strong, brave, really
motivated people were particularly potent protagonists for
a sustainable American Landscape." |
Grist

"Our agricultural system has become broken to the point
where the opportunity to serve in uniform is more promising than the opportunity to serve your country food."
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Paper Magazine

"Most people only have relationships with plants they can smoke."
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USA Today

Lots of our great Greenhorns are featured in this article by Elizabeth Weise on the emergence of young farmers in America. |
Civil Eats Blog
Our own Greenhorn extraordinaire Zoe Bradbury, covers the difficulties of being a newbie farmer, how to break into the system, and the best ways to advocate for additional resources to cultivate new (young) people into the world of greenthumb-ing. She pushes for a Pea/Farmer Corps program and we wholeheartedly agree! Amen. Learn more about our farmer, freelance writer, food and society policy fellow, and most of all, friend, here.
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Reality Sandwich

Elizabeth Hart eloquently starts off her piece with a quote from Thomas Jefferson: "Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous, and they are tied to their country and wedded to its liberty and interests by the most lasting bands." Her article discuss The Greenhorns film and The Greenhorn Guide for Young Farmers. |
Style.com Blog

Maya Singer writes about designer John Patrick's Organic Fall 2009 presentation and his parternship with a coalition of upstate farmers (including Severine/The Greenhorns) to sell their wares bake sale-style at the event, with a serving of food policy on the side. |
Boston Globe

James O'Brien profiles friend of The Greenhorns, Christy Raymond, proud farmer/owner of White Barn in Wrentham, MA. The article describes how Christy and other young farmers like her, are a part of a resurgent movement, revitalizing the relationship between growers and buyers. |
Saveur

Jeanne Hodesh recaps our young farmers' meet and greet during Slow Food Nation. |
The Rodale Insitute

Greg Bowman from The Rodale Institute writes about the recent release of the Greenhorns Guidebook, saying it is "the working draft of a field guide to existing resources, and the foundation for farmer contributions that will be combined into a book that will catalyze, inspire and empower young people (and others) who have an unquenchable passion to figure out how to become sustainable agriculturists in the post-capitalist, post-oil and post-commodity era." Whoa. Couldn't have said it any better! |
Good Magazine

Good Magazine includes an article, Picking up the Ploughshare, discussing how young farmers can save America's food supply. The piece notes how there are, right now, more Americans behind bars than there are working our nation's farms and fields. Farming„once the backbone of a Jeffersonian ideal for a self-sufficient society„has fallen so far as a typical profession that it's no longer even a category in the national census. Those who do still take to the land are getting on in the years. Today, the average American farmer is pushing 60! For more, read the full article at the Good Magazine Web site.
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TimeOut New York

TimeOut New York examines the movement of city dwellers attempt to reestablish links to the food they eat. The article details how back-to-the-land movements have happened before, but this is different: Instead of fleeing to rural areas, many New Yorkers are bringing the land back to the city. |
BoingBoing

BoingBoing discusses Serve Your Country Food and wa;ls through the process of creating data maps to find opportunities and challenges for young farmers. They even want to start a vegetable garden now! |
The New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine featured Severine and the Greenhorns in its October 10th edition titled, "Food Fight." Severine can be seen with other young leaders who are changing the way we eat (and drink) in an online photo slideshow. Listen to the audiocast and see pictures of her and four other food leaders talking about the eating habits that fuel their professional pursuits. This includes a look insider her fridge...mmm, jam!
The magazine talks about the Greenhorns documentary and Serve Your Country Food and includes the much ballyhooed about "Farmer in Chief" article by Michael Pollan. |
Homegrown Blog

"We had a delightful visit from Severine from The Greenhorns yesterday. We dug into a fresh blueberry peach pie while she told us about the many interesting projects she's involved in - including getting The Greenhorns movie produced and distributed. Her passion for getting young farmers hooked up with each other is wonderfully infectious - you go, Severine, we're big fans! |
The Rodale Insitute

The Rodale Institute mentioned Severine and the Greenhorns in their latest newsletter. |
Eating Liberally on The Huffington Post -
The Greenhorns : A New Breed of American Idol?
"While some of us moan and groan about the unmitigated awfulness of
industrial agriculture and our craptastic food chain, others are
literally sowing the seeds of an agrarian revival. The idealistic
young farmers and gardeners fueling this ag-revolt have been christened
"The Greenhorns" by one extraordinary, exuberant young
farmer/filmmaker, Severine von Tscharner Fleming, who's documenting
their horticultural heroics in a film by the same name..." Keep reading here.... |
Please visit the blog, The Irresistible Fleet of Bicycles, to keep up with more coverage of greenhorns and the young farming community.
Please email Severine Fleming for all press queries.
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