EcoFarm

HOES DOWN HARVEST FESTIVAL 🌾

Oct. 5th 2024 at Full Belly Farm

Tickets now on sale! Link in bio ✨

The Hoes Down Harvest Festival is dedicated to honoring and promoting the knowledge of agricultural arts and sustainable rural living through inspiration and education. For over 30 years, the Hoes Down has generated valuable resources for local and statewide organizations working on projects which benefit sustainable agriculture and rural communities.

Join the EcoFarm team! We are hiring for two positions:
-Program Coordinator
-Marketing & Communications Coordinator

Read the full job descriptions and instructions on how to apply here: eco-farm.org/jobs

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Join our friends at Bioneers Learning for Arty Mangan's self-paced course, “Regenerative Agriculture,” and discover a working knowledge of the principles and practices of regenerative agriculture.

If you’re a farmer, learn how to implement regenerative practices. If you’re a gardener, these practices can be adapted to your scale. If you’re an educator, learn about regenerative solutions. And for anyone concerned with personal, family and environmental health, gain a working knowledge about one of the most effective and hopeful ways that we can heal our relationship to the planet.

Learn more here: https://bit.ly/BL-regenerativeagriculture

We have found some exciting technological solutions that will facilitate EcoFarm Conference 2025 and beyond that cut down on labor, offer comprehensive reporting, and provide an expedited registration process for attendees.

Your support is greatly appreciated. 🌱

We 💛 our EcoFarm community! Thank you.

LINK: https://gofund.me/a0c2227a

More than half of Asian-operated farms specialized in the production of specialty crops compared with 9% of U.S. farms overall. .afa

Asian producers account for 0.7 of the country's 3.4 million producers and are highly concentrated in California and Hawaii. .afa

EcoFarm May E-News -

EcoFarm May E-News The Organic Stone Fruit Jubilee is celebrating its 16th year! The event features fruit tasting and buying of fresh produce from local small farms. Many participating farmers specialize in growing delicious varieties of nectarines, peaches, plums, pluots, apriums, and apricots. Kid-friendly activitie...

Have an idea for a workshop for next year's conference? However you relate with ecological farming and ranching, we want to hear your ideas! Proposals will be collected through June 15, 2024 🌱

https://forms.gle/vrLi4XPpXoxkfyWaA

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
—James Baldwin

Get your tickets for the annual Stone Fruit Jubilee on sale at eco-farm.org!

Don't forget to get your tickets for the upcoming Stone Fruit Jubilee on June 29, 2024, at Kingsburg Historical Park! Tickets on sale at eco-farm.org!

CALLING ALL ARTISTS & ILLUSTRATORS! 🎨

We are seeking an artist to create a unique design for the 45th annual EcoFarm conference! The selected artist will receive significant public exposure, an honorarium and help promote one of the nation’s most influential sustainable agriculture events. 🌱

👉 Share your portfolio by May 31st - LINK IN BIO! EcoFarm will be in contact with the selected artist by mid June. Completed artwork will be due in July.

EcoFarm workshops are centered around dirt first! Every day is Earth Day for us. Photo credit

Don't miss the Organic Stone Fruit Jubilee on June 22!

Hansel Kern discusses the upcoming Organic Stone Fruit Jubilee & Small Farm Expo Saturday, June 22. Hansel Kern from Kern Family Farm talks about the upcoming Organic Stone Fruit Jubilee & Small Farm Expo to be held in Kingsburg on Saturday, June 22.Hansel ...

Earth Day San Francisco April 21, 2024, 11 am to 7 pm at 10 Cargo Way, at The New Farm

Save the Date for the Stone Fruit Jubilee at the Kingsburg Historical Park!

We are more than our pain. In a world that is content to reduce us to one-dimensional caricatures of suffering and trauma, we can preserve a truer story. We come from beauty. Cole Arthur Riley

What does it mean to be an Anti-Racist?
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Black producers account for 1.4 percent of the country’s 3.4 million producers, and they lived and farmed primarily in southeastern and mid-Atlantic states.

As Bioneers celebrates its 35th-anniversary conference, the urgency of transformative change is starkly evident. It is more important now than ever that we connect and scale brilliant social movements to enact the kinds of breakthrough solutions that this earth needs. The clock is ticking. 

The call to action resounds: We must recognize our collective power, understanding that what we do to one another resonates with our treatment of the Earth. 

Join me to connect with the Bioneers community of leadership at this time when we’re all called upon to be leaders. The best way to predict the future is to create it. Register now for .

16,934 The number of black-operated
farms specializing in beef cattle.

Black Producers are up 5% since 2012 with one-fifth serving or have served in the military.

We are so glad and could join us our workshop on Celebrating Successful Q***r Farmers and Food Activists

Thank you to Owner of EarthSeed Farm along with, Joy Moore, and Shakirah for organizing the Black Fed, Black Led workshops at EcoFarm this year!

Join this month in sharing Black leaders in agriculture who inspire you using the hashtag . Let's uplift these changemakers, spread knowledge, and grow a more just food system for generations to come!

Thank you .nicole for your inspiring talk Becoming Ecological! Photo credit

Drop in on this sweet conference giveaway! 🌊 - https://mailchi.mp/eco-farm.org/thank-you-for-supporting-ecofarm-309134 Photo credit

Don't miss the opportunity to attend a screening of "Common Ground," the highly anticipated sequel to the acclaimed documentary "Kiss the Ground." Discover the compelling journey toward healing our health, food systems, and the climate. Secure your tickets now and be part of the movement to regenerate 100M acres of land in the United States.

Save the date for EcoFarm 2025! Janurary 22-25, 2025! - https://mailchi.mp/c6cc312397d0/thank-you-for-supporting-ecofarm-309130