The Greenhorns: Panel discussion on supporting beginning farmers 11-17-11

As part of the 3rd annual Mann Library Local Food and Fiber Fair, a new documentary film "The Greenhorns" was screened followed by a panel discussion on local efforts to develop successful young farmers. Panelists included: Violet Stone, Program Coordinator and Cornell Cooperative Extension's Small Farm Program; Dan Flerlage, Localvores Committee Coordinator at Lehman Alternative Community School and staff at the Ithaca Youth Farm Project; Noa Wesley and Rane Bullion, students at Lehman Alternative Community School; Devon Van Noble, Incubator Development Coordinator at the Groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming; and Melissa Madden and Garrett Miller, beginning farmers from the Good Life Farm in Interlaken, NY.

Event cosponsored by; The New World Agriculture and Ecology Group at Cornell, groundswell Center for Local Food and Farming, Dilmun Hill Student Organic Farm, Cornell Orchards, Cornell Gourmet Club, Department of City and Regional Planning, Department of Development Sociology, and Mann Library.

For more information please see www.rso.cornell.edu/nwaeg

For information on the film discussed here www.thegreenhorns.net

Category:

Education

Tags:

• beginning farmer
• the greenhorns
• small farms
• agroecology