The Chatter

09 December 2009 | Grayson Schaffer
Independent producer Annabel Seymour, from BreakThru Films (The Devil Came on Horseback, The Trials of Darryl Hunt), is casting for a GrowFood documentary series. She'd like to cast a few folks who travel from farm to farm—people with diverse stories and perspectives to show a well-rounded view of the nomadic organic farming experience. If you are interested, please email Annabel at Annabel@breakthrufilms.org. Please include the following:
02 November 2009 | Grayson Schaffer
We have transformed and changed our name from Organic Volunteers to GrowFood.  Why? For starters, we always had the domain GrowFood.org and it was in our logo. 
30 September 2009 | Grayson Schaffer
Last week, the Mother Nature Network released its second-annual list of the top (readers nominated, editors chose) 40 farmers who are under 40. We're still holding out for People's 50 Most Beautiful Farmers.
28 September 2009 | Grayson Schaffer
Last week, I attended the Slow Money National Gathering, here in Santa Fe. Slow money, founded by venture capitalist Woody Tasch, attempts to make investing simpler and more healthy by urging people to invest in companies and ventures they can literally see grow. The ethic is to make growth real, like crop growth, rather than abstract, like those investment statements that show up in the mail every month and go right into the trash.
a blog for young farmers with land listings, relevant news, events, job opps, video ephemera. this blog gets about 600 hits per day, mostly young + aspiring farmers-- for posting suggestions please email anne.dailey@gmail.com
28 July 2009 | Mark VonRosenstiel
The online news site Common Dreams published my essay on the Greenhorns, here. The film trailer is here.