Ireland: The Arrest of Pat O’Donnell from David Rovics who was on The Farm last June.
In a country with the kind of tumultuous history that Ireland has it’s not surprising that a man being arrested and jailed for seven months would escape the notice of the media, at least outside of Ireland. What should hopefully [...]

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Many people have requested that we host a Farm Experience type weekend during the summer. You are invited to come celebrating summer’s pleasures in the little piece of paradise we call home. We’ll spend the week swimming, hiking, listening to and playing music, enjoying really great food and each others company.
I’ve designed the week to [...]

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Judy Meeker is a Farm member who started a nonprofit called More Than Warmth after 9/11. It is an amazing and wonderful project!
From the January ‘09 American Quilter Magazine:
In 2001, Judith Biondo Meeker was an elementary school teacher in Tennessee. A quilter for more than 20 years, she knew well the physical and psychological warmth [...]

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In spite of the onset of winter, the Farm is a very busy place and there’s always lots going on. Here are just a few of the things that went on last week:
Swan Trust’s Nashville party and fundraiser brought in around $4500, enough for 1 month’s payment on the 1475 acre Big Swan Headwaters Preserve.
Television [...]

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Founded in 1974 by  the Farm, Plenty International is a nonprofit, NGO that offers partnerships and support for communities working to achieve sustainable health, energy, food, water, cultural and environmental self-sufficiency with a special regard for Native People. Learn more at the Plenty website  or visit the Plenty Blog.
Here Plenty volunteers help renovate a hurricane-damaged house [...]

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A friend of The Farms writes in with this question, “I would dearly like to know your views on soy and its products at this time when there is so much bad press about it.I have been a vegetarian all my life and want to know if The Farm agrees with all this information being [...]

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Alan Graf, aka, hippielawyer, runs his disability and civil rights law practice from The Farm as well as his podcast The Third Planet Report, his radical civics class at the Farm School and his video production company which recently produced a video on the School of the Americas Vigal, the Free Speech TV will [...]

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FARMS NOT ARMS
Farmers Say No to War and Terror
June 2008
Guns and Butter - We can no longer have both
WHEN Farms Not Arms was formed in January 2006 we spoke about the misuse of the world’s resources on war as a threat to our ability to feed everyone.  Food prices, food shortages, food riots now are [...]

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July 1, 2008 Three fox kits were released into Big Swan Headwaters Preserve in a continued partnership between swan Conservation Trust and Walden’s Puddle, a wild animal rescue and rehabilitation center.  The kits were rescued when their mother was killed after they had made a den under a shed.
Foxes are are under increasing threat by [...]

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Founded by The Farm in 1974. Plenty International is a relief and development nonprofit specializing in building community and partnerships with a special focus on empowering native peoples. Plenty has been active in New Orleans since Katrina and was in thew city providing relief 3 days after the storm struck. Its Kids to the Country [...]

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