This is the Greenhorns 2013 Audio Almanac, part of The 2013 New Farmer's Almanac.

Download these audio tracks for listening in the car or truck, and in the greenhouse. Consider recording lectures and songs for others for next year’s New Farmer's Audio Almanac. Email them to Almanac@thegreenhorns.net. If you are still unfamiliar with the audio capacities of your smartphone, ask your smart 15 year old cousin to help you access Stitcher and Heritage Radio Network lectures on your smartphone. The Association for Cultural Equity has many recordings by Alan Lomax. Archive.org has thousands of tracks. Really, it's worth your time to figure it out.

Greenhorns is a five year old grassroots organization that works to support new farmers in America. Our work is unconventional and various, we focus on event organizing, in person-networking, mixers, celebrations and workshops as well as the production of traditional and new media: radio, documentary film, blog, a book of essays, guidebooks, web-based tools. Our goal over the next generation is to retrofit the food system and to build a thriving agricultural economy, for healthy regions, healthy watersheds, and a healthy farm culture. We believe our movement can succeed with strong communication, solid business skills, sustainable farm practices and importantly, teamwork. We hope you will join the network. Visit www.thegreenhorns.net to sign up.

Michael Neault is a curator who lives in Portland, Oregon. He kindly created these mixes for young farmers to play during mixers, for background music.

Charlotte Carter runs the New York State Agricultural Mediation Program. Basically she runs a program that gives farmers access to Free mediation, and communication training.

Greenhorns Policy Podcast

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Lucy Chapin sings songs and catches babies. She is an incredible singer and came out to perform at our Beef Out event. She sent us this song.

1927

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I'm Reid Jenkins. I'm a fiddle player and a student at Columbia University for environmental science. I worked with the Greenhorns during the summer of 2011 while Severine and team were based at Farm on the Locusts near Rhinebeck, New York, where I developed a cheeky rapport with the farm's cow, Narcissa. I've been playing fiddle since I was six years old and I'm currently in a folk pop band called Morningsiders that plans on taking over the world. Check out my band on Facebook / YouTube!

I also like dancing to techno music and giving/receiving massages.

The Music of Reid Jenkins

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Scott Kellogg is the co-author of the book “Toolbox for Sustainable City Living: A Do-it-Ourselves Guide” (South End Press) and the primary teacher of R.U.S.T. – The Radical Urban Sustainability Training, an intensive weekend workshop in urban ecological survival skills.

Interview Part I

Interview Part II

Backstory

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Currently, Scott is developing a new organization in Albany, New York named the Radix Ecological Sustainability Center. It is planned to be a demonstration of environmental technologies and sustainable micro industries applicable in today’s urban environment. He is simultaneously developing a low-impact integrated agroforestry operation in Northern New York as well.

Scott is also a co-founder of Austin, Texas’ Rhizome Collective, an urban sustainability education project, and worked as the director of its sustainability program from 2000-2009. In 2004, the Rhizome Collective was donated a 10 acre brownfield property in Austin, as well as a $200,000 brownfield cleanup award from the EPA. Scott worked as the site coordinator for the cleanup, and oversaw the removal and recycling of over 15 tons of debris from the site.

Scott is an experienced teacher, activist, ecological designer, and father. He presently lives in the Albany Free School Community in Albany, New York.

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These are the songs of SAM COMFORT. Sam is a radical beekeeper working in the Hudson Valley and beyond. His project is called Anarchy Apiaries. There you can find his multi-media productions and find his international speaking schedule. I think he might be working on a book at the moment, but for sure he teaches workshops and classes and generally shows up at NOFA-NY. These are songs about bees, bugs and other things that Sam loves. Other natural beekeeping resources from Certified Naturally Grown, a sponsor of this almanac and certifier of natural beekeeping practices.

BRIAN DEWAN used to build furniture for a living and as of late is making and projecting I-CAN-SEE filmstrips. Two CDs, Brian Dewan Tells The Story and The Operating Theater feature songs with autoharp and electric zither accompaniment. He has exhibited drawings and filmstrips at The Brooklyn Museum, The New Museum, Pierogi gallery, The Armory Show and Modern Art Oxford. His recent recording of Lewis Carroll's The Hunting Of The Snark has aired in London and New York.

While studying art, organ and composition at Oberlin College he recorded electronic music with Putney, Buchla, Arp and Moog synthesizers. He plays zither and other instruments with The Raymond Scott Orchestrette and arranged Scott's electronic music for live acoustic septet in collaboration with accordionist Will Holshouser. In addition to performances of instrumental music he has also provided live accompaniment to the silent films of Ladislaw Starewicz, Harry Smith, Ester Shub, Oscar Fischinger, and rare films from the Mark Newgarden collection. These were screened at Lincoln Center, Galapagos, Tonic, The Robert Beck Theater and The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium.

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Join MAX GODFREY for a raucous, foot-stomping evening of singing. We will learn many songs traditionally sung by prisoners and field workers as a means of enduring the hardships of forced labor, but which have been rediscovered by farmers as tools for making their work more enjoyable. With simple, call-and-response structures, these songs can be learned quickly and require no vocal "skill" whatsoever, and are great for singing in the field, in the kitchen, or around the campfire. We will start with the simplest songs and share some more involved worksongs as our lungs warm up. Max is a Georgia farm apprentice and is on tour this winter in hopes of sharing these songs with as many folks as possible.

Check out this video of him singing Hey Rattler, here or find more of his recordings here on Soundcloud.

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Download the sheet music to the Patron Grange and other songs.

Here are a few of the songs from “The Patron”, which is a songbook from the 1890’s grange. Most of the songs are about farming, farm communities, farm families, solidarity, and improving the homestead. We are issuing these PDFs with the audio almanac in the hopes that others will find similarly topical songs. Perhaps some of our musician friends will grab hold of these lyrics, this music and these themes so that we will continue to build this genre and our own personal jukebox of songs, and capacity to strike up singing when it starts raining, around the fire, and most of the time.

This is the Greenhorns Disco mix.

Please download the file, upload the playlist along with the tracks and enjoy our favorites tunes.

Stay On The Farm, Boys!

Recorded in 2009 by Conspiracy of Beards in San Francisco, CA

Come, boys, I will tell you a story;

Come here, I will whisper it low.

Are you thinking of leaving the homestead?

Don't be in a hurry to go.

For the city has many attractions,

But think of the vices and sins.

Though once in the vortex of fashion,

How soon the course downward begins!

Chorus:

Don't be in a hurry to go,

Don't be in a hurry to go.

If you're thinking of leaving the homestead,

Don't be in a hurry to go.

You may talk of the mines of Australia,

They're loaded with gold, without doubt.

But there's plenty of gold on the farm, boys,

If only you'll shovel it out.

The mercantile life is a hazard;

The goods are first high and then low.

Better trust the old farm a while longer.

Don't be in a hurry to go.

So, the farm is the safest and surest;

The orchards are loaded today.

You're King of the Air on the mountain,

And monarch of all you survey.

Better risk the old farm a while longer,

Though the profits come in rather slow.

Remember, you've nothing to lose, boys,

Don't be in a hurry to go.

Other Sources of Free Audio

• The Turkey Song
• Sea Shanties and Drinking Songs
• Nat Adderley - Work Song
• MC Mycelium
• New Economics Institue Lectures
• Monadnock Summer Lyceum Speakers
• Smithsonian Folkways
• archive.org
• Association for Cultural Equity
• Rudolf Steiner Audio
• Prison Work Songs Mixtape
• Walt Whitman Archive

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This immersive summer workshop is a rigorous introduction to the field of Oral History, in the beautiful Hudson Valley.

Come all ye budding oral historians, radio documentarians, writers, filmmakers, media advocates, and photographers who wish to make of use of oral history in your practices. Over the course of eight days, we will cover interview techniques, project design, recording tutorials, archival practices, and ethics, along with special topics related to the field. This is a great opportunity to jump-start a project in a supportive environment, or to get this training under your belt for future projects, with the benefit of deadlines and critique.

• Free, open source lectures from top sustainable food speakers organized by Michael Pollan at UC Berkeley, funded by the Edible Schoolyard Foundation
• Free Webinars from Practical Farmers of Iowa
• Free lectures on Ranch Management
• Free tutorials on how to access public information
• Free lectures and talks from Farm Hack NYC

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