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  • From: Doug Willhite <drwillhite@earthlink.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Fwd: Crop Mobsters in North Carolina Donate Farm Labor
  • Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 08:09:44 -0800

Might be kind of nice...
doug

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From: The Contrary Farmer <no-reply@wordpress.com>
Date: March 1, 2010 6:48:55 AM PST
To: willhite@bigfoot.com
Subject: [New post] Crop Mobsters in North Carolina Donate Farm Labor

Crop Mobsters in North Carolina Donate Farm Labor
Dave Smith | March 1, 2010 at 6:48 am | Categories: Around The Web | URL: http://wp.me/pG9Uq-ZH


From NYT

[...]The Crop Mob, a monthly word-of-mouth (and -Web) event in which landless farmers and the agricurious descend on a farm for an afternoon, has taken its traveling work party to 15 small, sustainable farms. Together, volunteers have contributed more than 2,000 person-hours, doing tasks like mulching, building greenhouses and pulling rocks out of fields.

“The more tedious the work we have, the better,” Jones said, smiling. “Because part of Crop Mob is about community and camaraderie, you find there’s nothing like picking rocks out of fields to bring people together.”… The Mob was formed during a meeting about issues facing young farmers, during which an intern declared that better relationships are built working side by side than by sitting around a table. So one day, 19 people went to Piedmont Biofarm and harvested, sorted and boxed 1,600 pounds of sweet potatoes in two and a half hours. A year later, the Crop Mob e- mail list has nearly 400 subscribers, and the farm fests now draw 40 to 50 volunteers…

One of the biggest issues facing sustainable agriculture is that it’s “way, way, way more labor-intensive than industrial agriculture,” Jones said. “It’s not sustainable physically, and it’s not sustainable for people personally: they’re working all the time and don’t have an opportunity to have a social life. So I think Crop Mob brings that celebration to the work, so that you get that sense of community that people are looking for, and you get a lot of work done. And we have a lot of fun.”[...]

More at NYT→
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