Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

market-farming - [Market-farming] "Crop Mobbing" Catches on in NC

market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Market Farming

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Chris Reid <chriscreid AT yahoo.com>
  • To: market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Market-farming] "Crop Mobbing" Catches on in NC
  • Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:56:23 -0800 (PST)

Is anybody in NC on the list who has been the beneficiary of a crop mob?  Has anybody here been on the receiving end of this volunteer "work for food" day effort?
 
 
Snippet of the article from 2/25/10:
 
Bobby Tucker, the 28-year-old co-owner of Okfuskee Farm in rural Silk Hope, looked eagerly at the 50-plus volunteers bundled in all manner of flannel and hand-knits. In five hours, these pop-up farmers would do more on his fledgling farm than he and his three interns could accomplish in months. “It’s immeasurable,” he said of the gift of same-day infrastructure.
 
It’s the beauty of being Crop Mobbed.
 
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.



  • [Market-farming] "Crop Mobbing" Catches on in NC, Chris Reid, 02/25/2010

Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page