Originally from southern Oregon, where she now runs her own farm and serves as a Food & Society Policy Fellow. Her work in sustainable agriculture has engaged her with numerous non-profits over the years, including Ecotrust, the Agriculture and Land-based Training Association (ALBA), the Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture (CUESA), and the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy. She is a regular contributor to Edible Portland and her work has also appeared in USA Today, Oregon Coast Magazine, The Oregonian, the Draft Horse Journal, In Good Tilth, and Stanford Magazine. She also spent three years co-managing Sauvie Island Organics, a diversified fresh market farm where she oversaw production and apprentice training for a community supported agriculture program. Zoe did her undergraduate work at Stanford University where she studied ecological anthropology with a focus on sustainable agriculture. She recently completed her Masters degree with a focus on rural development, food systems and community change.

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Charlotte Buchen is a filmmaker who has shot and produced documentaries and TV stories around the world for outlets including Current TV, Newsweek.com and PBS FRONTLINE/World.  She worked with filmmaker Nancy Good on a film about the American beef industry called "The Mad Cow Investigator" and is currently enjoying living in the mecca of the food and farm movement, Berkeley California. Visit www.101films.net for information about her most recent film, "All the Way Home", a documentary short that tells the story of the psychological wounds of war. Charlotte can be reached at charlotte.buchen@gmail.com.

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Brooke Budner is an artist, a grower and a food lover who manages a quarter acre urban garden in the Mission District of San Francisco.  She works at the farmers market, as a waitress and for the Victory Garden Project.   She is creating original drawings for our website as well as a series of stickers designs.

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Ian Cheney is a Boston-based documentary filmmaker. Ian received a Master’s degree from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies where he was co-chair of the Yale Student Environmental Coalition and a co-founder of the Yale Sustainable Project.  Ian co-created, filmed, co-produced and starred in the feature documentary King Corn, which was nominated for the 2007 Environmental Media Awards and will be broadcast nationally on PBS’ Independent Lens 2007-2008 season.

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Curt Ellis is a filmmaker and Food and Society Policy Fellow. Curt co-created and starred in the 2007 feature documentary King Corn, which was released in theaters in 60 cities and aired nationwide on PBS. He later produced The Greening of Southie, The Sundance Channel's Earth Day broadcast selection in 2008. Currently living in Austin, Texas, Curt works alongside filmmaking partner Ian Cheney at Wicked Delicate Films.

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Severine von Tscharner Fleming is a farmer, activist and organizer based in the Hudson Valley, NY. Over the past two years she has produced+ directed a documentary film about the young farmers who are reclaiming, restoring, retrofitting and respecting this country of ours. That film, titled "The Greenhorns" grew into a small nonprofit organization that currently produces events, media and new media for and about the young farming community. Greenhorns mission is to "recruit, promote and support" the growing tribe of new agrarians. To that end, Greenhorns runs a weekly radio show on Heritage Radio Network, a popular blog, a wiki-based resource guide for beginning farmers, a GIS-based mapping project, and dozens of mixers+ educational events for young farmers all around the country. Greenhorns actively works to provide venues for networking, collaboration and communication within their large, and growing! network. Severine attended Pomona College and University of California at Berkeley where she graduated with a B.S. in Conservation/AgroEcology. She co- founded the Pomona Organic Farm and founded UC Berkeley's Society for Agriculture and Food Ecology and is a proud co-founder of the National Young Farmers Coalition.

www.thegreenhorns.net
www.thegreenhorns.wordpress.com
www.serveyourcountryfood.net
foryoungfarmers.wikispaces.com
www.heritageradionetwork.com/programs/7-Greenhorn-Radio

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Support, Promote and Recruit young farmers in America.
Direct a documentary film about young farmers demonstrating their professional bravery, service and and stewardship-ethic.
Run a non-profit young farmers advocacy organization and national coalition for voicing a political agenda.
Cultivate the 'cultural cool' of agriculture, start a series of agrarian pageants.
Generate conference-based programming and events for young farmers and food producers.
Employ new/online media to create venues for sharing within the young farmer community.
Save up money to buy my own farm, meanwhile, grow organic fruit, herbs, vegetables, pigs, rabbits, goats, laying hens on other people's land.

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A Brooklyn-based sound studio, these hipster Jesus Camp alumni are scoring the trailer.

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Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator who works with notions of community, sustainability and a perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her work manifests "on-" and "off-line" in the form of dynamic websites, installations, open-access laboratories, and educational formats that collectively question or challenge the social, political and economic systems we live in.

Amy founded Futurefarmers in 1995, and Free Soil in 2004. Her solo and collaborative work have been included in exhibitions internationally including ZKM, Whitney Museum, NYMOMA and SFMOMA. She is the recipient of the Artadia Award, Cultural Innovation, Eureka Fellowship and SFMOMA SECA. BFA, San Francisco State University; MFA, Stanford University. She is currently a professor of art at University of San Francisco and visiting faculty at CCA.

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Jordon is a coal activist and film maker currently working to save mountain tops in West Virginia. He occasionally drives 14 hours across the Appalachians to come work with the Greenhorns. We are very grateful to have him aboard the team.

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Taylor Gentry is the resident DP for Wicked Delicate Films, as well as a freelance Cameraman in Massachusetts.

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When not plotting young farmer mixers, Anya continues her earnest and purposeful mission to acquire many useful skills with which to survive the impending apocalypse. Current and future endeavors include assistant managing at Island Meadow Farm in the Puget Sound, and instilling love and respect for the wilderness in children at an outdoor school near Tomales Bay.

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Rosy Keyser paints for the website. Her sunshiney fuzz-headed baby has new teeth.

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Andrew Legge filmed the interviews and b-roll in Ireland (in case we can manage to make this an international film in the end). Andrew lives in Dublin, his films have landed him many awards as a young filmmaker. The most recent is Fowl, a documentary film about the chicken industry. Severine and Andrew met in West Cork at the Ferguson's house, Gubeen.

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Savanna can do anything. She helped put on the Rabbit Roast, and then went on to produce our filming missions in Appalachia coordinating an epic 6 state roadtrip-- and driving most of the way. Savanna now directs a farmers market and urban redevelopment project in West Virginia.

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Paula is a budding Greenhorn in Northern California. She can often be found chasing sheep and tending greens. Her role with the Greenhorns is ever-shifting, but she is currently managing the "Field Guide for Beginning Farmers" wiki, co-editing the latest version of the Greenhorns guidebook, and working on a project for K-12 students with USDA's Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program with Cornell University.

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Michaela McKee graduated with honors from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. from the Film and Television Department. While attending school she produced numerous award winning short films and interned with several filmmakers including Rob Marshall. After school she began her career as a Production Coordinator for the documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song and a Production Manager for the upcoming documentary Harry Belafonte: Get Them To Your Song. Following these projects she produced the feature documentary The Meaning of Tea; for which she traveled all over the world. McKee is excited to lend her energy, creativity and knowledge to the Greenhorns.

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A year has shown that days pruning apple trees in Tivoli, NY are not so different from days matting and hanging photographs in Chelsea. Derrick blogs sporadically at meadorchards.wordpress.com and more regularly arranges produce at farmer's markets ranging from end to end of the Hudson Valley.

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May Nguyen is based in Berkeley, a member of SAFE, and student of architecture. She finds particular pleasure in the texture of pumpkins, zine design, and cover crop elves.

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Eric works as a principle cinematographer for the collaborative film collective Meerkat Media. His work has appeared in international film festivals, screened at the IFC & Anthology theaters in New York, and has been broadcast on networks including MTV, the French-German public television channel Arte, and the Manhattan Neighborhood Network. He currently works in camera and production in New York City, and teaches production and digital crafts at DCTV in Manhattan.

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Bonnie Powell runs The Ethicurean food politics blog, is deputy editor of Edible San Francisco magazine, and founded the Bay Area Meat CSA. She is a farm groupie.

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Megan is a writer, library-builder, and artist in San Francisco. She is co-creator of the agriculture-rich Prelinger Library, and is also a seabird rehabilitator and oil spill responder. She has key insights about analog-digital hybridization.

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Michelle originally hails from Missouri, though she is currently a student and aspiring young farmer in Charlottesville, VA. As database+image manager for the Greenhorns, she manifests swanky compilations of nominated farmers, mailing lists-ers, sponsors, collaborators, and schools+university partners. Michelle also acts as resident weekend blogger.

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Chris is the communications manager at The After-School Corporation (TASC), a nonprofit dedicated to giving all kids opportunities to grow through after-school and summer activities that support, educate and inspire them. Working in new media for over nine years (yikes) now, he is passionate about the power of communication and local food systems. In his spare time he is learning to play banjo, composting (ask me, I'll get you started in NYC) in his apartment and volunteering with NYC Greenmarket and serving on advisory boards for Slow Food NYC and LinkEducation. He also laughs at (with) his cats Sid and Pumpkin.

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Olivia is the General Manager and sole operating partner of Farm 255, a unique farm & restaurant operation in Athens, Georgia that reconnects food to its roots & people to their food. The restaurant operates its own farms, Full Moon Farms and Moonshine Meats, raising most of its own livestock and roughly 50% of its produce for the restaurant, while also sourcing diligently from other local small-scale farms in the area. For 5 years Farm 255 has strived to reform the way seemingly disparate industries can collaborate to educate and activate a truly local and sustainable food system.

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Stephanie is a food-journalist-turned-sustainable-ag-advocate based in Brooklyn with a background in web management, marketing, and graphic design. She's a competent churn in the great Greenhorns vat, managing educational initiatives, creative projects, event coordination, and operational objectives, as well as helping make that sweet development butter. She loves pea tendrils, Irish soda bread, wild game with fruit, swamp spinach, and most manner of shellfish. Her last name is pronounced like the pronoun.

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As the lead singer of the Ginger Ninjas, Kipchoge  has created a unique alt-folk sound that has captivated hip-hoppers, rednecks, and hippies in a single song. He's going to write one of these songs for the film. He is President of Xtracycle, a social change company that makes car-replacing sport-utility bicycles. Kipchoge is about to embark on his most ambitious adventure yet: a 5000 mile tour with his band through Mexico, self-supported by bicycle.

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Basia Winograd started making fiction and documentary while living in Chennai, India in 1997. Her work has taken her from India to the National Film School of Poland, to the World Cup for homeless soccer teams in Austria, to Harlem, where she now resides.

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