Based in Philly, the original evil twins are particularly cool cats. They’re interested in mediating relations between fairytale rebellion nanny goats and corporate media distribution networks.

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On her small plot in Oakland, California, Novella has raised bees, goats, rabbits, geese, and turkey, among other fauna. A graduate of the Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, where she studied with Michael Pollan, Carpenter now writes about urban farming and sustainable-food production for various publications, including her blog, Ghost Town Farm. Her memoir, Farm City, is available now.

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Amanda Flagg grew up in Texas and has spent the last few years living up and down the East Coast. In between trying to perfect the art of apartment gardening, she is working on various graphic design projects for The Greenhorns.

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Charris Ford is a veggie oil activist and off-grid rockstar. He's writing a rap about young farmers.

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Once Lisa Foti-Strauss finishes up her documentary about cult-folk star Michael Hurley, we hope she'll come back to us in a contributing kind of a way. 

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Ben Fundis graduated from Bard College with a degree in film studies and is the co-director and editor for "Border Stories" an award-winning documentary website and film about the U.S.ÐMexico border. His documentary work has been screened at several international film festivals. He's also edited numerous non-primetime television programs for broadcast on some of the finest cable networks such as The Weather Channel, Country Music Television, USA Network, Food Network, and Animal Planet.

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Sara has worked in a circus, toured with a rock band, and traveled with truck drivers - who gave her the handle MovieMaker. She organizes elaborate picnics, salon-style supper clubs and a legendary tour of New York City's best hot chocolate. Professionally, she produces documentary-style videos, directs the occasional music video, and creates educational media for historical museums and exhibits. These projects express her interest in cultural history, craft, design, music, film, and food.

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Based in North Carolina, Mark Gravel runs Bouwerie.com, a website + project which employs elegant marketing to spread the ‘good farm movement.’

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Peter Hale lives and works in Brooklyn and is going to raise as much money as possible for this documentary. He came to the project through colleagues at the Diner Journal, to which he is a contributor.

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Laura Hanna is a maker of films. Her New York based production company HiddenDriver specializes in feature length and short form films focusing on intellectual, cultural and political issues. She is currently directing the documentary feature Megapolis.

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Louella Hill is a cheesemaker for Narragansett Creamery, Rhode Island's first and only artisan cheese producer. She spends long hours gazing into milk filled vats, knowing that magic is occuring.

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Simon Huntley works on Small Farm Central, a splendid project making web-templates available to young farmers for pretty cheap. He is a gifted web-maven.

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Kendra Johnson advocates for land, food, agriculture and equity. She is a regional program coordinator for California FarmLink in Davis, CA, where she works to keep farmland for farmers. She assists beginning farmers to secure land tenure, financing, and other services, and sees first-hand the barriers faced by young people in entering agriculture. She is also a master’s candidate in community development and is writing her thesis on agricultural conservation easements and land tenure for beginning farmers. She has operated a market garden and founded a small CSA in the East Bay Area, owned and operated a restoration-oriented landscape business, and will always and forever grow food.

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Ghislain Jutras teaches organic agriculture at the University Laval in  Quebec City and farms at Les Jardins Naturlutte. He co-founded the organization of young ecological vegetable growers of Quebec. Ghislain filmed a young farmer conference in Argentina, which we may end up using in the film. He's our consultant in regions to the north and hosted our film team during Quebec’s first blizzard of the 07/08 winter.

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Talia Kahn-Kravis aspires to be a young farmer someday herself. Currently she resides in Queens doing urban environmental education throughout the city. She is working on a young farmer wiki and organizing resources into a comprehensive database for The Greenhorns site.

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Script advisor, new mummy. Living in Washington DC and privy to a lot of the apocalypta from the inner circles. Nora Maccoby is jazzed about young farmers.

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McKay helped as a co-producer on some shoots when The Greenhorns was in the seedling stage. She founded the blog The Irresistible Fleet of Bicycles and did a lot of work editing our language and outreach. McKay co-hosted the Brooklyn party in March of 2008, and is consulting to maintain event continuity in this midsummer's agrarian pageant. She now works for PBS documentarian Ken Burns in New York and earns a steady salary there.

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Cassie is a shopkeeper and coolkeeper at Gravel + Gold, a tiny little venue of commerce and chic on Treat Street, San Francisco. Cassie is a longtime supporter, informer and inspirer of the Greenhorns project and she helps maintain our relative sanity with her warm hospitality, clucking impresarios and Bolinas outlook on life.

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Lucas Patzek is currently an odd job master, and does community education and events from his home base in Oakland, CA. He has been making the website. He will soon be starting his PhD program in Crop and Soil Sciences at WSU Pullman.

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Angelo Sacerdote made Fed Up, a film about genetically modified food. He is an expert in video and food preservation and a guidance counselor when it comes to technology.

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Rodolph de Salis is a London based artist. An art and landscape historian, he advises us on agricultural imagery.

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In 2001, Ethan Schaffer and his brother Grayson founded OrganicVolunteers, a network of over 1200 farms in the USA and Latin America offering internships and educational work exchanges. Since then, the organization has helped over 17,000 members live, work and learn on organic farms. His efforts landed him the Brower Youth Award, a top national honor for young environmental leaders. Currently, Ethan is bridging the worlds of food and climate change, working as a major gifts officer for the nonprofit Climate Solutions.

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Alan Webber was born and raised in Elkader, Iowa, 20 mi. west of the Mississippi River and the historic Wisconsin pioneer village of Prarie du Chien. He has been making films and videos since age 16, and obtained his M.A. in Media Studies from the New School for Social Research while apprenticing under director Hal Hartley. Alan's writer/director/editor credits include: Adventures of the Brooklyn Hipster Superhero, Day is Done, and Hawkeye Fever. He has recently shot music videos for rock bandsJapanther, Federation-X, and The Silver Jews, and has completed a feature-length script about teenage angst in rural Iowa.

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Aaron Woolf, director of King Corn, provides his sage advice, and just may do a little shooting for us. That’s a bottle of olive oil.

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