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Sign Up for Your CSA (food box) share!
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a system in which individuals/families sign up for a share in a local farm at the beginning of the season, and receive a regular box of food that may come weekly or bi-weekly. What fills these boxes depends on the season and the type of CSA offered. Though many CSAs in the Maritimes are based with vegetables and fruit, there are also producers offering meat, fish, bread and full meal CSAs. To find a local CSA program, visit the ACORN directory and click "CSA" and your province. Now is the time to sign-up and savour the best seasonal food possible.

Apprentice On A Farm! Interested in learning more about organic farming? What better way than to spend a few months living and working on a local organic farm? Organic and sustainable farm apprenticeships are available across the Maritimes (and Canada), and there is still time to apply, but act fast as many positions are filling up! If you are interested in farming and want to learn from an experienced grower, apprenticeships can really offer a life-transforming educational experience! Please pass this info along to your friends and share on Facebook! Find out more at SOIL www.soilapprenticeships.org. If you have any questions, or would like to know what other opportunities exist for new and aspiring farmers please contact Lucia Stephen, ACORN's Grow A Farmer Coordinator at lucia@acornorganic.org.

Call for Proposals The 13th Annual ACORN Conference will be held from November 22-24, 2012 in Charlottetown, PEI. If you would like to submit a workshop proposal, email admin@acornorganic.org.

Call for Volunteers! If you're interested in volunteering some of your time to help us out at ACORN, please let us know! If you're near our office in Sackville, NB, or located in other Maritime provinces, there are great ways that you can support our organization and help spread the word through your local communities. If you're interested, please contact Lucia Stephen at lucia@acornorganic.org.

Seeking Mentor Farmers: If you can’t commit to a full-time farm apprenticeship
but still want to be an educational resource for new farmers this season, please consider being a Mentor farmer for ACORN’s Grow A Farmer program. What are your areas of expertise? Let us know and we’ll match you with new farmers looking for guidance. Mentor farmers assist new entrants with regular phone calls, occasional farm-visits to ensure they are ‘on track’ and to help create successful first-time operations. For more information, please contact lucia@acornorganic.org.

ACORN Job Opportunity: We are hiring a NB Strategic Plan Coordinator to help in the development of our New Brunswick projects. Read the full job description here and please submit applications before noon on May 14, 2012 to tegan@acornorganic.org.

Job Opportunity: Organic Farm Manager at Horse and Garden Farm, Sweet's Corner (Windsor), NS. Position available immediately. Those with extensive farming experience are ideal candidates as tasks include crop planning, CSA production and management. For full job description and contact information, please see here.

Job Opportunity: Yarmouth Farmers' Market Manager – New Position Resumes accepted from Monday April 16th to Monday May 7th 2012. Yarmouth Community Farmers market has a part time position available 20-30 hrs/week. More info available on website. If you’re interested in applying for this position, please email your resume to: Yarmouthfarmersmarket@gmail.com

Job Opportunity The Ecology Action Centre is looking for a Summer Student for the Urban Garden Project. Eligible Applicants must: Have been registered as full-time students in the previous academic year and intend to return to school on a full-time basis in the next academic year; Be between 15 and 30 years of age at the beginning of employment. Please view the full job description and contact information here. Application Due Date: 5:00 pm Wednesday, May 16th, 2012.


Job Opportunity: Farm worker for an Organic Vegetable Farm in Hunter River, PE. Must be a PEI resident, can be a student, post secondary, prefer some farm experience. Must have own transportation to Central Queens area. Manual farm labor and some power equipment usage such as, garden tiller, grass mowing. Experience in organic growing is an asset. Offering 14 weeks work, $ 12.30 per hour, 40 hours per week, start date May 28 - Aug 31. Please apply to peiorganicfarm@gmail.com.

Wholesale Opportunity: Real Food Market, a new organic grocery store opening in St. John's, NL this spring, is seeking farmers and suppliers who would like to sell their organic and natural products like vegetables, fruits, berries, nut butters, meats, household cleaners, beauty products, etc. at retail. Please contact Melissa Butler at melissajuliebutler@gmail.com or (709) 631-0509.

Wanted: I’m looking to rent,  borrow or buy a disc harrow or similar to help with a bee pasture experiment I am trying to set up on land I have at Keswick Ridge, NB. Any help or leads are much appreciated. Please contact me at any of the following: day 506 444 3284, evening: 506 363 5980, cell: 506 999 4048 or email Rob at robnick.hughes@gmail.com. 

Wanted Einkorn Heritage Wheat. Please contact Marsha at 506-939-6836.

Wanted: Prospective market gardener in the Keswick Ridge, NB area seeks a landsharing arrangement at an organic farm or, if otherwise, place with good soil.   An ideal site would be one that I could use for free, or for a token payment, in exchange for improving the value of the soil through my organic growing practices and safeguarding or maintaining the garden site. Around 1/2 acre is probably the most that I could expect to be able to garden well. Ready access to water for both drip irrigation and vegetable washing is a must. An even better arrangement would be a landsharing arrangement with other growers, where knowledge, labour, equipment and resources (especially compost) were shared. Contact Gary Heathcote at (506) 455-2394 or zinjman@gmail.com.

Wanted: New vegetable farmer looking for greenhouse (any size), sinks, salad spinner, etc... or any other farm equipment a new vegetable farmer may find useful. Contact Melanie at bnoser2003@yahoo.ca.

Wanted: Looking for a supply of low vomi organic feed wheat and barley. Must be in minimum of 1mt tote lots or in larger full truck loads (15-30mt).Will also be looking for barley (40mt) and oats (5mt) later in the year.  Please contact Co-op Atlantic Brokerage (506) 858-6178 or shonda.babineau@coopatlantic.ca

Farm Equipment For Sale: Extra heavy duty tines for Troybilt "Pony" Rototiller. Brand new - never used. No longer available from manufacturer. $220 or best offer. Call 506-529-4982.

Farm Equipment For Sale: High capacity FarmKing 18-inch rollermill. 3&1/4 tonne/hour capacity. $400. Contact Kelly Cheverie at 902-357-2359.

Farm Equipment For Sale: 12 foot 3 point hitch triple K type harrow, John Deere # 35 forage harvester with grass pickup. Contact Stewart at srmacrae@rogers.com.

Farm Equipment For Sale: Tillage equipment. Plow, disc harrow, spring tooth harrow, rock rack, rock bucket and other pieces of farm equipment. Contact Heather King at King Limousin Farm 902-742- 2187

For Sale: Viking SP 165 trailer. Has 2 burner stove, 2 double beds, fold out kitchen table and sink. For photos or price, call Colleen Prentice at 902-827-2954 or email colleen.prentice@gmail.com.

For Sale: Peach trees for sale. Call Kelly Cheverie at 902-357-2359.

For Sale: Potted, native trees and shrubs; birch, oak, maple, ash, pine, spruce, hemlock, serviceberry, blueberry, and common elder: $7.50 - $20 for sizes between 1- 4 ft. Details/price list here. Inquiries - 902-423-5000 (Ron)

For Sale: Organic purebred limousin yearling heifers and one limousin yearling bull ready to go to work. Will add muscle and quality to your herd. Contact Heather King at King Limousin Farm 902 742 -2187

For Sale: 2012 Seed List for o.p., non-GMO, & c.o. seeds of green manures, seed grains & forage seeds is now available. For a copy and price quote, call Tom Lask at 506.756.4500 or email goodfoodfarm2@xplornet.ca.

For Sale: Organic fish fertilizer and other soil amendments (seaweed products and humic acid) available. Contact Fred at kentdale@pei.sympatico.ca.

For Sale: Certified organic wheat, good protein, low vomatoxin, up to 70T available. Contact Phil at (902) 218-0539 (PEI)

For Sale: Organic buckwheat seed. Certified by OCIA. Certified by OCIA. Telephone Maurice Girouard 506-856-0172 or e-mail: mgirouar@nbnet.nb.ca

Land for Sale/Share: I am asking for your help in protecting a beautiful piece of forest and participating in a community-based land-trust. Presently, there is a 380 ac. piece of forested land for sale next to my farm, The Oasis, that I have first right of refusal to purchase. The deadline to make this purchase is Jun 15/12. There is already a competing offer from a former owner, who is planning to create a Christmas tree farm from this natural woodland. At this point, what is needed is immediate action in purchasing this parcel of land. We are presently asking community members for financial investments in order to obtain the requisite amount of the purchase price of the land. For more info, contact Michel Palmer (902) 825-3954.
openeyeswider@hotmail.com
www.theoasisnovascotia.blogspot.ca

Land Share We are actively looking for interested parties to partner on our farm near Brooklyn, NS (Windsor being the closest town); ideally a young couple who want to farm/have agricultural experience but can't yet afford land. Having Canadian partners who live here (forty acres, so there's plenty of room) through the winter would be great, as we will continue to return to Texas in the winter. For more details, please contact John at johnlesliestanley@gmail.com

Land Share We are not farmers, but we are big supporters of organic farming. We own land in PEI (are living in Toronto) and are looking for a farmer to plant organic wheat or rye. We will not be charging rent. Please contact Bernadette at bernadettestantonmeijer@msn.com.

Land Share: We are looking to share our land in central PEI with new farmers looking to practice non-conventional farming. We are hoping to provide space for several new farmers with the idea of sharing knowledge, effort and equipment. Please email ken@hoperiver.ca for more information.

Permaculture Training: Permaculture Design Course/ Internships at Motheroak Permaculture, in Belmont, Hants County, NS. This course is an immersion in permaculture study and hands on practice, running this year from mid-May to mid-September. Along with the PDC curriculum, we spend alot of time on design principles and how we can manifest them in the real world around us. We also run a market garden and keep a few livestock, so there'll be plenty of experience with those, too. The fee is $300 per month all inclusive(sliding scale possible). There are only a few slots left open (as of March 2012), so please consider applying soon. Write to alexdenicola@hotmail.com, & visit our website at www.novascotiapermaculture.net

Seeking Input: Groundswell, a project of the Ecology Action Centre, is finding out how groundwater levels are changing in communities across the province, and it’s free! Water level information can help everyone know more about the drinking and irrigation water, establish better management during low water periods, and plan for the future when water levels might be under more strain from climate change, industrial and exploration activities. The basis of the project is to find water wells that could be used for long term monitoring. Your well could provide water level information for your whole community! If you know of, or have a unused well (no pumping) that has been drilled within the past 30 years please contact Jennifer at 902-442-5046/groundwater@ecologyaction.ca, and visit the project website here.

Interested in collective buying power? Check out our new website (just launched) for helping to organize with other farmers to receive the benefits of group buying here. It's easy and we're hoping to expand soon. Questions? Contact info@farmersbundles.com.

Interested in Solar Technology for Your Farm? The Re-electrification of Rural Nova Scotia. Do you want to use the most under utilized natural resource in Canada? The power of sunshine, it free and should not run out in our life time. With the advances in Solar technology the pricing of Made in Canada Solar panels is within reach of all. Nova Scotia on average gets more solar isolation than Germany and Ontario. We have discounted our systems by 20% as there are no rebates available to Nova Scotians for PV systems. Solar hot water systems can cut your electrically heated water bill by up to 30%. Yes there is still one rebate on the systems. Lets see if we can show you how to cut your operating costs using the sun. Contact Stephen Cahill at stephen.c@honeybeesolar.com.  

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