The group recently received a grant from the Bob Woodruff Foundation, co-founded by the ABC News journalist who was wounded in Iraq, to provide farming fellowships for wounded young veterans.
Along with Combat Boots to Cowboy Boots, a new program for veterans at the University of Nebraska's College of Technical Agriculture, and farming fellowships for wounded soldiers, the six-week course offered here is part of a nascent "veteran-centric" farming movement.
Twice a year for nearly 20 years, a group of students from all communities on campusstudent government, greeks, performing arts, cultural groups, service organizations, academic clubs, college houseshave traveled to Fellowship Farm near Pottstown for the Leadership Training Weekend.
Cheryl Rogowski, who was princess of the 1983 Orange County Onion Harvest Festival (and more recently a recipient of a MacArthur fellowship), farms about 150 acres of black dirt at W. Rogowski Farm, which sells at the farmers' markets in Sunnyside, Queens, and East New York, Brooklyn, on Saturdays and in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, on Sundays.
Some get summer jobs on urban farms, including a summer fellowship offered through Project EATS in New York.
Adamah, and Kayam, based in Connecticut and Maryland, respectively, grow delicious produce, offer fellowships in farming and run educational programs that integrate Jewish text study and sustainable agriculture.
That's where he founded what he calls "Adamah 1.0" -- a three-month fellowship program that trained twenty-something intellectuals how to farm.
Charles Alston made evocative pictures of farm life and poverty in the South, like "Farm Boy," showing here, an affecting portrait done in 1941, during his fellowship.
While he was getting his bachelor's degree at Middlebury College, he had started an organic farm, and after that he had spent a year on a Watson Fellowship, studying work songs around the world, fascinated by their role in agriculture.
In July, she began a one-year fellowship at the D&R Greenway Land Trust as a Charles Evans Future Conservation Leader and an urban farm and volunteer coordinator, through the Princeton AlumniCorps Project 55 Fellowship Program.
