This excerpt is from The Ethicurian blog where it is titled “The right to bear farms: Severine von Tscharner Fleming, young-farmers champion”:
Rural Chic: Severine, as she appeared in the NY Times style section, along with six other "Food Fighters".
“Editor’s note [from the Ethicurian]: Severine von Tscharner Fleming first inspired me back in 2006, when she was just an undergraduate activist at Berkeley. Since then, this wild-haired, scabby-shinned force of nature has been featured in the New York Times several times and elsewhere for her work trying to grow a new crop of farmers for America.
Here are some of the many projects Sev and her able volunteer interns are nurturing:
- documenting young farmers via her ongoing film project, The Greenhorns
- blogging about them and getting them to blog at The Irresistible Fleet of Bicycles
- putting out the Greenhorns Guide for Beginning Farmers
- developing the ServeYourCountryFood.net map and database
- creating a wiki for young farmers that lists useful institutions, help with land searches, and skill development
- starting the National Young Farmers Coalition
- launching a Greenhorns radio show
The Bovine 