As many of our farming mentors point out, farming is a life-long learning endeavor.  However, a season of even part-time farming is plenty of time to fall in love with it.  The collaborative environment of the EarthDance Organic Farming Apprenticeship proves especially fertile ground for some of  our apprentices, and each subsequent year since the [...]

EarthDance will be one of the vendors at The Missouri Organic Association’s annual conference next month, February 2-4th at the Union Station Marriott in Downtown St. Louis.  The three day event includes workshops about innovative home gardening practices, consumer health issues, and commercial scale organic vegetable, grain, fruit and animal production.  Registration fee is $195 [...]

Carleton and Ellie Stock (EarthDance supporters and members of our 2011 Community Agriculture program), invite all interested parties to join them for a screening and discussion of the film The End of Suburbia.  The Reverends Carleton and Elinor Stock, recently retired co-pastors of Northminster Presbyterian Church in Dellwood aim to encourage local residents to consider [...]

Anna Gall was one of our 2011 apprentices who spoke at Farmers Formal about her experience in the apprenticeship program. She began her speech with a poem she’d written this July during her time on the farm: Vigil There is restlessness in my spirit as the days go on … A bud sprouted, green shoots [...]