From the Morgan County Citizen – Principles like these inspired the day of work. One of three founding members of Crop Mob Atlanta, Kimberly Coburn, read about the original North Carolina Crop Mob in a New York Times article last February. She thought the concept was brilliant and contacted the original founders for guidance in [...]

From the September AARP magazine – At 8 a.m. on a Saturday under a blue summer sky, Denise Sharp, co-owner of Sharp’s at Waterford Farm in Brookville, Md., is preoccupied with a sick goat. On top of that, she’s preparing for visitors. “Usually there is pandemonium the first time a volunteer group comes here, because [...]

Crop Mob was featured on NPR’s Marketplace last week. A favorite quote from the show was from first time crop mobber Jeffrey Bailey – Our generation, and the generation behind us have this blatant sense of entitlement. I think we’re realizing that everything has come a little too easy for us. So putting our hands [...]

Las Cruces Crop Mob in the news – Stealthy Crop Mob forges local agrarian bonds: Grassroots Press Like a stealthy tomato, hidden beneath the camouflage and chaos of leaves, Crop Mob is a rogue (well, sort of) grassroots group, rich and potent with a passion for local farms, local foods and the connection we often [...]

On a recent Sunday, my farm was host to a new example of the old timey “barn-raising” phenomena that is sweeping the country. It is called the Crop Mob. It consists of a group of folks that just like to get involved with a farm and with others that have the same aspirations. Many of [...]

Crop mobs sprout up on farms The first U.S. crop mob was formed in North Carolina in 2008, and now there are more than 30. “It’s going to explode,” predicts Kirsten Santucci, organizer of a crop mob in Washington, D.C., that’s in its first season and has about 200 members. Full Article

From the Asheville Mountain Express – [...] This is the face of neo-agrarianism — a shift toward a more earth-friendly and community-conscious approach. Ironically, it tends to play out as a way-back-to-the-roots style of farming: Like the seasons themselves, farming is proving to be cyclical. [...] Read the full story.

More press from our fellow mobber and grist food editor, Tom Philpott: Are you a farmer at heart? Start a ‘Crop Mob’. If you wish to start a crop mob in your area, a good place to begin is our “get involved” page. There are a few key guidelines listed there and helpful organizing tips [...]

Last month Christine Muhlke trekked through ankle deep mud at Okfuskee Farm to get the scoop on Crop Mob, while we weeded, mulched, planted trees, cleared brush and put a major dent into the construction of Bobby’s new greenhouse. Check out her article here: Field Report: Plow Shares. It will be available on news stands [...]

About 6 months ago, Vanesa from the Gripia project in Catalunya (Spain) had contacted Crop Mob to say that ‘[t]he farmer’s job is changing and a lot of people want [to] take part of it!’. This school, about 3 hours’ drive from Barcelona, is one of only a handful of similar schools in Spain, and [...]