Comments on: start a mob: many hands make light work *updated* http://cropmob.org/2010/02/25/start-a-mob Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:34:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Permie Culture http://cropmob.org/2010/02/25/start-a-mob/comment-page-1#comment-109 Permie Culture Thu, 13 May 2010 00:35:21 +0000 http://cropmob.org/?p=235#comment-109 Happened on crop mobbing today. I am an agricurious and have a potential of many available hands for farms in northeast Massachusetts. Anyone interested in a weird kind of collaboration around here? Happened on crop mobbing today. I am an agricurious and have a potential of many available hands for farms in northeast Massachusetts. Anyone interested in a weird kind of collaboration around here?

]]> By: Pat http://cropmob.org/2010/02/25/start-a-mob/comment-page-1#comment-88 Pat Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:17:00 +0000 http://cropmob.org/?p=235#comment-88 To Joanna from Canada You are one of many people looking for a farm but with no background. Contact me at farmsatwork at gmail.com for info if you are looking in the Kawarthas. We are putting together a workshop and resources for people like you. Also, Crop Mob sounds like a fantastic idea for our region!! To Joanna from Canada
You are one of many people looking for a farm but with no background. Contact me at farmsatwork at gmail.com for info if you are looking in the Kawarthas. We are putting together a workshop and resources for people like you. Also, Crop Mob sounds like a fantastic idea for our region!!

]]> By: iVolunteer Editors http://cropmob.org/2010/02/25/start-a-mob/comment-page-1#comment-85 iVolunteer Editors Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:02:54 +0000 http://cropmob.org/?p=235#comment-85 we loved this idea so much we blogged about you this week! check it out on www.iVolunteer.org. And for those of you who have attended a Crop Mob, we'd love to hear about what it was like, so we can encourage more people to volunteer. we loved this idea so much we blogged about you this week! check it out on http://www.iVolunteer.org. And for those of you who have attended a Crop Mob, we’d love to hear about what it was like, so we can encourage more people to volunteer.

]]> By: Trace http://cropmob.org/2010/02/25/start-a-mob/comment-page-1#comment-84 Trace Fri, 05 Mar 2010 13:47:14 +0000 http://cropmob.org/?p=235#comment-84 To answer your first question, we work pretty much by consensus. Some of the decision making does go on behind the scenes simply because some of the logistical work does not require the whole group to participate in. We do try to spread out the organizing so that different individuals can take on more active roles. Defining sustainable will be different for each area, so it is open to interpretation in each region. For us, we wouldn't go to mob an enclosed pig or chicken farm, a conventional wheat monoculture or the cotton fields of an agribusiness. They simply wouldn't want our help anyway. Making that statement in the start-up documents helps groups stay out of exploitative situations. To answer your first question, we work pretty much by consensus. Some of the decision making does go on behind the scenes simply because some of the logistical work does not require the whole group to participate in. We do try to spread out the organizing so that different individuals can take on more active roles.

Defining sustainable will be different for each area, so it is open to interpretation in each region. For us, we wouldn’t go to mob an enclosed pig or chicken farm, a conventional wheat monoculture or the cotton fields of an agribusiness. They simply wouldn’t want our help anyway. Making that statement in the start-up documents helps groups stay out of exploitative situations.

]]> By: Crop Mob: Have you been crop mobbed yet? | Mama's Health Blog http://cropmob.org/2010/02/25/start-a-mob/comment-page-1#comment-83 Crop Mob: Have you been crop mobbed yet? | Mama's Health Blog Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:50:15 +0000 http://cropmob.org/?p=235#comment-83 [...] Mob. Love the name! Start a Crop Mob today. Maybe I’ll start a Crop Mob for backyard gardeners here in [...] [...] Mob. Love the name! Start a Crop Mob today. Maybe I’ll start a Crop Mob for backyard gardeners here in [...]

]]> By: Skyler http://cropmob.org/2010/02/25/start-a-mob/comment-page-1#comment-82 Skyler Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:38:12 +0000 http://cropmob.org/?p=235#comment-82 Hi, I am market gardener and farm laborer in Lawrence Ks. I am working with a group of folks here to get a Crop Mob organized. Your "getting started" pdf has been very helpful. I am wondering by what decision making process does your group decide on the next project? I am assuming it's democratic or consensus based. Can you elaborate on this process? Also how does your group define sustainable? Your guidelines state only small scale sustainable farms should participate. That might mean something different from one person to the next. Thanks for any insight you can provide! Mob on! Hi, I am market gardener and farm laborer in Lawrence Ks. I am working with a group of folks here to get a Crop Mob organized. Your “getting started” pdf has been very helpful. I am wondering by what decision making process does your group decide on the next project? I am assuming it’s democratic or consensus based. Can you elaborate on this process? Also how does your group define sustainable? Your guidelines state only small scale sustainable farms should participate. That might mean something different from one person to the next. Thanks for any insight you can provide! Mob on!

]]> By: JoannaFromCanada http://cropmob.org/2010/02/25/start-a-mob/comment-page-1#comment-81 JoannaFromCanada Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:21:06 +0000 http://cropmob.org/?p=235#comment-81 Hi! We live in Ontario, just north of Toronto. We are shopping for farm property at the moment, though we won't have a clue what to do with it! Any crop mobs in Ontario? Want to start one? Please advise. Joanna Hi!

We live in Ontario, just north of Toronto. We are shopping for farm property at the moment, though we won’t have a clue what to do with it!

Any crop mobs in Ontario? Want to start one?

Please advise.

Joanna

]]> By: Andrea Wood http://cropmob.org/2010/02/25/start-a-mob/comment-page-1#comment-80 Andrea Wood Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:00:50 +0000 http://cropmob.org/?p=235#comment-80 Thanks for your comments everyone! We're excited about all the new mobs popping up all over the nation (and world!). Diahanne and Anthony, We'd love to see you at the next crop mob! During the mob is a perfect time to talk to people about your ideas and afterwards we have time for people to talk and propose the next crop mob, the need for interns, farm shares, etc. Please visit http://cropmob.org/contact to see how to join the listserv. Bill, Kerry and Anna, Please also see http://cropmob.org/contact to see how you can join the movement and request information if needed. Bill & Anna, Putting your hope to collaborate with others on the map or creating a facebook group and posting the group on the crop mob facebook site would be the best places to start after reviewing the "Getting Started Guide" also on http://cropmob.org/contact. Happy mobbing! Thanks for your comments everyone! We’re excited about all the new mobs popping up all over the nation (and world!).

Diahanne and Anthony, We’d love to see you at the next crop mob! During the mob is a perfect time to talk to people about your ideas and afterwards we have time for people to talk and propose the next crop mob, the need for interns, farm shares, etc. Please visit http://cropmob.org/contact to see how to join the listserv.

Bill, Kerry and Anna, Please also see http://cropmob.org/contact to see how you can join the movement and request information if needed. Bill & Anna, Putting your hope to collaborate with others on the map or creating a facebook group and posting the group on the crop mob facebook site would be the best places to start after reviewing the “Getting Started Guide” also on http://cropmob.org/contact.

Happy mobbing!

]]> By: Anna http://cropmob.org/2010/02/25/start-a-mob/comment-page-1#comment-79 Anna Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:57:49 +0000 http://cropmob.org/?p=235#comment-79 Hi - I'm a small farmer near Fredericksburg, VA looking for a Crop Mob but I am not finding one in our area. I'd love to be involved in starting up a chapter here but need more advice. Hi – I’m a small farmer near Fredericksburg, VA looking for a Crop Mob but I am not finding one in our area. I’d love to be involved in starting up a chapter here but need more advice.

]]> By: Eliza http://cropmob.org/2010/02/25/start-a-mob/comment-page-1#comment-78 Eliza Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:12:35 +0000 http://cropmob.org/?p=235#comment-78 Thanks! I also appreciate the starting up files that were sent to me by Trace. I think I may start ours after everyone's spring rush... it is hard to get people to contemplate something new during planting time. SO excited about it! Thanks! I also appreciate the starting up files that were sent to me by Trace. I think I may start ours after everyone’s spring rush… it is hard to get people to contemplate something new during planting time. SO excited about it!

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