From Free Speech Radio News – As interest in locally grown, organic food increases, a new way to get involved is sprouting up all over the country and it’s known as a crop mob. During these events, a group of volunteers converges on small and urban farms and lends a hand on specific projects. Lynda-Marie [...]

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.

The State of Things on North Carolina Public Radio WUNC – An interview with Samantha Overmyer and Kristin Henry from Crop Mob.

Roving farm party lends many hands – Raleigh News & Observer BY ANDREW KENNEY – Staff Writer SILK HOPE — They call it crop mobbing. Think of it as a Digital Age barn raising, or Facebook-enabled farming. About once a month, a growing contingent of farmers, food activists, office workers and the unemployed chooses a [...]