‘Crop mob’ comes to Plant City farm: MyFoxTAMPABAY.com

The project got started when Laurie came across Crop Mobbing in Urban Farm Magazine; Laurie perused the Crop Mob website, learning about the model. She took it, made a few adjustments, and used the system to help small farmers in the Denver area. She began networking; creating a coalition of concerned citizens with the goal of creating Crop Mobs of their own.

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Luckily, fate stepped in. I read an article about a group of young, landless, wannabe farmers in North Carolina called Crop Mob. The idea was simple enough: sustainable farming requires more manpower, so a community of volunteers gets together for a day to tackle some of the bigger chores, share a meal, get to know one another, and maybe learn a thing or two.

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BOISTFORT, Wash. — It may have been social media that brought the crop mob together, but it was dirty and sweaty work that kept the conversations flowing.

About a dozen volunteers descended on Justin McClane’s and Addie Candib’s Full Circle Farmstead, equipped with work gloves, shovels and the energy of youth.

Pulling weeds from around the blueberry plants was just the warm-up act. The big task at hand: Move a pile of compost from a garden to a pasture 100 yards away.

A free load of horse manure had turned out to contain a herbicide registered only for pasture and rangeland applications. The chemical survived the composting process and ended up damaging the farm’s fava bean, tomato and pepper plants.

As the group descended on the compost pile, Candib marveled: “I live in the middle of nowhere, but I feel more like I’m in the middle of a community than when I was in the city.”

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The project spurred a nationwide movement that led to 66 mobs across the country and influenced much of the young farmer trend.

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Patent attorney Collen Beard normally works behind a desk. But on a recent Sunday morning, she got her hands dirty as part of a mob. Specifically, a Crop Mob.

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Every Sunday morning, a group of metro Atlanta residents who call themselves Crop Mob drives to a different small farm in North Georgia to lend a hand. These people finish the day tired, covered in dirt and sometimes sunburned, but with smiles on their faces.

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If you do your shopping at the local farmers market, you’re probably more aware of where your food comes from than most, but if you really want to gain an appreciation for your food’s origins you’ll go straight to the source and join a mob. A crop mob, that is. And odds are there’s one not too far from you.

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