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 [...]

Last month Crop Mob had a featured story in the Independent Weekly: On a sweltering Sunday last August, a peaceful mob of 35 local farmers, armed with shovels, hoes and wheelbarrows, raided Serendip Farm in Orange County. But instead of a traditional raid, which is about taking, this raid was about giving: The Crop Mob, [...]

I can’t believe we’ve been mobbing for a whole year!  In the past year we’ve been to 12 farms and gardens, done over 2000 hrs. of work, found friends, found  jobs, shared meals and made beautiful music.  For our first birthday party we’re going to bring it back to where it all started, Piedmont Biofarm.  [...]

Crop mobs as agents for good is an introduction to the crop mob which is forming in Raleigh. BY ANDREA WEIGL – Staff Writer for the Raleigh News & Observer Published: Wed, Aug. 12, 2009 02:00AM Contact Steven Horton at steven.p.horton@gmail.com for info on how to join the Raliegh mob! The first mob will be [...]

Those technophiles Sam and Will over at Everlaughter Farm in Hillsborough don’t just send a email out to their myriad fans and customers, they send a weekly podcast. In the podcast that came out shortly after the July Crop Mob they give a report on the crop mob and give a big thanks to all [...]

I have been involved in the Crop Mob since the first time the group convened to do work last October. I missed the initial meeting of people who created the idea and named it, so I take no credit for its inception only its implementation. I push the idea whenever and wherever I can, attending [...]

Doug has been farming organically for 38 years and does so now at Piedmont Biofarm - host of our first Crop Mob.   Doug, how did you start growing sustainably and why is it important to you? I was in my junior year of college in 1971 and I was hearing about a lot of people who were moving out [...]

Crop Mobber Roshen Sethna created a photo documentary titled Victory of the Commons for a class at Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies. The documentary is about our relationship to land and community and features photos from the Stone House Crop Mob.  Click here to read Roshen’s artist statement.  The documentary can be found at http://www.susiepostrust.com/Duke08/Roshen/index.html

I wonder how much the Crop Mob is about agriculture and how much is simply about enjoying the company of like minded people? We came from all over to dig beds and spread mulch for someone most of us had never met, yet we did it with skill, enthusiasm and the efficiency of seasoned laborers. [...]

Growing a local food system is really about building community. It is a process of personalizing our relationship to food and those who grow our food. In order for our communities to be healthy and successful we need to deepen our relationships not just between producers and consumers, but also within the community of producers. [...]