Category Archives: crop mobs

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →