{"id":206,"date":"2010-03-02T06:46:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T06:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/roddreher\/2010\/03\/all-hail-crop-mobbing.html"},"modified":"2010-03-02T06:46:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T06:46:56","slug":"all-hail-crop-mobbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/roddreher\/2010\/03\/all-hail-crop-mobbing.html","title":{"rendered":"All hail crop mobbing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hey you young agrarian punks, get offa<\/strike> into my field!<\/a> Excerpt:<\/p>\n

The Crop Mob, a monthly word-of-mouth (and -Web) event in which landless farmers and the agricurious descend on a farm for an afternoon, has taken its traveling work party to 15 small, sustainable farms. Together, volunteers have contributed more than 2,000 person-hours, doing tasks like mulching, building greenhouses and pulling rocks out of fields.
\n“The more tedious the work we have, the better,” Jones said, smiling. “Because part of Crop Mob is about community and camaraderie, you find there’s nothing like picking rocks out of fields to bring people together.”
\nThe affable, articulate Jones, 27, is part of the group’s grass-roots core, organizing events and keeping them moving. The Mob was formed during a meeting about issues facing young farmers, during which an intern declared that better relationships are built working side by side than by sitting around a table. So one day, 19 people went to Piedmont Biofarm and harvested, sorted and boxed 1,600 pounds of sweet potatoes in two and a half hours. A year later, the Crop Mob e-mail list has nearly 400 subscribers, and the farm fests now draw 40 to 50 volunteers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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