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This Week At Colvin Family Farm

Blog: Colvin Family Farm   -   Friday November 20, 2009   -   By Colvin Farm

Apples, apples...more apples! This week has been the week for us to put them up. We hauled six crates (4'x4'x3') of "Yellow Delicious" grade outs from the Oren Wooden's Apple Orchard here on the mountain. Most of them were stored in a bin for hog...

new meat csa

Blog: Good for the Earth and Good for you... Millsap Farm   -   Monday October 19, 2009   -   By Curtis and Sarah

We are excited to announce our new Meat CSA.  We have been toying with the idea of a meat csa for quite a while, but I finally found the time to write out details and costs, and have posted it all, plus membership applications, to our wordpress...

Eighth Blog From the Sheep Farmer

Blog: Shady Hill Farms, Ltd.   -   Wednesday October 14, 2009   -   By Ben

This is the Eighth Blog From the Sheep Farmer at Shady Hill Farms, Ltd., of Newbury, Ohio. Better farming: better lamb! That is the motto\ tagline of our affiliated meat and woolen goods business, GreatAmericanLambCompany.com Check them out, and...

See M's Organic Sustainable FArm and others at Log...

Blog: M's Organic Sustainable Farm   -   Wednesday August 19, 2009   -   By MM

See M's ORganic Sustainable Farm at the Logan Square Farmers Market in Chicago Don't forget to visit www.msorganicfarm.com for CSA details.  Here's the link to the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeZYYS5VIPw

County Fair, Part I

Blog: Bloom Where You're Planted Farm   -   Thursday August 06, 2009   -   By Teresa

The Cass County Fair , our local county fair, began on Tuesday and continues through Saturday.  We have a booth for our farm and pumpkin patch, so have been spending a lot of time there this week.  Before we head out again, I wanted to share...

Why consider your local agricultural producer firs...

Blog: Lakeview Farm   -   Monday June 15, 2009   -   By Pastured Poultry, All Natural, Brown Extra Large to Jumbo Eggs

Lakeview Farm From Our Happy Hens to Your Happy Home.....Enjoy! Lakeview Farm is a family operation committed to providing all-natural eggs produced by healthy hens who are free to forage happily throughout the day and are then put up for the...

Niche Marketing and Subsidizing Your Customer

Blog: F.A. Farm   -   Wednesday May 20, 2009   -   By Walter

Yesterday, I finished reading Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America  by Barbara Ehrenreich (2001). I had been a fan of Ehrenreich since the early 90's, but I didn't bother to read her book when it came out because I knew the subject so well....

The World According to Monsanto - Full Documentary

Blog: Golden Touch Alpaca Farm   -   Monday May 11, 2009   -   By Shelley

While browsing Twilight Earth, I came across a post with clips from the documentary: "The World According to Monsanto" and I felt compelled to post them here. A side of the story we are rarely privy to in mainstream media. When you have some time,...

Looking for some more Agriculture/Food/Work Relate...

Blog: Golden Touch Alpaca Farm   -   Wednesday April 15, 2009   -   By Shelley

Everyone seems to love when we post Ted Talks so I put together a short list of other Talks I think you all will be interested in. If you happen to stumble across any that you think should be added to this list by all means let me know and I will include it! ...

Herd Health Day - Jacob's Reward Farm

Blog: Jacob's Reward Farm   -   Tuesday March 03, 2009   -   By Cindy

This past Saturday the shareholders of the Jacob's Reward Farm CSA held our first "Herd Health Day," by weighing the sheep, trimming their hooves, haltering the alpacas and trimming some feet.  The weather would have been absolutely perfect -...

Winter

Blog: Gravel Knolls Farm, CSA   -   Wednesday February 18, 2009   -   By Linda

The memberships are almost sold for this season and the weather's still cold so I'm feeling ahead so far this year! My main worry is being able to fit the membership traffic into the farm yard for the pick ups. We move the pick ups off the farm for the last...

Darwinist Agriculture

Blog: F.A. Farm   -   Wednesday February 11, 2009   -   By Walter

February 12th is the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin. Whether or not we acknowledge it, farmers are using Darwinist agriculture every day. We look at our plants or our animals and select for characteristics that arose out of mutations and recombination...

Community Serviced Agriculture Half Shares a big h...

Blog: M's Organic Sustainable Farm   -   Sunday January 25, 2009   -   By MM

Greetings: Since it's inception 6 years ago, M's Organic Sustainable Farm has been offering Organic Sustainable CSA shares to folks in Mchenry and Cook County. New last year were the CSA Half Shares($15.00 worth of produce/herbs per week as opposed...

Montana Food Efforts a Great Model for Hard Times ...

Blog: Longmont Farmers Market   -   Wednesday January 07, 2009   -   By Cindy

Thanks to Rose Hayden-Smith for this great article in the Huffington Post: Montana Food Efforts a Great Model for Hard Times   Rose is an academic with the University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources, Rose Hayden-Smith provides...

Found: Agri-Bliss

Blog: Alpaca Farmgirl   -   Saturday November 22, 2008   -   By Katy

This Thanksgiving, I find myself grateful that I have found my niche in life. An unlikely farmer, I adore raising alpacas on our ten acre farm. A former pychologist, I am so happy to be home now raising my four children. After years of struggling, I am...

The People Who Feed Us

Blog: Interfaith Food and Farms Partnership   -   Friday November 21, 2008   -   By Sarah

Last night I attended a panel discussion sponsored by Slow Food Portland about the plight of farm workers in Oregon.  The event was inspired by ediblePortland magazine's summer 2008 cover story entitled "The People Who Feed Us," a story which...

Absolute Pastured Poultry Article - Use of Arsenic...

Blog: Absolute Pastured Poultry   -   Saturday November 08, 2008   -   By Sue

Here is an article that discusses one of the more disturbing features of factory farm mass production methods. There are many good reasons to buy naturally raised, pastured poultry. However THIS is one of the more important reasons. Although many of...


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