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CSA Renewals now due

Blog: Bergefurds Farm Market and Greenhouses   -   Monday December 19, 2011   -   By Marcia

Message body Hello CSA Friends! We are now accepting CSA share applications and renewals for the 2012 Summer Share season.  The new 2012 application is pretty well unchanged from...

Those in prison: a prayer for the immigrant

Blog: At Home in Nature   -   Friday December 02, 2011   -   By Mary

Let us tonight remember those in prison, both those who suffer for their crime, and those who are wrongty held to account for the crimes of others, or for those crimes which they had long ago suffered and atoned for.  Let us remember those in prison whose...

contest from the fallowfield art, craft and techno...

Blog: At Home in Nature   -   Tuesday November 22, 2011   -   By Mary

AGATE -- A new Fallowfield Art, Craft and Technology Guild is already planning five contests to assist in recruitment, with cash and other prizes. A fine arts competition using recycled materials, a culinary arts competition using pine needles, a motion...

Debris essential to reforestation

Blog: At Home in Nature   -   Wednesday November 09, 2011   -   By Mary

Drs. Tomasz Zielonka and Mats Nildasson (Ecological Bulletins, 2001. 49:159-163) of the Institute of Botany in the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Southern Sweedish Forest Research Center of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences remark how...

A Promise

Blog: At Home in Nature   -   Tuesday November 08, 2011   -   By Mary

In farming and ranching, despite the boasts of science and technology against the so-called inconveniences of nature, there remains a lack of confidence in these powerful tools by those whom they were made. A sick animal can be taken into the barn, given...

Scenic trash of Elbert County

Blog: At Home in Nature   -   Monday November 07, 2011   -   By Mary

In Elbert County we find many things put to use that find new life and are no longer rubbish.   We find many things, brand new, cast away on the roadside like soda cans and lunch wrappers that become rubbish.   But the State law is clear: farmers...

Hello! From Blackberry Creek Farm!

Blog: Blackberry Creek Farm Sugar Grove   -   Monday September 26, 2011   -   By Wayne

Hello! From "Farmer Wayne"and Blackberry Creek Farm! As you drive west of hwy 47 on Finley or Scott Rd in Sugar Grove Illinois you have probably noticed something is happening at the 1850 Conrad Family Farm. Well, You will be pleased to know there...

The Economics of Agriculture and how to learn hist...

Blog: Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Thursday August 18, 2011   -   By Tony

It is not a secret that farmers during the Great Depressiobn of 1929 were among the Big Losers financially.They lost  their farms to the banks as they could not pay their mortgages.There was another reason :THE DRAUGHT. History repeats itself unless...

Celebrate Farmers Market Week with the Williamsbur...

Blog: Williamsburg Farmers Market   -   Tuesday August 09, 2011   -   By WFM

Williamsburg Farmers Market Saturday, August 13, 2011 8 a.m. - 12 p.m. Support VA Agriculture at the Williamsburg Farmers Market during Farmers Market Week by shopping this producer-only market. Cheese, bread, honey, meats, and pies are among the...

Fighting GLOBAL WARMING locally here in S.Florida...

Blog: Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Tuesday July 12, 2011   -   By Tony

How does climate change affect agriculture ?   Read how the draught is affecting 14 states from a recennt NYT and MSNBC reports :   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43718212/ns/us_news-the_new_york_times/v ...

2012 CSA full and half shares still available at L...

Blog: M's Organic Sustainable Farm   -   Saturday June 25, 2011   -   By MM

2012 CSA's for Logan Square and Woodstock  LOGAN SQUARE PRICING ONLY: Vegie Share only= $405.00 Vegie plus egg $435.00 Half share $245.00 Half Share plus Eggs $275.00 includes tax and small delivery fee. No refunds on shares. WOODSTOCK PRICING ONLY:Share...

Are CSA's Worth It?

Blog: Victory Acres Farm and CSA   -   Sunday June 05, 2011   -   By Farmer Eric

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Star watching for farmers

Blog: At Home in Nature   -   Saturday June 04, 2011   -   By Mary

Look to the skies just before sunrise and you’ll see something interesting: the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars and Jupiter appear to be in a line!   Though not actually in alignment, our perspective from Earth makes them appear so, but it is a good time to...

How the banks are raising food prices

Blog: At Home in Nature   -   Sunday May 29, 2011   -   By Mary

Money presumes a future payment of a commodity.   In antiquity, money meant cattle and grain. A “drachma” was a weight of grain. Japan's feudal system was based on rice per year – koku. Today, this system is still in effect for most farmers, who borrow...

Fighting GLOBAL WARMING locally here in S.Florida...

Blog: Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Friday May 27, 2011   -   By Tony

How does climate change affect agriculture ? Simply speaking , I can relate to you what is happening from my observations as an urban farmer here in S.Florida.   The coconut palm trees stopped producing as much  coconuts for the last three years...

Drivers licenses for 14 year old farmers

Blog: At Home in Nature   -   Wednesday May 04, 2011   -   By Mary

Farmers who employ their children (or children self-employed in agriculture) may now obtain drivers licenses from the State of Colorado for transportation between the farm and their residence on the most direct route.   The same rules that apply to all...

April Update

Blog: Colvin Family Farm   -   Wednesday April 27, 2011   -   By Colvin Farm

April Update from Colvin Family Farm! Flowers are blooming all over the farm scenting the air with Spring, strawberries are climbing into full-scale production, and it's been so wet we've had a hard time working in the fields on...

March/April Update

Blog: Colvin Family Farm   -   Friday April 01, 2011   -   By Colvin Farm

Hello folks! Spring amazes me each year--no matter how much you're outdoors, and how closely you watch each small change when it happens, suddenly it will dawn on you that Spring has crept up on you again! This Spring is definitely cool, and wet, which...

Already not rotating crops? Try not planting

Blog: At Home in Nature   -   Tuesday March 22, 2011   -   By Mary

We have previously discussed not rotating crops.   Today, let’s get radical and discuss not planting them. The revolutionary-Buddhist-monk-farmer-rancher-radical-crazed-genius-soil-scientist Masanobu Fukuoka had the thought one day while looking...

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