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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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,...
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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! ...
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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 -...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...