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Tuesday July 26, 2011 - By Suzie OConnor
If you do not currently own your home, and are renting, be sure to check with your landlord before even bringing your pets home. If your landlord is fine with the idea, you’ll want to be sure that you do not build a permanent fixture, and that your coop can be...
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3 Acre Farm -
Wednesday October 13, 2010 - By Janelle
I love my hens! But they are all grounded to their coop for a few days while I cover my newly scratched up seeded beds with bird netting. My fall seeding was successful, the seedlings emerging and the weather warm to get all off to a good start....
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Sunday April 04, 2010 - By Dean
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Last week one of our local parent-teacher organizations, PTO ran their annual "bunny breakfast", in the cafeteria of the middle school. At the same time in the lobby and mezzanine The Young Children's Festival ...
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Hurricane Farm -
Saturday April 03, 2010 - By Chris
The maple sugarin' season was very short this year with a low yield. We made about 25% of what we made last year. Lucky for us we have a very diversified farm and we don't rely on one product/season. My advice is that if you are looking to...
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JustPicked Farms -
Monday March 15, 2010 - By Cheryl
March 15
Building a hoop house for pastured poultry – Part 2
The first part of this series covered building the base for the hoop house. This part covers making the “hoop” part of the house. The first step is to add a 1x4...
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JustPicked Farms -
Saturday February 13, 2010 - By Cheryl
February 13
Building a hoop house for pastured poultry – Part 1
JustPicked Farms is planning to raise chickens and turkeys for meat this summer, and we’re planning to pasture them in movable hoop houses, moving them each day to a fresh...
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Hurricane Farm -
Thursday August 13, 2009 - By Chris
We finally finished the general building of the new chicken coop/outbuilding. There are still some things left to do, though, like add siding, roofing, a step, maybe a window box with some flowers...
But we have moved all the meat chickens and some...
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Westminster Farmers' Market -
Sunday July 26, 2009 - By Dean
Westminster Farmers’ Market Report from Maple Heights Farm
Massachusetts Local Food Update ( www.MassFoodCoop.org ): Delivery day worked out well last Friday. Producers are working on updating products now and we are hoping to...
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Westminster Farmers' Market -
Sunday July 26, 2009 - By Dean
Westminster Farmers’ Market Report from Maple Heights Farm
Massachusetts Local Food – Delivery Day is Friday. Stop by the booth if you want more information on this incredible opportunity to bring local food to you on a...
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Westminster Farmers' Market -
Sunday July 26, 2009 - By Dean
Westminster Farmers’ Market Report from Maple Heights Farm
The coop is here! Mass Local Food – our online Farmers’ Market is now stocked with over 150 products and more producers are signing up this week. Customer ordering...
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Westminster Farmers' Market -
Saturday July 18, 2009 - By Dean
Westminster Farmers’ Market Report from Maple Heights Farm
Massachusetts Local Food – Delivery Day is Friday. Stop by the booth if you want more information on this incredible...
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The Call Again Farm Journal -
Saturday April 04, 2009 - By Laura
I was planning to make today's blog entry a review of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver, which I just finished reading last night. However, in light of last night's events, I am putting off posting the review until tomorrow and...
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Re Rustica -
Monday February 23, 2009 - By fullofbeans
Ivana and the other chickens decided they didn't want to be wet so they went inside their coop. But they didn't want to spend the day inside, so they perched just outside or on the lip of their coop, where they continued to get wet. They weren't...
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Re Rustica -
Wednesday February 04, 2009 - By fullofbeans
Chickens have a strong sense of home, and gain that sense of home by sleeping in the same place for a week or so. Whenever we move our chickens to a new home (though we do try to avoid doing that), we keep them inside for a week or so to force them to...
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The Coop -
Saturday January 17, 2009 - By Anthony
The Coop has been experiencing some pretty cold weather here in NEPA. We've been reaching temps that were 5 below zero and even colder with the wind gusts. The animals have spent lots of time indoors and huddle in the hay but they do like that...
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The Call Again Farm Journal -
Saturday December 13, 2008 - By Laura
It's been snowing a for the past two or three weeks. A few inches will accumulate, then it will melt a couple of days later, then snow the next day, and the cycle repeats again and again and again. Currently, their is a thin layer of ice covering...
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Wednesday November 26, 2008 - By Laura
When am traveling and tell people I live near Buffalo, New York, they invariably say something about snow. Many people think Buffalo is like Alaska, with snow all year round. (That, too, is a misconception. I've been to Alaska, and can...
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