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Bountiful Blessings Farm Produce -
Tuesday January 31, 2012 - By Jeff
Today I am heading out with one of my best friends to get a load of cow and chicken manure.
This stuff is like black gold for the garden! Chicken manure is the richest animal manure in
N-P-K. One has to be a little careful with chicken manure as...
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Vineyard Farms -
Friday July 01, 2011 - By Anna
For those of you who have been patiently waiting ofr our farm to start selling Jersey Milk, Butter and Cream... THE WAIT IS OVER! Call today to reserve your order! 404-610-1540
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At Home in Nature -
Tuesday June 14, 2011 - By Mary
The use of cattle for beef and dairy is not unusual in Colorado, but the training of oxen for draft and pleasure is. Oxen are typically employed on the Eastern seaboard, while mules have been popular a long time in the South. Here in the west...
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SonRise Ranch -
Saturday March 12, 2011 - By Douglas
Hi there! I love shopping with you at the Vista market! I'm interested in getting some information about your cow shares program (did I use the right terminology?) for milk. Email works, or I could pick up at the market, or whatever works! Thanks!
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Rainbow Ranch Farms -
Monday January 24, 2011 - By Poly
ON RAW MILK :
If we, as a collective group, do not stand up for our rights to consume healthy, or even unhealthy foods of our choosing, soon the F.D.A. will tell us what we can eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner (and in between).
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Spring Hill Farms -
Monday November 15, 2010 - By David
The practice of letting pigs eat the corn from the stalks is a good alternative way of finishing pigs. It is a great labor saving practice because instead of having to pick the corn the pigs do the picking! It was a popular method in the early 1900's...
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Lazy Ox Farm -
Thursday September 09, 2010 - By Margie
We didn't intend to do hot summer garden trials this year, its just one of those things that happened to us. Gardens were failing all around our area, but we ate well and had an abundance to share. So, we thought we should share our successes with other folks...
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Hurricane Farm -
Thursday April 22, 2010 - By Chris
Spring continues its forward progession.
New calves have been introduced to the growing "herd" out in the pastures...
A new lamb, named Vera, is introduced to some of the other sheep in the flock...
A little girl...
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Kiss My Grass Farm -
Saturday April 17, 2010 - By Dot and Brian
Spring is here! After what has been a hard winter at our place it is a relief to see the grass greening up and hear the peepers calling.
Spring has brought quite a few new additions to the farm. We have four 1/2 Dexter calves (one set of twins)...
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The Garden Gate Farm -
Wednesday January 20, 2010 - By Neil & Jean
Hello from the winter wonderland!
We've had some beautiful, I say that loosely, weather here. We had a hore frost that lasted 3 days. There wasn't any direct sunshine to melt it all away. It was simply stunning. The chil...
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Ebersole Cattle Company -
Tuesday January 12, 2010 - By ShanenEbersole
Kelsey, (the red, horned cow pictured) is 17 years old this year. That may not seem old to you. But the average age of a cow is 6 years old. Most cows are culled at or before age 8. A 10 year old producing cow is amazing!
So,...
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Ebersole Cattle Company -
Wednesday December 16, 2009 - By ShanenEbersole
Wow! What a day! Yesterday, we pregnancy checked our cows. What this means is that we worked them through the chute and our veterinarian checked if they were pregnant, and thier estimated due date.
WELL, the news was great! We checked 65 of...
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The Garden Gate Farm -
Thursday December 03, 2009 - By Neil & Jean
Greetings to all! I guess it's not really winter yet. not till the 21st.
Yesterday, (Dec. 2) Taylor and her baby pig Losif and I were outside in flip flops, no jackets weeding some of the raised beds. I pulled out the lettuce stalks that I...
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Twin Creeks Farms- Wesley Stephens and Bethany Stephens -
Wednesday December 02, 2009 - By Wesley and Bethany
We are certainly thankful to be out of the drought that plagued us for the last couple of years, but this fall has turned out to be much wetter than we thought it would be. The remnants of Tropical Storm Ida dropped six inches of rain about three weeks ago,...
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Pleasant Valley Farm -
Sunday November 08, 2009 - By Emily
Farmers are generally patient people. There is a lot of waiting from the time a seed is planted until you can eat the results, and depending on the animal, it can be a very long time waiting for the arrival of a baby! But sometimes even patient...
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Hurricane Farm -
Sunday June 21, 2009 - By Chris
It's been raining on and off for almost three weeks now here in Southern New England. The forcast calls for rain and thunder storms for the next 7 days. This is good for some of our garden but detrimental to tomatoes, peppers, and people who don't...
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MM Livestock Co -
Wednesday June 03, 2009 - By Megan
Here is one of the ways we are transparent in our practices. We can trace our cattle and lambs from conception to consumption. Each animal is given a number shortly after birth, an ear tag with that number is placed in the animals ear. That number corresponds...
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Hurricane Farm -
Tuesday April 28, 2009 - By Chris
Here are some updated photos of our new calf, Aloysius, running in the field. These were from about two weeks ago. By now, the grass is really starting to take off in the field. We over-seeded the pasture with a nice mix of grasses just...
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Hurricane Farm -
Tuesday March 31, 2009 - By Chris
I came home yesterday to find a bale of wood shavings ripped open and spilled across the barn floor. Hmm, I thought, I wonder how that happened? Then I saw some ripped paper in the stall with the cattle...Apparantly, they enjoy brown paper almost...
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