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Hurricane Farm -
Thursday November 05, 2009 - By Chris
The days are getting shorter. So much in fact that we had to carve our annual Halloween pumpkins by lamplight at 3:00 in the afternoon! Overcast conditions coupled with Standard Daylight Time makes for some early evenings.
The kids and...
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Hurricane Farm -
Sunday October 25, 2009 - By Chris
Last weekend we started to put the roof together for our sugar shack. It will ultimately be an open-walled pole structure to house our maple syrup evaporator. We'll be able to make much more syrup once we're able to get a roof overhead the whole...
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Hurricane Farm -
Thursday October 08, 2009 - By Chris
Hurricane Farm in Scotland, CT is currently offering a Holiday Meat CSA.
Many people inquired about and have been on a waitlist for our Summer Meat-Based CSA. We are now pleased to be able to expand our CSA to a second season...
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Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL -
Wednesday October 07, 2009 - By Tony
You do not have to SPEAK FRENCH to qualify for FRENCH FARMING.
Simply ,you can start gardening in a SMALL space and still harvest MORE,the intensive way!
The Name French farming came from WW-II as the FRENCH started...
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Bayview Veggies -
Tuesday October 06, 2009 - By Rhonda
Wow . . . almost a year has passed since my first blog entry in December of 2008! You know, I enjoy reading blogs written by other farmers but I can't for the life of me figure out where they find the time to write! haha. . .
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Christopher Ranch -
Friday October 02, 2009 - By Justin
A growing percentage of diners are seeking out restaurants that they perceive as “green,” but many have a difficult time locating those restaurants and defining what “green” is. As a result, the...
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Hurricane Farm -
Tuesday September 29, 2009 - By Chris
Here are a few shots of some veggies fresh from the garden. The frost is still only threatening, so we're sure to have a few more meals on the table right from the garden.
A little veg. A little dip. Yummy.
Once the frost...
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Christopher Ranch -
Monday September 28, 2009 - By Justin
There is a contentious water problem raging throughout California’s San Joaquin Valley – an area that produces a major portion of domestic food – that pits environmental protection against domestic agriculture and food supply.
...
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Hurricane Farm -
Sunday September 27, 2009 - By Chris
Who loves the rain?
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Hurricane Farm -
Wednesday September 23, 2009 - By Chris
The sunflowers are still hanging in there, but we're sure to have a frost soon. It's amazing what you can notice when you take a moment to look closely at the swirling, buzzing, busy workers that surround you on an early Autumn day.
The...
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Hurricane Farm -
Saturday September 19, 2009 - By Chris
This past Tuesday an small film crew arrived to shoot footage for an independent documentary at our farm. They are working on a film about the state of farming here in Connecticut. This film will be a companion piece to their earlier documentary,...
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Shady Hill Farms, Ltd. -
Wednesday September 16, 2009 - By Ben
Folks, this is the Fifth Blog from the Sheep Farmer at Shady Hill Farms.
We are the supplier of lamb and other products to GreatAmericanLambCompany.com
The motto of GreatAmericanLambCompany.com is Better Farming: Better Lamb!
And for good...
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Hurricane Farm -
Wednesday September 16, 2009 - By Chris
A local Connecticut restaurant, Zest, has some wonderful dishes on the way prepared with local ingredients including ribs grass-fed, dry aged beef. If you are in Northeastern CT, stop by their 1750's farmhouse restaurant and try the taste and flavor...
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Shady Hill Farms, Ltd. -
Friday September 11, 2009 - By Ben
This is the second blog from the Sheep Farmer at Shady Hill Farms.
We sell our premium lamb and related products (sheep skins, heirloom quality 100% virgin wool blankets) through GreatAmericanLambCompany.com, so check them out there.
We had a great...
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Hurricane Farm -
Friday September 04, 2009 - By Chris
Sarah, our Toggenburg milk goat, is hopefully an expectant mother.
That being the case, it was time to build her a place of her own. She was living with the sheep, able to come and go in and out of the pasture on the schedule of the cattle, but we...
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Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL -
Friday September 04, 2009 - By Tony
You do not have to SPEAK FRENCH to qualify for FRENCH FARMING.
Simply ,you can start gardening in a SMALL space and still harvest MORE,the intensive way! VOILA!!!
The French started this intensive way of gardening...
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Hurricane Farm -
Thursday September 03, 2009 - By Chris
This is the largest ear of corn that I have ever seen!
There is indeed something to be said for heirloom seeds...
And oh the taste!
Yummy.
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Alpaca Farmgirl -
Wednesday September 02, 2009 - By Katy
Farming is a metaphor for life. Everything that happens on a farm –
birth, growth, harvest, successes, failures, and eventually death –
happens in real life as well. In most jobs, we expect to have
things go well. And when they don’t – we have a...
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Hurricane Farm -
Tuesday September 01, 2009 - By Chris
There are lots of new things here at the farm. We're always keeping busy...
Work has begun on the Sugar Shack. We decided that since we really enjoy the outside aspect of sugaring--especially on those sunny late-winter noons--that we'd build...
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