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Day One: Raising Chickens

Blog: Fertile Chicken Eggs | Chicken Egg Incubators   -   Monday November 21, 2011   -   By Suzie OConnor

Have you decided to raise your own chickens? If so, you may be at a complete loss of where to start. Let’s take it from day one, assuming that you’ve already decided to raise your own flock. Day One: Where to start? ...

Raising Chickens from home.

Blog: Fertile Chicken Eggs | Chicken Egg Incubators   -   Thursday August 11, 2011   -   By Suzie OConnor

All chickens need the following to be successful, happy, and healthy. Be sure that whatever area you do provide for your flock, you also provide plenty of safety. A fence is ideal for safety, allows for your flock to roam free but also still keeps...

Welcome!

Blog: Rabbit Moon Farm   -   Tuesday August 02, 2011   -   By Rebecca

Welcome to our LocalHarvest blog and our first entry. Now to help you get to know our little farm better, let me start by telling you some things about us. We have a small flock of heritage breed chickens, a mixture of half Wyandottes and half Delawares....

Raising Chickens for Dummies - First Time Chicken ...

Blog: Fertile Chicken Eggs | Chicken Egg Incubators   -   Monday April 18, 2011   -   By Suzie OConnor

Tips on Raising Backyard Chickens So suddenly you have found yourself interested in raising chickens. Or maybe this is something that you have been dreaming about for a long time now. In either case, it is extremely important to make sure that you are...

Our First alpaca doll

Blog: Furbelow Farms   -   Wednesday July 21, 2010   -   By Ginger

Since I already uploaded the photo, I am going to link to it here  

The First Day of School

Blog: Double R Farm (Amish Country Soaps & Sundries)   -   Tuesday August 25, 2009   -   By Christine

  Today is the first day of school for local learners here in Sugarcreek. It’s hard to believe that summer is coming to an end, especially since it’s only been lately that the weather has finally warmed up. The nights are getting cooler and soon...

green horns playing pro

Blog: MM Livestock Co   -   Monday June 22, 2009   -   By Megan

I have always encouraged new producers. In fact I spent years teaching people how to raise livestock, I still do it today. I feel it is important for one to get educated before starting on any new venture. I see too many people trying to raise livestock...

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First veggie pickup is this week

Blog: Abbe Hills Farm CSA   -   Monday June 15, 2009   -   By Laura

Good Morning Shareholders, This week is the first vegetable pickup day of the 2009 season!   Yippee.   We have kale, bok choi, red globe radishes, and head lettuce.   It won’t be a large pile of food, but it will get us started on what...

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First veggie pickups week of June 15/18

Blog: Abbe Hills Farm CSA   -   Wednesday June 03, 2009   -   By Laura

Greetings shareholders and others, Well, I’ve washed and put away my spring chore coat two times now, but I had to get it out again this morning.   It is COLD out in the country.   Because of all the cold and wet, the vegetables are growing...

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first snow

Blog: Prairierth Farm   -   Monday December 01, 2008   -   By Dave

Sunday morning - the world is white as forgiveness and perfectly still. I grab the camera and run out to the pasture where the black cows are trying to figure out what happened to yesterday's green. The new bull, a Belted Gallaway (black with a wide white...

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Our First Entry

Blog: The Co-op Blog   -   Monday November 17, 2008   -   By Annie

Welcome to Ashland Food Co-op's first entry into the world of blogging. And what better place to start than Local Harvest. We're all about local here in Ashland, OR.  We'll soon launch a brand new website and I'll let you know when it goes live. In the...

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This is sooo scary!

Blog: Mountain Fork Farm   -   Sunday November 16, 2008   -   By Melissa

Okay, this is sooo scary.  Not what I'm going to write, but the fact that I am writing at all.  As most of you know, we do lots to keep up with technology, in terms of email ordering and enewsletter, but this is different.  Blogging to me is...

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What a great service!

Blog: Happy Hen Farm   -   Monday November 10, 2008   -   By Ora & Lee

Local Harvest is one of our favorite website with its well written and informative articles. This past CSA season I would forward the site to our subscribers as part of our education efforts and received positive feedback. I'd encourage other CSA farms to do...

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