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Cowmomma's Cupboard -
Tuesday February 07, 2012 - By Cowmomma
Finally, I find myself ready to tackle trying to get our status updated on all the web sites having to do with the ranch. Regretfully, the 4B is no more. Dan and I have moved, and are now living in Florida, in town. All our lovely critters...
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The Orange Shop -
Sunday November 27, 2011 - By Pete
The 2011-12 season marks The Orange Shop's 75th season of shipping premium quality Florida Citrus. We're coming off of a record-breaking season for us -- last year we shipped the most packages in our history -- and we're looking forward to even more...
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What's the Buzz? -
Thursday November 03, 2011 - By Marcie
What's going on around here? Usually October signals the end of our rainy season, with a happy conclusion to Hurricane Season at the end of November. But the last couple of weeks have been marked by unseasonable rains. Here's why we care: When it rains, it...
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Freedom To Grow Our Own Food -
Sunday September 04, 2011 - By Jason
Jason “Pepe” owner of locally based Pepe’s Plants is a man on a mission. He wants more people to start planting and harvesting sub tropical fruit and growing herbs and vegetables. "Pepe" wants people to know that growing fruit trees is not...
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What's the Buzz? -
Tuesday July 26, 2011 - By Marcie
We had quite an adventure here the other day. We were busily getting ready for a television crew to arrive....They wanted to do an interview and shoot some footage of the bees in action. So of course, I wanted everything to be perfect. Because we often have...
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What's the Buzz? -
Friday June 24, 2011 - By Marcie
Did you know that in her entire lifetime, working day and night and never sleeping, an individual honeybee makes about 1/12th of a teaspoon of honey?
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What's the Buzz? -
Thursday June 23, 2011 - By Marcie
It takes 55,000 miles of flying to produce ONE POUND of honey! Wish I could cash in on those frequent flyer miles!!
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What's the Buzz? -
Friday January 21, 2011 - By Marcie
There are many theories circulating regarding Colony Collapse Disorder. When Steve and I were talking the other day, the subject came up again. WHY are millions of bees missing in action? Pesticide use is often cited as a primary cause. Bees are...
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What's the Buzz? -
Thursday January 20, 2011 - By Marcie
We just harvested our first honeyflow for 2011. And a Happy New Year it is....60 lbs. of TROPICAL WILDFLOWER honey. It's delicious! All of our honey is RAW....comes out of the hive and into the honey jar....the only "processing" is to strain out the...
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The Orange Shop -
Friday January 14, 2011 - By Pete
We're offering Free Shipping on our "Citra" Navel Oranges, Honeybells, and Ruby Red Grapefruit through January 27th! Now is the time to take advantage of this rare offer, because the flavor of the fruit is at an absolute peak.
We pick your...
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What's the Buzz? -
Thursday September 30, 2010 - By Marcie
Is it TRUE? Does honey really alleviate annoying allergy symptoms? Or is it an old wives tale? There are so many "superfood" health claims out there, that I take most of them with a grain of salt. (Oh no, wait....forget the salt, remember the blood...
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Hiamonee Farms -
Wednesday September 22, 2010 - By Clarke
We're picking up chestnuts by hand every day, sometimes more than once a day - have to stay a step ahead of those annoying squirrels. Then every evening we sort them out and put them under refrigeration.
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Hiamonee Farms -
Tuesday September 14, 2010 - By Clarke
The chestnuts are falling now, and we've started harvesting them. It's off to refrigeration for these babies! Refrigeration (with high humidity) increases the sugar content of chestnuts. By the time they're used, usually in November and December,...
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Hiamonee Farms -
Wednesday September 08, 2010 - By Clarke
September 8 - The chestnut trees are heavy-laden here in late summer. The limbs bend with the weight of the ripening chestnuts. Looks like another bumper crop!
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What's the Buzz? -
Wednesday February 10, 2010 - By Marcie
FIU is hosting a Farmer's Market on Wednesday afternoons! Last week I was out of town, and so my reluctant FIU student/daughter was commanded to participate in the first market of the season. Well, after a bit of grumbling on her part, she went, honey in hand,...
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Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL -
Friday July 03, 2009 - By Tony
In exploring and researching the roots of growing herbs in the tropical zone of Florida I stumbled on the mystical meanings as revealed throyghthe ancient healing arts of Ayuervida and TCM(TraditionalChinese Medicine).
It is so funny that we are...
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Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL -
Tuesday April 07, 2009 - By Tony
Number ONE : June is the official starting month of the HURRICANE season in Florida.Gardening in containers is Hurricane resistant.How? It is easier to move a container to a safe shelter indoors out of STORMS way .
Number TWO: Containers can be a...
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Dansk Farms of Florida -
Wednesday March 25, 2009 - By Joe
Nancy's Nutrition Corner "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food," Hippocrates. Chromium Chances are that many of you have heard about chromium. The name of this mineral has been tossed around quite a bit lately as a...
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Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL -
Wednesday February 18, 2009 - By Tony
Gardening in the tropics...are you going bananas!
Lots of Snow birds(South migrating Up North folks) flock to warm Florida every year .I meet a lot of them at local community gardens who approach me with this question: How...
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