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Westminster Farmers' Market Report for 11-13-09

Blog: Westminster Farmers' Market   -   Friday November 13, 2009   -   By Dean

Westminster Farmers’ Market Report from Maple Heights Farm Holiday Markets and Beautiful Little Milk Goats…        Well, even though our Farmers’ Market has closed, I have yet to have a Friday off!   ...

November 2009

Blog: Garden of Ethan   -   Monday November 02, 2009   -   By Ethan

I have grossly miscalculated my ability to keep up with processing all the birds I raised this year. Slipping an extra dozen into the incubator, and then another, and later finding a hen sitting on eggs, all seemed rather innocent and inconsequential this...

Goat Milk Olive Oil Soap Made for Baby Soft Skin

Blog: GraNann Spa Essentials   -   Wednesday September 23, 2009   -   By pat@sleepingdogranch.com

Nurture products are our most gentle soaps because they contain only one oil: olive. Known for centuries as a healing oil, olive oil is rich with antioxidants and vitamin E. Both are nutritional powerhouses that protect against age-accelerating free...

The Most Generous Fiber Shepherd Ever

Blog: Jacob's Reward Farm   -   Monday September 07, 2009   -   By Cindy

My friend and mentor, Susie Gibbs of the Martha's Vineyard Fiber Farm is doing something extraordinary: She's giving away a beautiful starter herd of mohair goats, to a deserving fiber shepherd or shepherd-wanna-be. They just have to write a compelling...

Spruce Pine, NC Farmers' Market this Wednesday

Blog: The Mushroom Hut @ Fox Farms   -   Monday September 07, 2009   -   By Alan and Susan

Last weeks' market showed a sign of fall.  Root crops such as irish potatoes, sweet potatoes and turnips were at the market.  We had pumpkins...the Sugar Pie pumpkins are in and they make wonderful pies.  The roasted seeds are delicious...

Goat World

Blog: 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...

End of Summer at Oak Hollow Livestock

Blog: Oak Hollow Livestock   -   Thursday August 27, 2009   -   By Sara

As summer is drawing to a close at Oak Hollow Livestock, we are busy thinking about and preparing for winter.  We have barns to build, hay to buy, fall shows to prepare for and maybe even a few goats to think about selling in preparation for cooler...

Special on 100% Goat Kielbasa in Natural Pork Casi...

Blog: Oak Hollow Livestock   -   Thursday August 27, 2009   -   By Sara

We have reduced the price on the next 10 packages of goat kielbasa that we sell from $15 to $10!  Order today to receive this special rate! Click Here to Order Now!

How Goat Milk Soap Soothes Your Skin

Blog: GraNann Spa Essentials   -   Wednesday August 26, 2009   -   By pat@sleepingdogranch.com

Rich in emollients goat milk soap is a natural way of retaining your skin's suppleness. With a higher number of milk fats being captured at the molecular level during the saponification (making soap) process, goat milk produces an oil-rich soap. Increasing...

Fiber Market Monday

Blog: Dutch Hollow Acres   -   Monday August 17, 2009   -   By lklik

It's Monday and that means our virtual fiber market is now open!  Come post your links to your local harvest store, farms store, etsy etc. Connect with fiber shoppers! To buy or sell fiber products please go to http://www.alpacabytes....

Westfield Farm Award Winning Cheeses

Blog: Westminster Farmers' Market   -   Friday August 14, 2009   -   By Dean

Sorry to bother you twice in one week, but I thought you should see this.  Westminster Farmers' Market has some of the best this country has to offer!  Read about our vendor Westfield Farm's award winning cheese! CONGRATULATIONS...

Spruce Pine, NC Farmers' Market this Wednesday

Blog: The Mushroom Hut @ Fox Farms   -   Wednesday August 05, 2009   -   By Alan and Susan

Today, at the market, the vendors opened a little early in order for people out for lunch to be able to visit the market in one trip.  Some of us were there between 1:00-1:30 p.m and stayed open until 5:30 p.m. Tomatoes are finally on the list of produce...

It's Time To Make The Soap..I Already Made The Soa...

Blog: Breeze Hill Farm   -   Monday August 03, 2009   -   By MaLinda

Well every time I promise to Blog more often, I seem to get worse at it. I don't know how people who blog all the time can do it. There just isn't enough time in a day for me to get everything else done and blog too! I must be getting old or business must be...

Fiber Market Monday!

Blog: Dutch Hollow Acres   -   Monday July 20, 2009   -   By lklik

Visit our blog and add your link to our Fiber Market Monday!   This is our version of a Fiber Farmer's Market. Show us your raw fiber, milled fiber, handmade products, fiber livestock, studs and more!  Links are free to post until...

Small scale: Baby beef bought and bottlefed, Darin...

Blog: Anonymous Farm   -   Saturday July 18, 2009   -   By Risha

The farm is diversifying and evolving. Got freezer beef? We sold out our pastured chickens in no time at all and will encourage repeat customers and new customers to pre-order so we know how many to raise. 2 young goats were processed and have been tried with...

Goat milk soap studio goes up

Blog: Caprine Corner   -   Friday June 26, 2009   -   By Lisa

New studio being built. The Caprine Corner studio is on its way up.  The new building is coming along.  It is taking longer than I would like to see but it is underway.  I hope to have it open by September.  I make my first order...

Snakes in the House..Oh My!

Blog: Breeze Hill Farm   -   Sunday June 21, 2009   -   By MaLinda

I’m sure that everyone has noticed my absence, well there is a reason for that. We’ve had an in house snake issue and I have finally grown brave enough to go back into the office. Kinda hard to run the business end of a business when you can only use the...

Daddy In Waiting....

Blog: Breeze Hill Farm   -   Monday April 13, 2009   -   By MaLinda

  Wanted to share a photo of Antonio. He is dad to the kids that are about to be born this spring. As of yesterday, he has become "Daddy In Waiting". The girls most likely to birth the soonest are on the other side of the barn wall from...

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Training pack goats.. the first step

Blog: Greene Hills Farm   -   Thursday April 09, 2009   -   By Stephanie

Here I am camping out in the goat barn. I decided to train two of the new goat kids to be pack goats. What a great excuse to hit the trails hiking...gotta train the goats! From what I read, goat kids need to imprint on humans to make good pack animals. The...

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