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Reflections of 2011

Blog: Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Tuesday December 27, 2011   -   By Emily

A gentle snow is falling here at the farm. The animals take it all in stride. We tried to bring the horses into the barn last night for a warm bed & a manger full of hay, but they preferred to stay outside. Even now, with more than a dusting of snow...

NAIS Comes Back With a New Name

Blog: Hames & Axle Farm   -   Tuesday August 09, 2011   -   By Pat

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Answering a few Questions

Blog: The Shire   -   Wednesday May 18, 2011   -   By Laohaire

Thank you for the questions about our Ranch and practices. Jennifer; We do are not offering Verified Turkey Hard Winter Wheat for sale at the present time. We are growing it and after it is rouged any excess is sent to a Gentleman actively working to bring...

All things Bright and Beautiful

Blog: The Shire   -   Wednesday May 04, 2011   -   By Laohaire

Greetings! Welcome to our Community! We extend from The Owyhee Mountains to Treasure Valley and would love for you to learn about us. We raise Ancient and American Heritage breeds of livestock and produce. We have reproduced an Iron Age Keep and a Native...

Farm to Table

Blog: Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Tuesday March 29, 2011   -   By Emily

What a weekend! I was so happy to be a part of Pittsburgh's Farm to Table conference, but it sure made for a few long days. I'm fortunate that one of my sisters lives just a few miles from downtown, so I was able to stay with her and have some help...

Love Your Farmer? Make a Call Today

Blog: Spring Hill Farms   -   Monday February 14, 2011   -   By David

Let's make sure we level the playing field for farmers in America. For too  long the big players have danced around the laws to keep the smaller producers at a disadvantage. Here's our chance to stop it. I just received this email from the Center...

Farm Pick-Up Today! Sat. Feb. 5th

Blog: Rainbow Ranch Farms   -   Saturday February 05, 2011   -   By Poly

Today marks another pick-up day at the farm. Open to registered farm members. Please bring your large coolers, try to carpool and wear flat shoes. Please, drive up and open and close the gate  behind you, we have livestock running free. ...

GMO Alfalfa approved.

Blog: MM Livestock Co   -   Tuesday February 01, 2011   -   By Megan

Last week GMO Alfalfa was approved for planting this spring. This my friends could spell the end of organic production as we know it. Why? Because Alfalfa is pollinated by bees, and the pollen can be transferred for miles, contaminating every crop it comes in...

A Secret Ingredient for your Water Trough

Blog: Spring Hill Farms   -   Saturday December 18, 2010   -   By David

Clean Water Water. A crucial element of life. We spend hundreds even thousands of dollars to ensure we have clean pure water for ourselves and our families. It makes up 75% of our bodies. What about our livestock?  How clean is the water you...

Sheep, wool and winter weather

Blog: Tuckernuck Farm (formally Seaweed&Codfish Farm)   -   Monday November 08, 2010   -   By Veronica

November 8th, 2010        Woke up to snow & slush today! Poor sheep, ducks, chickens & peacocks all stuffed in the barn watching sleet and rain drip off the roof. All the rams are in rut of course with noses stuffed...

The development of drug resistance scares the hell...

Blog: Spring Hill Farms   -   Thursday September 23, 2010   -   By David

Kellogg Schwab, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Water and Health , refers to a typical pig farm manure lagoon that he sampled. "There were 10 million E. coli per liter [of sampled waste]. Ten million. And you have a hundred million...

Most Antibiotics in the US Used for Farm Animals

Blog: Spring Hill Farms   -   Wednesday September 22, 2010   -   By David

As much as 70 percent of all antibiotics sold in the U. S. are fed to chickens, cattle and hogs — not to treat disease but to make them grow faster. This increases profit margins for livestock producers, but it puts YOUR health at risk.   Read...

Hurricane Farm at Scotland Farm Day, 2010

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Monday May 17, 2010   -   By Chris

We brought some of our livestock to the annual Farm Day here in Scotland, CT this past weekend.  The photos below are from the Norwich Bulletin. Here's two week old Moe sleeping after a morning's full of attention.   The piglets were...

Fall Fiber Festival & Sheepdog Trials

Blog: Breeze Hill Farm   -   Monday October 05, 2009   -   By MaLinda

Yesterday we decided a day off from everything was necessary for mental and physical health. We got up early, took care of the livestock and headed for Montpelier in Orange county, VA, to the Fall Fiber Festival & Sheepdog Trials. What a beautiful...

Another Wisconsin Farmer is going to court for fai...

Blog: WICFA wants to keep you in the know about what is going on with premise registration and NAIS in Wisconsin   -   Monday October 05, 2009   -   By Clifford

Patrick Monchilovich is going to be in court on October 21, 2009 at 1:00 pm in Balsam Lake, Polk County, WI.  Patrick ranches in Cumberland, WI and has never signed-up his ranch in Wisconsin's Premises Registration Database.  Please make it to the...

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...

The Race Is On

Blog: 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...

Silo

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Tuesday June 16, 2009   -   By Chris

Here, at long last, is a photo of our new grain bin, also known as a silo.  It holds 4.5 tons of grain and we order it 3 tons at a time.  The mill makes it per our specifications and this shipment of feed (that we are feeding to our poultry and hogs)...

Fences

Blog: Bloom Where You're Planted Farm   -   Friday June 05, 2009   -   By Teresa

When you have horses or other livestock and you don't want to feed them hay and grain all summer long, you're always putting up or taking down electric fence.  This was the case with us last night.  The horses had polished off most of the...

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