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Continued Preparations

Blog: Bountiful Blessings Farm Produce   -   Tuesday February 07, 2012   -   By Jeff

As you can probably tell from recent blogs, I do a lot of research. I think it is important to be on top of the game with a bit of knowledge before ramrodding into a project. When I was a firefighter, one of the things I was taught, was that preparation is...

Stinky Gold

Blog: Bountiful Blessings Farm Produce   -   Tuesday January 31, 2012   -   By Jeff

Today I am heading out with one of my best friends to get a load of cow and chicken manure. This stuff is like black gold for the garden! Chicken manure is the richest animal manure in N-P-K. One has to be a little careful with chicken manure as...

Hydrating Seeds Before Planting

Blog: Manure Tea-Organic Gardening   -   Saturday January 28, 2012   -   By GreenSoilTea

  Hydrating Seeds Before Planting I am always happy when I hear from growers and gardeners who are brewing and feeding their garden and indoor plant soil  Authentic Haven Brand Natural Brew . Where I really find pleasure is sharing...

Rabbit and Chicken Manure

Blog: Home On The Range Family Farm   -   Sunday November 20, 2011   -   By Michael & Denise

We have 50 pound bags of rabbit or chicken manure available for sale. The rabbit manure is mixed with hay/straw, the chicken manure is mixed with pine shavings. Each bag is $5.

Manure Smells

Blog: Miolea Organic Farm   -   Tuesday May 10, 2011   -   By Brian

Camping made up most of our vacations as I grew up.  Living in Maryland, we had the choice of traveling west to the Cactoctin Mountain range or head east to the water.  I lived in a camping family and each summer we would head west to what we,...

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DEFINiTELY NOT Watermelon Jelly Beans!

Blog: Dark Water Ranch   -   Monday March 21, 2011   -   By shepherd

DEFINITELY NOT Watermelon Jelly Beans. There is a commercial out for a new Easter Movie, it features a little rabbit that poops out candy jelly beans. A lady eats one and says ohh watermelon. I have to disagree. When you prefer to grow organic like we do,...

SPINNING YARNS

Blog: Happy Hills Alpaca Farm   -   Friday March 04, 2011   -   By wawanuky

SPINNING YARNS Its been a while since I blogged. About seven seasons, four baby alpacas ago and in time about a year. Real farmers just don’t have time to blog. I’d love to be on Farmville, I’d love to be on facebook. Good marketing skills but unrealistic...

Hogging Off Corn - One Man's Story

Blog: Spring Hill Farms   -   Thursday January 13, 2011   -   By David

Tamworth Pigs I came across this old account of hogging off corn recently. Since I was already thinking this might be a good idea as I blogged about a couple of months ago it seemed a good addition to my previous post. HOGGING OFF CORN FIELDS - J.M....

Sprouts!!

Blog: Moonstruck Farms   -   Wednesday January 05, 2011   -   By Rowena

Sprouting Joy turned the business over to me and so this week was experimental week for growing and eating!  I succeeded and they were so good!!! Next experiment is in Hemp bags!!  One little experimental line of Aquaponics going in this...

Anaerobic Methane Digester Project

Blog: Rainbow Ranch Farms   -   Friday December 24, 2010   -   By Poly

Excellent source for the beginer wanting to get involved in methane digester projects. The link to the website is posted below. Anaerobic Digester Project My Anaerobic Digester Project is going to be building: (a)...

Nutrient Management or Manure 101

Blog: Miolea Organic Farm   -   Wednesday November 10, 2010   -   By Brian

  We are in class to learn how to fertilize a field, with the correct amount of nutrients.    Given the fields’ history of fertilization, soil analysis, manure analysis, animal type and amount of time that has passed,  I can tell you...

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Manure Tea for Strong Plant Roots

Blog: Manure Tea-Organic Gardening   -   Sunday June 13, 2010   -   By GreenSoilTea

Manure Tea for building strong root base systems naturally is easy to achieve with Authentic Haven Brand premium soil conditioner teas. You can now grow all your indoor and outdoor garden plants naturally, with our Easy to Brew, Easy to Use manure tea there...

Spring is Alive

Blog: Hurricane Farm   -   Monday April 05, 2010   -   By Chris

Spring is alive at the farm and the surrounding woodlands and wetlands.  The frogs have been peeping for weeks, and now after their loud rituals we are finding egg sacks in the "frog pond" and along the banks of the brook and stream. ...

Eighth Blog From the Sheep Farmer

Blog: Shady Hill Farms, Ltd.   -   Wednesday October 14, 2009   -   By Ben

This is the Eighth Blog From the Sheep Farmer at Shady Hill Farms, Ltd., of Newbury, Ohio. Better farming: better lamb! That is the motto\ tagline of our affiliated meat and woolen goods business, GreatAmericanLambCompany.com Check them out, and...

Green Manure and other nitrogen fixers

Blog: Miolea Organic Farm   -   Sunday September 06, 2009   -   By Brian

We use field rotation and cover crops as a way of resting and building our soils' nutrients and tilth.  It is also a way to cut down on our weeds.  Some plants like "Morning Glory" are invasive species and seeds can be viable for up to...

Duck Manure

Blog: MamaDuck's Duck Eggs   -   Sunday February 15, 2009   -   By Sara

Manure is not much from one or two ducks, it will fertilize the lawn or place where they live.  But with a larger group of ducks, it does accumulate, then the best thing is to compost the manure in a pile, somewhere it can rot and break down over time,...

Shipping Prices Federally are going up Jan 1st, Bu...

Blog: Celtic Wyndes Farm (dist of CowPots)   -   Friday December 19, 2008   -   By Brian & Terri

If you are think about buying Cow Pots for Spring use. Please get your order in now, so I can get it out by the end of the year. It will be cheaper to purchase this month since prices on postage is going up Jan 1st 2009. You are not able to purchase these...

Thank you!

Blog: Celtic Wyndes Farm (dist of CowPots)   -   Sunday November 09, 2008   -   By Brian & Terri

Thank you for all of you who visit my booth (#11) at the 16th National Small Farm Trade Show & Conference. For those who were not able to make it. I am promoting the product Cow Pots. CowPots ™ are a biodegradable planting pot made from composted...

bedding down

Blog: Sparta Farm   -   Friday November 07, 2008   -   By Rebecca

This lovely mild November day was custom-made for gardening - so the process of preparing beds for spring plantings was particularly enjoyable, in spite of the fact that our old tiller finally gave up the unequal struggle several months ago. Forced to confront...


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