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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...

Tomato Research and Planning

Blog: Bountiful Blessings Farm Produce   -   Sunday February 05, 2012   -   By Jeff

I have been doing a bit of research on the tomatoes I will be planting out in the field. It seems that the size and character of the plants at the time of transplanting to the field have a marked influence on the yield of early tomatoes. The age of the plants...

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...

Baby Bio-ponic Veggies for your farm or garden

Blog: Rancho Organica   -   Tuesday November 29, 2011   -   By Matthew

New startup business for Ventura and Santa Barbara counties; Custom grower of baby Organic Bio-ponic baby veggies- using organic potting soil, bio-dynamic compost (Malibu) Organic starter fertilizer, compost tea and Organic only seed from reputable seed...

Composting

Blog: Gardens On Air, LLC.   -   Friday October 21, 2011   -   By GOA

We are currently working to create our own compost based fertilizer tea for use in our Aeroponic System.  We will keep you posted on the results of our trials.  If anyone has any opinions on best methods, please feel free to post.  Thanks - GOA

HANDS-IN-THE-DIRT OCTOBER

Blog: Grow And Share   -   Sunday September 18, 2011   -   By Kay

Two classes are scheduled for October 2011.  These will cover year-round gardening, garden preparation, and much more. Classes are free, and are held as part of our mission to help US residents become gardeners — or expand gardens — to feed themselves...

Green Beans & Manure Tea

Blog: Manure Tea-Organic Gardening   -   Tuesday May 24, 2011   -   By GreenSoilTea

 By Carolyn Binder Harvesting Potatoes A Garden Treasure Hunt and a Recipe for Leek and Potato Soup Harvesting Potatoes The potatoes that we planted in the fall were ready for harvesting this weekend. Fresh...

Growers are Sharing

Blog: Manure Tea-Organic Gardening   -   Tuesday May 10, 2011   -   By GreenSoilTea

Moo Poo U Musings on organic gardening methods and products It took me several years of gardening to fully appreciate just how important healthy soil is. But when I began growing food for my family, I embraced organic methods....

Are we Losing ground?

Blog: Spring Hill Farms   -   Thursday April 14, 2011   -   By David

My last post was about the push to get government to release farmers from the CRP program so they could put acres set aside in the program back into grain production. Here's a good video talking about the pros and cons of tilling the soil.   ...

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Successful Steps for Growing Baby Carrots-Easy

Blog: Rainbow Ranch Farms   -   Saturday January 22, 2011   -   By Poly

Successful Steps for Growing Baby Carrots   Article by   theMallorys (6,869 pts ) Edited & published by BStone (38,197 pts ) on Jul 14, 2010 Read more: ...

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....

Raw Goat's Milk Great for the Soil

Blog: Spring Hill Farms   -   Wednesday December 01, 2010   -   By David

Raw Goats Milk When I first began to consider getting goats I had three reasons. I believe raw milk to be a great health food for my family. I wanted to supplement the pigs and chickens diet with raw milk. I had read some very interesting research...

Tamworth Pigs and Soil Fertility

Blog: Spring Hill Farms   -   Friday November 26, 2010   -   By David

    In the building up of fertility, especially on the poor light-land farm, there is no animal more effective than the pig. Though I would not suggest that the pig is an essential part of fertility building, there is no quicker or more...

Earth Cure Farms - a feature of one of the co-op's...

Blog: Purple Porch Cooperative   -   Friday October 01, 2010   -   By Greg

Earth Cure Farms: It's All About the Soil Know Your Farmer! Rob North and Rebecca Bonsib I remember perfectly when I made my first batch of Earth Cure Farms broccoli. My family sat up straighter and polished off the whole pot in no time flat....

Bona Fide Worm Castings

Blog: Bona Fide Worm Castings   -   Sunday June 13, 2010   -   By Gail

Hello Everyone, I am a new member to Local Harvest and look forward to being included in this community.   Thanks, Gail 

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...

Boulder Belt Farm Share Inititiative vol 2 issue 5...

Blog: Boulder Belt Eco-Farm   -   Wednesday May 26, 2010   -   By Lucy

      Greetings FSI members, It's week 5 of this food adventure and in the past 7 days we have been through 2 frost warnings and several thunder storms and high winds. Spring was replaced by winter (or late fall) for a couple of days,...

Life is like a garden

Blog: BackYard Produce   -   Friday April 23, 2010   -   By Lydia

Life is like a garden and people are like weeds Some weeds are quiet and keep to themselves Some weeds have thorns or stickers Some weeds have beautiful flowers but when you get up close they stink Some weeds are very territorial and...

Evening Primrose - Oenothera - Lovely and Drought ...

Blog: Wall Flower Studio Garden   -   Friday January 29, 2010   -   By Karen

Oenothera biennis, or, evening primrose , has been cultivated in North America since the early 16th century. It was originally grown as an edible plant, however the bright yellow flowers make for a beautiful ornamental display in the garden....

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