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Maple Sweet Potato Biscuits

Blog: Mohawk Valley Trading Co.   -   Saturday February 11, 2012   -   By Betty

Ingredients: 1 1/3 C flour ½ C cornmeal 1 T baking powder ¾ t salt 1 stick of butter, chilled and cut into small pieces 1 C mashed sweet potato, cooled 1/3 C maple syrup ½ C buttermilk Directions: Preheat oven to 425?, line baking sheet will silicone...

Maple Pecan Sweet Potato Casserole

Blog: Mohawk Valley Trading Co.   -   Saturday January 28, 2012   -   By Betty

Ingredients: 4 large sweet potatoes 1 C milk ½ C butter, softened 2 T vanilla extract 1/3 C honey ½ C Maple Syrup , plus 2 T reserved 2 eggs 1 C pecans, chopped plus ¼ C reserved Directions: Roast sweet potatoes on a cookie sheet at 375°f until...

Last Minute Christmas Special

Blog: Swiss'er Sweet Maple   -   Sunday December 18, 2011   -   By Barbara

Need a last minute Christmas Gift idea for that "sweet" person this holiday season? Check out Swiss'er Sweet Maple's Country Gift Arrangement. Our Maple Country Gift bag contains everything you need for several holiday breakfasts.  Pancake mix,...

Dry Dry Year

Blog: Elliott Family Farm   -   Thursday August 25, 2011   -   By Samuel

2011 has been a very dry year. It has been very challenging to attempt farming. The word is that produce crops are failing all over East Texas or have already failed. The only bright spot on Elliott Family Farms has been sweet potatoes. We planted them in out...

QUEEN OF THE MEADOW, QUEEN OF THE PRAIRIE, MEADOW ...

Blog: Spices and Herbs by Elaynn   -   Wednesday August 10, 2011   -   By Elaynn

  I see a lot on the web where Queen of the Meadow is being used interchangeably with Meadow Sweet. Even some of my herb books do this. For instance the famous Mrs. Grieves in A Modern Herbal does not appear to distinguish one from the other. There...

Spiced Sweet Potatoes with Apples and Kale

Blog: Cookus Interruptus   -   Friday December 10, 2010   -   By Cynthia

(Homeless in Seattle) Hip hip hooray, brightly colored vegetables!  Roasting sweet potatoes makes them super sweet.  Combining apples and kale is divine.  Put them together and what can we say?  Fabulous vegetable dish coming your...

Butternut Squash Mashed Potatoes

Blog: Williamsburg Farmers Market   -   Wednesday September 15, 2010   -   By WFM

Chef Jean Monaco of Martin’s prepared this dish at the Williamsburg Farmers Market Chef Tent on September 11, 2010.   Serves 4. Ingredients 4 to 5 ...

Veggies for a Hot Summer Garden

Blog: Lazy Ox Farm   -   Thursday September 09, 2010   -   By Margie

We didn't intend to do hot summer garden trials this year, its just one of those things that happened to us. Gardens were failing all around our area, but we ate well and had an abundance to share. So, we thought we should share our successes with other folks...

Garlic makes your tongue smile

Blog: Christopher Ranch   -   Tuesday August 24, 2010   -   By Justin

  Why I had writer’s block for a couple of weeks when there’s so much to write about is beyond me. I blame it on residual fatigue from the Gilroy Garlic Festival (nice try, Garlicia) but putting these words on the page has gotten me jump-started…...

August is a Wonderful Month

Blog: Avalon Farms Premium Homegrown   -   Tuesday August 10, 2010   -   By Brigette

We think August is one of the best times of the year. Not only is it fair time in our county and many of those nearby, August means really yummy things from the gardens, like sweet corn, watermelon, muskmelon, and tomatoes. It also mean yummy things from the...

The Corn is as High as an Elephant's Eye

Blog: Avalon Farms Premium Homegrown   -   Monday July 05, 2010   -   By Brigette

The market gardens and high tunnels are looking good, even as hot as it has been. Night time temperatures during the month of June were running about 10 degrees above normal and we certainly had sufficient rainfall. Unfortunately, that wasn't good weather for...

Winter Squash and Sweet Potatoes

Blog: Double Oak Farm   -   Friday February 26, 2010   -   By Lori

 So how do you get through the winter eating local foods? I suppose it depends on where you live. For some winter means cool weather gardens and citrus harvests. Here in my snow covered world it is a different story. I mentioned before that the deer...

Sweet William - Dianthus barbatus

Blog: Wall Flower Studio Garden   -   Monday February 08, 2010   -   By Karen

Pictured above is my Kitty-cat, Mrs. Woman. She LOVES Sweet William and guards it well. However, I've managed to save many, many seeds and I think I can sneak them out of the house without her knowing! Sweet William - Dianthus barbatus . Organic,...

PA Simply Sweet Onions

Blog: Crighton Farm   -   Saturday January 02, 2010   -   By James

January and time to begin again!  The seeds are here and we will fire up the anthracite coal furnace in the greenhouse in a couple weeks to begin sowing.  Those PA Simply Sweet Onions take up many months of the year.  The young plants go into...

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are passed!

Blog: Elliott Family Farm   -   Tuesday December 01, 2009   -   By Samuel

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are passed! Whew! Our cover crop continues to grow nicely. We may add a little organic P and K in a couple of weeks, but other than that, all can we do now, is wait. We hope to plant green beans in early March. We may...

Onions are for People

Blog: Crighton Farm   -   Sunday November 29, 2009   -   By James

Our first Blog post!  We happen to grow PA Simply Sweet Onions, among many other vegetables for our CSA program.  We have been doing this for several years and have always had critter problems on the farm.  First we installed a deer fence after...

there is a new kid in town

Blog: Hippychick's Gardens   -   Sunday September 13, 2009   -   By hippychick

i think the girl is sticking around - boy oh boy did she know the right home to stop in at - sucker-ville right here! now we ponder her name - i have asked her what she thinks - i am sure she'll let me know as the days pass. she's got herself a home - a...

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WHOA! Sweet corn is in!

Blog: Sunrise Farm   -   Friday July 31, 2009   -   By Jetboy

Hello world! It's Friday afternoon and we haven't had rain in a week. Weird weather, very cool too. Tomatoes hate it! Sweet corn is coming in now. Peaches and Cream(bi-color) now, Ambrosia to follow. Picked 30 lbs. of beans this week, several lbs of basil,...

Poverty Acres is Waking Up

Blog: Poverty Acres   -   Saturday March 21, 2009   -   By Sam or MaryAnn

  The tractor started and the soil is turned. The Lord provided an awesome window of time to get the soil turned. It was great to be back on the tractor enjoying sunshine. My arthritis is beginning to lighten up once again. I love warmer weather. ...

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