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What you Need to Know About Herbs Part 3©

Home Farm Herbery - Jan 26, 2019 - By Arlene

What you Need to Know About Herbs Part 3© By Arlene Wright-Correll Althea Root is a member of the mallow family, which prefers wet places such as marshes for its habitat. Its high mucilage content makes it an appropriate...

A new strategy for a new season

Good Fortune Farm - Jan 18, 2019 - By Farmer Mike

It seems so simple grow a vegetable garden and distribute them through a CSA. The challenge is to keep the crops producing for the whole season. Unlike many other farming enterprises CSA farming is a continual cycle of plant, till, maintain, harvest...

Winter Break or Bust

Capelli Farms - Jan 16, 2019 - By CapelliFarms

Hi everybody! It's been a while, hasn't it? Well, we can no longer say "Winter is coming" (dragons in tow). No signs of a blizzard yet, but before we know it Spring will be here. It saddens us that the farm is still closed, but NJ weather is...

What you Need to Know About Herbs Part 2 ©

Home Farm Herbery - Jan 16, 2019 - By Arlene

What you Need to Know About Herbs Part 2 © By Arlene Wright-Correll Apple Pectin , in the diets of humans and lab animals, has been shown to increase the excretion of lipids, cholesterol and bile acids, and reduce serum...

What you Need to Know About Herbs Part 1©

Home Farm Herbery - Jan 11, 2019 - By Arlene

What you Need to Know About Herbs Part 1© By Arlene Wright-Correll Most things are simple as ABC once we get to know about them. Today we have an overkill of prescription drug commercials and an increasing reliance on prescription...

Farm Stand Re-Opening

Swain Family Farm - Jan 09, 2019 - By Stephanie_2

The Farm Stand will be re-openining on January 15, 2019 following our winter break. Winter hours are Tuesday and Thursday, 11am to 5pm.

Juice Bar started

Richert/Phillips Farms - Jan 07, 2019 - By Michael_3

Well after over eighteen years of wholesale, farmers markets, and auction we finally done it--we started a juice bar. It is at the South Bend Farmers Market booth 4, open Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays For several years we have...

Water, water everywhere ...

Amity Highland Ranch - Jan 07, 2019 - By Debbie_2

Well-meaning friends may express hope that we are enjoying the "nice" weather, meaning it's not horribly cold nor really snowy. They don't understand that the alternative to deep cold in a winter like this one is mud. Since it...

Home Farm Herbery - Jan 02, 2019 - By Arlene

A Few Good Reasons to Grow Thyme© By Arlene Wright-Correll As an organic gardener and a avid “cooker” who loves to also eat, especially Mediterranean food I am also questioned by guests who say why bother to grow Thyme since it is so easy to buy? ...

Ellen C. from Houston, TX is December’s art contes...

Home Farm Herbery - Jan 01, 2019 - By Arlene

You just won December’s Art Contest! Ellen C. from Houston , TX is December’s art contest winner Your prize is on its way. Congratulations from Home Farm Herbery LLC