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A Drop in theBucket

Me and My Honey   -   Jun 27, 2013 - By Dawn _4

Healing Rain Though it has been a comfortable start to the season, the last week or so has been hot and humid and sucking all the moisture out of the leaves of the beautiful garden plants.  Gardeners and Farmers are two of the most hopeful people you...

LocalHarvest Newsletter, June 27, 2013 photo by Green Gardens Farm Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter. We've been hearing from many LocalHarvest users who are facing a new challenge, and this month we hope to help address it....

Home Farm Herbery offers organic, chemical free Le...

Home Farm Herbery   -   Jun 26, 2013 - By Arlene

Lemon Verbena leaf Home Farm Herbery is warm enough to grow Lemon Verbena and it is a large and bushy perennial shrub. It is deciduous and highly scented, with a strong citrus aroma that can be noticed most strongly in the early evening. Lemon...

2013 calves growing strong!

Sampson Family Farm   -   Jun 26, 2013 - By Janet_2

Welcome to Sampson Family Farms!

Recipe Wednesday at the Bluegrass Farmers' Mar...

Bluegrass Farmers Market   -   Jun 26, 2013 - By Kentucky Proud

We're talking potatoes! I mean fresh from the garden potatoes. Store bought cannot compare with the ones available at the Bluegrass Farmers' Market. Okay, you have purchased your spuds, taters...whatever you call them and now, what to do with...

Cover Crop in Walk Paths

Natural Excellence Farm and Gardens   -   Jun 26, 2013 - By Rosemary

Here is an example of Cover Cropping in Walk Paths. This is a mix of hairy vetch, field peas, winter rye, and alice clover. This mix suppresses weeds nicely.   And a little bit of a close-up. Cover cropping in walk paths does more than suppress...

Smithfield Merger - More Factory Farms?

Spring Hill Farms   -   Jun 25, 2013 - By David_8

“China has been very interested and very aggressive trying to get into the United States,....“And they have the resources to do it.” - Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley With the recent announcement of the Smithfield-Shuanghui merger much speculation has been...

JUNE 26 Your Bread & Harvest CSA BOX is here!

Salamander Springs Farm/Permaculture Organics   -   Jun 25, 2013 - By Susana

NEW POTATOES - our CSA members get the first harvest!  With losses from the spring flooding & frosts, our potatoes for market will be precious this year. “New potatoes” are soft skinned & tender, not yet “cured” for storage--we carefully “rob”...

Quietness

Sweet Harmony Farm   -   Jun 25, 2013 - By Mona

It’s been a long month since Julio left us.  Thank you all for your compassion and kind words.  Dan and I and the alpacas have all been getting into the new routine, the new normal.   The alpacas have been very quiet.  They’re...

South Florida Organic Garden TOP TEN TROPICAL TIPS...

Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Jun 24, 2013 - By Tony_1

The  sizzling summer is on in S.Florida .Welcome to our garden where for every season we have our own growin reason..Now start weeding and mowing and pruning and offcourse fighting the summer garden bugs  especially the infamous white fly...