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Save Your Fuel Money Eat More Pork

Spring Hill Farms   -   Apr 26, 2011 - By David_8

Tamworth Pigs Plowing Here at Spring Hill Farms we don't like buying $4 a gallon gas anymore than you do. We don't like buying gasoline or diesel at any price as far as that goes. That's one of the main reasons we employed Tamworth ...

The Incubator

Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Apr 25, 2011 - By Emily

As a kid, my Easter mornings were pretty standard...a basket of chocolate bunnies and marshmallow peeps (and eating as many as possible before church!).  Now, my Easter mornings are far less sugary, but with lots of the same creatures.  Tiny, fuzzy...

Canned Goods

Renaissance Farm   -   Apr 25, 2011 - By Linda_2

Our list of yummy canned goods!  Come in for a sample!! Lemon Raspberry Marmalade Pint $6.99 Peach Preserves Pint $5.99 Blueberry Preserves Pint $6.99 Red...

Week 17 Availablity, April 24

Renaissance Farm   -   Apr 25, 2011 - By Linda_2

Hi Happy belated Easter!  What a glorious day.  We were extremely busy at the retail greenhouse (thank you all for your support this past weekend--from killing frost to snow to golly it's hot) , but still managed to get some planting done....

Time For the Hens to Begin Raising Their Own Babie...

Rise&Shine Urban Farm   -   Apr 24, 2011 - By Susan_4

With my last tray hatching next week, I am looking forward towards the hens doing all the work, while I just record their broodiness.  Besides, I have enough to do raising the poults I hatched.  I recently saw a hen I sold last year, and opps, I...

Throwing Away 4 Out of 5 Beers

F.A. Farm   -   Apr 23, 2011 - By Walter_1

Let's put the difference between energy input and output into an analogy everyone can understand. Suppose you go to your favorite pub and order 5 pints of beer. The bartender puts them up on the bar and you proceed to drink 1 and pour the other 4 out into...

Really? Again!

Sweet Harmony Farm   -   Apr 23, 2011 - By Mona

We woke up this morning to the Winter That Just Won’t End . Good thing I didn’t plant anything yesterday on Earth Day.

Flood On The Grass

Kinsman Farm   -   Apr 23, 2011 - By Valerie_1

Dew on the grass has lately seemed more like flood on the grass. We have had many rainy and cloudy days this month. And of course cool days. I am thankful for our high tunnels and low tunnels. This last November we tried something new with low tunnels. I...

SonRise Ranch Newsletter 22 April 2011

SonRise Ranch   -   Apr 22, 2011 - By Douglas

SonRise Ranch Newsletter Grass-fed, Grass-finished Beef and Lamb  Free-range Pork True Free-range Chicken   ...

Spring?

Fox Trail Farm   -   Apr 22, 2011 - By gardenergirl

It's been a cold wet April in North -Eastern Indiana. We seem to be constanty carrying our plant starts back and forth from the unheated greenhouse at night to the heated holding area.  Lots of nights hovering in the mid to low...