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Week 16 Availability, April 17

Renaissance Farm   -   Apr 18, 2011 - By Linda_2

Hello! We are so confused..is it still winter? is it spring, is it summer?  Friday was flip flops, sunscreen and straw hats, Saturday was winter parkas and propane heaters, today, was clothes on/clothes off.  Oh happy spring!! The great news is...

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Spring Piglets

Autumn's Harvest Farm   -   Apr 17, 2011 - By Timothy

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In regards to Rob Hopkins’ claim of “1 litre of petrol equaling 35 days of hard manual human labor,” I looked at his source, which is FEASTA, The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability. (Thanks to David McLeod of Transition Whatcom for pointing this...

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Le Menu (what's cookin'?)

At Home in Nature   -   Apr 17, 2011 - By Mary_5

NEWS FROM THE FARM AND RECIPES Wow!It must be springtime!We’re seeing GREEN things again!There’s a thousand medicinal uses for your typical salad greens, but they are especially good at taking the sting out of the last bites of winter’s cold.Try them in...

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Garden Plant Giveaway

Grow And Share   -   Apr 17, 2011 - By Kay

Grow And Share Garden Plant Giveaway / Gratis Las Plantas De Jardín ?Saturday, April 30,  2011 / Sábado 30 de Abril ? 11:00a.m. - ? * New Hope Baptist Church, 4301 Louisburg Road Raleigh, NC PLANTS (PLANTAS): tomato...

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Bees' Happy Home

Fitzgerald's Family Farm, LLC   -   Apr 17, 2011 - By Sharon_1

After spending a toasty evening in my dining room (see my previous post), we anxiously waited for the temperatures to warm up above 40-degrees and at about 9: 30 a.m. we loaded up the bees in the car's trunk and took them to their new home above...

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AT Last- warm weather!

Cedar Breeze Farm   -   Apr 17, 2011 - By Rick & Linda

At Last- we are putting our precious plants in the ground.  Never mind that we had a tornado touch down about 17 miles north of us today.  That was this afternoon; by early evening it was sunny. So we put in the squashes, cucumbers and melons....

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Awesome online gardening tools

Wild Things Farm   -   Apr 16, 2011 - By Terry_5

I purchase a lot of the seeds used on the farm from Johnny's Select Seeds and yesterday they sent out an e-mail that had links to the most useful tools that I just had to share...  go here http://www.johnnyseeds.com/t-InteractiveTools.aspx?source=E...

I'm sure that many of you support your Local Farmers Markets. Rather than Rely on the Growers Certificate hanging in the booth, ask questions.Here are some suggestions for Produce: When was this picked? How was it grown? (Certified Organic,...

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