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Early Spring

Spring Hill Farm   -   Apr 14, 2011 - By Camille

Well, things have certainly greened up around here. Each weekend there is more and more activity outside. The first rounds of seeds have been sown.  We are very grateful for the spring rains that have been coming regularly and will never take them for...

Blogging from the road

At Home in Nature   -   Apr 14, 2011 - By Mary_5

It is facinating that in this modern age I can post this from our delivery truck as we travel about town!  (of course, I'm in the passenger seat!)  Pretty cool, huh?

Are we Losing ground?

Spring Hill Farms   -   Apr 14, 2011 - By David_8

My last post was about the push to get government to release farmers from the CRP program so they could put acres set aside in the program back into grain production. Here's a good video talking about the pros and cons of tilling the soil. Watch...

National Garlic Day Lasts A Lifetime

Christopher Ranch   -   Apr 14, 2011 - By Justin_1

April is hoppin’ with holidays (I count April 14, the day I send my taxes in, as one) but it’s April 19, that stands out at Christopher Ranch because it’s National Garlic Day. We didn’t create it – every day is Garlic Day here – but if we had, it’s safe...

2nd Meeting: Luidi's Trattoria

Slow Food - Conway/Myrtle Beach Convivium   -   Apr 14, 2011 - By JP

2nd Slow Food Meeting (Myrtle Beach) @ Luigi's Trattoria Our second Slow Food Conway/ Myrtle Beach meeting came to fruition with a turnout of 14 members/prospective members.  It was held at Luigi's Italian Trattoria on 61st Ave N. in Myrtle...

Improving productivity

Moonstruck Farms   -   Apr 14, 2011 - By Rowena

Well things are just a little busy around here to say the least, and since growth is continual the learning lessons on how do things better, smarter and faster are always having to be thought through. I bought a 5 gallon salad spinner, braising green spinner...

Does anyone out on this site do an custom growing for a local brewpub? I know that many micro breweries are always looking for organic or natural wheat and barley. I just sent some emails out to a whole host of them in my area, introducing myself, my...

Comment on "How Climate Change Puts Globaliza...

F.A. Farm   -   Apr 13, 2011 - By Walter_1

In the Rob Hopkins interview, which is part 13 of The Nation’s video series, he makes a couple of glaring errors. These two errors are at 21:00 minutes into the video and immediately after. Here is the weblink: http://www.energybulletin.net/media/2011-04-13...

Visit our Farm Blog

Oldesouth Farm   -   Apr 13, 2011 - By Terry_4

Visit our farm blog at http://oldesouthfarm.blogspot.com  .  We have finished lambing and getting ready for a couple of Dairy Goat Shows coming up in April.  Stay tuned for more action.

Community living and farming while being DIFFERENT...

Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Apr 13, 2011 - By Tony_1

I am naive about the way humans treat each others in this INFORMATION past industrial age..not to mention being an URBAN farmer living in a Southern city . Most of us do not know how to communicate well without the F and M F rich vocabilary of profanity.Add...