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Turkeys Behaving Badly

Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Sep 09, 2010 - By Emily

If you've been to the farm recently, you've probably seen our flock of (very) free-range turkeys.  Most of them are Bourbon Reds, but we also have a few black-and-white Royal Palms too.   There is even a big white Broad Breasted turkey, due...

Westminster Farmers" Market Report for 09-10-...

Westminster Farmers' Market   -   Sep 09, 2010 - By Dean

Westminster Farmers’ Market Report from Maple Heights Farm Lunchbox Season has arrived… With hurricanes blowing in last week, many vendors took the day off (us included – the tents are just too dangerous when they take flight – not to mention...

Westminster Farmers' Market Blurb for 09-10-20...

Westminster Farmers' Market   -   Sep 09, 2010 - By Dean

This entry is from Kerrie Hertel on our FaceBook page. Westminster Farmers' Market Shadow Box Puppet Theatre, Tess Rembetsy-Brown and Don Rivano this week at the market. All entertainment you don't want to miss. Pick up your little ones from...

Tomatoes for Hot Summers

Lazy Ox Farm   -   Sep 09, 2010 - By Margie

You never know ahead of time what type of summer you are going to have. Had we known we would have record breaking heat and drought we would have done a heat tolerant tomato variety trial. But, last year we had unusually cool and wet, so who knew? Our...

Rights & Responsibilities

Trautman Family Farm   -   Sep 09, 2010 - By Scott&JulieTraut

What beautiful days on the farm. Haying is finished until maybe later October, when the opportunity of Late Hay Intoxication occurs in me, when there is an indian summer for oh, 5 days or so, the trees are turning beautiful colors. I will cut some 4th crop...

More on Tomatoes Varieties

Lazy Ox Farm   -   Sep 09, 2010 - By Margie

Ahhhhh, tomahhtoes! We love them. We can't get enough of them. They are piled all over our kitchen counters waiting to be processed into seeds and sauce. We have little plates with drying seed covering every horizontal surface that isn't already...

Producer's Only Farmer's Market

Miolea Organic Farm   -   Sep 09, 2010 - By Brian_1

This is the first year and time that we have created a farmer’s market.  "We," are four producers who met each other last year at a Farmer's Market run by a profiteer.  The market board consists of one fruit grower, two...

One man is not an Island.

All We Need Farm   -   Sep 08, 2010 - By Stacey

A friend from college wrote me last week.She lives in NYC, and they are thinking of leaving the big apple for the farm.She asked for advice.I thought long and hard about the very best advice I could give someone looking to make this lifestyle change.There are...

In early April of 2009, I walked out into our back yard and pounded some stakes into the ground at the edge of our woods. I was marking where I planned to build a super- deluxe chicken coop. Driving those stakes was the first thing that we had done since...

Colvin Family Farm--Week 18

Colvin Family Farm   -   Sep 08, 2010 - By Colvin Farm

We've had a delicious taste of Fall over the past week--definitely my favorite season, Fall is refreshingly crisp, cool, sweet smelling--I look forward to it coming in full strength later this month (I can't believe that it's already September)! ...