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Success!! Nebraska Crop Tops Sponsors the Cass Co...

Nebraska Crop Tops   -   Apr 09, 2009 - By Farmer Ed

Nebraska Crop Tops and the Cass County 4-H Whiz Kids have been approved for an OPPD Tree Grant.  We applied just a couple of weeks ago and received our notice in the mail yesterday.  We have been invited to Lauritzen Gardens on 24 April to receive...

Nature Provides All We Need

Re Rustica   -   Apr 09, 2009 - By fullofbeans

Food can have amazing effects on you.  Some foods make you happy, others make you sad, some make you healthy, others can kill you.  Some foods make you hallucinate, others clarify your mind.  Food is a magical thing, and it is important to...

Load of Hay and the Old Fashioned Way

Hurricane Farm   -   Apr 09, 2009 - By Chris

We usually buy our hay from a neighboring farm here in town.  I am not sure if it is common knowledge or not, but hay, like most any other commodity in the world, comes in a variety of qualities.  There is good hay.  There is bad hay.  And...

The Miracle of Life

The Call Again Farm Journal   -   Apr 08, 2009 - By Laura_6

I candled the older bunch of turkey eggs today, and what a contrast it was from the candling I did five days ago.  It was so easy.  All but four of the twenty-three eggs were clearly developing well.  I saw the embryos in most of the developing...

HOT Zone FARMING and GARDENING for the new comers ...

Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Apr 08, 2009 - By Tony_1

This is your first time gardening in the HOT ZONES of 8-9-10. You are frustrated and intimidated as you try hard to set up a vegetable garden in the new GREEN RUSH for backyard ORGANIC gardens.Relax, help is on the way. Reading so many books from different...

Kinda nippy, huh?

Foust Family Farms   -   Apr 08, 2009 - By Ron

 major breezy yesterday.Lots to do. Difficult to lay  frost blankets out in the fields on one's own, but managed it  and thought I was done by dark. So.there  I am, sitting in my favorite sofa with my feet up, watching the...

Reality Check

Great Expectations   -   Apr 08, 2009 - By Candace

When I get the notion to do something, I like to read all I can about it.  I especially like knowing the potential downside of something.  This is because I can go off on a wild tangent without a second thought if I get too enthused and don't...

You might recall that during a recent beekeeping conference I decided to sign up for a beekeeping class to bring myself up to date with the latest techniques. That class is being taught by Ed, an elderly gentleman who has about 50 hives in his suburban...

Why creating an ORGANIC FRUIT/VEGGIE/HERB GARDEN i...

Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Apr 07, 2009 - By Tony_1

Remember the VICTORY GARDEN? Probably not.It happened back in the 40s during and after  the  GREAT Depression and WW-II . We need to learn from HISTORY as it repeats itself in cycles! I do not remeber anything myself but I can learn the lessons...