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Top 10 Reasons to Eat Locally

Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm   -   Apr 01, 2009 - By Jody_1

Here is a link to University of Missouri, Agriculture Economics Professor Emeritus, John Ikerd's top ten reasons for eating locally. http://www.salmonnation.com/voices/john_ikerd.html

Getting Started

Too Tuff Farms   -   Apr 01, 2009 - By Andrew and Amanda

Welcome Too Tuff Farms!  You started out as a small garden, just for me since I'm the only one in the house who eats veggies it seems.  Then Andy decided to expand you to become a produce stand.  Oh, and after that I booked you a booth at...

Gracefully sidelined by one stubborn stone

Double R Farm (Amish Country Soaps & Sundries)   -   Apr 01, 2009 - By Christine_2

Today seems no different than those early spring days when I feel I have to work a little harder to make up for the time I’ve been away from the gardens. The winter provides a much-needed slumber for the beautiful plants that surround our farm, and by the time...

The warm weather of mid-March has finally taken its toll. At the end of last week, the buds on the maple trees in our sugarbush began to swell and open. That is the signal that the sugaring season has reached the end as the internal chemistry of the trees...

Not Much

Debbie's Garden   -   Apr 01, 2009 - By Chickadee1

Not much to report from Marietta, GA today....more gray clouds and sprinkles off and on all day. Waiting for sunny skies and warmer temperatures. Had to put a few things back in the greenhouse "just in case", it got down to 37 night before last, and...

Louis XIV, June 2008 to March 30, 2009, R.I.P.

The Call Again Farm Journal   -   Mar 31, 2009 - By Laura_6

Yesterday evening, Dianna and I had somewhere to go, so Bob had to put the turkeys and chickens away.  He didn't say anything about the birds when we got home, so we presumed all was well.  Just before he went upstairs to bed, he stopped and...

Moo

Hurricane Farm   -   Mar 31, 2009 - By Chris

I came home yesterday to find a bale of wood shavings ripped open and spilled across the barn floor.  Hmm, I thought, I wonder how that happened?  Then I saw some ripped paper in the stall with the cattle...Apparantly, they enjoy brown paper...

Rain, today?

Foust Family Farms   -   Mar 31, 2009 - By Ron

  You know, I been thinking of late, how them Indians of old, had it wrong. Or at least did it the hard way. Dancing aorund a fire all day, sending up smoke signals, and praying to the Raingod to rescue their crops, slake their thirst,...anything to end...

Pistachio Recall Information - We are NOT involved...

Braga Organic Farms   -   Mar 31, 2009 - By Doug Braga

Braga Organic Farms is not involved in the pistachio recall.  It is a conventional (non-organic) pistachio recall.  All the information about Braga Organic Farms and the recall is on this link: http://stores.buyorganicnuts.com/-strse-template/faq/...

Spring has sprung at the M Triangle Ranch!

M Triangle Ranch   -   Mar 31, 2009 - By Mark & Shelley

Spring has sprung at the M Triangle Ranch!  We have baby ducks, calves and chicks everywhere!  We are enjoying the warmer weather and are really excited about all of our new arrivals. Mark is busy at the Univ.of Ariz. Farmers Market on Fridays from...