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Bloom Where You're Planted Farm   -   Mar 10, 2009 - By Teresa_2

Our weather has been cold, rainy, and downright gloomy the past few days.  It was a welcome surprise when one of our pumpkin patch customers Deanne emailed some photos of her kids visiting the pumpkin patch last fall.  I remember their...

2009 Boer Goat Kids

Harp Turkey Ranch   -   Mar 10, 2009 - By Wes

Last night we had a doe give birth to 3 new kids !!! 2 girls and 1 boy. Been waiting for her to have her kids for the last 2 days, finally last night sometime she did. Woke up this morning went outside to do my chores and heard a very weird sound. Oh yeah that...

Jethro Tull Guest Writes on Roots and Circulatory ...

Re Rustica   -   Mar 10, 2009 - By fullofbeans

We’re taking the day off from writing blogs - and are glad to present to you today Jethro Tull, in his very first blog. Though he died in 1731, by this active and energetic assay into the blogosphere, he seems just as innovative as when he perfected the seed...

reality check - investment small scale farming

Hippychick's Gardens   -   Mar 10, 2009 - By hippychick

i consider myself a small scale farmer. i live in a small texas town located 33 mile southeast of big town austin texas . i garden, i raise a laying flock of chickens and i have recently begun raising chickens intended for eating. i envision...

welcome to hippychick's gardens

Hippychick's Gardens   -   Mar 10, 2009 - By hippychick

life of a girl, two boy cats, lady chickens and meatie chickens who come and go making efforts to live simple. growing veggies, fruit & flowers, saving rain from the sky & celebrating the wonder of the almighty pile de compost. she learning the art of...

The last few days have brought us wonderfully high sap runs. Each evening when I get home from work, I head out into the woods to check the taps and carry the sap back to the house. Two nights ago as I was approaching the last tree, I noticed that one of the...

Altitude Matters to Crops

Re Rustica   -   Mar 10, 2009 - By fullofbeans

Altitude matters to crops in many ways. The higher elevations are cooler and grow several months behind schedule of the valleys: a farm that grows both at several hundred feet elevation and at the more than 3000 feet elevation of Squaw Valley can have winter...

As the WALL and MALL Markets CRASH , FLEA MARKETS ...

Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Mar 10, 2009 - By Tony_1

In  South East Florida the soil is sandy same as the beach. The Farmers /green markets are mostly located close to the beach fronts . Those ocean fronts are the attractions for the easonal tourists and the home  location of the...

The Sweetest Flower Ever

Double R Farm (Amish Country Soaps & Sundries)   -   Mar 09, 2009 - By Christine_2

This morning we were greeted by the Northwest winds roaring across the pastures in Sugarcreek. Occassionally, the winds would subside just long  enough for us to hear the sweet songs of  the springtime birds. In the past few days the...

The Technical Responses Are Easy

F.A. Farm   -   Mar 09, 2009 - By Walter_1

I am currently finishing up The Long Descent (2008) by John Michael Greer. The basic premise of this book is that there are two responses to peak oil that are both wrong in their extremism. One of these is progressive and is premised on humans coming up with...