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Sage's Cafe and Vertical Diner reviewed on Stu...

Sage's Cafe   -   Feb 22, 2009 - By Ian

Stumptown Vegans Travels! See article here: www.stumptownvegans.com Though very different restaurants, the sisterly relationship between Salt Lake City’s vegan restaraunts, Sage’s Cafe and Vertical Diner are, in this reviewer’s eyes, similar to Vita and...

Sage's Cafe and Vertical Diner featured restau...

Sage's Cafe   -   Feb 22, 2009 - By Ian

 See article here: www.vegproject.org Sage's Cafe in Salt Lake City, Utah celebrates its 9th anniversary this year. “Love is the most important ingredient in anything in life,” says Chef/Owner Ian Brandt of Sage’s Café and Vertical Diner in Salt...

First Batch of Maple

Hurricane Farm   -   Feb 22, 2009 - By Chris

We fired up our new evaporator and worked on our first batch of maple syrup yesterday.  We'll be finishing off a little over a gallon of syrup this morning! We were warned by several people--both in books and in person--to NEVER let the level of the...

Calling all farmers!

Re Rustica   -   Feb 22, 2009 - By fullofbeans

FA Farm of Washington State just wrote in their blog that they estimate farmers can feed, on average, 5 people per acre.  We love the thought - let us farmers do a bit better than 5 people per acre, though. How about a friendly competition between us -...

Hugging a Goose

Re Rustica   -   Feb 22, 2009 - By fullofbeans

Everyone needs a hug sometimes.  Today, our goose with no hat came up and asked to be picked up and hugged.  After she got her fill, she told us she wanted down and wandered off to join her friends. 

SPRING FEVER!!!!!!!!!!!

Debbie's Garden   -   Feb 21, 2009 - By Chickadee1

Yea it's official, spring fever is here....LOL! I have all my little seed packs and have been in the greenhouse, and will be out there again today planting cinnamon basil, thai basil, purple basil, BRUSSELL SPROUTS, tomatoes, peppers.....yea my greenhouse...

Certified Naturally Grown

Harp Turkey Ranch   -   Feb 21, 2009 - By Wes

Our Certified Naturally Grown application was accepted today.   For those of you that don't know what  Certified Naturally Grown is let me explain... Certified Naturally Grown was created to ENCOURAGE people to purchase from the small...

Hulling with a pistol

Re Rustica   -   Feb 21, 2009 - By fullofbeans

Dear Andrea, Andrea writes: Hi. I have recently been given a large amount of oats and I am having trouble finding an effective way to hull them. Any suggestions?? Thanks. We respond: though, of course, it would be easiest for you to avoid hulling the...

"New" corn variety

Twin Creeks Farms- Wesley Stephens and Bethany Stephens   -   Feb 20, 2009 - By Wesley and Bethany

We will be planting corn in a few weeks and this year we are switching to an heirloom open-pollinated variety called Boone County White. It dates to the mid 19th century and grows very tall, so it should yield a lot of silage. We would like to use a non-GMO...

Learn HOW applying SAFE GARDEN ERGONOMICS can ...

Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Feb 20, 2009 - By Tony_1

Understanding what causes lower back injuries to farmers and gardeners ,may help in the  prevention of same from happening. Where does the lower back injury and pain occur  ?What causes the pain?What prevention methods to use? To answer those...