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Lucky Clucky

Re Rustica   -   Feb 05, 2009 - By fullofbeans

An update: Clucky was found today, alive, well and... not clucking.  After working through her chicken angst, she walked up to us from out of the forest and wanted to be picked up.  We did so, and gave her her favorite treat (safflower) and put her...

Tillage helps plants grow

Re Rustica   -   Feb 05, 2009 - By fullofbeans

You can learn a lot about farming from looking at your car or truck in the early hours of the morning. Sometimes, they are covered with a fine layer of frozen water because the air inside is of a different temperature than the air outside.  This forces...

Chicken Language and Excess Eggs

Re Rustica   -   Feb 05, 2009 - By fullofbeans

Geese and chickens do not like to brood all their eggs, and usually abandon most of them.  This helps them ensure that they do not overtax their resources.  Another technique they use to ensure wise resource use is language. If our birds ever want...

From Columella to Tull

Re Rustica   -   Feb 05, 2009 - By fullofbeans

Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella was a Roman nobleman from a family of farmer-soldiers, born in AD 4, who lived until AD 70.  He was the father of scientific agriculture and author of "Re Rustica," "On Agriculture."  He learned...

This may sounds a little odd after all of my excitement about rising temperatures, but I have also been thinking about the problem of snow removal. A conversation with my step-mother a few weeks ago got wheels turning in my head. She told me that her father...

Bad News!!!!

Boardtown Organics   -   Feb 05, 2009 - By Greg_1

     Since the temps got down to 17 last night, I was a little worried about the tomato seedlings in the greenhouse.  I have 2 small heaters in there that I knew could handle 25 degrees.  Well, I found out that they COULDN'T...

Mmmm the smell of ....lavender sugar cookies?!

Debbie's Garden   -   Feb 05, 2009 - By Chickadee1

Hello all, if you've never had LAVENDER SUGAR COOKIES , perhaps now is the time....hmmm make some for valentines day? All you have to do is pick your favorite sugar cookie recipe, (even if it's in a bag or a box) and add about 1 tbsp. ground...

Is spring coming?

Cottonwood Farm   -   Feb 05, 2009 - By Kathy & Lynn

Is Spring on the way?  We finally got an egg today; the chickens started laying about a week ago, but we think the barn cat is beating us to them.  All we've found is a crushed shell!  But tonight, one whole entire safe egg!  A clue...

How farmers take care of themselves

Greenjeans Farm   -   Feb 05, 2009 - By Jeff & Toni

Jeff has the habit of inventorying our food which drives me CRAZY. Nobody owns food! He knows I would give it all away in a hot minute.But as usual with Jeff, there is a method to his madness.We put a lot of food by in the late summer and fall and always...

Back in Biz

VegiGirls Farm   -   Feb 04, 2009 - By Molly

Hi, it's been a while since anyone heard from me in the farming world! I've been off for a while after I had my daughter. She's now 15 months old, and has been spending some quality time in the garden the past few days as we've been getting it...