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Bloom Where You're Planted Farm - Jan 15, 2009 - By Teresa_2

I spend most of my time indoors during the winter -- especially this week, as it has been at or near zero degrees during the day for the past couple of days. There's nothing I love more than being outside during the spring, summer and fall,...

Pokin' Around And Takin' Notes

Portage River Farm - Jan 15, 2009 - By John_3

In the past week I have begun gathering information on what other farming families in this region are doing. There are probably better resources for this, but I have been using the web. I got a listing of all of the farms, orchards and farm markets in the...

I wish I could do this

Hurricane Farm - Jan 14, 2009 - By Chris

Since we were moving in and setting up the farm this past summer, I did not have as much time to ready my woodpile as I have in past years. Installing fencing, building stalls, and the numerous other tasks involved in setting up a new farm consumed my...

Out in the Cold and Loving It

Hurricane Farm - Jan 14, 2009 - By Chris

Here is one of our hogs. She is especially fond of dumping over her freshly poured water. It's a game with her, I suspect. I don't like playing THAT game, so I gave her and her sisters a couple of soccer balls to toss around. ...

Shifting Cultivation vs. Intensive Cultivation

F.A. Farm - Jan 14, 2009 - By Walter_1

I got a new world atlas recently and I took a look at agricultural patterns around the world. I was especially struck by the shifting cultivation mode in the equatorial areas of South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia. The complementary mode of production...

Cold Outside--Warm Inside with Seed Catalogs

Neighborhood Gardener-King Gardens - Jan 14, 2009 - By Christy

It may be 30 below here in northern Minnesota, but it's always summer when we are making up seed lists. We"ll be starting seeds soon,and we are also thinking ahead to the two new high tunnels/hoops we will have up this spring. That will make a...

The first year......

Greenjeans Farm - Jan 14, 2009 - By Jeff & Toni

One thing farmers know how to do like nobody else, is reach out to each other. I remember the first year we lived here in Potter, during the fall and winter we made the house livable, we had our first greenhouse (a growhouse sent from heaven which blew...

Goats are Ready to Pop

Harp Turkey Ranch - Jan 13, 2009 - By Wes

Well the Boer goats are getting ready to have their kids. They are due between Feb & March. Got them moved to their new area where they are not going to be bugged by the buck and the other goats not ready to give birth. We usually move them about a...

New England Pastoral

Hurricane Farm - Jan 13, 2009 - By Chris

Any American pastoral (sorry Mr. Roth) wouldn't be complete without a reflection on the ability of large ruminants to turn grass into one of the best all-natural fertilizers available. Having spent the last hour moving just under 1/2 ton of...

Winter at the farm