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8 O'clock Ranch   -   Oct 16, 2008 - By Kassandra

     All the prep that goes into fall seems to come to a conclusion with the organizing of the flocks for their very own ram. Each group will be selected for the traits that we want passed along to the next set of sheep. ...

Lavender Harvest

Blue Moon Lavender Farm   -   Oct 16, 2008 - By Magdalena

Every fall all of our 900 lavender plants get a final trim, shaping the plants into half-ball hedgehogs. It's nice, fragrant work during the cool, crisp days of the fall. I use a hedge trimmer, wielding it like a sword, giving each lavender a buzz. The...

LH Blogs

Love Family Farms   -   Oct 16, 2008 - By Ken and Margy

Guillermo, Good luck with the blog function. Hope these become a lace for idea sharing. Ken 

Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter. We get this question a lot: "Is it more expensive to eat local food?" Usually we try to work our way around the question, speaking with enthusiasm about the quality and flavor of fresh local food, its...

Okay, this isn't really a how-to blog entry on the farming of a chicken. Sorry to disappoint you, but it is instead a mere pearl in a string of realizations that I have had since getting into the farm/foodie world. It was about this time last year...

Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter. Sorry for the delay in this "August" issue. We were eating tomatoes. Lots of tomatoes. And making really incredible sauce. Through much of the summer, we have been hopeful. It's hard not to be,...

Meet Manfred Warmuth. Manfred is the kind of guy who calls to bring over ice-cream, and then shows up with cream, fruit, and a thermos of liquid nitrogen to flash-freeze it all. Manfred will show you how to shell soybeans using an electric drill and an empty 2...

Here's a recipe to help you test your 'buy local' skills. We were able to buy at the farmers' market, grow, or raise pretty much everything (except the pineapple and mango, but both can be substituted or omitted). It's a 'one dish'...

 We now have three backyard chickens here at home.  Until very recently, we had four. Pipi (pronounced pee-pee ) is no longer with us, and good riddance! You might think of us as cold-hearted and uncaring for saying so, but we are really just bad...

Sunday is my new favorite day!  We wake up, put on our best clothes (in Santa Cruz this means a pair of jeans with flip-flops and a clean t-shirt with or without sleeves), grab our cloth bags, and walk down the street to our local farmers' market ....