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Recent Writing from LocalHarvest Members
Get ready for Guacomole!
Back2theBeginning Farm - Oct 04, 2014 - By J
Our orchard is just about ready to welcome avocado season. Those large ole branches are hanging low, heavy with this years bounty. The crop is considerably smaller this year, so make sure your on our preferred customer...
Grass Farmer
North Star Homestead Farms, LLC - Oct 04, 2014 - By Ann, Laura, and Kara
You may boast of your amber waves of grain, but today’s progressive livestock owner is really a grass farmer. And, of course, we’re talking much more than lawns! There’s the old-school playpen method to pasturing, where animals are given a large area...
Not a Sexy Topic?
North Star Homestead Farms, LLC - Oct 04, 2014 - By Ann, Laura, and Kara
Everybody’s gotta eat. I’m sure somewhere, someone has it figured out how much time the average person spends buying, preparing, and consuming food, not to mention all the hours boasted by the food service industry, which makes food for us when we opt...
Carnage
North Star Homestead Farms, LLC - Oct 04, 2014 - By Ann, Laura, and Kara
Most of the time, rain is welcome on the farm. Maybe not during haying season, and maybe not too much during the spring thaw, but drought is always a specter to fear and avoid. But this year, drought hasn’t been the problem. If you weren’t up...
Change in the Air
North Star Homestead Farms, LLC - Oct 04, 2014 - By Ann, Laura, and Kara
There’s something about the shift to September that shakes away the muggy summer air and brings crisp coolness in the morning. Flowers shift from clovers and daisies to wild asters and golden rod, and the breeze even smells different as it tugs at your...
Butchering Day
North Star Homestead Farms, LLC - Oct 04, 2014 - By Ann, Laura, and Kara
In case you hadn’t heard, Farmstead Creamery & Café is closed on Mondays. We call it the “barn muckin’ chicken pluckin’ hay-balin’ day.” Well, today was one of those days in the chicken pluckin’ department—aka, chores reduction day. It...
Celebrate Fall at the Bluegrass Farmers' Marke...
Bluegrass Farmers Market - Oct 03, 2014 - By Kentucky Proud
Fall will definitely be in the air this Saturday! Make sure you bundle up before you come to the market. Almost 90 degrees on Thursday and possible frost on Sunday...welcome to Kentucky! Lol I sure hope that we get to enjoy the beautiful fall weather before...
Final Summer CSA Delivery
Tewksbury Grace Farm - Oct 03, 2014 - By Johnny and Leah
This is the last delivery for our Summer CSA; we have an exciting line up to say farewell to summer! Thank you for supporting our farm! We are so happy to announce that we got .8 inches of rain this week, which was huge for all our fall crops….the...
Greens and Good Advice
Greenleaf Farms - Sep 28, 2014 - By Sigo
Again the Pacific Poultryman's Magazine, January 1921. This was a good reminder to plant the Winter Clover while it is still warm. Last year we did it far too late, around November 1st and it was brutal sowing the seeds and scratching...
Wise Advice
Greenleaf Farms - Sep 28, 2014 - By Sigo
I found this in an old issue of Pacific Poultry Magazine, January 1921