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Cornish Cross Chickens - How Fast is too Fast?

Spring Hill Farms   -   Sep 30, 2013 - By David_8

The ASPCA has recently launched a campaign "The Truth about Chicken" which is exposing the facts about how chickens are raised in the factory farm model and they are actively promoting slower growing breeds instead of the industry standard, Cornish...

Wheat, Hard Red Spring (100% Organic/Non-Hybrid/No...

Home Farm Herbery   -   Sep 29, 2013 - By Arlene

Wheat, Hard Red Spring (100% Organic/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) At Home Farm Herbery we love this hard, brownish, high-protein wheat and we use it for bread and hard baked goods. Bread Flour and high-gluten flours are commonly made from...

Eggplant Long Ping Tung (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/...

Home Farm Herbery   -   Sep 29, 2013 - By Arlene

Eggplant Long Ping Tung (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) At Home Farm Herbery we find this seed to be a very early producer of 11" long and thin fruits and we find them to be perfect for stir fries! This is one of the only...

Large Gourds (Mixed) (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non...

Home Farm Herbery   -   Sep 29, 2013 - By Arlene

Large Gourds (Mixed) (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) At Home Farm Herbery we use these members of the squash family for making crafts, birdhouses, dippers, and ornaments. These heirloom seeds give excellent yields of assorted large gourds...

Salad Burnet (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) se...

Home Farm Herbery   -   Sep 29, 2013 - By Arlene

Salad Burnet (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Poterium sanguisorba At Home Farm Herbery we love this perennial and we keep flowers cut to promote leaf growth because this plant produces serrated leaves that taste and smell like...

Peas Oregon Sugar Pod (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/No...

Home Farm Herbery   -   Sep 29, 2013 - By Arlene

Peas Oregon Sugar Pod (100% Heirloom/Non-Hybrid/Non-GMO) Home Farm Herbery loves these mammoth type snow peas with excellent flavor and they are so easy to grow and we love them in stir fries. We like that these are not only an...

The last several years we have had frost by the 3 rd week of September. The frost tender plants were done before October began. That meant fewer items in CSA shares and a skimpier table at Market. Not this season. Production continues though slower for the...

Harvest 2013

Whispering Oaks Vineyard and Winery   -   Sep 28, 2013 - By Larry

What an amazing harvest this year!  We've got more grapes than we know what to do with.  In fact, we are allowing people to pick for personal use for the first time in many years. This year brings 2 new wines to our line up.  Gasconade...

Under The Fence

Dark Water Ranch   -   Sep 27, 2013 - By shepherd

Recently, we have done dramatic changes to the goat/sheep barn. The new design has alleys that have gates and goes to individual stalls and the milk room. Gates mean we can shut off areas that we don’t want anyone going into. However, there are a couple of...

Homegrown Turmeric root

Green Journey Seeds   -   Sep 27, 2013 - By Aline

Turmeric root harvested this week from a second plant we grew outdoors this summer. Protected by an open-ended hoop house, it did not flower like the plant in the greenhouse. Looks like it concentrated its vital energy on the medicine below! A short post on...