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Irish Sausage Seasoning Irish Sausage Seasoning by Home Farm Herbery includes a great recipe for the traditional Irish Sausage. This is the next best thing to going to Ireland! Ingredients: thyme, rosemary, basil, marjoram,...

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It's HOT HOT!!!!

Wach Valley Farms   -   Jul 19, 2013 - By Jesse_1

I just come in for min   to cool down but lots of works to do yeat.It's hot! It Is 93 derees whit humidity of 77% and heat indx of 100 derees I got the wood to make the screen door for the chickens.but got a fan going for them. and...

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Sassy Pigs

North Star Homestead Farms, LLC   -   Jul 19, 2013 - By Ann, Laura, and Kara

It’s one of those days.  You’ve been invited to chill at a neighbor’s bonfire, the chores still need to be done, it’s been a busy day at Farmstead, and you would really just like to sit down and put your feet up…when the pigs decide it’s the best time to...

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Clipping Chicken Wings

Arcadia Farms   -   Jul 19, 2013 - By Katie

Last week I shared that we’re one step closer to bona fide chicken paddocks at Arcadia Farms. Our paddocks are enclosed with four foot tall chain link fencing. Despite being a heavy breed (Isa Reds), our hens demonstrated several times that they had no qualms...

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kids and cows

Thousand Hills Ranch   -   Jul 19, 2013 - By buckaroo7

Our daily life involves kids.  Of course they make every event interesting.  From chores, errands, dad's work with the cattle and putting up hay, their perspective can make you laugh or cry.  The big girls are riding to check the cows on...

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Hot, hot, hot!!

Tewksbury Grace Farm   -   Jul 19, 2013 - By Johnny and Leah

Hi Friends, We’ve been sizzling on our hilltop up here!  This heat has been tough, but we got a load of water yesterday, and we’ve been irrigating to reduce our plants’ stress.  For our stress, I’ve filled up a small stock tank to cool down in,...

Saturday is going to be a special day because the farmers get to celebrate our customers. It is Customer Appreciation Day at both market locations! How do we say thank you? We're giving away flexible cutting boards...they are in limited quantities, so shop...

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Canning Labels with Style

Arcadia Farms   -   Jul 18, 2013 - By Katie

  One of the Locavore90 Commitments our family made was to preserve at least two in-season produce items in June, July and August. So far we’ve made jelly from violets, frozen asparagus, made strawberry jam, frozen some strawberries and canned...

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Mediterranean Dry Goat Rub

Home Farm Herbery   -   Jul 18, 2013 - By Arlene

Mediterranean Dry Goat Rub Home Farm Herbery’s Organic, Chemical-free Mediterranean Dry Goat Rub makes an excellent meat rub for goat or kids roasts or chops. At Home Farm Herbery we are always striving to make our blends better and our...

Watermelon Blueberry Cocktail Recipe   This refreshing summer cocktail combines the flavors of watermelon and blueberry with fresh vanilla caviar (seeds scraped from a vanilla bean). Vanilla Citrus Simple...

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