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 For years I have used good old Excel in order to keep track of my business. Debits, credits, sales, etc. When I first started using a simple spreadsheet, back in the early 90's, it seemed like a wonderful invention. I would sit down every night and...

Raw Buckwheat Honey at Healthy Living Market and C...

Mohawk Valley Trading Company - Honey - Maple Syrup - Beeswax Candles   -   Apr 22, 2013 - By Betty_1

Saratoga Springs, NY -- The Mohawk Valley Trading Company Raw Buckwheat Honey is now available at the Healthy Living Market and Café, Saratoga Springs, NY. This is raw buckwheat honey ; it has not been heated, filtered, blended or processed. All of the...

Extra! Extra! Read all about our fruit tree planti...

Seasons at Procter Farm   -   Apr 21, 2013 - By Rebekah

Here are some photos of our fruit orchard planting. They work both as a grand statement as you enter the Procter campus, and soon enough, the bearers of tasty fruit! 90 apple trees in 3 varieties (Honeycrisp, Golden Delicious, & Zestar) line the...

The school task for students was to work on vocab. The worksheet included the trans- prefix. This meant that transition and transform were there. Both words are important in what we work to accomplish. It was transform that really caught my attention. ...

How to Grow and Use Culinary Lavender

Home Farm Herbery   -   Apr 21, 2013 - By Arlene

How to Grow and Use Culinary Lavender by Arlene Wright-Correll Home Farm Herbery Growing culinary lavender is basically easy and the first step is to know the difference between the several different lavender plants that are available....

Busy Days

Sisters Heritage Farms   -   Apr 20, 2013 - By Lisa_4

We are busy here at the farm!  We have new chicks that are growing fast, they will be laying this fall.  We also have three sweet baby goats.  Our pigs continue to grow, we will likely have piglets this summer!  We continue to produce great...

A Time for Music

North Star Homestead Farms, LLC   -   Apr 20, 2013 - By Ann, Laura, and Kara

Music and rural living have a long history.  Shepherds passed the time playing flutes out in the pastures; country folks came together, linked hands, and danced to fiddle tunes; and often there was singing in the fields.  This ancient view of music...

Unattended Children is a hand painted tile perfect...

Home Farm Herbery   -   Apr 20, 2013 - By Arlene

Unattended Children is a hand painted tile by award winning International artist, Arlene Wright-Correll. It is 11 inches by 14 inches and has ban exterior spray finish that makes this tile usable either inside or outside. Let me make a personalized sign for...

Gabi's Garden

Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Apr 20, 2013 - By Emily

About a week ago, I got a tough phone call.  My college roommate's father called to pass along the sad news that my friend Gabi had passed away.  Though deeply saddened, it didn't come as a surprise.  It also has led me to some...

Sara Moulton Talks Supermarket Fraud and Honey on ...

Mohawk Valley Trading Company - Honey - Maple Syrup - Beeswax Candles   -   Apr 20, 2013 - By Betty_1

New York, NY -- Sara Moulton will be on The Rachael Ray Show, talking about supermarket fraud Monday, April 22. Viewers will learn what to watch out for when they go shopping so they don’t get duped and one of the subjects they will cover is honey. “An...