The Blog Barn

Here at our home in southern Idaho it is 11 degrees right now. Nice and chilly! Only one problem. Our main source of heat went out last night.  We use a large pellet stove to keep our place warm. No matter how cold it gets outside our pellet stove will...

The Cat Who Came Back

Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Jan 14, 2013 - By Emily

As promised, this time I'm sharing the story of Puff & Little Puff. Hopefully, it's one you'll enjoy, but you may end up thinking I'm a nut. Either way, here it is... 12 years ago, I had yet to meet Dan. I kept my horse Sara on a piece of...

Farm Logo Contest winner!

Bindel Farms   -   Jan 14, 2013 - By Jason_3

As most of you know, we had a contest for a farm logo elast year and we had lots of great logo designs sent in to our farm but in the end, we decided on this logo for our farm after some minor modifications by us.   Congratulations...

Goats Galore!

Zekiah Farms, LLC   -   Jan 14, 2013 - By Thorne

Goats Galore! The girls at Zekiah Farms have been busy kidding around.  We have kids everywhere.  This is our favorite time of year, there isn’t anything cuter then kids running around and playing.  

It's Planning Time!

Crazy Woman Ranch   -   Jan 14, 2013 - By Samantha_1

Winter time brings images of calm times and lots of movies to watch. The crew at Crazy Woman Ranch has been busy checking out our various seed catalogs, purchasing seeds, packaging seeds and making out our wishlists. Believe it or not, we've found a...

Typical January weather includes snow, frozen ground, wind and lake effect snow showers. On Saturday the 12th we had record high temperatures and spring fever. Climate change is wacky sometimes.  During our warm day the kitchen scraps were...

Puzzled about Health Insurance and farming.

Bindel Farms   -   Jan 12, 2013 - By Jason_3

The start of the new year has brought a clean slate to our farm but it also brought  higher health insurance premiums for us which are as high as 25% more this year.  Ouch! Even though both my wife and I currently work outside...

eggs and bread. Wheat issues

Abbe Hills Farm CSA   -   Jan 11, 2013 - By Laura_1

Greetings shareholders and friends of Abbe Hills, This market this week is at the Springville Community Center, downtown Springville, 9:00 until 11:00.  I'll be gone again, but Charlotte will be there with the eggs and her wonderful bread.  ...

Wow! OK, OK. I will stop complaining that winter is not here yet. After last weeks negative temperatures, followed by some more snow, we are now getting the whole combo thing.  As of right now, it is snowing and blowing. Just to make sure that we are...

Last pork until late summer 2013

Moonstruck Farms   -   Jan 10, 2013 - By Rowena

Moonstruck Farms has one side of Berkshire pork left available and that will harvested in June 2013, and the next available batch will not be until August 2013.  We are maxed out!! The winter batch of chicken is going okay though costs are high due to...