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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...

Growler of Mead

Localvore Colorado CoOp   -   Jan 09, 2013 - By Jim & Donna

Ok, now that the yeast, honey, and water have been interacting it is time to put it in a container with an Air-lock to slow the fermentation so it can be stored. I did this yesterday. Due to the large amount of energy in the honey, this process will take a bit...

Winter Gardening Confessions (An Update)

Arcadia Farms   -   Jan 09, 2013 - By Katie

Seems like anytime I’m making small talk these days I’m asked “How’s your garden?” (No complaints here; I’m happy to share!) So, let me just tell you how the garden is. It’s good. But not as expected. I just paid the garden a visit yesterday for the first...

New Year's Resolution

North Star Homestead Farms, LLC   -   Jan 08, 2013 - By Ann, Laura, and Kara

Almost everyone takes a moment at this time of year to commit themselves to personal improvement in the coming 12-month.  Many of the more traditional commitments are well known—losing weight, exercising more, quitting smoking, or spending more time with...

Goodbye 2012, Hello 2013

Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Jan 08, 2013 - By Emily

It's hard to believe we're over a week into 2013 already! Looking back, 2012 was a year of great successes, but also great sorrow. Putting up the greenhouse was a major achievement, and I had far more success in starting seed than ever before. Despite...