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Serious Pain Relief Made Simple

4 D Acres   -   Dec 04, 2012 - By Mike_6

Purple Rub is an amazing new pain relief cream excellent for sore muscles, achy joints, sprains and strains, and day-to-day discomforts from sports, chores and all activities. Purple Rub has an enjoyable cooling sensation when applied to the skin with a...

It's Comfort Food Season

4 D Acres   -   Dec 04, 2012 - By Mike_6

Fall is here. Cooler weather and shorter days mean that it's comfort food season. It's time to fill the kitchen with the simmering scents of soups, chilis, and sauces. Today, we'd like to share one of our favorite 4D Acres Recipes with you, our...

4 D Acres FAQ 1

4 D Acres   -   Dec 04, 2012 - By Mike_6

Much of what we do at 4 D Acres is answer questions. We want to let you in on what other people are asking in case you had the same question but hadn’t asked it yet. Q. I am trying to understand the differences between the various emu oils. It looks like...

Looking for our Christmas Tree

Bindel Farms   -   Dec 03, 2012 - By Jason_3

Today we went out looking for our Christmas tree. Traditionally we go out a week after Thanksgiving and usually it is cold and sometimes snowy but today was a balmy 60 degrees.  I alway make a point to shop local farms for product and today was no...

New Website Address

Kyle Farms All Natural Lamb   -   Dec 03, 2012 - By Anne

I want to apologize to anyone who may have tried to visit our old website at kylefarmsnys .com  due to an old e-mail address on file with our domain source, we lost our .com and are now located at www.kylefarmsnys.net  New web design as well! ...

Great Write Up About Kyle Farms

Kyle Farms All Natural Lamb   -   Dec 03, 2012 - By Anne

One of our lovely neighbors did a great write-up about the farm!    Please check it out Kyle Farms Story  It includes great photos of our flock and families taken by Best Reflections Photography from Caledonia, NY this fall, and some by...

On the farm the late fall crops are doing well. A great harvest of leeks, Brussels sprouts, rutabegas, radicchio, broccoli, and kale was done. I also I harvested a nice crop of collards. Maybe it’s a Michigan thing (or a white, Michigan thing), but collards...

Dye from Natural Causes

Arcadia Farms   -   Dec 02, 2012 - By Katie

I heart food (and my belly shows it!). I hate food dye (and my baking shows it!). Well, I don’t hate food dye – I hate artificial food dye. My distaste for Red 40 and other unnatural food colorings began when our son started having major issues with...

My frustration with land prices!

Bindel Farms   -   Dec 01, 2012 - By Jason_3

Since I was a young kid, I always wanted to own land.  I even owned geese on a city lot when I was a kid.  As I got older, I grew a passion for farming and raising healthy and better tasting foods without chemical fertilizers, herbicides, hormones...

It's getting kind of "chicken-ey" ar...

Wild Things Farm   -   Dec 01, 2012 - By Terry_5

Today I was returning from an early morning trip to town and I realized I hadn't opened the high tunnel up before I left, and it was a very sunny day--that means HOT in the tunnel.   While walking to the ht I spied a hawk flying out of the chicken...