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Review Continued

Agropraxis Farm   -   Oct 28, 2012 - By Farmer Pete

Part II: Working the soil through planting seed, amending and transplanting provided more information on soil health and fertility. The friable crumb made it a easy to work. Little need for heavy equipment or overly strenuous  efforts. Setting out...

A special thank you to everyone who participated in the annual Medicinal Herb Sale! I hope everyone will enjoy their remedies and if anyone has any questions, please let me know! Another note - the pending "Frankenstorm" is proposed to hit my area...

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Quality is a Good Thing

L'Ecuyer Gardens   -   Oct 26, 2012 - By Twilya

Now that my growing season has come to end, I find myself engaged in agriculture in different ways.I am just now returning from Pennsylvania where I had an opportunity to spend time with a group of individuals with limited exposure to agriculture and...

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Rockin' with the Celery

Tewksbury Grace Farm   -   Oct 26, 2012 - By Johnny and Leah

Hi Friends, We were lucky to get through the freeze two weeks ago with minimum damage.  We used double and triple layers of row cover on our crops.   This week we have enjoyed warm weather for harvesting and cleaning.  We have plenty of...

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About Us.

Brook-Lin Jerseys   -   Oct 25, 2012 - By Linda_9

Our up to date blog site is located here . We are registered Kentucky Proud and certified Animal Welfare Approved .

My usual routine for washing fleece has been to:  pick open the fleece by hand, pull out any large bits of VM [that’s vegetable matter for you non-fiber folks, i.e. bits of hay, straw, seedheads, grass, weeds, etc.], shake that handful, stuff said...

This is it...Saturday will be the last market day of the 2012 season. It's always a bittersweet day. The fields are showing the signs of the season and growth has slowed down. The farmers are tired and looking forward to a wee bit of a break...like that...

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Sunset on our farm

Bindel Farms   -   Oct 25, 2012 - By Jason_3

Here is a sunset I would like share with you which was taken on the farm.

They always say necessity is the mother of invention. (Who's the father?)  This rang true this weekend when we were at a harvest fair in Miami and ran out of our Key Lime Sublime honey. We're really big into all natural honeys....unfiltered,...

Greetings Abbe Hills CSA shareholders and friends, In this week between the end of the CSA season and the beginning of the winter markets in Mt Vernon, we've still got lots of wonderful garden.  So we're having a One-Day-Only-CSA this...

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