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Recent Writing from LocalHarvest Members
cinco de mayo
Eaters' Guild - May 06, 2012 - By Laurie_2
Tonight's event was a super-moon...was a bit overcast to see the moon just rising--so while a full moon is always super---we didn't quite see its in it's proclaimed glory, from our position at south beach in South Haven. Here's a...
Can I Glue Your Steak Please
Spring Hill Farms - May 05, 2012 - By David_8
Glue Your Steak Together! Just when you thought that the gigantic meat packers were "walking the straight and narrow" over the pink slime controversy, now we discover your steak just might be glued together out of several different pieces of meat....
Fogged In
Westminster Farmers' Market - May 05, 2012 - By Dean
The fog was thick at The Town Common on Academy Hill in Westminster Friday afternoon. In spite of the weather, we had a good turn-out by both vendors and customers at the first market of the season yesterday. People were pleased that Ann Patsis is...
Recent rains move strawberries along
Spinella Farm - May 04, 2012 - By Edward_1
The warm weather and rains have helped move the strawberry crop right along. We have the delicious berries now available and the first year plants look like they are producing nice big berries. A quick survey this morning noted that the potatoes also like...
Spruce Tip Extravaganza and the Poor Mans Balsamic
Morgan Botanicals - May 04, 2012 - By Jessica_7
I wait and I wait. And I patiently wait, until out of thin air, the little brown paperbag-like sheathes slough off the tips of the branches and float away.... revealing the new little spruce needles that are the most beauteous little tender chartreuse new born...
The Season Underway
Seasons at Procter Farm - May 04, 2012 - By Rebekah
Over the past week or so the chickens and I have been trying to work out a routine where I go to shut them in their coop when they are already inside and ready to sleep. Usually I get worried that it is getting too late and too dark and head over there only to...
How does GMO or Genetically Modified food Affect...
Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL - May 04, 2012 - By Tony_1
My mother who is Ninety two years old and who grew up on a farm and grew her own food when at a younger age , told me that her body is rejecting tghe food that she buys from the conventional markets. She started to complain about many ailments and she had to...
What have you plamted?
Debbie's Garden - May 04, 2012 - By Chickadee1
Everyone tell me what you have planted this year.....i want to know!! I've got two kinds of green beans, peas, radishes, carrots, limas, butterbeans, tomatoes and peppers, okra, corn, eggplant and tomatillos, squash (three kinds), melons, arugula,...
Open for The Serason
Westminster Farmers' Market - May 04, 2012 - By Dean
This appeared in The "Fitchburg Sentinel" yesterday: Concert at Westminster gazebo Friday Sentinel & Enterprise Sentinel & Enterprise Posted: sentinelandenterprise.com ...
And It Begins...
Bloom Where You're Planted Farm - May 03, 2012 - By Teresa_2
Yesterday was a milestone for us -- the first planting of the year! We started a new garden spot out near our chicken house, and planted two types of tomatoes and sweet red peppers. We also planted a couple rows of the broom corn seed that I bought...