The Blog Barn

CSA Ordering Deadline.

Tangle Tree Ranch   -   Apr 24, 2012 - By Marte Holen

Our deadline for our CSA is coming up, and we hope for a few more than last year. We always have room for more, and improvements.  The garlic is coming, and so are some of the other fall planted or preanual crops. I was hoping to move our aspergus...

Farm Kids Stand Up and Take Notice

Spring Hill Farms   -   Apr 24, 2012 - By David_8

I recently read the story of the youngest farmer to receive the Animal Welfare Approved certification. Meet 12 year old Shelby Grebenc of Broomfield Co. According to the article in the Animal Welfare Approved newsletter , she has 130 laying hens. She has...

Americans facing forclosures ,job loss and starvat...

Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Apr 23, 2012 - By Tony_1

To start with here are some refreshers statistics about why lawns are inefficient ,a waste , COSTLY and taxing in many ways: -Residential lawns comprise 23 million acres of land in the U.S. -58 million Americans spend $30 billion per year for lawn...

Can't use antibiotics anymore?

At Home in Nature   -   Apr 23, 2012 - By Mary_5

On April 12, the New York Times reporter Gardiner Harris reported that “Farmers and ranchers will for the first time need a prescription from a veterinarian before using antibiotics in farm animals, in hopes that more judicious use of the drugs will reduce the...

Flower Candy

At Home in Nature   -   Apr 23, 2012 - By Mary_5

Apple, plum, pansies, tulip, lilac, dandelion and cherry blossoms are in season right now and they are delicious!I like them in tea as well as in my salads.But one of the more special ways you can prepare them is by making them into candies. Prepare warm...

Harvest Hill Veggies

Harvest Hill Farms   -   Apr 23, 2012 - By Justin & Sara

Harvest Hill Farms is currently constructing a 2900 sq ft high tunnel for vegetable production. We hope to have it up in the next few weeks and that means farm fresh vegetables well into fall and winter months. What is a high tunnel you may ask? It is a...

Farming life

Richert/Phillips Farms   -   Apr 23, 2012 - By Michael_3

The other day we went to the fields and started working--planting early seeds(beets, lettuce, peas), discing, and cleaning up the equipment. The day started off like an average day chickens need tending and coffee for us. But about noon the so called nostalgic...

Lots of fresh veggies.

PEAS Farm   -   Apr 23, 2012 - By Pat & Elvis

The weather has been beautiful. Just enough rain, sun and cool evenings. Everything is coming up and doing excellent. Visit us at one of our Farmer's Markets locations to enjoy the wonderful fresh veggies coming from the farm.

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For Dragonflies And Me   -   Apr 22, 2012 - By Neil & Jean

"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant." Robert Louis Stevenson Today was magnificent! The sun was shining and the warmth it gave was strength for the soul.  We worked outside all day~ Neil...

The work I planned wasn't going to get done. I wanted to set out cabbage and broccoli seedlings that had hardened off. However, a high energy weather system moved through and the wind was blowing 25-30 mph with gusts to and above 40 mph. I moved indoors...