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Naturally Colored Eggs!

Red Goat Gardens   -   Mar 26, 2012 - By Rick_1

How about naturally colored eggs!  Our Ameraucana hens lay beautiful green and blue eggs and our Cuckoo Marans lay chocolate brown eggs.  So, we have a nice variety to go along with our brown egg layers.  These are great for spring baking and...

Keeping an Egg Flock: Spring Begins!

Emma's Family Farm in Maine   -   Mar 25, 2012 - By Rose and Steve

In order to sell free range eggs, one must be keeping free range layings hens as naturally as possible. If the farm is to be diverse, those hens should be relatively easy to care for and meld into the farm's systems seamlessly -- in other words, each step...

Busy week, shearing, more kidding, aquaponics, and...

Four Country Gals   -   Mar 25, 2012 - By Shari_1

What a week! With great spring weather,  we've been outside working on projects.  You know  the old adage, work on the farm is never done. Bev built some more feeders for the sheep, and we got those installed. Today we built a creep area for...

Brandy with two ewe lambs

The Green Shepherd Farm Blog   -   Mar 25, 2012 - By Stephen & Annette

I love the look on Brandy's face !

Spring '12 Laming

The Green Shepherd Farm Blog   -   Mar 25, 2012 - By Stephen & Annette

This is my first blog of any kind, so for the most part, I'm just feeling my way around.  Five of our seven ewes have lambed, resulting in twelve healthy little ones. One ram is a bummer, but seems to be doing fine. We'll be reserving up to five...

Buffalo Hunt - Permitted by right?

At Home in Nature   -   Mar 25, 2012 - By Mary_5

Buffalo hunting on "A" Zoned land - a use permitted by right (c) 2012 Meadowlark Herald - www.themeadowlarkherald.com .  Reprinted with permission.

Lost, or exploring?

At Home in Nature   -   Mar 25, 2012 - By Mary_5

I saw a crow flying far off course, all by itself.Sometimes, like people do, animals go exploring on purpose, discovering new resources and opportunities.Other times, like people, they just get plain lost.This crow seemed lost, because it was making distressed...

The missing poor

At Home in Nature   -   Mar 25, 2012 - By Mary_5

In 2009, 4% of Elbert County residents had income below the poverty level, compared to a State-wide average of 9.3%.This is not due to the ease at which the poor achieve a higher income in Elbert County, but because they have been marginalized by their...

This Weather

Heritage Hills Farm   -   Mar 24, 2012 - By Patricia_1

We are had such a mild winter my Rosemary made it through and that has never happened before. We are having a delightful spring. All my seedlings are up and I have even started to plant the cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower etc. But how about all those tender...

Visitors Are Welcome!!!!

L'Ecuyer Gardens   -   Mar 24, 2012 - By Twilya

We have had a few people stop by this morning unable to resist the huge variety of tomato plants we now have available.Perhaps you should stop by too.We are a bit of a drive, but worth it.You will not find our selection in heirloom and rare tomatoes anywhere...