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Taco - Botano Night coming soon

Conroe Saturday AM market   -   Feb 29, 2012 - By Fred

Awesome Salsa is marinating. It will be used to flavor multiple dishes as the week progresses. Tomorrow night will be Taco or Botano night. Ground beef seasoned with chili spices and vinegar on top of Doritos. Avocado, onion, tomatoes, peppers will all find...

Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter. Rare is the book I want to carry around with me from room to room. This month I have been in the clutches of one such, and remain utterly smitten. Oddly enough, it's a book about gardening. I usually avoid...

What are we reading?

At Home in Nature   -   Feb 28, 2012 - By Mary_5

Dr. Peter Ward is a paleontologist at the University of Washington, a full Professor of Earth and Space Science.We read Dr. Ward’s Under a Green Sky and Medea Hypothesis and found them entertaining, enlightening and very singular, so to speak. The...

Savory Honey Orange Salad Dressing

Mohawk Valley Trading Company - Honey - Maple Syrup - Beeswax Candles   -   Feb 28, 2012 - By Betty_1

Ingredients: 1 3/4 C Greek yogurt 1/4 C raw orange blossom honey 1/4 C orange juice 3/4 t grated orange rind 1/4 t freshly grated ginger 1 T soy sauce Directions: In a re-seal able plastic bowl combine all ingredients...

Newly Weaned Alpaca Boys

Quarry Critters Alpaca Ranch   -   Feb 28, 2012 - By Julie_6

Newly Weaned Alpaca Boys Written by Julie Wysong                 Today I went to check on the newly weaned alpaca boys. Weaning is when we remove the baby alpacas, called cria,...

Spring Piglets!

Rainbow Ranch Farms   -   Feb 28, 2012 - By Poly

http://rainbowranchfarms.blogspot.com/2012/02/piglets.html

Crowdsourcing

SlowMoneyFarm   -   Feb 28, 2012 - By Jan

In the pursuit of staying debt free, we have to leverage much. This means sometimes we're busy growing animals and plants, preparing raised beds, planning, using social media to spread the word about what we're doing and a host of other things that...

Apple Maple White Cheddar Pie

Mohawk Valley Trading Company - Honey - Maple Syrup - Beeswax Candles   -   Feb 28, 2012 - By Betty_1

Ingredients: ½ C demerara sugar , plus 2 T separate 2 T flour ½ t cinnamon ¼ t nutmeg ¼ t salt 5 C apples, peeled and thinly sliced 1 ½ C white cheddar, shredded ¼ C maple syrup , plus 2 T separate 1 T heavy cream Dough...

Chocolate Honey Fudge

Mohawk Valley Trading Company - Honey - Maple Syrup - Beeswax Candles   -   Feb 28, 2012 - By Betty_1

Ingredients: 1/4 C raw honey ( raw wildflower honey or raw buckwheat honey ) 2 C demerara sugar (pulverized) 2 squares baking chocolate (grated) 1/3 C whole milk 1/4 C half and half 1/2 t salt 2 T butter 2 inches of...

February

Sweet Harmony Farm   -   Feb 27, 2012 - By Mona

This winter continues to be warm and weird.  Most nights are still well below freezing but the days are still rather mild for New Hampshire.   We’ve hardly received any snow.   It’s the middle of February and we can see the grass and...