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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

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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...

Sowing seeds now!

Whispering Pines   -   Feb 27, 2012 - By Roni

Beets, Carrots, Radishes, Swiss Chard, Spinach, Kale, Mesculan Lettuce mix have all been sown directly in the garden.  Tomatoes, Eggplant, hot and sweet Peppers, Rhubarb, have been started indoors.  Looking forward to the last frost so we can really...

Slice and Bake Honey Cookies

Mohawk Valley Trading Company - Honey - Maple Syrup - Beeswax Candles   -   Feb 27, 2012 - By Betty_1

Ingredients: 1 C butter 1 C raw orange blossom honey 3 3/4 C flour 1 t  baking soda 1/2 t cinnamon 1/2 t cloves 1/2 t allspice Directions: In a heavy bottomed saucepan, heat honey and butter together...

Eat local and eat Fresh.

Fluffy Butt Farms   -   Feb 27, 2012 - By Yvette & Rick

Fluffy Butt Farms We raise Heritage large breed chickens. AKA Our Fluffy Butt Hens. We raise Austrialorp & Orpington Hens. These are large breed chickens. They are grain feed and cage free, vegetarian diet. Some of the folks that love our...

Whats Up?

Big Holler Farm   -   Feb 27, 2012 - By Kathie

Well we continue to move along on the farm even tho Randy had to have some stints put in his heart he's back on his feet working hard as ever to get everything done.  We began fencing a new pasture this weekend for the cows.  He got our gardens...