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Sometimes it hurts

Cedar Valley Sustainable Farm   -   Jan 26, 2012 - By Jody_1

Sometimes it hurts… Much of the joy we receive from farming is in the connections we have with our customers/members and the other businesses that make CVSF go. At each delivery, we get to talk with our extended farm family.Usually, we hear about yummy...

Milk and Honey Loaf

Mohawk Valley Trading Company - Honey - Maple Syrup - Beeswax Candles   -   Jan 26, 2012 - By Betty_1

Ingredients: 1 cup graham flour 1 cup unbleached white flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 cup whole milk 1/2 cup raw buckwheat honey Directions: Preheat the oven to 375°F Butter a loaf pan Put the graham...

Dig early dig often

At Home in Nature   -   Jan 26, 2012 - By Mary_5

Tilling the soil is the best way to improve it. Adding air to the soil, even if you integrate NO manure or green matter, helps the beneficial microorganisms breathe and mineralize important nutrients from the air. More than 16kg/ha of nitrogen can be...

Could I possibly be considered a hoarder?

Wild Things Farm   -   Jan 26, 2012 - By Terry_5

I’ve not watched any of the new reality shows on hoarding, but once in a while I ask myself that question.  I do have hoarding tendencies for saving plastic plant pots (I do use them, really I do), plastic produce containers, egg cartons, fabric (she who...

Maple Honey Cookies

Mohawk Valley Trading Company - Honey - Maple Syrup - Beeswax Candles   -   Jan 26, 2012 - By Betty_1

Ingredients: 1 C butter ¾ C Maple Syrup ¾ C Honey 2 eggs 4-inches of scraped vanilla bean or 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 t salt 1 t baking soda 2 ½ C flour 1 C chopped walnuts 2 C dark chocolate chips Directions: ...

Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter. Three years ago this month I started taking a new approach to meal planning. It sounds like an exaggeration, but it really has changed my life. If you're like me, you like to cook, but don't enjoy...

Home again

Richert/Phillips Farms   -   Jan 25, 2012 - By Michael_3

   We came back from another series of seminars. I tell you seminars are good but so often they can drain energy right out of you--sitting for hours. The classes are filled with a lot of information and we learn, but when the lights are dimmed it can...

Morgan Botanicals Herbal CSA

Morgan Botanicals   -   Jan 25, 2012 - By Jessica_7

Morgan Botanicals is very excited to announce our new Herbal CSA Memberships! Beginning this year we are offering the opportunity for local and not so local to be a part of our new monthly herbal medicines program. We have created an Herbal CSA Program...

Farm Stand Forced to Close

Spring Hill Farms   -   Jan 25, 2012 - By David_8

I'm always so frustrated when I read about other farmers coming under such attack from our elected officials and government workers. As small farmers and local food supporters we have to stick together and the Farm-to-Cunsumer Legal Defense Fund is one...

New USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Wild Things Farm   -   Jan 25, 2012 - By Terry_5

During the yucky days of winter the Happy Hoer does a lot of surfing ....... I also subscribe to several blogs of interest.  Just this morning a new USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map was published, with a feature where you can type in your zip code and your...