The Blog Barn

Wow!!

Moonstruck Farms   -   Nov 10, 2011 - By Rowena

Thank you everyone for your overwhelming support of the Bashaw Farm.  They are down to approximately 25 turkeys and I think they will be gone by the end of the week.  If you need one for Christmas you should get it now (I get one for every...

Buying American products for the holidays

The Jam and Jelly Lady   -   Nov 10, 2011 - By Sonya

Something to chew on.  Figuratively speaking.   This past weekend, I taught a brilliant group of women how to can.  I got paid for my efforts, and was very thankful for the revenue because our business is like any other retail business:...

Fall 2011

Spring Hill Farm   -   Nov 09, 2011 - By Camille

After a very fruitful fall, this year's CSA is done. This is the first summer and fall where we had so much rain.  Some crops fared better than others and some old faithful didn't do well because it was too wet. So it will be interesting to see...

Molting

Free Range WNY Chicken Eggs   -   Nov 09, 2011 - By Brenda_2

This is our second year raising chickens and for the first time our chickens went into a molt. When chickens molt is means that there feathers fall out and they grow new ones. This primarily happens when the days get shorter and the nights get cold. Most of...

Hop, Hop, Hop

Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Nov 09, 2011 - By Emily

  What is a hop? No, I'm not referring to something the rabbits are doing, I'm talking about a plant. I think most people are familiar with hops, although they might not even know it! Combined with water, malted barley, and yeast, they are...

Lifehacker Covers Local Honey and Why You Should B...

What's the Buzz?   -   Nov 09, 2011 - By Marcie

 This just in from my alert son-in-law, who is about to become the father of twins. It's a reprint from "Lifehacker" about why local honey is important. I couldn't have said it better myself!! You'll see that they mention Local...

This month I am focused on Nubian-goat breeding. My 2011 breeding buck is experienced and gentle and does his job very well, he is almost 3 years old and he is a hunk!. This month I am breeding 4 does, for kidding in 2012. I will be planning on 2012...

Debris essential to reforestation

At Home in Nature   -   Nov 09, 2011 - By Mary_5

Drs. Tomasz Zielonka and Mats Nildasson (Ecological Bulletins, 2001. 49:159-163) of the Institute of Botany in the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Southern Sweedish Forest Research Center of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences remark how...

In The News

Our City Farm   -   Nov 08, 2011 - By Jeri

We were so pleased by the recent article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about our city farm expansion project. If you would like to read the article, it can be found here: St. Louis Post-Dispatch Article To help make our expansion happen, please visit: ...

A Promise

At Home in Nature   -   Nov 08, 2011 - By Mary_5

In farming and ranching, despite the boasts of science and technology against the so-called inconveniences of nature, there remains a lack of confidence in these powerful tools by those whom they were made. A sick animal can be taken into the barn, given...