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Important Updates For Our Members

Rainbow Ranch Farms   -   Aug 23, 2011 - By Poly

Pick-Up - Sat. Sept. 3rd 10-11:30am Remember when picking up at the farm:  Protein Baskets, Poultry CSA or Beef Shares, bring your paypal print-out! Thank you!! Sat. Sept. 3rd 10-11:30am. Our yahoo group has been compromised by spammers and...

Childhood favorite with fresh veggies and herbs

Conroe Saturday AM market   -   Aug 23, 2011 - By Fred

Back to Fresh veggies bought at Market. This week when I arrived home from Market I had Fresh Tomatoes for SamM salsa. Tomatoes , spanish Onions, and Balsamic vinegar are in the salsa so far. Fresh green beans, broccoli, Strawberries, and Red, Yellow and...

Deer, oh dear.

Tangle Tree Ranch   -   Aug 23, 2011 - By Marte Holen

Well, since one of our neighbors LOVES deer, or I should say, ANTLERS. We have a problem with deer. They have finished off our cabbage, and love the sweet corn. I can not stop our neighbor from feeding about 400 hundred of them, but PLEASE hunt deer. I...

Lying down in the nut grass, by Marilyn

Garden Inspirations   -   Aug 22, 2011 - By Marilyn_1

First I must say how thankful I am for the sprinkling of rain and the wonderful cloud cover on Saturday.  It gave me hope fall is coming. Don woke me at 5a.m. and said it’s raining, I jumped up ran outside in my jammies and did a little rain jig! ...

Three Rows Planted, by Duchess

Garden Inspirations   -   Aug 22, 2011 - By Marilyn_1

All these years my mother has been in her garden, sometimes stressing out about planting dates, I didn't truly comprehend the madness.  I do now.  This new hobby of mine has been an incredible discovery.  I wish it wasn't so far away, I...

LIfe in the garden by Lavender Karen

Garden Inspirations   -   Aug 22, 2011 - By Marilyn_1

On Thursday morning I awoke to a wonderful surprise. Marigold Marilyn had been working in my garden. She placed two water mats in my garden and began staking them for me. I was so glad that I had pulled weeds in her garden earlier, or I would have felt pretty...

Market Musings!

Bluegrass Farmers Market   -   Aug 22, 2011 - By Kentucky Proud

I thought long and hard about what to write this week and I have to admit that my brain wandered into some very nice places. I found myself smiling, almost grinning, quite a bit. The reason was mostly the farmers who make up the Bluegrass Farmers' Market....

We'll take an inch of rain. Moderate temperat...

Abbe Hills Farm CSA   -   Aug 22, 2011 - By Laura_1

Greetings shareholders, This week, we'll have potatoes, onions, garlic, carrots, squash, maybe some cucumbers, chiles, tomatoes, sweet peppers, basil, dill, and cilantro.  This is the last week that I'll give you ugly onions.  We had two...

Store bought Baby dills WON Hands Down

Conroe Saturday AM market   -   Aug 20, 2011 - By Fred

I waited to share the results because I had to show my salsa infused sliced Pickles to Chef Michael and Elvis at Market today.                   Here's what...

Mango Cheesecake

The Farm Report from Turkey Hill   -   Aug 20, 2011 - By Farmer Herman

crust - 2 cups graham cracker crumbs   1/2 cup sugar  1/2 cup butter[really don't use more than that it gets too hard.] mix em up and press into 9" springform pan. try to make it as smooth as possible. not lumpy and make it go up the...