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Are your children obese?

At Home in Nature   -   Jul 04, 2011 - By Mary_5

While every child loves fruit, most love vegetables if they are exposed to them a dozen times or more.  Vegetables are better foods for children than fruits, but the causes of obesity are numerous.  If you have trouble getting your children to eat...

Wildflower diary

At Home in Nature   -   Jul 04, 2011 - By Mary_5

The wildflowers are at their peak display right now as the world begins to prepare for the winter ahead.You can preserve these colorful bits of summer by pressing them and preserving them in a botanical journal, homemade paper, potpourri, laminate them, or...

Top crops for cheimcals

At Home in Nature   -   Jul 04, 2011 - By Mary_5

When you’re doing your grocery shopping next time, here’s a report you might want to consider.The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has recently published its seventh annual “Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce” which presents a list of the produce that...

Penning animals

At Home in Nature   -   Jul 04, 2011 - By Mary_5

Keeping your animals (or someone else’s) on the correct side of the fence can be quite a challenge.Some kinds of animals are easier to fence in (or out), and some are very difficult.Within a species, some individuals are more determined to escape and some are...

Dragonfly watching

At Home in Nature   -   Jul 04, 2011 - By Mary_5

It’s dragonfly time again!Though they look ferocious (hence their name), dragonflies are actually very harmless to people, and great for your garden and yard! Dragonflies are predators and eat lots of small bugs.When they first hatch they live underwater...

Le Menu (what's cookn'?)

At Home in Nature   -   Jul 04, 2011 - By Mary_5

NEWS FROM THE FARM AND RECIPES Summertime is hot and everyone at the farm finds some shade midday.  The wild animals enjoy our tall grasses and wildspaces, our domestic animals enjoy their pens (except for Tom the rescue turkey who will stand in...

A week without rain, broccoli has begun

Abbe Hills Farm CSA   -   Jul 04, 2011 - By Laura_1

Greetings shareholders, This week, we'll have lettuce, spring daikon radish, onions, the last of the garlic scapes, shell peas and snap peas, broccoli, cabbage (maybe), kale and collards, the last kohlrabi, and  a little bit of cilantro. ...

What I found at Market this weekend 7/2/11

Conroe Saturday AM market   -   Jul 04, 2011 - By Fred

This weekend in Conroe though it was 100+ degrees it was worth the visit. A new surprise awaited us in the form of Fredricksburg Peaches. Signs were out to help direct us to Market and straight to the Peach stand. And yes a $5 dollar bucket was enough to...

Celery in 100 degree temps!

Moonstruck Farms   -   Jul 04, 2011 - By Rowena

We continue to learn as we grow here at Moonstruck.  The irrigation is still being tweaked to maximize, but with a little shade cloth we are growing lettuce and spinach in 100 degree temps in the greenhouse...and celery!!! Wow, I would have told you you...

Chicks, hatching eggs and roosters

Borrowed Thyme Farm   -   Jul 03, 2011 - By Michael & Denise

Chicks and hatching eggs, available for purchase. We will have quite a few extra roosters, for anyone who wants to butcher their own birds.