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Seeds for Spring Planting...

Green Journey Seeds   -   Mar 30, 2017 - By Aline

Heirloom Fragrant Bi-colored Sweet Peas As the rain clouds disperse and soil saturation lessens, we prepare the garden for not so early plantings of our favorite flowers, edibles and medicinal herbs. Heirloom Sweet Peas sown in pots in the greenhouse in...

Hollyhock seeds are fine for chooks

Greenleaf Farms   -   Mar 28, 2017 - By Suki

Found this old article from 1920 in the New York Times archives about using hollyhock seeds (rose of sharon) for poultry.  Hollyhocks put out alot of seeds during the bloom, shake those stamens, and you can safely give it to the chickens.  Of course...

New Amber Eye Sunflower Mix for 2017

Green Journey Seeds   -   Mar 25, 2017 - By Aline

 http://www.localharvest.org/sunflower-mix-amber-eye-seed-packet-C28201 Freshly packed for your organic flower gardens! Visit our store to see all the seed listings for 2017.

2017 Seed List

Green Journey Seeds   -   Mar 21, 2017 - By Aline

Look for these 2017 seed packets in our Localharvest store !    All varieties are also available as seed greeting cards. Amaranth, Elephant Head heirloom    Amaranthus andeana   50 seeds Amaranth, Love Lies...

countdown to CSA season starts now

Abbe Hills Farm CSA   -   Mar 17, 2017 - By Laura_1

Greetings shareholders and friends of Abbe Hills Farm, Market tomorrow morning at the Community Center in Mt. Vernon, 10:00 until noon.  Eggs, meat, vegetables, coffee, bakery, soup mixes, crafts, black walnuts, wine maybe - please check it...

Spring is here again

The Harvest Farm   -   Mar 11, 2017 - By Kim_2

Spring is here again, or did we really have a winter at all?  We have been really busy this season working on closing in our hoop houses to give us more reliable temperature control for growing during the cooler months.  We have also added another...

Grass Fed, Pastured Ground Beef Now Available!!

Stone Hedge Farm   -   Mar 10, 2017 - By Ralph_1

This is the whole steer, made into ground beef. All the best cuts, all the steaks, all the roasts. No grain! No hormones, antibiotics, herbicides, or pesticides. USDA inspected. $7.00 per lb. $6.50 per lb. $6.00 per lb. for 20 lbs. or more Beef that is good...

birds and garlic are signs of spring

Abbe Hills Farm CSA   -   Mar 10, 2017 - By Laura_1

Greetings shareholders and friends of Abbe Hills Farm, Another farmers market tomorrow morning at the Community Center in MV.  I'm bringing several dozen eggs - a welcome improvement on winter's egg poverty.   Spring...

Farmers' market every other Sat 1 to 4 pm

Florida Pure Produce   -   Mar 06, 2017 - By Tom & Mikki

Farm Store opened this week specials on cukes 2 for 3.00 3rd on free. Red onions this week .75 each Limes this week 2 for $1.00  Lime and Cuke salad: Slice 3 cukes thin slice 1 red onion thin mix well soak in water and 2 t salt for 1 hr or...

Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter. It has been a long, hard winter for us and certainly others too. There has been at least a foot of snow covering our entire acreage since late November- we call it the permafrost because it never seems to melt....