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Recent Writing from LocalHarvest Members
Heavy or light hay?
At Home in Nature - Jun 19, 2011 - By Mary_5
A small bale of hay is 50 gallons of material, and sometimes, due to moisture content, density or other quality factors, the weight of the bale may differ.Like a bushel, a small bale is a volumetric assessment.Thus, it is often better to get “heavy” bales than...
Ladybugs!
At Home in Nature - Jun 19, 2011 - By Mary_5
Coccinellidae is a family of beetles, known variously as ladybirds (UK, Ireland, Australia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, India, Malta, some parts of Canada and the US), or ladybugs (North America). Scientists increasingly prefer the names...
Russian olives in bloom again
At Home in Nature - Jun 19, 2011 - By Mary_5
The sweet smell of Russian olives can be noticed again, and the delicious flowers are about to set…well, not very delicious fruit.However, now’s the best time to enjoy them on your table!If you like the flowers, and I sure do, now’s a good time for bouquets...
Insomnia has 3 cluster predictability
At Home in Nature - Jun 19, 2011 - By Mary_5
About this time of year, farmers begin to sleep a little better. No risk of frost! But there are many reasons why people lose sleep. Analysis of insomnia by Doctors Vallières, Ivers, Beaulieu-Bonneau and Morin in their “Predictability of...
Le Menu (what's cookin'?)
At Home in Nature - Jun 19, 2011 - By Mary_5
NEWS FROM THE FARM AND RECIPES What a wet week at the farm! With an inch of water puddling everywhere, the geese and ducks are enjoying themselves tremendously. They go from puddle to puddle, trying each one. They like the one in front...
Pumpkin Planting is Done!
Bloom Where You're Planted Farm - Jun 18, 2011 - By Teresa_2
As of yesterday, there are just 3 months left until opening day of the 7th season here at our southeast Nebraska pumpkin patch! I can't believe how fast time can fly. We've been very busy on the farm and finally got all our pumpkins,...
On the menu - June 13, 2011
Sunshine for Dinner - Jun 17, 2011 - By Georgiaberry
red, yellow, and orange tomatoes Tomatoes! ‘Taxi’ (Yellow), ‘Orange Blossom’ (orange), ‘Early Girl’ (red) Sweet Corn ‘Incredible’ Peaches ‘PF7A’ and ‘Sentinel’ from Jamison Orchard, Nashville AR Green beans ‘Roma” Freshly dug...
Coming Soon-New listings of sustainable products b...
Rainbow Ranch Farms - Jun 17, 2011 - By Poly
We are now working on an entire web page of wonderful organic, heirloom and natural products produced by our farm members, sustainers, growers, co-op's, and supporters. Vegetable, fruit and dried goods C.S.A. Programs! Our farm members will soon...
Bluegrass Farmers' Market Saturday Goodies!
Bluegrass Farmers Market - Jun 16, 2011 - By Kentucky Proud
This is it...the last week of spring and the official start of summer! That means that we are getting closer to corn season in Kentucky! It seems to be one of the crops that customers want more than anything. The other one would be tomatoes and we have those...
Collecting Bees within our community today
Rainbow Ranch Farms - Jun 16, 2011 - By Poly
Today we will be collecting unwelcome bee swarms and bee settlers from local residents and businesses in our community. The calls came in earlier this week and we have prepped the empty bee hives for our new arrivals. Tom, One of our farm members who is...