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Make your own plow!

At Home in Nature   -   Apr 06, 2011 - By Mary_5

Tillage without machine operated or animal-operated tools can be difficult.These tools can be very expensive, and the machines and draft animals that are used with them can be more so.Yet with some home-made tools, a farmer or gardener can quickly break...

Spring flowers coming soon!

At Home in Nature   -   Apr 06, 2011 - By Mary_5

Today I saw some daffodils had finally emerged from their long sleep and were in full bloom.The tulips and hyacinth, it appears, are not far behind.Spring flowers are such a wonderful end to a cold winter!Every year I decide I’ve not planted enough spring...

Raising good father birds

At Home in Nature   -   Apr 06, 2011 - By Mary_5

Shelving can be made into a convenient brooder by lining the outside of the shelving with chicken wire, and, using cardboard (which can be replaced periodically in good hygienic practices), lining the bottom of the shelves so that wood chips or shavings may...

Pasture rotation improves production

At Home in Nature   -   Apr 06, 2011 - By Mary_5

Pasture rotation is key to the success of your animals.Animals will selectively graze, eating their favorite foods and leaving what they don’t like.This is how good pastureland turns into good yucca plantations!The cattle eat everything but the yucca, and the...

Another Frost!!

Cedar Breeze Farm   -   Apr 06, 2011 - By Rick & Linda

We are getting ready for yet another frost here on the farm!!  It is sheets on the trees that are small enough and cardboard on the raised beds. Sure will be glad when it gets warm.  Does any one else have this problem? Because I didn't watch the...

Belle's Babes

3 Acre Farm   -   Apr 05, 2011 - By Janelle

Belle is a ‘Fainting’ or ‘Myotonic’ goat.  She has never ever stiffened up or “fainted” but her kids have done both.  Belle is very tame and will come up to me and rest her head on my leg for me to scratch or pet her.  She just delivered...

Slow Starts

Miolea Organic Farm   -   Apr 05, 2011 - By Brian_1

We have to tear down the high tunnel and get four hundred strawberry plants in the ground, then fifty plus blue berry bushes and then half-acre of lettuces and another half-acre of potatoes planted.  We had hoped to have half of the lettuces and...

New Pork Share

Moonstruck Farms   -   Apr 05, 2011 - By Rowena

Today was chicken harvest day, and boy are we getting good. Efficiency is being gained since we have been working together as a partnership for a year now, and the chickens were absolutely gorgeous this time around...everything is so beautiful in the Spring!!...

Bacon Jam

Specialty Meats and Gourmet   -   Apr 05, 2011 - By The Meat Detective

Bourbon Bacon Jam 2# Berkshire No Nitrite Applewood Smoked Bacon – cut into 1” Pieces 1 Large Vandalia Onion – cut into ¼” pieces ¼ C. Croix Valley Steak Sauce – Original Or 3 Tbs. Sorgum 2 Cloves Garlic – Finely Minced ¼...

Farmers Market in Merchants Square

Williamsburg Farmers Market   -   Apr 05, 2011 - By WFM

Saturday, April 9, 2011 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. On April 9, potted herbs, annuals, perennials and cut flowers will be the focal point of the Williamsburg Farmers Market along with the products of over 30 local watermen, bakers and producers of meats,...