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Hey all, This is a reminder for anyone wanting to attend our 2nd meeting of the Slow Food Conway/Myrtle Beach Convivium at Luigi's Italian Restaurant on Wed. 13th of this month at 6:30PM  to please call or email Sharon to RSVP (if you...

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2011 Season

Pleasant Valley Farm CSA   -   Mar 23, 2011 - By Angela_2

We are not taking any more CSA members this year. We will be however , selling vegetables from our farm location in Gallant, Al. Meaning, I will send out an email about what we have available, and you can respond and let me know how much of which item...

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Bugs Class, 5K Walk

Grow And Share   -   Mar 23, 2011 - By Kay

Our next class is this Saturday at 9:00am.  It is open to all ages and is free. Saturday, March 26: Bugs and More Beneficial Bugs and Garden Pests Bees, Please! Trees and Bushes Grow Food Too There may be some slight modification...

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Gotta start somewhere......

Wild Things Farm   -   Mar 22, 2011 - By Terry_5

This past January I introduced 15 eight-week old girls to the Happy Hens.  The introduction was kind of a smuggling operation though--during darkness.  The older hens are supposed to wake up and think "oh, you've always been...

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Treasure Unearthed Today

Heritage Harvest Farm   -   Mar 22, 2011 - By MattCorinneFletcher

With rain forecasted for today and tonight, I was desperate to get outside and work on the south bed of the poly tunnel this morning. Matt had gone over it with the tiller over the weekend, but I really needed to get in there with my pitchfork and work up the...

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DELIVERY TO LOCAL MARKETS!

Rainbow Ranch Farms   -   Mar 22, 2011 - By Poly

We started our regular deliveries to local markets, all within 100 miles. Our grass finished, pastured beef, pork, poultry and lamb are now available through markets, butchers shops, co-op's and C.S.A's across california. Our delicious, heirloom and...

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WEBSITE!!

Moonstruck Farms   -   Mar 22, 2011 - By Rowena

Busy around here dealing with a new puppy courtesy of a dear friend...half Catahoula and Border Collie...she will be my working partner!!  The storm put a halt on hardening off tomatoes, but that is okay we will start again when temps go up in a few...

We have previously discussed not rotating crops.Today, let’s get radical and discuss not planting them. The revolutionary-Buddhist-monk-farmer-rancher-radical-crazed-genius-soil-scientist Masanobu Fukuoka had the thought one day while looking at his fields...

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Rotation of crops unnecessary

At Home in Nature   -   Mar 22, 2011 - By Mary_5

Most gardeners and farmers will plan to rotate their crops, meaning cycle the land between the principle families of plants.This is largely unnecessary for several reasons. Some folks rotate because they believe that the plants eat different foods and that...

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