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Miso Happy Broth

Cookus Interruptus   -   Feb 24, 2011 - By Cynthia

(Cynthia answers the call) Taking the time to allow land and sea vegetables to infuse a soup stock with their nutrients creates a powerful soup.  The probiotics in the miso make it easy to digest too.  For printable recipe or to watch the video, ...

The Purple Bunny Palace

Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Feb 24, 2011 - By Emily

  We had a couple days of spring thaw here last week. The snow all but melted (so much so that the creek in the barnyard overflowed its banks with nothing falling from the sky!) and the temperatures were in the 50's to near 60. Something about...

Sap!

Fitzgerald's Family Farm, LLC   -   Feb 24, 2011 - By Sharon_1

THE SAP IS RUNNING! After I got off work yesterday, I thought I would take a ride and look at my sap lines.  What a pleasant surprise! In the top photo you can clearly see...

Watching your food grow - Feb. 2011

Sunshine for Dinner   -   Feb 24, 2011 - By Georgiaberry

This grassy looking stuff is newborn baby spinach. After Christmas is over, we set about starting garden plants.  Our indoor lighted plant racks are filled with flats, and soon we can enjoy watching the seedlings emerge and grow.  Above...

Piglets Born Yesterday - 12

Rainbow Ranch Farms   -   Feb 24, 2011 - By Poly

12 piglets born to first time mommy, Cheetoe. She was very protective of her piglets while we were moving them to a secure area, while she followed. 2 at a time, being moved into a warm area for the cold winter night and mommy cuddled with...

A bite out of every radish!

Moonstruck Farms   -   Feb 24, 2011 - By Rowena

Well after all the winds and the snow this weekend I am ready for a little rest...but nonetheless things are always hopping around here and there is more snow on the way...time to figure out a better way to pull the snow off.  Some market gardeners are...

Starting to seed.

Tangle Tree Ranch   -   Feb 24, 2011 - By Marte Holen

Well, it is a bit early to start outside, but we are getting closer to the time when we start our first seeds in the house. We have in floor heat in the basement, so we have about 500sqft of heat mat. Not bad, but require some extra work. We use extra light...

I have been talking with an old friend over the last week or so about some legal stuff and learned that he is a nutritionist and a naturopath. As we were catching up it dawned on both of us that his work meshes perfectly with ours! So now in addition to grass...

New plants!!!!

Spreading Oaks Farm   -   Feb 24, 2011 - By Ken & Patti

I am so excited.  We have some thornless blackberries and red rasberries on the way from south Georgia.  We are planting 100 foot rows of each this year with hopes of producting enough rootings to increase our rows for the next few years.  The...

photo by Coyote Creek Farm Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter. Last week a LocalHarvest farmer said something that has had me thinking ever since. This gentleman sells his products through our online catalog, and mentioned that compared...