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The Hens Are Coming

Family Farms CSA   -   Dec 17, 2010 - By Foster

The chicks arrived and are growing.  Soon they will be hens and laying eggs for Foster Fogarty's Family Farms CSA, east of Sherman, Texas. These hens will be fed organic food and cared for in a way no big-time commercial egg mill will ever care for...

How to Make a Chicken Catcher

Spring Hill Farms   -   Dec 17, 2010 - By David_8

Buckeye Rooster While catching chickens to be processed this last time my brother and I were having an ongoing discussion about who could make the best chicken catcher. We laughed about how as kids we would make one and then snag every hen in...

End of the Year already!

Pine Needle Farm   -   Dec 17, 2010 - By Ann_2

It's hard to believe it's almost Christmas already!  This year has gone by so fast.  I'm busy dehairing cashmere now.  I've been doing this for two months now.  It is literally the slowest process on the planet, but I am...

Cranberry Apple Relish

Cookus Interruptus   -   Dec 16, 2010 - By Cynthia

(Home on the range or hotplate) This recipe is much less complicated than putting up a tent.  Whether you're living indoors or out during the holiday season, include this seasonal fruit dish on your table.  To watch video or print recipe, ...

Order Summer vegetables now with a CSA

High Rock Nursery   -   Dec 16, 2010 - By Thomas

  We are a new CSA offering shares for summer vegetables and produce.  Look at our local harvest site for details.

Our Food - What are we puting in our bodies

Our City Farm   -   Dec 16, 2010 - By Jeri

I started growing foods after our 3rd child was diagnosed with food allergies. That's 3 out of 3! The 1st one has allergies too numerous to list here, the second on has 3 food allergies, which I think was greatly reduced due to eliminating certain common...

2011 CSA Signups now at DODGE LODGE FARM & Greensb...

Dodge Lodge Farm   -   Dec 16, 2010 - By Mike Causey

2011 CSA signups now  underway for DODGE LODGE FARM. This is a YEAR-ROUND CSA - Gift subscriptions available.              Give the gift of local food. BUY a CSA today!    &n...

Holidays

Indian Brook Farm   -   Dec 16, 2010 - By Lisa_2

Well it's getting to be that time of year again...rushing around trying to find gifts for all the special someone's in our lives. It's slow time here on the farm though. The rams are in with the ewes and they've all been marked by the rams....

I see you in the grocery store (a place I go rarely, but living in New England, there's only so much you can grow and preserve), staring at the egg section, baffled about all the egg choices available.  What is free range versus pastured?  What...