The Blog Barn

pig whisperer

Kelvin Grove Farm   -   Nov 14, 2010 - By Smiokey Joe

I think our sole pig gets lonely.  Every few days she goes for a walk about.  Fortunately our neighbors are really, really nice people.  She just wanders about and eventually comes home - around feeding time.  Yesterday, Lauren and I spent...

Nov. Rain

Hoosierfarm   -   Nov 14, 2010 - By Shirley

We are having a good rain here in Indiana, the best we've had all summer long. Thanksgiving is on the way and so is cold weather soon. Not ready for it. Good night alll.

Get to know your veggies--Arugula

Wild Things Farm   -   Nov 12, 2010 - By Terry_5

Cooler temperatures and shorter days are here, meaning to eat seasonally we need to adapt to what's growing locally.  The new high tunnel has a bumper crop of arugula, just waiting to spice up many salads this fall.  Arugula has no fat or...

Grinding Cornmeal

Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Nov 12, 2010 - By Emily

One of this week's projects for me has been making cornmeal.  It's not the bright yellow you may have come to expect because instead of using yellow corn, I use an heirloom variety called Earth Tones Dent that we grow here at the farm....

Julio

Sweet Harmony Farm   -   Nov 12, 2010 - By Mona

It’s good to see Julio being his usual self.  By his usual self, I mean spitting with Guinness over hay, threatening to spit at Bo, Coty, Arlo, and the new boys over hay, being the first to finish eating at dinnertime thereby trying to steal the others’...

Seek Basic Backyard Farming Awareness prior to st...

Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Nov 12, 2010 - By Tony_1

There is a growing demand to start a backyard organic garden in an ecconomy that is driving us all down financially.People come to me and ask me to help them but they themselves are not ready to cope with the idea of a productive garden that needs resources to...

The FARM Chronicle

North Sea Farms/ King's Farm Stand   -   Nov 12, 2010 - By Richard_4

Change What? At a time in our nation when the word “change” seems to be a part of everyone’s vocabulary, I pose a different word. The word is “what.” I ask everyone change what? Some might substitute this word with “everything.” But, that my friends, is a...

Fall is Time To Harvest Herb Roots

Morgan Botanicals   -   Nov 11, 2010 - By Jessica_7

Here's a great list of herbs I found that are ready to be harvested now. Some general guidelines to use for herb harvesting: Harvest herbs grown for seeds as the seed pods change in color from green to brown to gray but before they shatter (open)....

Holiday Farmers' Market

Westminster Farmers' Market   -   Nov 11, 2010 - By Dean

                                         Save the date....

Tamworth Pigs and Clabbered Milk

Spring Hill Farms   -   Nov 11, 2010 - By David_8

Almost gone and gettin' full 80% of our immune system resides in our gastrointestinal tract, which houses 100 trillion bacteria—about two to three pounds worth of bacteria! Expert natural health folks will tell you optimum levels of bacteria...