The Blog Barn

A Guide to Choosing and Preparing Awesome Food

Uwharrie Farm   -   Sep 24, 2010 - By Judy_3

Sally Fallon's book, Nourishing Traditions , is one of my all time favorites.   Sally combines the wisdom of our ancestors and current scientific research to teach us simple methods for preparing delicious, nutrient dense food.  At a...

Season's Reflections

Mott Family Farm   -   Sep 24, 2010 - By Shelley_1

As we close down the season, we look back with thankful hearts upon the bountiful harvests of tomatoes, peaches and potatoes. Everything fared reasonable well, and was in general 2 weeks ahead of time which gave us a good start to crops early on. Even with the...

Come See Us in the Grove! Coconut Grove, That Is.....

What's the Buzz?   -   Sep 24, 2010 - By Marcie

I've been thinking about checking out the Coconut Grove Farmer's Market for a long time. I was waiting for our sweltering Miami summer to end before exploring this option... But Wednesday a friend of mine mentioned that he needed to have somebody...

Let the Games begin!

Bluegrass Farmers Market   -   Sep 24, 2010 - By Kentucky Proud

Yes, it is an exciting time for Lexington! The World Equestrian Games start on Saturday and while it is an honor for Lexington to be the host, if you are anything like me...you're going to avoid downtown until the games are over! I can't even imagine...

Playing with Kailash's fiber!

Mountain Jewel Farm   -   Sep 24, 2010 - By Sherm and Cindy

Aaahhh, the incredible softness of alpaca fiber!  Some is softer than others, but it's the baby alpaca that is so, so appealing to the senses. Touching, smelling and wearing the little black fiber fluffs attached to your clothing for days.  I...

Testimonial by one of our customers

Family Farms CSA   -   Sep 24, 2010 - By Foster

We were delighted to get a nice testimonial by one of our customers.  She is a Sherman (TX) area mom. Click here to see the testimonial.  Our webmaster Jay Goode of Goode Web Designs dropped by for a morning shooting photos.  He put many...

Westminster Farmers' Market Report for 09-24-2...

Westminster Farmers' Market   -   Sep 24, 2010 - By Dean

Westminster Farmers’ Market Report from Maple Heights Farm Welcome to Westminster…Now Leave! The weather forecasters are calling for another beautiful day on Friday and the market promises to be a busy place with all our vendors and...

Autumn Plant Sale

The Greenhouse At Morgan Lane   -   Sep 23, 2010 - By Georgia

We are having a Fall Greenhouse Sale at our Organic greenhouse.Come enjoy the fresh air, gorgeous scenery, and see the beautiful Morgan Horses. We have quality, farm raised, organically grown plants at reasonable prices all year round. During this Autumn ...

Did You Know? It's National Honey Month!

What's the Buzz?   -   Sep 23, 2010 - By Marcie

Did you know? It's National Honey Month! So celebrate sweetness in September! American's consume about 1.5 pounds of honey per person per year. But I think you can do better than that! Be better than average and replace some of that white sugar...

The development of drug resistance scares the hell...

Spring Hill Farms   -   Sep 23, 2010 - By David_8

Kellogg Schwab, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Water and Health , refers to a typical pig farm manure lagoon that he sampled. "There were 10 million E. coli per liter [of sampled waste]. Ten million. And you have a hundred million liters in...