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The Mayhaw Berries are ripening and it's time for our 10th Annual Mayhaw Berry Harvest Festival! Free fun for the Whole Family, and a great Mother's Day Destination. New lambs, goat kids and puppies are in the pastures and the Petting...

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Water and young chicks

Greenleaf Farms   -   Apr 24, 2016 - By Suki

Water plays a highly important part in plant and animal life. It is a chemical constituent of feedstuffs, fowls, and eggs and constitutes from 55 to 78 per cent of the live weight of chickens. Young birds, like young plants, have higher moisture content...

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Hatching Time & Double Yolks

Greenleaf Farms   -   Apr 24, 2016 - By Suki

So its hatching time...some tips to remember: Double-yolked eggs do not hatch. Embryos may develop in such an egg until they are near the hatching day. The reason is that the chicks are too cramped as there is not enough space for respiration and movement...

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The Almanack for April 21-28

Greenleaf Farms   -   Apr 24, 2016 - By Suki

from the  Farmers' Almanac APRIL 2016 21st-23rd Start seedbeds. First day is a favorable day for planting above ground crops, especially cabbage, cauliflower, lettuce, kale, celery, and other leafy vegetables. Last two days are good days for...

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Gunga Galunga CSA Week 19

The Harvest Bee Blog   -   Apr 22, 2016 - By K.T.

Good Day, Friends: It has been a very unbalanced week, indeed. Most of you know that late last week I and many of my friends lost a good childhood friend of ours. Some members in this group knew him and were close with his family, also. Of course, it is always...

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Pastured Raised Meat Chicken

White Valley Farm   -   Apr 22, 2016 - By Justin_3

White Valley Farm will soon be supplying pastured raised meat chickens to the greater Wellsville area, our 1st processing date is May 10th 2016. Our chickens were started on a all-natural non-gmo feed but now we have all our birds on a Organic no-corn,no-soy...

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Sick today.

Tangle Tree Ranch   -   Apr 21, 2016 - By Marte Holen

I woke up with a migraine this morning at 4am. So I took my medicine and went back to bed. The alarm went off, and then you lay there trying to make a dissention if you are going to be OK to go to work, or not. Half of my face was numb, something new for me,...

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How to Grow and Harvest Burdock

Home Farm Herbery   -   Apr 21, 2016 - By Arlene

How to Grow and Harvest Burdock If you are starting or have an existing herb garden chances are you haven’t got burdock or may have not even considered it.  You can plant burdock in your garden, it grows easily from seeds planted in spring...

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Turkey orders being finalized!!

Moonstruck Farms   -   Apr 19, 2016 - By Rowena

Thanksgiving is not just around the corner but in farm time it is!!  Turkey poults are only available a few months out of the year so we are now finalizing our orders, and due to their limited availability we limit to preorders only for the most part....

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Sunday, but no sun.

Tangle Tree Ranch   -   Apr 17, 2016 - By Marte Holen

It is raining, not pouring, just drizzel. So everything is soaked. The lambs and goat kids are wet, so the dames are all looked in the barn. To carry extra hay fro the big Group in never booring, it is just more work. Our childern and I devormed one Group of...

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