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Recent Writing from LocalHarvest Members
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...
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....
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...
Gunga Galunga CSA Week 18
The Harvest Bee Blog - Apr 16, 2016 - By K.T.
Good Day, Friends: Simply cannot believe that we are already to week 18... Before the Health Summit lecture the presenter asked me why it is I farm. In response, I explained to him the best I could my passion for farming. As I was transplanting some new crops...
Home Farm Herbery’s Black Trumpet Mushroom Sausage...
Home Farm Herbery - Apr 15, 2016 - By Arlene
Home Farm Herbery’s Black Trumpet Mushroom Sausage Recipe This recipe can be doubled etc. to accomm odate the lbs of meat you are using just recalculate the rest of the recipe. Makes 10-12, 4.5-inch links or you can make them into...
How to rescue a honeybee!
What's the Buzz? - Apr 13, 2016 - By Marcie
Here's a great article by Jacqueline Freeman, a natural beekeeper from Southwest Washington. All Alone, Far From Home A single honeybee alone cannot survive without its hive. If a foraging bee gets lost or trapped during its travel and is stuck...
2nd most favorite time of year
Marshfield Farmers' Market - Apr 13, 2016 - By Lorrie
My favorite time of the year as a farmer is the late summer harvest, but right now is a close second place. The swell of the buds and the tiny winks of green set an atmosphere of great anticipation for the rich tasting delights to come. I am...
Free Article on Honeybees and Natural Living!
What's the Buzz? - Apr 12, 2016 - By Marcie
I had no idea that Natural Awakenings magazine had a FREE digital version that they encourage us to share. They sent me an email this morning with the link. So Free to one and all, here's our plight of the honeybee article on page 50 plus the entire issue....
Cooking with Sriracha
Home Farm Herbery - Apr 12, 2016 - By Arlene
Sriracha is a type of hot sauce or chili sauce made from a paste of chili peppers, distilled vinegar, garlic, sugar, and salt. It is named after the coastal city of Si Racha, in Chonburi Province of e...
Monday, monday
Tangle Tree Ranch - Apr 12, 2016 - By Marte Holen
So what did Bob do at home, while I worked 8 to 4, more like leave at 7am, home before 6pm. He penned up 1 ewe, with 1 lamb, 1 doe with a set of twin does!!! Fixed the grain auger, fed the does and ewes in jugs, watered them, milked 2 goats twice, fed lambs...