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Open for the Season

Pleasant Valley Farm   -   May 30, 2010 - By Emily

We survived our grand opening yesterday, and I'm happy to say it was a success!  Thanks go out to all who stopped to see us, your support of local, organic food allows us to spend our time doing what we love- farming! I admit, I have been pretty...

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Georgia’s Hints for Gardening with Peppers Peppers are members of the Solanacae Family.They are related to Tomatoes, Potatoes, Eggplant and Belladonna.They are NOT related to black cooking pepper. We grow numerous varieties of bells, sweet and HOT...

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This memorial day let us be kind to the living as well.I am writing this article from the office next to a rammage sale of three community churchesthat have a Hunger project and another act of charity to feed the homeless through a food pantry that draws...

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Herbal Ice Tea Recipes -

So Succulent Gardens   -   May 29, 2010 - By Blossomfarm

Lemon Mint Tea 6 ounces boiling water 1 lemon 4-5 fresh mint leaves sugar to taste Lemon slices and mint sprigs as garnish, if desired Squeeze lemon into a heat proof  glass or cup.  top off with boiling water.  Add mint leaves...

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Thursday I'm calling the peach thinning for the year about 90% complete.  I've thinned all the peaches twice already, but as they continue to grow, you always notice some that should have been thinned, so we'll have a little touch up thinning...

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Wednesday was tomato planting day.  We decided to recycle the black plastic mulch we used last year for melons and get another crop on it before it's pulled up.  So we transplanted the tomatoes right back on the plastic from last season....

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The weather has certainly warmed up and we have the pumpkins, winter squash and gourds all planted.  This year we planted approximately 1 acre of pumpkins and squash.  So the battle to keep the deer, woodchucks, etc. from doing too much damage....

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Hello everybody! As usual on our farm we've had a busy week full of mundane things that we do every day of the week--along with a double handful of things that have never happened before (just enough to keep us hooked on farming)--It is fun to watch...

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Flowers and Rain

J. Foss Garden Flowers   -   May 29, 2010 - By Janet_1

It was an incredibly rainy day at the Centralia Farmers Market--not really a fun day to be out selling flowers.  But a few people came out and it was a pretty good day in the end. We had the first of our peony Coral Charm-- it was pretty spectacular, even...

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Poor “Chuck” decided that he had other plans for us last Saturday and we missed the market. We actually spent most of the day on the side of Rt. 27 trying to figure out why he kept spitting a main belt out each time we started him up! Believe me, we would much...

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