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It's Strawberry Tuesday at the Bluegrass Farme...

Bluegrass Farmers Market   -   May 25, 2010 - By Kentucky Proud

Tuesday's market will be loaded with farm fresh strawberries so you can create the perfect Memorial Day dessert! Slice them and add some whipped cream, make a strawberry shortcake or just eat them in all of their red perfection! Nothing says Happy Memorial...

Canning Tip #6: Which pressure canner is best for ...

The Jam and Jelly Lady   -   May 25, 2010 - By Sonya

Analog dial versus a weighted gauge - which is the best for pressure canning?  I grew up using a weighted gauge canner.  My ears are well-tuned for listening to the pot "speak" through the jiggle of the gauge.  I know 30 feet away...

Westminater Farmers' Market Report for 05-21-2...

Westminster Farmers' Market   -   May 25, 2010 - By Dean

Westminster Farmers’ Market Report from Maple Heights Farm Too Busy To Cook? The Westminster Farmers’ Market is now open for the season! We not only have all the vendors that you remember from last year, but we also have some new vendors that you will...

Always Behind

Tulsa City Farm   -   May 25, 2010 - By Malcolm

 This past week was mostly wet. But it dried up at the end of the week and I had to "Mow The Garden"! Yes, I mow our garden.We have a living mulch of clover and grasses growing between the rows.And it was growing out of control with all the...

BP Oil spill hitting the shores and contaminating ...

Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   May 25, 2010 - By Tony_1

The nation is watching the oil spill while we here in Florida are slogging through oil in some beaches that took the hit recently.We are responding with anger at BP and law suits are sky rocketing.Is this the kind of answer or solution to protect the...

Hefty Handfuls

Auntie Annie's Fields, LLC   -   May 24, 2010 - By Elizabeth

The chickens have a new pasture now. We are letting them out the door on the east side of the coop (instead of the south side), and this is especially exciting to them because this yard includes both tall and short clover. When we mowed, we left a strip of...

Scotch in the rocks, please

Wild Things Farm   -   May 24, 2010 - By Terry_5

I've always had a fascination for moss.  I remember my grandmother had a root cellar that we always called the "dairy" that was a really scary concrete building dug back into the hill behind their house.  It was scary because I was a...

Guinea

Blueberry Hill Farm   -   May 24, 2010 - By Carmen_1

OK, finally the promised news concerning Guinea, one of the newest additions to the chaos and bedlam here at the farm.  My chum, Bradley Fox, brought me two guineas the last time he was here delivering to me fifteen "point-of-lay" Leghorn...

Just Another Day on "the Hill" -- writt...

Blueberry Hill Farm   -   May 24, 2010 - By Carmen_1

Two events the past few days will go down in the "farm journal".  The first was "the driving of the hens from the barn."  There have been a group of "rogue" hens that decided several months ago they were going to roost...

Growing Tomatoes: Greenhouse

Uwharrie Farm   -   May 24, 2010 - By Judy_3

         Heating the greenhouse can be one of the greatest expenses.  Fortunately we have been able to cut the cost by heating the greenhouse with scrap wood collected from local businesses.  Keeping in mind that...