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Lavender Festival coming up

123 Farm   -   May 13, 2010 - By Jan_4

We are busy preparing for the 6th Annual Lavender Festival in Cherry Valley... Making new Products, handpainting Signs, weeding (all by hand and our volunteers hate us for that), planting Sunflowers, Cleaning up the grounds... This Year should be a very...

May Chef du Moo dinner

Farm to Fork Dinner!   -   May 13, 2010 - By Bobbi

This month’s Chef du Moo Dinner is supporting the Gilbert Historical Museum, where the mission is “ Explore the Past, Experience the Present, Imagine the Future”.Opened as a museum in 1982, it is housed in what was an elementary school built in 1913.  It...

Come and join us on Memorial day for some fresh outdoor fun!   We will have straw and bale mazes, ribbon mazes, roasted corn, hamburgers, hotdogs, turkey legs, ice cream and lots of space for the kids to run around and have fun!! Want to have your...

Thistles for plate and medicine cabinet - Thistle ...

At Home in Nature   -   May 13, 2010 - By Mary_5

The thistle is an ancient Celtic symbol of nobility of character as well as of birth, for the wounding or provocation of a thistle yields punishment. For this reason the thistle is the symbol of the Order of the Thistle, a high chivalric order of Scotland -...

How best to enjoy wild foods

At Home in Nature   -   May 13, 2010 - By Mary_5

One of the best ways to appreciate the changing of the seasons is to get a CSA membership and, as the parade of flavors passes by your plate, even a casual observer can take notice that nature provides exactly what we're hungry for when we're hungry...

English Peas in 12 or so Days

Elliott Family Farm   -   May 13, 2010 - By Samuel_1

The hot Texas summer is still ahead of us, but the spring samples have already arrived. There is adequate moisture in the soil, and our winter cover crop residues are conserving much of it. It has gotten us through 3 weeks of below normal precipitation.Since...

The Ties That Nourish

Christopher Ranch   -   May 13, 2010 - By Justin_1

M is for the millions of words already written about moms, O is for the outrageous stories you probably have about yours (I have a few!), and lastly, M is for my mom whom I miss very much for so many reasons. Since this is, for the most part, a food blog,...

Szechuan Tempeh

Cookus Interruptus   -   May 13, 2010 - By Cynthia

Very savory satisfying vegan dish made with the Indonesian food tempeh from Cookus Interruptus .  Full recipe here . Fresh Mango Salsa sweetness adds harmony.  

GREEN MINDS RUN IN THE SAME CHANNEL

Christopher Ranch   -   May 13, 2010 - By Justin_1

Just received some great feedback from Jennifer Armentrout, Senior Food Editor of FineCooking.com about our new Green Garlic . She also happened to mention in her latest blog that the appearance of green garlic reminded her of raw leeks -exactly what popped...

Spring spraying

Auntie Annie's Fields, LLC   -   May 13, 2010 - By Elizabeth

While I was training to become Lamaze childbirth educator, I got the idea that spring was one of the most dangerous times to live on a farm. I read that babies who were born during certain times of the year in farm country are more likely to have birth defects...