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The Northern Migration...

Ebb and Flow Farm   -   Mar 18, 2010 - By Forrest Skylar

The sun is shining, a cool breeze flows through the open windows and outside a palm sways gently , I hear the call of a blue jay,the grass is green and it's above 60 degrees and yet we're still chilly. Compared to where we have just been, it is cold....

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March Update

Elliott Family Farm   -   Mar 18, 2010 - By Samuel_1

Snow kept us off our early planting date for English Peas. Had it not been snow the fields were way to wet to plant. The weather has moderated a bit and we hope to be in the field within a couple of weeks.The first crop will be English Peas, followed either by...

I’ve just finished reading an article in this month’s Organic Gardening , "Less is More: A beginning gardener's ingenuity turns $75 into 6 months of fresh vegetables" about a gardener who grew tons of vegetables last season for less than $75. I...

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2010 Lambs are arriving

Cranberry Moon Farm   -   Mar 18, 2010 - By Miss Lisa

Beautiful lambs are starting to arrive! The Bluefaced Leicester ewe "Glory" has twins, a ram and a ewe. Two of the Leicester Longwool ewes have lambed. Beatrice has twins, a ram and a ewe, while Anna Harrison II delivered a huge single ram lamb of...

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Egg Art

The Appalachian Shed   -   Mar 18, 2010 - By Terrie

Fun was had by all who attended the recent class I gave on creating Pysanky at St. Mary's Church in Johnson City.   I have since dusted off my tools and plopped a few eggs into the dyes.  Check them out on my Esty page.  ...

CSAs: Growing Community

The LocalHarvest Blog   -   Mar 18, 2010 - By Guillermo

LocalHarvest Newsletter, March 18, 2010 Photo by: Rosie Creek Farm Welcome back to the LocalHarvest newsletter. As we move toward Spring, CSA sign-up season continues and so too our series of articles about community supported...

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City Girl

Farm Share West/Organic Now   -   Mar 17, 2010 - By Marika

So, since I grew up in Manhattan, I've been, in the words of Woody Allen, "at two with nature."  But I am on a quest to change that! Today I drove to Valley End Farm in Santa Rosa, where my CSA gets its vegetables and fruit.  What a...

Okay, so I went out to the greenhouse yesterday morning to check on all the "babies" and noticed a few nibbles on the Chinese cabbage plants with a telltale "slimy trail" in the flat, so here I went on slug patrol. Every pot, bucket,...

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Welcome to our new blog!

Millennial Way Farm   -   Mar 17, 2010 - By millennialway

Welcome! We are now back on Local Harvest. You will find rovings & yarns from our own animals on this website. Please check back for monthly deals!

If you sent us any type of communication from our website from March 1st to March 16th, chances are we did not get it. Our website had an "issue" where it wasn't sending us the email. It would tell you on your end that it did when in fact it...

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