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Kyle Farms All Natural Lamb - Mar 17, 2010 - By Anne
After a lovely article in the Democrat and Chronicle about local sources of food and CSA's listing Kyle Farms and our contact info, we've gotten may comments asking who in the world does the contact phone number belong to? So introducing......your...
Spring is in the Air
Luna Farm LLC - Mar 17, 2010 - By Kristine
i love this time of year! one day, i walk outside and everything is brown and dead. i look down closely at the ground and i can see tiny wisps of grass, clover, plantain, dandelion and chicory starting to poke their sleepy heads from the soil and i know, any...
Big Days!
Trautman Family Farm - Mar 17, 2010 - By Scott&JulieTraut
Time. Never enough! Wasted time. Valuable time. Learning time. Action time. Once it goes by, it's gone. And we've all experienced "boy that's x amount of time I can't get back". Wasted time. As farmers - just as I...
Chelone - Turtlehead - Hot Lips!
Wall Flower Studio Garden - Mar 17, 2010 - By Karen_1
This beautiful "Pink Turtlehead", (Chelone lyonii - Hot Lips) blooms from late July right through to October. It's a North American native perennial flower that hosts the Baltimore Checkerspot butterfly. Chelone comes from the Greek word...
Preserving the Right to Preserve
Rockgate Farm - Mar 16, 2010 - By Angela_6
MY GRAMMA DIDN'T USE NO STINKING PH METER!!!!!! Ok, so I may be a little out of touch with the times, and granted...I do live in my own little world....but I like it here!!! In my little world, we remember and follow family traditions. We...
Heading out for chores
Maplewood Organics - Mar 16, 2010 - By Hannah and Eric
I have really enjoyed sharing chores with Eric this winter. It's a very peaceful yet physically challenging job at times. Just being with the cattle, listening to them bellow for the hay and working to the sound of them biting and chewing is pretty...
When big agri business goes out of business what h...
Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL - Mar 16, 2010 - By Tony_1
Some big agri business apply for chapter eleven and claim bankruptcy .The main stream media courts news about big farmers when they go out of business but never bother to let us know the state of small urban farmers.Take this fictitious...
GREEN GARLIC INSPIRES FLAVOR ENVY
Christopher Ranch - Mar 16, 2010 - By Justin_1
Garlicia here. Call me the Countess of Cloves or just another garlic lover, but I’m no fly by night when it comes to putting the bite on your queries and concerns about all things garlic. With a vault of information and piquant sense of the flavorful, I’ll be...
Purple Carrots ??! Actually a very tasty heirloom!...
Wall Flower Studio Garden - Mar 16, 2010 - By Karen_1
Admittedly, when I first learned of this variety of carrot, my first thoughts were that it was some nasty GMO creation . Being the curious sort that I am, and after some digging, (pardon the pun), for further information, I was amazed to discover that...
Spring has Sprung!
The Orchard at Apolloson Acres - Mar 16, 2010 - By Allison
Spring has sprung at Apolloson Acres.....sorta! The sun is out, the melted snow has left a swamp land, horse hair is flying and we're pruning our orchard!! Stay Tuned for more frequent updates....and pictures if we can get the uploader to cooperate!...