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I'm ashamed it took me this long...

Spring Hill Farms   -   Mar 11, 2010 - By David_8

A couple of days ago a close friend of mine called me to ask if I had watched Food Inc.   Watch the trailer here. I immediately knew what he was talking about as I had seen the reviews in Acres USA and a several other small farm, sustainable...

Taking truly raw, unheated and unprocessed honey c...

Winter Park Honey   -   Mar 11, 2010 - By Scott_1

Many of Winter Park Honey's customers have seen amazing benefits from taking our local wildflower honey for their allergies.  Our honey works because it is truly raw, unheated, unprocessed and local.  For honey to be effective for elliminating...

Mary's Kalamata Tapenade

Cookus Interruptus   -   Mar 10, 2010 - By Cynthia

Savor this traditional Provencal dish:  Mary's Kalamata Tapenade.  Serve it on warm bread with White Bean and Kale Minestrone .  Recipe for tapenade here.    

The Quest for the Homegrown Artichoke (Part II)

Wild Things Farm   -   Mar 10, 2010 - By Terry_5

We have germination!  It's been 8 days since the artichoke seeds hit the dirt and yesterday there were slight hints of green and today, voila!  We have fresh-born artichokes--well, that may be stretching it a little far.  I'm currently...

Even Critters Get Spring Fever

Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Mar 10, 2010 - By Emily

For what seems like forever, the farm has been blanketed with snow...unbroken white all the way to the tree line. With a week of spring sunshine under our belts and temperatures breaking 60 today, it's quickly being replaced by more spring-like footing-...

Cooking grass fed beef

Harvest Hill Farms   -   Mar 10, 2010 - By Justin & Sara

Hi all fellow foodies!!  Since all beef is NOT created equal, I'm going to give some tips on cooking 100% grass fed beef (this only applies to 100% grass fed beef). Not the organic stuff they call grass fed that is sent to a feedlot and stuffed with...

VEGGIES VEGGIES EVERYWHERE

Fox Fire Acres C.S. A.   -   Mar 10, 2010 - By Bruce_1

We are growing and so are our seedlings. We have over a thousand bedding plants. Oh the mud, its growing everywhere also. Thinking about bottling it and selling it on the net for mud facials. That or just moving into greenhouse until it dries up...

Chard and Yellow Split Pea Soup

The Farm Report from Turkey Hill   -   Mar 10, 2010 - By Farmer Herman

Split Pea Soup with Chard Adapted from Vegetable Soups by Deborah Madison 2 cups yellow split peas, rinsed and soaked for at least 1 hour 2 bay leaves 3 cloves salt and pepper 4 tablespoons of butter 1 large onion, chopped finely ¼ cup minced...

Swiss Chard with Lemon and Olive Oil

The Farm Report from Turkey Hill   -   Mar 10, 2010 - By Farmer Herman

Chard with Lemon and Olive Oil This delicious and easy recipe serves 2, but easily doubles to serve 4. I like to make this with the larger, exuberant amounts of lemon and garlic. Use the smaller amounts for a subtler flavor. Adapted from a recipe in ...

How to survive 6 feet of snow when you are use to ...

Miolea Organic Farm   -   Mar 09, 2010 - By Brian_1

I feel like Burl Ives as the snowman when he opens up Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.  The storms that blew in the past couple of weeks were of mythic proportions.  Snow plows were called back in and drifts got as high as six feet.   I’ve...