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In the interest of honing my gardening skills and increasing my involvement in the local gardening community, I signed up for the Master Gardener Program offered by the Extension Office. After paying the program fees, being interviewed by the Extension...

Melting!

Bloom Where You're Planted Farm   -   Jan 11, 2010 - By Teresa_2

Yee-Haw!  We're finally going to get back to normal temperatures this week, in the low to mid-30s!  Before the melting starts I wanted to share some photos following our third major snowstorm of the winter.  We were finally able to...

Chinese Garlic Prices Continue Spiking; Welcome Ne...

Christopher Ranch   -   Jan 11, 2010 - By Justin_1

It’s been a Happy New Year for domestic garlic growers, thus far. Entering 2010, Chinese garlic supplies have remained uncharacteristically low and prices abnormally high; fueling a domestic demand that hasn’t been this fervent for a while, thanks to cheap...

Stampedes and snowfall!

Antaya Acres Heritage Farm   -   Jan 10, 2010 - By Brett & Stephanie

What a beautiful morning here in Michigan.  Big fluffy flakes were floating down slowly and the glare off of the new fallen snow was almost blinding.  I love days like this.  Being from Northern Wisconsin originally, I cherish bright mid-winter...

Why I should stick to growing Or

Miolea Organic Farm   -   Jan 10, 2010 - By Brian_1

Go with your Strengths We had started year three of our growing in a good position.  We were using crop rotation and still figuring out the irrigation system but we felt good about our knowledge.  The deer were still beating us on the blue berries...

Brrr!

Pleasant Valley Farm   -   Jan 10, 2010 - By Emily

Winter is really here, and with a low temperature of -13 last night the main job around the farm these days is keeping warm!  We'll bed the pigs down with a bit more hay, and increase the hay fed to the other animals (horses, cows, sheep & goats)...

JANUARY ... NEW BEGINNINGS

Happy Hills Alpaca Farm   -   Jan 10, 2010 - By wawanuky

January is always a time for new beginnings. I re evaluate everything, throw out all the old stuff, the piles of magazines that I hadn't gotten to all year, the old bills go in a big folder marked for that year. Hooray, the bill pile is smaller, the...

Cold Cold Cold

Hanging Mountian Farms LLC   -   Jan 10, 2010 - By Ted and Carlene

The cold this week in North Georgia is unusual in our recent experience. However, I am a life long Georgian and I have seen this before. I grew up in Kennesaw in an old farm house and remember weeks of sub freezing tempretures in the 60's and weeks without...

Blast from the Past...The Ice Age, That Is!

What's the Buzz?   -   Jan 10, 2010 - By Marcie

Snow? Did somebody say "snow" ? I didn't see any, but the news reported that right in my neighborhood a few flurries fell yesterday. First time since 1977. Wish some fell on me.....I LOVE snow.... It's positively frosty this morning. I woke...

Basic tips to start an organic veggie garden for C...

Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Jan 09, 2010 - By Tony_1

Children and the disabled share one thing in common:Difficulty to EFFICIENTLY  utilize body functional movement in gardening chores.Whether it was the tiny hands , weak and still developing muscles and bone structure of children or the physical...