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3 Hawk Alpacas - Oct 27, 2009 - By Anita

I have just returned from my first participation of the "Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair". It was a great experience and I was able to meet a lot of new and nice people. There are really a large number of fiber artists and enthusiasts living in...

Review of the Great Wave

F.A. Farm - Oct 27, 2009 - By Walter_1

A friend of mine suggested I read The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History (1996) by David Hackett Fischer, a historian who teaches at Brandeis University. Fischer has done quite a good job of parsing out demographic waves (hence the...

Week 18 Newsletter with recipes

Maplewood Organics - Oct 27, 2009 - By Hannah and Eric

CSA Newsletter Volume 5 Issue 18- Farm October 15, 2009 ? __________________________________________________________________________________ Week 18 Here it i Local Harvest website blog ( http://www.localharvest.org/farms/M13345 ): Go...

2009 New Honey crop filling up shelves FINALLY,Hon...

georgiabees.blogspot.com - Oct 27, 2009 - By John_9

HONEY HARVEST almost done for 2009. A year of challenges from bad weather and honey bee losses from beekeeping colony collapse disorder. All Honey avaiable on my Local Harvest store,visit and look around. I have some unusual honey from farm pollination...

Last Chance for Fall Lamb Orders

Kyle Farms All Natural Lamb - Oct 27, 2009 - By Anne

This week will be the last week to order a whole or half share of Kyle Farms all natural lamb. We will be processing our lambs for November 14th, and need to make sure that we will have enough all naturally raised lambs to fill our orders. The...

Front Door For The Coop

Portage River Farm - Oct 27, 2009 - By John_3

One focus for this past weekend was finishing up the exterior of the chicken coop in preparation for installation of the sheet metal siding. The last item to be completed was the installation of a front door. This door opens into the central utility room...

Move Over Hot Dogs & Tater Tots – It’s Time For So...

Christopher Ranch - Oct 26, 2009 - By Justin_1

October 24, 2009 at 6:01 am · Filed under Uncategorized The days of corn dogs and tater tots for lunch might soon be over. Perhaps to the chagrin of K-12 students throughout the U.S. – what kid doesn’t consider tater tots one of the essential food...

Taking The CSA Plunge!

Portage River Farm - Oct 26, 2009 - By John_3

I had thought that it would take a few more years before I would be ready to announce this, but we have decided to take the plunge and open our farm as a commercial operation beginning in January 2010. We had been discussing the idea of turning the farm into a...

My beekeeping friends found under Honey Bee Hives,...

georgiabees.blogspot.com - Oct 25, 2009 - By John_9

A surprise Beekeeping find under beehives in hot weather.This is not the BUZZ I wanted to hear. Rattle snakes like the cooler shade under Honey Bee Hive pallets.

Honey Bee swarm removal from building,See VIDEO at...