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Tuesday at the BGFM!

Bluegrass Farmers Market   -   Jul 28, 2009 - By Kentucky Proud

Before I tell you what will be available at the market today I just have to let you know how much fun everyone at at Saturday's Customer Appreciation Day! Our thanks to “GrillMan Drew” of Caros restaurant for showing us yet another way to cook up the...

That stands for....Thank Goodness Chickens Eat Zucchini!

A Neat Day

Blueberry Hill Farm   -   Jul 28, 2009 - By Carmen_1

Today has been a really neat day, farm-wise, and one of those days that make me so glad to be farming.  Nothing really special, but just a combination of good things. The day started off with a feed run.  I realized Saturday that I was dangerously...

The deer ate my green beans, well the sunflowers, ...

Sweet Harmony Farm   -   Jul 27, 2009 - By Mona

I headed out to the garden earlier to pick some more cherry tomatoes.Isn’t this wonderful?Weeks and weeks of heavy rain and cool temperatures, yet I’ve been picking cherry tomatoes!So tasty right off the vine, it’s amazing I can walk back to the house and...

New Veggies in Your Basket

Rolling Acres Farm   -   Jul 27, 2009 - By Denise_1

Dear All, It is very hard to believe that this is the last week of July. The weatherman said last week that the temperature has reached 90 only once during this month. On the one hand, that is fabulous, at least for the cool weather crops. On the other, the...

Moving Pigs, Our Second Encounter

Hurricane Farm   -   Jul 27, 2009 - By Chris

Last week, or sometime thereabouts, we had to load three of our hogs onto the trailer in order to take them to be processed.  As readers will recall, our first experience loading pigs, while perhaps comical, took WAY TOO LONG!  This time we had it...

Market Day

Debbie's Garden   -   Jul 27, 2009 - By Chickadee1

Wow, Saturday was great! The Marietta Square Farmer's Market shared the square with the Christmas in July event...lots of kids were out, as Santa visited the square.  In honor of the event, all my herbs were $1.00 no matter what they were or how big...

open house August 2, more rain, buy some raffle ti...

Abbe Hills Farm CSA   -   Jul 27, 2009 - By Laura_1

Greetings shareholders, This week, we'll have cabbage, leeks, kale, zucchinis and summer squash, onions, broccoli, potatoes, green beans, very big kohlrabi, chard, maybe beets, maybe a few cucumbers, a tiny snip of basil, and Asian greens.  ...

Westminster Farmer's Market Report for 07-24-0...

Westminster Farmers' Market   -   Jul 27, 2009 - By Dean

Westminster Farmers’ Market Report from Maple Heights Farm Again!Another busy week at the market.I’ll try to take some pictures for next week for those of you who cannot make it.We have incredible variety and about 20 vendors.There is so much food...

Even the simplest of requests can take forever to complete when they are added to my pile of projects. Quite early in the spring, Janet requested a clothesline be set up somewhere in the yard. It seemed a little thing but I just could never manage to bring it...