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Packaging-The Greener, The Better

Christopher Ranch   -   Jul 22, 2009 - By Justin_1

We realize the Earth is a precious thing. We also realize, particularly being farmers, that we play a major role in preserving the Earth. This is why we at Christopher Ranch strive to operate as sustainably as possible, minimizing our resource consumption,...

Corn Battles pt 1

Miolea Organic Farm   -   Jul 22, 2009 - By Brian_1

Corn Battles part 1 of 3 I love eating sweet corn.  A dinner of fried red tomatoes and corn on the cob is what I dream about during the winter months when snow is on the ground or I’m out chopping wood.  So too do our raccoons, in...

I just got a well deseved spanking. Thank you Ann. In my rant on the media I wrongly made it sound like I am not in favor of small family farms. I am in favor of well run family farms. what I am against is people with no animal background raising animals...

Free-Range Skunk

Hurricane Farm   -   Jul 22, 2009 - By Chris

Upon returning from a much anticipated and highly successful "boys only" camping trip with my son, Liev, to the Green Mountain National Forest in Vermont, we remarked that we still smelled the odor of the skunk that took up residence under the porch...

I got the final word today from the local USDA plant. They will be closing as of Friday. We are 60-90 days from having our facility up and running so we processed everything that was ready over the last few weeks. We will have enough beef and lamb to carry us...

Overwhelmed

Blueberry Hill Farm   -   Jul 22, 2009 - By Carmen_1

Overwhelmed.  This one word describes it all right now.   It's the peak of blueberry season here and blueberries are all there is right now.  Big picking Monday and Tuesday morning, go to market Tuesday afternoon/evening; pick all day...

New Recipe

Breeze Hill Farm   -   Jul 21, 2009 - By MaLinda

Not much going on here at the farm, just the same old busy! I have a wonderful (or at least I think it's wonderful, my own creation) recipe to share with evryone. It's easy, not too terribly time consuming, you can fix it and walk away dish. It uses...

Can't Get This at a Store

F.A. Farm   -   Jul 21, 2009 - By Walter_1

I recently received my copy of Gene Logsdon's Small-Scale Grain Raising, 2nd ed. (2009, originally 1977). Besides the info on raising various grains, there are recipes to encourage people to get out and grow some of their own grain. I tried the soy milk...

Country Store...what do you think?

Duran's Farm Fresh Products   -   Jul 21, 2009 - By Blaine & Karen

We are researching the idea of expanding (slightly) from our little self serve roadside stand, to more of a Country Store where we could provide a little more variety of products to the community. We are looking into funding at this point, which is the...

Show Time!

Ebersole Cattle Company   -   Jul 21, 2009 - By ShanenEbersole

It's summer Show Time! We always have a couple of really great heifers to show at some shows through the summer. Here is my oldest little Cowgirl with her heifer "Freedom".  This picture was taken at her very first show a couple of...