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Currently Harvesting

Blue Star Acres CSA/ 4B Ranch   -   Jul 16, 2009 - By Laura_8

Current Harvest Includes a selection of : The last of the Gold mangoes, the start of the larger green mangoes~Chareston Grey watermelon (full shares), Icebox watermelon (1/2 & 1/4shares) ~ Canteloupe~ Okra~Gawar beans~ Butter...

Summer Fruit Ambrosia with Vanilla Nut Cream

Cookus Interruptus   -   Jul 16, 2009 - By Cynthia

Ambrosia means “food of the gods” and I swear if you’ve ever studied the perfection of a perfectly ripe raspberry or swooned over the sweet golden apricot, this is the recipe for you: Summer Fruit Ambrosia with Vanilla Nut Cream (Darrell tries to fix...

What's in your fabric softener and dryer sheet...

Sharon Hubbs-Kreft, Herbalist - Amazing Grace Herbals LLC   -   Jul 16, 2009 - By Sharon_3

I received an email from a great friend and wanted to pass the info onto you. It is an excerpt from a very helpful book and may surprise you when you read on  . . . Here are some words taken from Sloan Barnett's book, 'Green Goes with...

Saturday Means Homegrown at the Bluegrass Farmers&...

Bluegrass Farmers Market   -   Jul 16, 2009 - By Kentucky Proud

Okay, I am so excited about what our farmers will be bringing to the market this Saturday! It's kind of like an Oh My Gosh moment!!! We have been enjoying the bounty so far but it's always exciting to know that tomatoes, corn, peppers and green beans...

Week 5 Newsletter with recipes

Maplewood Organics   -   Jul 16, 2009 - By Hannah and Eric

CSA Newsletter Volume 5 Issue 5- Farm July 16, 2009 __________________________________________________________________________________ Week 5 More greens this week! Yum! We have some exciting new additions too: peas, new potatoes, basil,...

My Mutated Calendula

Morgan Botanicals   -   Jul 15, 2009 - By Jessica_7

I have one mutated Calendula plant. You can imagine my excitement! It's silly, but I always get excited when I grow something that takes on its own weird form: something different than what it should be. I told my husband I was going to call her my...

Gearing up for 2009 Gilroy Garlic Festival

Christopher Ranch   -   Jul 15, 2009 - By Justin_1

Have you purchased tickets for the 2009 Gilroy Garlic Festival yet?! If not, you should, as you are bypassing the largest, most electric garlic party in the world: a weekend-long celebration of everything that is California-grown garlic…celebrity chef...

Pumpkins & Pollinators

Bloom Where You're Planted Farm   -   Jul 15, 2009 - By Teresa_2

It has been almost seven weeks since we first started planting this year's pumpkin crop.  The average pumpkin takes 90-100 days to grow, so this means we are approaching the half-way point for many of the varieties.  The plants are looking...

INCA meeting 5-26-09

Iowa Network For Community Agriculture   -   Jul 15, 2009 - By INCA Board Member

 Ryan, Kelly, Michael, Tai, Matt, were in attendance at our meeting. We approved the last meetings minutes from April 20th. Ryan explained that all of our W-2 issues are resolved and that no filing extension was needed.   A request for...

july 15- sun!!!!

Cloud's Path Farm   -   Jul 15, 2009 - By Sally

Well, I think I skipped last week, but here we go with the contents of this week's CSA bag: Mixed edible pod peas- both sugarsnap and snow peas arugula baby leeks- use the white part and light green parts as long as they seem tender.  The very...