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Recent Writing from LocalHarvest Members
All in a Days Work
Miolea Organic Farm - Jun 15, 2009 - By Brian_1
In order to raise organic chickens and eggs you need to take possession of the chick by the time they are one day old. They can be inoculated on day one but no anti-biotic after that, if they do get sick you must give them what is needed...
The Secret Life of Bees
Hurricane Farm - Jun 15, 2009 - By Chris
We just uploaded a slew of photos, so here are some from a while back. Recall that our first shipment of bees did not fare too well in transit. In fact, the majority of them were dead on arrival. We installed them into the hive anyways at the...
Nuui Cunni Farmers' Market 1st Year
Nuui Cunni Farmers' Market - Jun 15, 2009 - By Anna
My name is Anna Leon I volunteer my time to manage the Nuui Cunni Farmers' Market on beautiful Lake Isabella in the Southern Sierra Mountains of California. This is my 1st blog. I thought it would be good to share our weekly...
Farm Up Date 6/15/09
Boardtown Organics - Jun 15, 2009 - By Greg_1
This past week's market was going very well until the thunderstorm came through!!! We had our largest selection of crops available so far this year and sales were brisk. This coming market, 6/20/09, we should have the following: ...
Fresh Chicken
Hurricane Farm - Jun 15, 2009 - By Chris
As CSA pick-up approaches, we decided to see where our meat chickens are at size-wise. We prepared two of them, one of the larger sized ones and one of the smaller sized one this weekend. We are looking at meat birds in the 5-6 pound range on...
N.E. Alpaca Fiber Pool in the News!
Golden Touch Alpaca Farm - Jun 15, 2009 - By Shelley_2
picture from A New Fleece on Life | Herald News Recently the Herald News came out to our mill in Fall River to do a story on our Fiber Processing business, The New England Alpaca Fiber Pool ( http://www.neafp.com ). For those of you who do not...
Salad Mix is Cheap
F.A. Farm - Jun 15, 2009 - By Walter_1
I sell my salad mix for $8.50 per pound. Occasionally I get someone out to the farm who is a little taken aback by the price, but then I show them what a pound looks like. A pound fits loosely into two gallon bags and provides about 8 salads - even for big...
First veggie pickup is this week
Abbe Hills Farm CSA - Jun 15, 2009 - By Laura_1
Good Morning Shareholders, This week is the first vegetable pickup day of the 2009 season!Yippee.We have kale, bok choi, red globe radishes, and head lettuce.It won’t be a large pile of food, but it will get us started on what I think is going to be an...
Tuesday at the Bluegrass Farmers' Market!
Bluegrass Farmers Market - Jun 15, 2009 - By Kentucky Proud
Yup, it's gonna be a fresh and green day at the Tuesday Bluegrass Farmers' Market! You'll be able to find all of the good for you green stuff! :) Look for kale, Swiss chard, mustard greens, Romaine lettuce, sugar snap peas, fresh cut herbs...
Damn I'm sore!
Sunrise Farm - Jun 15, 2009 - By Jetboy
I have killing myself getting stuff in between rain and more rain. Not easy this year, but I'm happy to tell you, most everything is up and going strong! Friends, we are talking LOTS of tomatoes, all types and sizes this year. Hope your hungry!...