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Boulder Belt Farm Share Week 9

Boulder Belt Eco-Farm   -   Jun 09, 2009 - By Lucy

It's June! the start of summer or something like that. Early June is when we transplant the tomatoes as this is when we are about 99% assured there will be no frost (there was a frost after June 7th in the late 1980's I remember but 99 years out of 100...

saving water - thoughts for you at home

Hippychick's Gardens   -   Jun 09, 2009 - By hippychick

it's that time the heat is hitting hard there is no rain in site the ground is dry dry dry and the garden droops even before the noon hour - looking like heat stroke to me time to pull out the back up - time for the early morning or...

Who in their right mind does this?

Miolea Organic Farm   -   Jun 08, 2009 - By Brian_1

After five years of growing on our own we decided that we needed help in order to get done all the tasks that needed to get accomplished (that's alot of words for "we needed help weeding").   So we thought now would be a good...

eggs - from organic fed chickens

Hippychick's Gardens   -   Jun 08, 2009 - By hippychick

hooray!  the chickenchicas at hippychick's gardens are providing beautiful fresh eggs daily. what's inside? I am glad you asked.  It's only the best for my organically fed chickenchicas. i feed the ladies coyote creek organic...

Babies!

Bloom Where You're Planted Farm   -   Jun 08, 2009 - By Teresa_2

We have babies!  Hundreds, probably thousands, of baby pumpkin plants!  It's been eight days since we finished planting.  When I went out to the fields Friday I saw several seedlings emerging (see above), and by Sunday afternoon...

KIDS WANT A PET? Perfect solution -- Sour dough S...

So Succulent Gardens   -   Jun 08, 2009 - By Blossomfarm

As parents we all heard it before ---- if you get me this new pup, kitten or bunny, I PROMISE,  I PROMISE I will take to care it every day - that last about a week. So maybe you should allow your kids to start out with a nice huge glob of sour dough...

Plain Plantain. Or Is It?

Morgan Botanicals   -   Jun 08, 2009 - By Jessica_7

I love seeing little herb gardens of plantain growing in the cracks of people's driveways. These "weeds" are far too often plucked out (just like dandelions) but I have my hopes. Do you ever notice how Mother Nature plops down herbs in the most...

I've had a lot of questions recently about why we have a sister farm raising our pigs. Well, there are a lot of reasons, the most important one being it is better for them to be raised within a reasonable distance of a USDA slaughter facility. If we raised...

Spring 2009 Fiber CSA "Raffle"

Breeze Hill Farm   -   Jun 08, 2009 - By MaLinda

Here's a way to double your CSA share and only pay for one. We are holding a raffle. For everyone who purchases a share in the Spring 2009 Fiber CSA by June 15 th 2009, your name will be entered in our raffle to win a second CSA share. This would be a...

Tuesday Market Offerings!

Bluegrass Farmers Market   -   Jun 08, 2009 - By Kentucky Proud

Chances are this will be the last week for strawberries. I'm gonna miss those beautiful red ripe strawberries but my mouth is watering just thinking about the blueberries that will make their first presence at the market tomorrow! Blueberries are my very...