The Blog Barn

Here is one of the ways we are transparent in our practices. We can trace our cattle and lambs from conception to consumption. Each animal is given a number shortly after birth, an ear tag with that number is placed in the animals ear. That number corresponds...

Why Growing Organic is Vital

Miolea Organic Farm   -   Jun 04, 2009 - By Brian_1

Have you heard the institutional advertising that a major seed manufacturer is playing over the radio airwaves.  How farming uses so much water and that their hybrid seeds and geneticaly engineered seeds will use less water and yield more food...

Urban Farming Challenges and Benefits in the Hot S...

Alternative Community Farmer/WPB.FL   -   Jun 03, 2009 - By Tony_1

Urban Agriculture as defined by Wikipedia is :"The practice of cultivating ,processing and distributing food in or around a village,town or city...It contributes to food security and safety in two ways: -It increases the amount of food available to...

Breeze Hill Farm in Local Harvest Store!

Breeze Hill Farm   -   Jun 03, 2009 - By MaLinda

Has everybody missed me? Wow, what a past couple of weeks! We've finally gotten some of the garden in, most of the sheep have been shorn, llama shorn, most of the fiber is packed and ready to go to the processor, filling orders at a much slower pace than I...

CSA week 4

Eaters' Guild   -   Jun 03, 2009 - By Laurie_2

HI- Good day to you.  Sorry to miss correspondence last week, something in the air made it a doozy, and I couldn’t find the space in the day to sit for long at the computer.  We’re in the midst of week four, and over this and next week, you’ll...

First veggie pickups week of June 15/18

Abbe Hills Farm CSA   -   Jun 03, 2009 - By Laura_1

Greetings shareholders and others, Well, I’ve washed and put away my spring chore coat two times now, but I had to get it out again this morning.It is COLD out in the country.Because of all the cold and wet, the vegetables are growing slowly, so I’m planning...

new at wool n feather farm

Wool n Feather Farm   -   Jun 03, 2009 - By Melissa_6

We are proud to annouce the start of our new fiber share program. We hope that you enjoy the nice selection of Shetland yarn, and our unique farm yarn. Both yarns are a dream to work with. We also will have roving and weaving yarns available. Fiber...

Farm is growing

Sheltie Meadow Farm   -   Jun 03, 2009 - By Miana Ruiz-Ryan

Sorry for my delay in writing in our blog.  Moving, building fencing, lambing, rescuing an alpaca and a llama has kept us all busy.  We have 14 lambs so far this year with three ewes due really late, immature ram had trouble breeding.  We have 4...

Ready or Not...

Liberty Lake Farmers' Market   -   Jun 03, 2009 - By LLFMarket

June is Here. Our farmers are busy at work. After reading this article from the New York Times called Bowlfuls of Lettuce I was reminded of the hard work that goes into farming. The Farm Chicks Show has been on my calendar for months and is now...

Done Plantin'

Bloom Where You're Planted Farm   -   Jun 03, 2009 - By Teresa_2

We started our planting last Thursday (5/28) and finished up on Sunday evening.  This is record time for us -- maybe after six years we're finally getting the hang of it! (KNOCK ON WOOD...I wouldn't want to jinx it for next year!) We planted...