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Springin' Along

Harvest Thyme Farm & Market   -   May 19, 2009 - By Dawn

Finally!  Here in Ohio it certainly felt like Spring was never gonna get here.  The night before, we were hit with a hard frost.... on the 17th of May!  Anyhoo, things are humming right along here at HTF (Harvest Thyme Farm).  We finally...

Getting through the spring

Blue Faerie Farm   -   May 19, 2009 - By Ray & Jan

We are finally starting to get caught up enough on the planting to have time to talk about it a little bit. This spring has seen nearly 200 new apple trees, 13 varieties of potato and three weeks of rain! With the weather, we missed a few of the earlier...

The 3rd week of May is a little late to be announcing spring, but it's a perfect way to welcome myself (and readers out there) back to the blogging world. Life has been busy these past few months, and there is much to report about - the progress of our...

Saturday dawned cool and rainy. Sean and I spent the morning getting things ready for our "coop raising" while the rest of the family attended a local fundraiser for the Humane Society. Our helpers were scheduled to arrive after lunch and the weather...

On the menu this week . . . May 18, 2009

Sunshine for Dinner   -   May 19, 2009 - By Georgiaberry

New Potatoes Spring onions New potatoes – ‘Yukon Gold,’ and Red La Sota’ Kale Edible pod peas – sugarsnap and snow peas Cabbage Spring garlic Beets Farm fresh eggs Our first vegetable delivery of the 2009 season! I might be...

Hogs On Apples

Hurricane Farm   -   May 18, 2009 - By Chris

We still have not uploaded the photos from the weekend, but here are some to hold us all over for a little while. Here we have some hogs--snouts sullied--after a hard afternoon's rooting session. They have cleared all of the land for our orchard...

Video: The End of Mass-Marketing w/ Seth Godin

Golden Touch Alpaca Farm   -   May 18, 2009 - By Shelley_2

As a small farm constantly looking for new ways to connect with our local communities through grass roots approaches, we found this video very inspiring. Most certainly worth the 15 minutes!  Breif Synopsis:  Seth Godin argues the Internet has...

Dexter bull + White Park cow = skunk

Kiss My Grass Farm   -   May 18, 2009 - By Dot and Brian

Yep that's right now we have a skunk calf. lol We bred our Dexter bull, Will to our 2 White Park cows. White Park calves are usually white with a black noses, black in their ears and black "freckles" on their backs and legs. One of the...

Kiss My Grass Farm Grass Kissed Chicken

Kiss My Grass Farm   -   May 18, 2009 - By Dot and Brian

They're here again - our pasture raised, hormone free all natural chicken!! This year we changed the type of broiler we raise to the Poulet Redbro. These new birds are more agressive foragers and have a more natural growth pattern than the Cornish Cross....

Here comes the SUN!

Kiss My Grass Farm   -   May 18, 2009 - By Dot and Brian

HURRAH! the weather report doesn't call for any significant rain for the next 4 days. Hopefully that will dry things out enough to finish getting the first plantings into the garden. :) Our workingshare CSa folks will have lots to do this week in the...