Strawberry-licious
Monday May 31, 2010
It's strawberry season in many parts of the country, and if your mouth is watering at the sight of endless flats of berries, or if you're enjoying the local U-pick ... Read More
Wordless Wednesday
Wednesday May 26, 2010
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Small Farms - Not Growing After All?
Monday May 24, 2010
Food activist, author and professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University, Marion Nestle wonders in a recent post at The Atlantic whether small farms are really ... Read More
No Raw Milk for Wisconsin
Friday May 21, 2010
A Wisconsin senate bill that would have legalized direct farm-to-consumer raw milk sales was vetoed by the governor yesterday. Gov. Jim Doyle cited "public health" and the "safety of the ... Read More
Pasture Perfect
Thursday May 20, 2010
If you have even a small number of acres, you can pasture poultry. If you have a little bit more, you can pasture sheep, goats, and cows. Many people feel ... Read More
This Land Is...The Government's Land?
Monday May 17, 2010
A family dairy farm in Rainville, Vermont may lose their land to the federal government in the name of protecting the US-Canada border. The Rainville family, who has owned and ... Read More
Wordless Wednesday
Wednesday May 12, 2010
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Home Sweet Homestead
Tuesday May 11, 2010
Are you more of a homesteader than a farmer? Is your focus becoming self-sufficient rather than reaping in the profits at the market (ha! a little farm humor for you ... Read More
Wordless Wednesday
Wednesday May 5, 2010
Photo © Flickr user Amy Loves Yah
Roundup Ready or Not
Tuesday May 4, 2010
First Monsanto developed seed stock for corn, cotton and soybean that was resistant to Roundup, a pesticide used to kill weeds en masse across acres of crops. The New York ... Read More