Category: Micro Farming
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One Minute of Zen: Want Some Honey, Honey?
We had a marvelous honey harvest recently, and this is so soothing and uplifting to watch. Bees are magical creatures. Enjoy.
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Harvest Creations: Keeping Sanity in Your Protected-Range Brace
Warning: If you are at all upset by the processing of poultry meat, please read no further. We raise our animals humanely and ethically dispatch them, with gratefulness in our hearts and minds. We encourage others who maintain meat in their diet to support ethically raised meat supplies, either by raising the animals themselves…
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Harvest Creations: That moment when your ketchup turns into BBQ sauce
My goal this year is that I take what I need from the farm beds when I need it – for current meals, that is. Then everything else gets sold at the farm stand on Saturdays. Whatever I don’t sell on Saturday, I “put by” as they say. In other words, preserve. This past…
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Water, Farming, and the New Normal
Back in the early ‘90s I lived in Wyoming. Having grown up in the Great Lakes region, and living in Hawaii before Wyoming, I never thought about fresh water or this odd thing called water rights. Water rights and Wyoming was a great education in the pre-cursor to climate change. I was flabbergasted at…
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Bees: The Micro Farm Gets Its Own Pollinators
I mentioned last year that getting bees was going to be a priority for the 2015 growing season. And we did. I’ve been a bad blogger and haven’t shared it with you and for that I apologize. But, it’s just been so dang BZZZZ-eeE here. With the new chicks and ducklings and baseball season and…