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To Farm Again: November 2008
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Privacy Policy and Such. Monday, November 24, 2008. Colorado Farm Gives Away Excess Produce. Last weekend nearly 40,000 people showed up to Joe and Chris Miller's farm near Platteville, CO. Why? To gather unharvested leeks, potatoes and carrots. According to the Farm Manager, nearly 600,000 pounds of produce was collected. You can read about it here at the New York Times. Sunday, November 23, 2008. Goats on the Rise! Monday, November 17, 2008. Dairy 0 - - Flowers 1. I stumbled across this story about an ...
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Starting Out in Sustainable Agriculture - ATTRAnews - October 2008
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Volume 16, Number 4. Newsletter of ATTRA - National Sustainable Agricultural Information Service. A project of the National Center for Appropriate Technology. NCAT) This issue of ATTRA. Starting Out in Sustainable Agriculture. Advice to New Farmers. Linking New Farmers with Retiring Farmers. Resources for Beginning Farmers. Is a Farm Business Right for You? A Sampling of ATTRA s Publications to Help New Farmers. Where to Learn About Sustainable Farming. Greenhorns Web Portals for Young Farmers. Keep all ...
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Things I’d like to do | Beyond Dinner
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One woman’s exploration of sustainable food systems. January 3, 2009. Things I’d like to do. As we get started on a new year I thought I’d start a running brainstorming list for myself with things I can do about food and sustainable food systems. Get soil at our community garden tested to understand how we might want to amend it. Get on the Boston Natural Areas Network mailing list. Go to at least one BNAN event. Visit more local farms. Find and begin patronizing closer vendors of whole grains and beans.
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Honey and candles | Beyond Dinner
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One woman’s exploration of sustainable food systems. November 28, 2010. On our future farm I would love to have some bees. Having some sweetener as part of our crops is very appealing to me. Our future farm is several years away for us, but I got to have a little taste (! Of the bee keeping life this weekend when we picked up our honey share at the Reseka Apiaries. Here’s what we got in our share:. Laquo; Soup, glorious soup! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public).
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Bags for grain | Beyond Dinner
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One woman’s exploration of sustainable food systems. October 4, 2009. Last weekend, Noah, Pat and I took a drive to Shutesbury, to the home of the folks who are pulling together the grain and bean CSA. We got to see the hand mill. That they have at home that looks like it works great. Here’s a picture of some drawstring grain bags I made at home to add to the pile. The small bags hold about 5 pounds, while the large ones hold about 15. Laquo; Black bean harvest. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.
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Soup, glorious soup! | Beyond Dinner
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One woman’s exploration of sustainable food systems. October 30, 2010. Soup, glorious soup! Our friend, Joel Henry visited us recently as he launched his newly created, from scratch, soup company, Fig Food. I had the good fortune to buy some of his prepared soups from the Whole Foods in Boston recently:. Laquo; I’m back – and tomatillos! Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Boston Natural Areas Network.
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Cleaning grains | Beyond Dinner
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One woman’s exploration of sustainable food systems. December 31, 2010. First a photo of the grain (a hard red winter wheat) before cleaning:. The black dots have got to go – they are various seeds that have gotten into the wheat. Once you agitate the water and grain a bit, you can see a bunch of stuff floats to the top. We used a strainer to remove that. Next we spread out the grains onto some small window screens that we propped up on some overturned bowls to ensure good air flow. Thank you for the tip!
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first ever canning attempt | Beyond Dinner
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One woman’s exploration of sustainable food systems. August 30, 2009. First ever canning attempt. I’ve officially preserved some of our garden bounty. Right now our wall o’ beans. Is producing like crazy, so I had a few pounds that we haven’t been able to incorporate into our meals. So I followed this recipe. I think that I could have packed more beans in each one, but aren’t they beautiful? This is one of the goals. I posted back when I started this blog – to preserve some of what we’ve grown. You are c...
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Start Farming: New Farmer Trends and the Need for More Support
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Have you ever thought about starting a farm? Wednesday, July 21, 2010. New Farmer Trends and the Need for More Support. In Minnesota and a number of other organizations who have adopted their Farm Beginnings Program. Curriculum; Michael Fields Agricultural Institute. In Wisconsin; and the New England Small Farm Institute. To name but a few. Public Universities such as Michigan State. There is clearly a need for more research, collaboration, accounting, and data collection in this area. And we must wo...
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Preservation and garden updates | Beyond Dinner
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One woman’s exploration of sustainable food systems. November 2, 2009. Preservation and garden updates. Pat and I have tried our hand at a couple of preservation projects this season. We had a bumper crop of green beans, so we’ve frozen a bunch and pickled about 8 jars. We also fermented a few jars of beets and made some pickles. We tried the pickles for the first time tonight and they are really good! We got collards, kale, chard, New Zealand spinach, cauliflower greens and one head of cauliflower. ...