Archive for the 'Family Farm' Category

Following the Biblical injunction of Leviticus 19:9-10, a Colorado family farm offered people free food. They originally scheduled two days of “gleaning” – allowing free picking of vegetables left over after the commercial harvest of their potato, carrot, and leek crops. They expected 5,000 or perhaps 10,000. 40,000 showed up! Though a 600 acre farm [...]

Has Organic Food Lost it’s Marketing Magic? According to this report, yes. But take note that they are talking primarily about high overhead super market venues. Local farms that sell regionally and directly to customers have an advantage here. 1. They build relationships with their customers 2. They are getting the retail and middleman’s mark [...]

Becky McCray alerted me to this story and G.L. Hoffman’s comments. It reminded of the “Where’s George?” website that lets people track where their dollar bills have been by the bill’s serial number. This little country girl wrote her name and address on an egg sold at the town market. The egg ended up on [...]

If an organic family farm is your idea of the perfect home business, here’s good news, Americans are buying shares in organic family farms. I have family members, for instance, who love raw milk… some to drink, some to make kefir, a “probiotic” rich fermented milk product. Where they live, it’s illegal to sell “raw”milk [...]

One work at home business trend that’s booming is the family farm. There’s just one problem, the law of unintended consequences strikes, but don’t worry… a politician at least got a photo op out of it thanks to the latest Farm Bill. The farm bills of the past, and this new farm bill are not [...]

Here are some posts I’ve made about Square Foot Gardening. This photo from my cell phone is the garden we actually have built in the last few weeks in our spare time. It’s actually become a family hobby and very relaxing. It’s not a business enterprise. I definitely recommend the UPGRADE book regarding this system [...]

I must have spring fever. I keep thinking about gardens. Now while I’m building a Square Foot Garden, just for some fresh tomatoes, some activity, and to save some money, I’m checking some other things too. Have you heard of the AeroGarden? (See below) It’s an “aeroponic” (as opposed to “hydroponic”) gardening system. I’m thinking [...]

This is from Newsmax and it’s about how to REVERSE the process. But the frightening thing is that the lack of exercise and fast food causes liver disease – in youth! Thankfully the damage seems to be able to be reversed … at least when changes are made. For adults and children who’ve repeatedly indulged [...]

From The Tennessean As the average age of farmers hovers near 60, younger people in Tennessee have been signing on to farm apprenticeships, attending organic conferences and even enrolling in a young farmer program through the Tennessee Farm Bureau. While the federal government says 87,000 farms were lost from 1997 to 2002 — not just [...]

First it was the Locavores who wanted locally produced food. But today’s headlines shows that growing food in your spare backyard space may really help you make or at least SAVE money. Fuel prices are causing grocery costs to skyrocket: Era of cheap food ends as prices surge this article reads. My mother in law [...]