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HOUSE-IN-THE-MEDIA
Spring is the most popular time to showcase CSAs, so here are some places to see our faces: * The cover of The Common Market newsletter for March-April has some familiar faces on it (Ilene, Noah and Jonah), as well … Continue reading
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Spring nursery on the farm
Springtime makes the farm into a big nursery, full of babies, full of growing life. A cute female calf named Sweet Potato. Awaiting baby goats (Avanell’s kids, not to be confused with my kids), any day now. I’ll hopefully be … Continue reading
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Update on Nick’s Organic Farm in Potomac, MD
For those of you who are interested in the outcome of Nick’s Organic Farm and the School Board vote, the following is two news articles and a letter from Nick. Also for your information, in September 2010, the Secretary of … Continue reading
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Our friend and fellow-farmer, Nick Maravell is the next farmer to fall victim to Montgomery County politics. He has been leasing land in Potomac for the past 31 years, growing an important source of local organic non-GMO corn and soybean … Continue reading
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Morning Chores
Feeding the cows, goats, and chickens in the morning. Here are some of them, saying good morning– Goofy Hazelnut: The chickens get underfoot and crowd around, waiting for some breakfast. The hoophouse is quiet, dormant. Spring plantings begin this weekend.
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Medicine food
Free-range chicken by our friends Shannon and BJ. Chicken soup by Ilene. Pottery by Suzi Hanson at Catoctin Pottery. All raised and shaped and made with love, it must surely cure what ails. A flu has been visiting my house … Continue reading
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PASA Conference
Some highlights from the PASA conference. There were lots of notables at the conference, here are a few. Here’s director Andrew Kimbrell of The Center for Food Safety If you want to help fuel an organization that is taking on … Continue reading
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Snow on the farm
A quick glimpse at some snow highlights on the farm– Its never fun to lose electric power and phone service, but we had some fun with it and appreciated roughing it for a while. I think my boys enjoyed candlelight … Continue reading
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Canning Day
Each August I host a hands-on canning demo day for CSA members. We collect split tomatoes from the plants and can them up in the barn, our impromptu outdoor kitchen right next to the garden. Now that’s fresh! Here’s Jackie … Continue reading
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