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Dayton Daily News | What makes this new Warren County community unique in Ohio Dayton Daily News A development that supporters bill as Ohio's first agri-community will have its grand opening starting at noon on Tuesday as the project known as Aberlin Springs will be introduced to the Warren County area and the region. Set among 141 acres of ... |
Westword | Talking Farmers' Markets With Chef Paul Reilly Westword Everyone involved is anticipating the opening, including Paul C. Reilly, chef and co-owner of Beast + Bottle and Coperta, and a member of the market's elected board. Not only does the chef love fresh and local goods (something you can get a taste of at ... |
SouthCoastToday.com | Earth Day Heroes: Westport farmers save seeds to save crops SouthCoastToday.com Braun also lectures and runs workshops for the Northeast Organic Farming Association, and he and Levanti sell open-pollinated, locally adapted varieties of vegetables, herbs and flowers at the farm's annual seedling sale, traditionally held on the last ... |
SouthCoastToday.com | Westport farmers save seeds to save crops SouthCoastToday.com By preserving the stock of open-pollinated seeds and developing new open-pollinated varieties, Freed Seed ensures crop biodiversity and keeps seed strains part of the public domain. Training others to do the same ensures that more farmers will develop ... |
Healing Hands: It's spring, think fresh vegetables The Livingston County News CSA details. Season: early June - Oct. Type: single farm. Since: 1995. # of Shares: 60. Full Share: Working Share: $350. Non-Working Share: $550. Pick-up sites: Farm, Hammondsport, Painted Post, two sites in Corning and one in the Geneseo area. Don't ... |
Lancaster Farming | Organic Pioneer Growing In Paradise Lancaster Farming In 1997, Petersheim joined with a group of other local organic farmers to found PCO — Pennsylvania Certified Organic — a USDA-accredited agency. Today, Paradise Organics works in conjunction with Crawford Organics in East Earl Township. Jim Crawford ... |
Stone Soup Farm CSA Sign Up Charlestown Patriot Bridge Available to those with a veggie share, and consists of a weekly highlight of seasonal, local fruit. Last season featured strawberries, blueberries, currants, gooseberries, peaches, nectarines, plums, pears, apples, and watermelons. Fruit is sourced ... |
PARADISE, Pa. — For many folks, organic farming is a relatively new concept, a trendy way to sell expensive food to the people in cities and suburbs. But that's ...
Cultivating Gardens, Family, and Community in Montpelier Montpelier Bridge Years later, when I was pregnant and our family needed to establish roots, we considered Vermont as probably the best place to do it. My husband Patrick moved to Vermont after finishing a program on organic farming at the University of California ... |
San Francisco Chronicle | How local farms are evolving beyond CSA San Francisco Chronicle “We're taking that farm to table one step further.” The Noci model is unique, though not entirely without precedent. Traditional CSA programs are adapting to the emergence of industrial-scale organic farming and the broader shift among grocery stores ... |
WDIV ClickOnDetroit | Behind the scenes at Ann Arbor's Green Things Farm WDIV ClickOnDetroit ANN ARBOR - Husband and wife team Nate and Jill Lada founded certified organic Green Things Farm in spring 2011. They met while studying at University of Michigan and had both independently developed an interest in growing food from an environmental ... |
The Chronicle has launched a new weekly Travel newsletter! Sign up here. Enter your email at the top and check the box marked “Travel.” A visit to Noci ...
ANN ARBOR - Husband and wife team Nate and Jill Lada founded certified organic Green Things Farm in spring 2011. They met while studying at University of ...
Richmond magazine (blog) | Cracking the Code Richmond magazine (blog) A walk around your local farmers market will provide you with the opportunity to meet several egg vendors, most of whom are committed to a better way to raise chickens. You can usually find eggs from pastured hens here. (Ellwood Thompson's, Good Foods ... |
Mixed Topics Aired At Dutch Kills Civic Meeting Western Queens Gazette Food became a topic with the latest news about the Windmill Garden, right behind the Growing Up Green Charter School where the DKCA meetings are held, and a report on local community-supported agriculture (CSA) farms and their deliveries of organic ... |
It was a gray and overcast morning when I arrived at Windflower Farms just east of Bend. With no cell *service*—and no sign to reassure me that I had arrived at ...
The Farm Bill is a massive, omnibus piece of legislation that dictates US$87 billion a year towards the nation's food and farming policies. Congress must ensure ...
The Aggie | What's sprouting at the Student Farm this spring? The Aggie Raoul Adamchak is the manager of the market garden and oversees the nine acres of certified organic produce. Adamchak details what the market garden contributes to the Davis community through education programs and student projects. “We grow nine acres ... |
