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Polyface Farm

August 8, 2012 No Comment

www.usebeyondorganic.com This company offers organic food that helps your body and operates like a polyface farm where consumers go to pick up their products. You may visit our website for more information.

What are the health benefits of goats milk?

August 8, 2012 1 Comment

Image by Kaiscapes Media Surfing Goat Dairy, Malama Maui tour, Maui Visitors Bureau. Photography by Peter Liu (@PeterLiu47) Question by : What are the health benefits of goats milk? Not just goats milk,all dairy products,cheese,yoghurt etc A big increase in popularity reason? Add your own answer in the comments!

Potatoes Harvested from a Straw Bale

August 6, 2012 24 Comments

Grown in a straw bale, these spuds (potatoes) were VERY easy to grow. I had a leftover straw bale from my neighbor’s Halloween decorations. I poured some human urine into the bale over the winter and let it compost. In spring, I stuck a piece of a potato in the straw bale, occasionally watered it, […]

I try to live a self sustaining life. What are some things you do at home to create, decorate, grow etc. . .?

August 4, 2012 2 Comments

Image by USDAgov Orren Fox, (aka @happychickens) a teenage chicken/bee keeper, from Boston, talked about learning where his food comes, from raising chickens in his backyard since he was nine. Now he has 32 chickens, 4 ducks and over 200,000 bees. He is the face of Agriculture’s future. He is joined by his father, Henry, […]

Raising a Chicken or Goat farm?

August 3, 2012 8 Comments

Image by acroamatic Question by Mary A: Raising a Chicken or Goat farm? How many chickens or goats would one have to purchase and own before one can say they have a chicken or a goat farm? Feel free to answer in the comment section below

Growing Spirulina, General Hydroponics, Strawberry Tower and Worm Composting Bin

August 2, 2012 20 Comments

John from www.growingyourgreens.com visits the Maker Faire and learns about growing spirulina in a fish tank, also a easy hydroponic system as well as how to make a strawberry tower out of 5 gallon buckets and see how to make an easy-to-make worm composting bin.

Joel Salatin – Lunatic Farmer

July 31, 2012 No Comment

You would not be wrong thinking of Joel Salatin as a kind of food evangelist. After all, this self-described ‘lunatic farmer’ travels the country preaching common sense and real food with all the energetic fervor of a true believer. Recently, Mr. Salatin spoke to a sold-out audience (co-sponsored by The Woodstock Land Conservancy and the […]

Square Foot Gardening

July 30, 2012 No Comment

I built this square foot garden to demonstrate how easy it is to build a square foot garden. The whole project cost me about 60 dollars for all materials. 2 2×8 boards. rocks, soil.

Is there a place I can buy goat milk formula?

July 30, 2012 3 Comments

Question by Pajama Girl: Is there a place I can buy goat milk formula? Or what else can we give our baby goats. We aren’t sure if the farm we are getting them from will start us out with some milk. And also can we give them any other kind of milk besides cow milk? […]

Can’t remember the title of the movie… a foreign film about a woman who loves honey and a guy who loves her.

July 29, 2012 1 Comment

Image by Dave Catchpole Thistle and Bee A pleasant afternoon walk in Ickworth Park, Horringer, Nr Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. A National Trust Property The Park – The extensive 1,800 acres of wooded parkland, created in part by ‘Capability’ Brown, is a living landscape rich in plant, animal, and bird life. Some parts cultivated and […]