Category Archives: Fresh

Farm Drum? What’s That?

An ever changing mixture of hints, thoughts, howdies and hoohahs.

to market, to market, to buy a fat pig

Within so-called alternative agriculture circles there are turf wars abrew

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Beginning Farmer Bill Introduced in Congress

The bill addresses many of the barriers that new agriculture entrepreneurs face such as limited access to land and markets, hyper land price inflation, high input costs, and a lack of sufficient support networks.

Skunks, Snails and the Manured Wedding

We have come to take for granted the most basic of truths, the obligations of family, the possible sanctity of work, the human as a humble piece of a biological universe, the realigning and reaffirming power of beauty, the deep comfort of great friendship, the absolute primacy of life, and the list goes on.

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Classified Ads in Fall 2011 SFJ

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Horse Progress Days

New Horsefarming technology sneak review from Horse Progress Days 2011

Also posted in Equipment |

Staying Ahead of Farming’s Calamitous Nature

Put yourself forward

What’s a Farmer To do?

Can bad foods ever be good for you?

Horsepower Notes

Regular work is the answer and the tonic

Building a Community, Building a Barn

Finally, in the fall it was barn raising season. Three barns were built in about two months

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http://smallfarmersjournal.com/coming-in-the-winter-sfj
Spring 2012 SFJ is out and about!

Spring issue is out. Swaledale Cheese, Haying with Single Horse, Rice, Homemade Butter churn and more.

http://smallfarmersjournal.com/farm-to-school-programs-take-root
FARM TO SCHOOL PROGRAMS TAKE ROOT

All aim to re-connect school kids with healthy local food.

http://smallfarmersjournal.com/sack-sewing-a-lost-art
Sack Sewing, A Lost Art

91 year old Wayne Ryan of Oregon demonstrated the old way of sack sewing during the 2011 Dufur Threshing Bee

http://smallfarmersjournal.com/national-animal-id-wont-go-away
National Animal ID Wont Go Away

We must not give up the fight to deny federal control of small farm production.

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