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Cutting the grass at Howmars Farm for the first time for the season, farmer Ben tries to keep up with the hay baler. Howmars Farm supplies Stonyfield farm with organic milk to make its yogurts.
See http://stonyfield.typepad.com/bovine for the daily diary of the farmer.

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Tim explaining how the no till drill works and what we are planting
April 6, 2010
Elko, MN

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As Fresh Start Farm is beginning its first year of commercial produce production, Katrin shows how this small, organic farm is getting started.

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Helen Atthowe, Missoula County Horticulturist (1995-2010) http://www.veganicpermaculture.com speaks about a variety of experiments with living mulch. She covers minimum till, no till and full till.

Helen talks about creating beneficial insect habitats: bees, parasitic wasps, (in april she was experiencing a 1-to-1 ratio of parasitized aphids to non parasitized aphids), spiders, ground beetles …

Broccoli, brussel sprouts and cabbage yields are explored. Using three foot wide raised beds.

The minimum till was done with a single shank chisel plow followed by a light tilling with a tiller/rotovator.

Living mulches experimented with include clover which contributes nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, but also competes with the production crop. The trick is to find the balance and get the best of all worlds.

Music by Jimmy Pardo

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Another food nasty coming down the pipeline – it’s more of the same, support industrial agri-business, oppose small/organic farming. Problem is, it’s the industrial agri-monsters that are the problem!

Links to check:

Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance:

http://www.farmandranchfreedom.org/content//food_safety_bills_09

S. 510:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510

To find out who your Senators are, go to:

http://www.congress.org/

Capitol SwitchBoard:

(202) 224-3121

Stop this bill as it is!

Peace.

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Follow us on Twitter – twitter.com/kazukirei

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According to Farm Aid, 5 million family farms have been lost since the 1930’s. Most farms today are not family farms, and their future is very much in jeopardy. This story is a personal account of one new family farmer on his journey to establishing a farming business.

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Everdale’s Organic Farming Certificate program’s curriculum includes 906 hours of farm work experience on Everdale farm. OFC student farmers develop farming skills growing food in the fields and selling it at farmers markets.

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Farmers and their Diversified Horticultural Marketing Strategies [DVD]. V. Grubinger. 1999. University of Vermont Extension. Available for purchase at: http://www.uvm.edu/vtvegandberry/Videos/marketvideo.htm Featuring Michael Docter and Linda Hildebrand, Food Bank Farm. Hadley, MA.

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Home gardens are great. Grow your own veggies! However, if HR 875 passes the government will have within it’s power to regulate your veggies. This seems like a set up, like the poor farmers in Africa and around the world that the large agri-business have enslavened to THIER products. Seeds the must be BOUGHT EACH SEASON that WON’T grow without THIER fertilizers and pesticides.
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Rima E Laibow, MD
HealthfreedomUSA.org

So says the WHO and FAO
Don’t let them take our tomatoes!!!
Call the switchboard:
1-866-340-9281
Home gardens are great. Grow your own veggies! However, if HR 875 passes the government will have within it’s power to regulate your veggies. This seems like a set up, like the poor farmers in Africa and around the world that the large agri-business have enslavened to THIER products. Seeds the must be BOUGHT EACH SEASON that WON’T grow without THIER fertilizers and pesticides.
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