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Beautiful Corn: Soon the Snow Flies
Beautiful Corn is a ‘how-to’ from planting to eating. I provide a practicum of corn growing from seed selection through seed production, based on my experience as a farmer and gardener.
Food.Farmer.Earth Newsletter: Halloween
Food.Farmer.Earth Newsletter: Robin Hassett of The Dessert Tray demonstrates how to prepare a cake for fondant, how to create fondant colors, and how to work with fondant. Fall is a busy time of year on Bi-Zi Farms in Vancouver, Washington, and is marked by their annual Fall harvest festival they call “The Pumpkin Patch” designed to entertain families with kids of all ages. The Weekly roundup of top posts, and more.
As the Urban Growth Boundary Approaches: A Wary Farmer Notices
Bill Zimmerman, a small farmer in Vancouver, Washington talks about the approaching urban growth boundary (UGB) that may soon encompass his farm.
Organic Certification Standards for Poultry: An Insider’s Look
Part 10: Beyond the intricacies of the production standards themselves, the story of organic poultry certification also includes one of the more fascinating sagas in the relationship between the organic community, the agribusiness establishment and the federal government.
Preserving an Essential Piece of the Local Food Web
Fermenting foods has long been an important technique for extending the life of foods well beyond their harvest season. Otherwise, as humans, we would have very little to eat in the winter and probably suffer from unpleasant nutritional deficiencies like scurvy.
A Good Food Farmer (video)
Anthony Boutard, of Ayers Creek Farm, is not your typical farmer. Trained as a forester, he and his wife, Carol, backed into farming – as he likes to tell it.