Submitted by Cara Cummings on Sun, 02/08/2015 – 9:22am The days are getting longer. I know this because the pineal gland does not lie. There is less melatonin being released into my hens’ bodies—something that is regulated by the amount of sunlight that penetrates their little skulls. The result of this phenomenon is the signal to […]
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Thoughts for when your team doesn’t make the Superbowl
Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Mon, 02/02/2015 – 3:22pm One of my coworkers showed me this silly little clip a few months back. I watched it, chuckled a bit, and then quickly forgot about it. The big game that we have all heard so much about this past weekend, however, brought it back to mind. THE […]
Roasty Toasty Tofus
Submitted by Magdalena Caspe… on Fri, 01/16/2015 – 1:30pm Last weekend, when I was shopping – while hungry – at the coop, I picked up a tub of fresh tofu. Because yolo tofu. And I had big plans for dinners this week.Figuring out how to use tofu at home was always challenging – quite frankly, […]
Soil and Sunshine
Submitted by Cara Cummings on Mon, 01/12/2015 – 2:58pm As we entered 2015, the international year of soils–as designated by the United Nations General Assembly and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations— I was far away from the fertile soils of central Illinois, on a warm beach in the Turks […]
Repetitions and Resolutions
Submitted by Stephanie Fenty on Mon, 01/05/2015 – 1:36pm The new year has begun and fittingly, we have had what seems like the first sticking snow of this winter. So of course, with the freshly whitened ground and the constant struggle of remembering to write 2015 at the end of every date, a new year, […]
My seed nursery
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Thu, 12/25/2014 – 10:43pm My plant set-up, in its current state as a home for some tender refugees from the winter. For the first time in years, I spent most of the 2014 growing season in the office instead of on a farm. However, a farmer doesn’t fade so easily. […]
