Small Farm Life at Two Mile Ranch » locavore http://www.smallfarmlife.com Lessons learned from 80 acres and a 6 burner stove Sat, 21 Jan 2012 22:21:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Obamas Prepare to Plant White House Vegetable Garden – NYTimes.com http://www.smallfarmlife.com/2009/03/19/obamas-prepare-to-plant-white-house-vegetable-garden-nytimescom/ http://www.smallfarmlife.com/2009/03/19/obamas-prepare-to-plant-white-house-vegetable-garden-nytimescom/#comments Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:31:06 +0000 Fritz Nordengren http://www.smallfarmlife.com/?p=635 Continue reading →]]> WASHINGTON — On Friday, Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets (the president doesn’t like them) but arugula will make the cut.

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]]> http://www.smallfarmlife.com/2009/03/19/obamas-prepare-to-plant-white-house-vegetable-garden-nytimescom/feed/ 0 Eat local – even in winter | csmonitor.com http://www.smallfarmlife.com/2009/03/04/eat-local-%e2%80%93-even-in-winter-csmonitorcom/ http://www.smallfarmlife.com/2009/03/04/eat-local-%e2%80%93-even-in-winter-csmonitorcom/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:21:23 +0000 Fritz Nordengren http://www.smallfarmlife.com/?p=603 Continue reading →]]> Amy Farnsworth of the Christian Science Monitor shares this view of a mid winter Rhode Island farmers’ market:

This desire is one of the main reasons farmers’ markets are increasing, up some 300 in the two years between August 2006 and 2008, as the total number surpassed 4,500 according to the US Department of Agriculture. And it’s helping sustain about 750 farmers’ markets that operate between the months of November and March.

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