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D Acres Permaculture Farm: Organic Gardening, Home Cooking & Piglets
May 09, 2012 education 0 comments
"There are two things you must see today: piglets and treehouses," said Josh, our tour guide. Sounds like fun, right? The young boys girls on the farm tour with me were ecstatic! And so our exploration of D Acres of New Hampshire Permaculture Farm & Educational Homestead began. Joshua Traught, executive director and farm manager at D Acres, led our small troupe through the woods, down narrows paths, in and out of greenhouses, treehouses, outdoor kitchens and beyond. This is how I spent my afternoon on Sunday, May 6th, and a splendid afternoon it was! As implied by their full name, D Acres is a not-for-profit permaculture farm and educational homestead in Dorchester, New Hampshire, right...
Sustainable Food Mecca Stone Barns Beckons to New Yorkers
Jeff Gangemi Feb 01, 2012 education 0 comments
Everyone knows that New York City has long been home to a diverse and thriving food culture, with growing numbers of artisan food producers, urban farms, and locavore-friendly restaurants.  But for those looking for a glimpse of fertile land unfettered by the trappings of the big city, there is a sustainable food and farming mecca just 25 miles north of Manhattan. Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture is a non-profit farm and education center that grows over 200 varieties of produce year-round. Farmers there also raise laying hens, broiler chickens, turkeys, geese, sheep, pigs and bees. It's already relatively well-known, but we at FarmPlate wanted to give them a plug for the...
Breaking Ground in Indy
Nov 03, 2010 education 1 comments
If you took a stroll around the Butler University intramural athletic fields just nine months ago, you would have seen nothing but soccer fields, tennis courts, gleaming bleachers, and acres of green turf grass-a barren desert in terms of biodiversity and productivity. But if you walked the same path in July, you would have found a plot of colorful heirloom tomatoes, a perimeter fence draped with multi-colored pole beans, a patch full of 20-pound watermelons and juicy muskmelons, and rows of other delicious fruits, vegetables, flowers and herbs, many of which the typical grocery-store shopper has never beheld. [caption id="attachment_5210" align="alignleft" width="320" caption="Cucumbers...