Submitted by Magdalena Caspe… on Thu, 02/12/2015 – 10:04am We all think of the “Holidays” as starting off with Thanksgiving (or, more distressingly, Halloween), and wrapping up with New Year’s Day. But February is real holiday season, and right when we NEED those random days off. Kicking off with Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on […]
Goodbye Melatonin, Hello Eggs
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 […]
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 […]
Season extension: the hottest thing in the cold
Submitted by Jeff Hake on Fri, 01/23/2015 – 3:43pm Although I’m not currently farming, I love reading industry rags. So when Vegetable Growers News showed up at our office recently, I was excited. Headlines like “Higher potato consumption goal of social media effort” and “Federal grant awarded for organic tomato research” are sure to catch […]
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 […]
