Close to Home Organic Farm

11/20/2021

Though the official start to winter may be about a month away, it's never too early to start dreaming about your spring .⁠
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When it comes to , it is good practice to map out your growing space giving the most room to what you like to eat and leaving a little room every season to try growing something new.

Whether you're growing on a patio in pots or planting in a , it's important to choose varieties that will give you the maximum in a small amount of space.⁠
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Need some inspiration? Browse our great selection of container garden varieties at: https://bit.ly/3qGJYz8 🍅🍅

10/06/2017

Wishful :)

Coldplay's haunting classic "The Scientist" is performed by country music legend Willie Nelson for the soundtrack of the short film entitled "Back to the Sta...

07/30/2017

It is with deep sadness that I have to put farming for the next few years on the back burner while I seriously consider a different approach on how I would accomplish my goals and live my life as a farmer. I am forever grateful to FarmStart, it's previous board of directors and staff who extended opportunities to landless people like myself so we can realize our dream to farm. For everyone who likes and follow "Close To Home Farm", Thank you so much!!! 💕

04/03/2017

Check out this bee-friendly GIVEAWAY from Storey Publishing, featuring The Xerces Society's newest book "100 Plants to Feed the Bees" and High Mowing Organic Seeds' collections for pollinators. Visit the link for a chance to WIN! http://www.storey.com/100-plants-feed-bees-sweepstakes/

02/24/2017

Canada's on the cusp of banning a chemical that's lethal for bees and aquatic insects. But big Ag is fighting back -- if we weigh in big, we could win.

01/31/2017

Yes! Hope to see Canada in this direction as well.

Monsanto had sued the nation's leading agricultural state, saying California officials illegally based their decision for carrying the warnings on an international health organization based in France.

01/11/2017

12/09/2016

Please sign up.

We won't see another opportunity like this again. Let's seize it.

12/07/2016

Great!!!

Imperiled bees provide the subject matter—and the cause—for a North Carolina painter.

09/29/2016

As the food trend spreads, its impact and limitations on actual, real-life farms and farming communities becomes more visible.

09/18/2016

Something worth looking into. :)

A new abrasive w**ding method could help farmers w**d and feed.

08/29/2016

Great! Looking forward to keeping bees. :)

08/20/2016

Setting a good example. :)

Will Harris, owner of White Oak Pastures, tells us his evolution from industrial to regenerative farmer.

08/19/2016

These odd fruits, veggies and animals show the vanishing diversity of our food

08/13/2016

The government is advising Canadians to check where their produce comes from after an outbreak of cyclospora was reported in four provinces.

06/23/2016

It's not just better crops that will feed the world -- it's better microbes.

06/21/2016

Lots of possibilities...

An invasive water plant may hold the key to fertile soil.

03/12/2016

I will certainly miss farming this coming season...

03/02/2016

My dream project. :)

Imagining one family producing six thousand lbs of food on land that’s only one tenth of an acre just 15 minutes outside of Los Angeles seems too amazing to be true. Either way, the Dervaes family found a way to produce 4,300 pounds of veggies, 900 chicken eggs, 1,000 duck eggs, 25 pounds of honey,…

02/27/2016

"Wake up before it's too late!!!!"

Even as the United States government continues to push for the use of more chemically-intensive and corporate-dominated farming methods such as GMOs and ...

02/22/2016

How I wish!!!!

12/11/2015

This December, over 50,000 people, including governments of more than 190 nations, will gather in Paris for the most important United Nations...

12/11/2015

Something every farmer should seriously consider.

Using farmland to capture carbon rather than release it into the atmosphere is called carbon farming. The idea is taking off and countries and...

11/30/2015

This is exactly my thought when I decided to take a sabbatical from farming... to live in my own farm, in my own time... to continue to grow. Farming is a way of life. It has been my life for the past 5 years.

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11/19/2015

A great idea! :)

11/19/2015

Thanks-------> Food Matters

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11/15/2015

This is a great read for me now that I am sitting at work most of the time.

Chronic sitting is a risk factor for poor health, pain, and early death, but how you sit may have a significant impact on the risks of sitting.

11/10/2015

It’s time to start looking for the environmental culprits responsible for the remarkable increase in the rate of autism...

11/04/2015

It's not a trend...

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10/21/2015

Took a shower, brushed your teeth, enjoyed a cup of coffee this morning? The water you've used came very likely from below. Soil provides numerous essential services such as buffering and filtering our water - which we often take for granted. Time to give back and save soils!