Tonight, Local Food Cleveland hosted an event, So You Want To Be A Farmer? The panel featured local agricultural experts and local farmers who shared stories with over 200 attendees. Those in the crowd self-identified as interested in becoming farmers, already farming, or just plain wanting to hug farmers for making fresh produce available locally. […]
Author Archives: annabel
01
Feb
Feb
A few years ago we read an article in the magazine Countryside & Small Stock Journal regarding sustainable beekeeping practices using a Warre hive. Since then we’ve read and studied many sources on the Internet regarding sustainable beekeeping, and finally this weekend we were able to construct a Warre hive for ourselves. I think The […]
29
Jan
Jan
it’s a sunny day and only 19F, but our compost pile is really working over 100F!!!! not quite as hot as we would like, but getting there. that reading from our compost thermometer we got for christmas. we have been steadily added to the compost piles behind our house and looks like it’s composting in […]
Bay Branch Farm recently registered to attend the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association’s (OEFFA) annual conference, Growing with Integrity, Eating with Intention. The conference features Joel Salatin as keynote…we’ve read about him (even read some of his books), seen him in several movies about sustainable farming and now we are going to see him […]
Just when I thought planning was going well for the season, I start hearing about others who have already started their seeds indoors and already know what they are planting, when and where! Geez….well, we may be a couple weeks behind, but this is lighting a fire under us. My sister gave us the best […]
14
Jan
Jan
Have you ever had a memory triggered by a smell? Well, that’s what happened to me today when I ate a salad that had strawberries in it. Not sure where they came from, but guessing they are not from around these parts….not this time of year anyway. But, the smell….ah, it brought back memories and […]
10
Jan
Jan
Last week we enjoyed a tasty, seasonal meal at Claire’s Restaurant in Hardwick, VT. Given the landscape is covered with snow, it’s hard to believe there is much available locally, but this restaurant stays true to the seasons and to what it can find in the region. This includes chicken, steak, and pork chops, but […]
15
Dec
Dec
We recently met an awesome couple that keeps an outdoor worm bin right in Ohio City! Curious about their process and reeling from a major fruit fly infestation in our indoor bin, we decided to learn more. The couple has a 3 bin system that they rotate about once a month. The worms do all […]
30
Nov
Nov
Happy Thanksgiving! This year we purchased a turkey from Plum Creek Farm in Columbia Station. We really like these farmers, appreciate their farming practices and were fortunate enough to help harvest birds last year about this time. Due to scheduling, we were not able to help harvest this year, but we did put in an […]
25
Nov
Nov
For the past couple of years we have been interested in bees and this winter building a hive is on our to do list (it’s been there in past years and hasn’t been completed, so now that I’m putting it on the blog, maybe that will hold us accountable to actually building it this year). […]