Digital Farming- What’s The Deal?

...eading things can get pretty busy. We can become so preoccupied with work, chickens, vegetable gardening, cooking, cleaning, blogging duties and email that we can miss some of the things going on in the world. I do like to occasionally check in with the world at large by reading the newspaper. I just read an article that I have to comment on. A recent New York Times article titled, ‘To Harvest Squash, Click Here,‘ introduced me to the world on onl...

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Sunday Spam: Automatic Chicken Cage

...se and exports a batch of complete sets of automatic equipment for raising chickens. These products gained good prestige among customers and they are not only used in great-scaled biological raising farms in domestic provinces, but also exported to Middle Asia, South and East regions, Australia, South America, Middle East areas, Africa mainland and so on in great lot. We are willing to wholehearted with all the friends and customers to establish g...

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Is the Urban Homesteading Trend Over?

...” searches “Home canning” searches show a more dramatic decline. “Backyard Chickens” searches People research backyard chickens in the spring and the search trend also shows a decline. “Vegetable gardening” searches Searches for “vegetable gardening” seem to have declined sharply, perhaps because of all the homestead projects, gardening is the most difficult. “Gluten free” searches And another digression–it looks like we may have reached peak “glu...

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A Plea to End Daylight Savings Time

...’d make ending daylight savings time a campaign platform. Anyone who keeps chickens knows that this time change nonsense has nothing to do with farming. The hens look to the sun as their cue to start their working day. The same goes for the cats who are, as I write this, staging a loud protest in the kitchen to let us know that breakfast is an hour late. It’s bad enough that our clocks are an abstraction of solar time. Why do we need to add anothe...

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057 Winnetka Farms Part 2

...an vegetables. This week Craig tells us about his double-laced Barnevelder chickens, Muscovy ducks and we complain about our mutual problems with rats and racoons. Barnevelder chickens TLS Ranch Barnevelders Biosecurity Muscovy Ducks The raccoon menace Weeks colony in Winnetka Craig’s grape arbor Aquaponics Harrisina metallica – Western Grapeleaf Skeletonizer Rats! The Kitchen at Winnetka Farms on Facebook If you’d like to stay in touch with Craig...

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