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| Summertime, and the Farming is Easy! | June 19, 2009 |
| Grass-based farming is something everyone should experience, man, woman, child, and beast alike! The summer solstice is here, and we are happy to be solar-powered and into full-blown photosynthesis. Plant life is exploding in all its glorious diversity. The cattle are enjoying the nutrition of hundreds of species of grass and forbs from the prairie, and the goats are browsing happily through some of our less favorite plants--buckthorn, sumac, poison ivy, wild plum, and thistle--goats love them all, much more than grass. It's a wonder to behold, that they can munch on poison ivy with those velvety little mouths, and enjoy it! At a minimum, I would think the nasty ivy would taste like a heavy dose of tabasco sauce...
Today we will pack up our grass-fed products, cookbooks, Sustainable Farming Association of Minnesota information and opening pitch pasture-raised meatballs for city of Minneapolis' first lady of Local Foods Megan O'Hara and Mayor RT Rybak, and head east to the fifth annual Grazefest Minnesota at Mill City Farmers Market on Saturday, June 20th. What a great state we live in, where urban and rural Minnesotans really understand, appreciate, and nurture our symbiotic relationship through locally grown, pasture-raised foods. See you at the Market! | |
| posted by forbord1 | |
