Have you heard? The Coop Tour is coming! The Coop Tour is coming! This weekend! Support our local 4-H Poultry Club by joining in the fun! Check out the link below...
Download Cluck, Cluck, Cluck, the Coop Tour is Coming!
Have you heard? The Coop Tour is coming! The Coop Tour is coming! This weekend! Support our local 4-H Poultry Club by joining in the fun! Check out the link below...
Download Cluck, Cluck, Cluck, the Coop Tour is Coming!
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This Saturday marks the beginning of a fantastic series on how to grow more of your own food! Check out this flyer, and please share wildly with your friends and neighbors! Will we see you there?
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Questions: Call Adam Troyer, SFS, Oak
Harbor, 360-675-2277 (except Mondays).
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Just got a message from the Shore Stewards Program Coordinator who lives on Camano. Check out these classes!
Hi, all,
Here are links to brochures on training classes for the
small/beginning/sustainable farmers you might know, or come in contact with.
1. Master Beekeepers Apprentice training, Snohomish County WSU
Extension: http://snohomish.wsu.edu/Ag/workshops/beekeeping10.pdf
In Everett, just a ferry trip away.
2. The Honorable Farmer (a course
in simple farming): http://theopengatefarm.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Farm-Course-Brochure1.doc
It's on Camano, taught by someone who is making a success of his small
farm
-Scott
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If you haven't been following all that the Deer Lagoon Grange has been up to, it's time to do so now. Check out their Food News!
Did you read the big article about
international honey chicanery, detailed in the Seattle Times last year?
Chinese honey was shipped into countries that have effectively no honey
industry, then the honey was relabeled and exported to the USA to avoid
US tariffs on Chinese honey. Some of this honey contained antibiotics not
allowed in the US food supply. Sounds like a good reason to buy honey from
somebody you know. Our November speaker, David Neel , 331-1905, has honey for
sale now at home, and in Pickles Deli and maybe soon in local
supermarkets.
Submitted by Chris Williams, Deer Lagoon Grange
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Check out these two festive sets of opportunities! Remember, up to 90% of dollars spent on agricultural products stay in the community that produced them. That's the kind of economic stimulus we all need right now!
Coupeville Library, currently
housed at the Au Sable Institute on Parker Rd is sponsoring a talk on The
Inuit and their Indigenous food. On Baffin Island, the rural community of
Pangnirtung uses traditional knowledge and country food to address health
patterns emerging from transitions in nutrition and all facets of life.
Thursday Oct 22 at 7 pm
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FOOD : Back to Basics discussion groups hosted
by the Deer Lagoon Grange.
Monday Oct 26th 7 pm at the Deer
Lagoon Grange
Mary Leonard of Island
Tree Ranch will be talking about APPLES : How to manage your trees and what
to do with the fruit.
Mary and her husband
Larry own the orchard established by Jim Davis, a renowned Whidbey
orchardist. Her ideas for value added products will inspire you to move
beyond basic apple sauce.
If you want some of her
unbelievably good organic apple juice, made from 15 different varieties, she
will be at Apple Days on Oct 24th at Bayview Corner.
Monday Nov 9th, 7 pm
David Neel will be talking
about HONEY, BEES AND POLLINATION. Save the date.
Monday Nov 23rd, TBA
Watch for Winter
discussions to be announced soon! Topics
will be Salmon as food, Cooking from the Pantry, Goats and Chickens.
Just a reminder that the first of our Food: Back to Basics series is set for this coming Monday, October 12, 7pm, at the Deer Lagoon Grange Hall off Bayview Road.
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