Mayda received a letter from the zoning enforcement guy today. (Our Paul Drive house is in her name.) It said we can’t have chickens here, and we have seven days to comply. It was dated Monday. I have less than a week to relocate the hens, disassemble and move the […]
Yearly Archives: 2009
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While I was at Pearl Market yesterday, two county officials showed up at my house and spoke with Mayda.
Saturday at the Clintonville Farmers’ Market, one of my customers said she was surprised to see so many yard signs in Clintonville in support of Issue 2. She reached the same conclusion I did: most of these people have probably fallen prey to the misleading advertisements in support of Issue […]
For those who are interested, here’s the full transcript of the morning half of the NAIS listening session I went to in Harrisburg in May. There’s a lot there to read–54 pages. I don’t intend to wade through it all myself. (I heard it the first time, after all.) I […]
Monsanto makes buyers of their seeds sign a user agreement. Included in this agreement is a clause that the user agrees not to do any studies on Monsanto seed or publish the results without Monsanto’s approval. They’ve been approving studies favorable to them and suppressing ones that turn out to […]
I forgot to mention this earlier. Last week we got our first “big” order–but not so big it didn’t fit in a few coolers stuffed into our hatchback. (We’re still a small operation, after all.) Our chicken leg quarters were used to cater the American Community Garden Association’s 30th Annual […]
For those of you who don’t receive our newsletter (and before you read further, go get on our mailing list now), here’s an excerpt from our last one. In other news, Frijolito Farm is expanding! We’re presently in contract on a nearly five-acre property just a couple blocks away, and […]
Some of you may have noticed we weren’t at the Westerville Farmers’ Market last Wednesday. Instead, we were in Pennsylvania. I have family there, and it was nice to visit, but the real reason for going was that I attended the NAIS Listening Session in Harrisburg. (There’s another one in […]
(cross-posted to Local Food Columbus) An odd thing just happened. I tried to post the following to the OEFFA Direct email list, but it was rejected for some reason. Still, I thought it would be of interest to people here, so here it is. You are not allowed to post […]
This was originally posted as a reply to Sam Rose’s question on Ohio State University’s Local Food Systems network. “So, the question is: how can we plausibly increase the amount of farmers? The answer seems to be to take farming to where most of the people are at: in the […]
Today is a gorgeous day, perfect for planting, but I took time to come home and watch my son so my wife, Mayda Sanchez, Secretary of the Farmers’ Market Management Network, Inc., could attend a meeting. The meeting (that she missed due to some scheduling confusion) was about a planned […]
I finally got the details hammered out and put shares up for sale. If you haven’t looked at it yet, check out our CSA page. We’re offering veggies and a small assortment of fruits (basically melons and mulberries, maybe some peaches and/or pears depending on what my four trees do […]
Spring is officially here. We received our annual visit from the Health Department. No, I don’t mean the inspection for my mobile food vending license. I still need to schedule that. I’m talking about the follow-up on an anonymous complaint about the chickens that’s become something of an annual ritual […]
Here’s a link to the article: “Clintonville market boasts the best in home-grown goods” Please note, our chicken is antibiotic-free, not “antibiotic chicken” as noted in the article. Also, Osage Lane Creamery sells goat’s milk cheese, not milk and cheese.
The CSA is definitely going to happen…but I still haven’t worked out a planting/harvest schedule or pricing. It’s coming! I need to get at least one person signed up so I can get the tiller fixed. The Jefferson Township Community Garden is allowing me to use about an acre of […]
cross-posted to Local Food Columbus Are you an apartment dweller looking for a place to garden? A gardener looking for more space than you currently have? Art Yoho has generously volunteered his front yard for the site of our new community garden. The space is about one acre on Maize […]
From the Journal of HortScience: Study: Conventionally Grown Vegetables Have Lower Nutrient Value Than Organics and Days of Old.