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Missouri Farmers Union

Financing Ozarks Rural Growth & Economy (FORGE)

Missouri Organic Association

By supporting local, small family-operated farms, you become part of the solution to global food contamination, industrial agriculture and runaway energy and transportation costs. The food doesn't take two weeks to leave the field and arrive on your table, so nutrition is preserved. Locally grown food, much of it organic or naturally grown without petrochemical pesticides, fertilizers, hormones, antibiotics or modified genes can be found in various communities in the Missouri and Arkansas Ozarks.

For those people who raise their own animals for meat and/or dairy products, there is the issue of feeding those livestock, summer, spring, fall and winter. It is especially for winter that one needs to plan ahead and hopefully store enough hay to last until spring.

If you want to contemplate fossil fuel use by a tractor in cutting, raking, and baling hay, then you might be inclined to manually cut your own hay. Yeah, it's labor intensive, but you will have much more control over the finished product.

FDA TARGETING RAW MILK and ARTISAN CHEESE PRODUCERS

On December 21, 2012, I made an accidental, but startling, discovery as a result of initiating the installation of a small starter system for solar power.  A brief chronology is below.

This ia a "TALE OF TWO VEGGIES".

Yes, this is about a very sweet Moschata variety of winter squash known as Yamiken, and about an ordinarily very sweet beet known as the Zelenolistnaja variety.

We grew both this year as we do every year where possible. OK, this year was a true test not only of gardening skill and perseverance, but of the ability of various crops to withstand the record-breaking heat wave and drought.

Most folks do not realize that peanuts can be grown in climates much cooler than that of the American state of Georgia. We grow them in Missouri and they are grown much farther north as well.

Got grape juice? If not, you can make your own from your own grape arbor or even wild grapes. I've done both and prefer wild grapes as they require least maintenance. If the vines are too high in the trees, you might need to cut down the vines and wait a year or two for recovery and grapes at a level you can reach.

As a child I thought all radishes were either small spherical reddish spherical things called globe radish, or smallish white cylindrical things called icicle radish. Fortunately then I was rather ignorant in that area.

Most people like sweet potatoes but only see them in the grocery stores for a short time in late summer through autumn each year, presumably because they have just been harvested by late summer, and an American tradition is that Thanksgiving dinner is not the same without sweet potatoes.