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Horse Drawn Farm's pickin' trailer provides a moveable home for pigs and chickens.

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Green Living: Horse Drawn Farm

Stop by Horse Drawn Farm’s self-serve farm stand on Port Stanley Road or their booth at the Saturday…

Gardner Carol Noyes spreads Jewel-toned beans on the table. Noyes grows a variety of beans despite challenges.

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If you like a challenge, grow beans

Home gardeners like a challenge and will often go to great lengths to succeed with a particular vegetable…

Lopez sheep farmer Don Burt with his sheep.

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The First Annual Lopez Lamb and Wool Festival

  The First Annual Lopez Lamb and Wool Festival will fill the Lopez Center for Community and the…

Blossom Grocery owners Jennell and Brian Kvistad and children Samuel and Freda.

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Green Living, Blossom Grocery: Making a Difference

If we are what we eat, what does the food we buy say about us?   Here on…

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The New Planting Year Continues!

Vegetable gardeners who enjoy a challenge have already begun their 2011 planting, but for many other gardeners the…

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Green Living, the new planting year begins.

It’s January and for passionate vegetable gardeners in our temperate, maritime climate, the new planting year begins now.…

Gingerbread people ornaments at Holly B’s Bakery ready to decorate holiday homes.

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Tasty holiday gifts from Holly B’s kitchen

Gingerbread people and loaves of stollen from Holly B’s Bakery on Lopez are wonderful, local holiday gifts, but…

Seasonal vegetables for the Thanksgiving table

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Thanksgiving reverie

It’s November and people are planning Thanksgiving dinner menus and inviting friends and family.

Diane’s display garden at Heritage Farm with Grandpa Ott’s Morning Glories covering the barn.

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A field trip: Seed Savers Exchange

For me and for many of my vegetable gardening friends, the Seed Savers Exchange Catalog and the annual…

Plant rutabaga now and you can harvest it this winter

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Plant your winter roots now!

I’ve been gardening in the Pacific Northwest for 30 years and I’m still thrilled that I can grow…

Blake Johnston and Julie Bottjen hold two of their Cornish Cross meat chickens.

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Pasture-raised chickens: It can be done

There is a lot of interest in grass-fed, pastured, humanely raised cattle, sheep, pigs and goats. Especially with…

The mobile meat processing unit has its ninth anniversary this year.

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Happy 10th anniversary, IGFC

This fall is the tenth anniversary of the Island Grown Farmers Cooperative. It is also the ninth year…

Below: Islanders gather in the Ag Tent for another event.

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Visit the Ag Tent at the San Juan County Fair!

Locally Grown is the theme of this year’s San Juan County Fair, Aug.18-21.