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Growing number of eateries purchasing from local farmers

By TAHREE LANE BLADE STAFF WRITER Once upon a time, roadhouses and innkeepers purchased food grown by their neighbors: flour from the miller; produce from Farmer Green; cows, pigs, and hens from Old McDonald. It was a simpler era. If blight smote the potato crop, the cook tossed more turnips and onions in the stew. So why, at a time when tilapia filets are shipped from Thailand fairly cheaply ...

Ag Notebook for Sept. 5

»Butter exports ... Cooperatives Working Together has accepted two requests from members for assistance in selling butter to customers in Europe and North Africa. The products will be delivered through October.

Foraging Ahead To Greener Pastures

Fall is time to renovate, lime, and fertilize your grass pastures. Grazing high quality pastures is the best way to provide nutrients to your horse. So, improve your pastures and increase nutrients to your horses.

Apple season arrives early

Minnesota apple growers say the 2010 harvest has arrived about  a week to 10 days earlier this year due to the warm spring and recent warm weather.

HOME AND GARDEN GOINGS-ON

Georgia Middlebrook's gardens in Washington can be visited Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m., one of six sites featured on a Garden Conservancy Open Day in Litchfield County. The others are open from 10 to 4 p.m. Each costs $5. See www.opendays.org.