Singletary Farm Goods LLC

10/17/2017

The farm has been quiet for a few years. Not actively farming and it shows in places. Time for change with the coming new year.

12/18/2016

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How we lost touch with animals, life and death, and learned to find butchery repulsive while eating more meat than ever

12/13/2015

Well it has been pretty quiet as the farm goes for a while now. Looking to change that this coming season. We are not sure to what degree the farm business will be back up and going but it will be going again in some small way at least. During the last dry days we had we did some work on the green house in preparation. The greenhouse got new roll up sides, the new top will wait till spring.

12/11/2015

As home fermenting has become more popular, a number of new small-batch airlock systems have hit the market. We've reviewed 4 of the systems here.

05/31/2015

A portrait of Bill Best, an heirloom bean and tomato farmer of Berea, Kentucky. Finalist for the Golden Snail Award from Slow Food.

05/21/2015

One of our blended families for the year. Turkey momma and a couple of Emden goslings.

04/13/2015

I thought this is pretty slick! Transplanting onions into the hole left by winter killed forage radish. Something to try next season, just need to find a forage radish that reliably winter kills here in Oregon.

I met Annalisa Wild Miller at the Maine Agricultural Trade show, but I was rushed with other things on my mind. I took note that she mentioned something about an article her husband, Joel, had written in Small Farmer's Journal (SFJ). I don't get SFJ, so I didn't know what a fantastic

02/10/2015

There are some great success stories in small farming but this article tells the more common tale. We are always thinking about farming full time again and the income potential is always a concern. Do something you love and really make very little at or just work the grind for someone else and comfortably pay your bills?

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/10/what_nobody_told_me_about_small_farming_i_cant_make_a_living/

People say we're "rich in other ways," but that doesn't fix the ugly fact that most farms are unsustainable

02/05/2015

It's easy enough to eat more salads—but it can be tricky to make them exciting. Here are 8 DIY dressing ideas that will keep you away from the bottle.

02/03/2015

Bike powered thresher, winnower, and dehuller prototypes demonstrated with Massachusetts grown beans and short grain brown rice. http://farmhack.net

01/26/2015

This is "Mhonpaj's Garden: A P6 Producer" by Principle Six on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

01/26/2015

Have you ever noticed that almost every barn you have ever seen is red? Turns out there's a reason for that that has to do with the chemistry of dying stars