By admin on April 10, 2012
Well it looks like our spring season has been brief and we are jumping right into summer, or so it seems with these 80 degree days already. The garden crops are loving it and potatoes, onions, garlic, broccoli, cabbage are all growing rapidly– it should be a bumper crop. It has turned quite lush out [...]
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By admin on March 22, 2012
Wow, the months are flying by! But all of us Cane Creekers are looking forward to the spring. The trees are making buds, the goats are having babies and our gardens are going in! Potatoes, garlic, onions, cabbage, broccoli and lettuce are in the ground and we have more beds ready for other veggies—don’t you [...]
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By admin on February 11, 2012
Hello again from the farm. It’s been rather exciting out here this last month. We had a freak happening out in the pasture where the chickens roam. Apparently we had a rare microburst that flipped and crushed one of our egg mobiles(see photo below). We have two of these wonderful contraptions that house our chickens [...]
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By admin on January 22, 2012
Well Happy New Year from all the Cane Creekers! We are happy to have made it through the bustle of the holidays and are excited about the prospects of the coming months. We are still awash in baby animals. Since our last letter five more litters of pigs, six new lambs and 24 ducklings. Our [...]
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By admin on December 19, 2011
Hey everyone Sorry, we forgot a couple of important things. 1. We have gift certificates available on our website. We can send them to the buyer, or if you let us know in the notes section, we’ll send them directly to the recipient. Healthy wonderful food is way more interesting than a sweater… [...]
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By admin on December 15, 2011
DECEMBER NEWSLETTER We hope you all had a Happy Thanksgiving! Christmas is just around the corner but by the looks of things here you’d wonder if it was springtime—babies are everywhere. We have an abundance of piglets, with more on the way and so far five lambs on the ground with another dozen or more [...]
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By admin on November 9, 2011
After last night’s tremendous rainstorm, we are busy trying to tape the leaves back on the trees here for Eliza Sydnor’s wedding this Saturday. This shindig will be taking the place of our “final banquet” this year, so if you’ve been a regular you can try crashing—hopefully Doc won’t mind. Kidding. Besides the hubbub of [...]
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By admin on October 18, 2011
Don’t let the lack of newsletters fool you, we’ve been incredibly busy out here. We’re dealing with the usual- new products, new staff, new animals, new headaches- but the farm looks great and since the unexpected is to be expected out here, I guess we’re right on track. PRODUCT- 1. Turkeys: we’re taking orders for [...]
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By admin on August 4, 2011
Hey all- the craziness of summer continues, and as it does, it flies by. Apparently it’s August. Out here on the farm, staff seem to keep revolving. Some of us have taken vacations, some have left us permanently, and a string of volunteers has rushed in to keep it all together. Personel- First off, Nick [...]
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By admin on July 4, 2011
Dear Friends, Happy Solstice and Happy Birth of our Nation to all our favorite customers. It’s just about hot enough to melt eggs and flowers and humans alike here on the farm but we are working hard and to keep everyone cool and watered down. We have a full summer crew right now at Cane [...]
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