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Strattons Farm offers CSA Vegetable Boxes

February 5, 2012 by Louise Livingstone

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Strattons Farm CSA boxes

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Former MPP among inductees to Agricultural Wall of Fame

This year's inductees to the Quinte Agricultural Wall of Fame include a former MPP and, for the first time, a couple.

The five honorees -- Howard Sheppard, Helen and Robert Williams, Reg McCann, and Joe Best -- will have their portraits along with explanatory text added to the wall at the Hastings County Museum of Agricultural Heritage in Stirling Sept. 18.

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A culinary delight

June 22, 2011 by Louise Livingstone

You are invited to Harvest Hastings Slow Food Meal on July 2, 5.30 p.m. - 9.0 p.m. Contact 613 395 4388 or email louise [at] tubb [dot] ca

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Roy Bonisteel will open new Discovery Centre

June 21, 2011 by Louise Livingstone

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Hastings County Museum of Agricultural Heritage, Discovery Centre,

Filled with a marvelous collection of cast trucks, toys, and displays, including the new diorama. Buttercup, our mechanical cow, awaits milking. Join us and discover a new dimension to our facility. Roy Bonisteel will be cutting the ribbon on the latest building at the Hastings County Museum of Agricultural Heritage in Stirling, Ontario.

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Strawberry Social at the AgMuseum

June 13, 2011 by Louise Livingstone

The Strawberry Social is coming up on Sunday June 26 - 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with the Grand Opening of Children's Activity Centre with Roy Bonisteel at 2 p.m. - see what's new - toy displays, interactive displays, lots to see! Enjoy beef on a bun, fresh local strawberries, Reid's Dairy ice cream and Oak Hills water. $10 for adults and $5 for children over five years. Call (613) 395-0015 for more info and tickets.

Event Date and Time:

June 26, 2011 - 11:00 - 15:00

Location

Hastings County Museum of Agricultural Heritage

437 West Front Street

Stirling, ON Canada

Canada

44° 17' 30.21" N, 77° 33' 55.5804" W

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Small U.S. Farms Find Profit in Tourism

For all the talk about sustainable agriculture, most small farms are not self-sustaining in a very basic sense: they can’t make ends meet financially without relying on income from jobs off the farm.

But increasingly farmers are eking more money out of the land in ways beyond the traditional route of planting crops and raising livestock. Some have opened bed-and-breakfasts, often known as farm stays, that draw guests eager to get a taste of rural living.

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Tweed Fair

June 6, 2011 by Louise Livingstone

For 130 years the Tweed-Hungerford Agricultural Fair has been Tweed’s oldest family community tradition. For generations people have come from near and far to relive those happy memories of their childhood – sticky fingers of pulled taffy, cheering crowds and engines roaring. This annual community event has become the place you are sure to meet up with many family and friends.

Event Date and Time:

July 7, 2011 - 17:00 - July 10, 2011 - 16:00

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Mom-and-pop vs. big-box stores in the food desert

A few weeks ago, when the Obama administration released its Food Desert Locator, many of us realized that a once-good idea has spoiled like a bag of old bread. If you go online and find that your family lives in a food desert, don't worry: You have plenty of company. One of every 10 census tracts in the lower 48 has been awarded that status.

...Ironically the USDA's Food Environment Atlas already offers a far more complete picture of food access on a county-by-county basis than does the new Food Desert Locator.

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Know your farmer: Karyn Wright - heritage seeds

May 4, 2011 by Louise Livingstone

Karyn Wright, owner of Terra Edibles and The Village Green in Foxboro talks about the heritage vegetables seeds she sells and what else she has in her unique store.The Village Green celebrated its tenth anniversary on April 30, 2011.

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Discovering heritage apple trees in the County of Hastings

April 24, 2011 by Louise Livingstone

More and more people are interested in heritage vegetables and some are discovered heritage apples. The townships along the Bay of Quinte had some of the earliest apple orchards in Upper Canada. You can still find ancient apple trees in farm yards or along field boundaries.

County of Hastings Historical Altas 1878

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