Let’s talk a little bit about meat. While the mainstream is still condemning meat consumption as being antagonistic to a healthy lifestyle, movements like the Paleo Diet and the Weston A. Price Foundation are diligently uncovering the truth about meat –...
The Portlandia “Is it local?” sketch poked fun at our growing desire to know all we can about the foods we eat. In an effort to simplify your shopping at the Big Carrot we have created this awesome Meat Buying Guide (pst… there is one for eggs too). Although we won’t...
Read Kind Organics first update about their very ambitious project! We have been very busy bringing the project to its completion. We are 95% complete on the conversion of the 10,000 sq foot greenhouse we leased this February. We covered the existing soil and made...
Fair trade is a movement, one which digs at the question, “where does my stuff come from?” When you go to the grocery store, or go shopping for new clothes, you’ll notice products are coming from all over the place. The world is becoming more globalized, and...
NFF Update – Sosnicki Organic A quick update – We have been able to try out this new gem in the ‘covered fields’ – the old glass cold frames – this past week. We have used the new seeder for the first time to direct seed beets!...
Homestead Farm is a Registered Egg Grading Station located just 1 km away from the Holland Marsh. Pat Flack and her family have been in the egg business for over 30 years. They started grading eggs in 1978 as grader-producers and in 1986, opened the doors to their...
