Northern Farmer

Today I added two new links on this blog, doing so because of the good discussion about the hazards of GMO crops and food over at Tennessee Farm Girl’s blog. Being that I “still” do not know how to make quick links on my posts you’ll have to look to the left on the sidebar on this page.The two links are the Anti GMO Campaign and Save Organic Food. Both are excellent sites and a person can get alot out of them. And they also provide information on actions a person can take to try and halt the madness.

In a few weeks it should be slowing down here somewhat and I’m going to try to make some changes on this blog without destroying it. By this I mean make it more user friendly,with more important links, and I hope before this time to get some advice from anyone out there in computer land on how to do it. Two questions, how do all you whizzes get those nice links in your posts and how do I get that Charlie Russell sketch up in the top corner or somewhere for a logo? I’m not sure I’d use the easy links in my posts to often because after a few months I’m getting a little set in my ways, but at certain times it would be very handy.

Other than that the weather here is still so beautiful that I can’t beleive it. What a fall! Yesterday we plowed a new farm garden for next year, besides our current one. This large garden in addition to our normal one will take us much further in our own food supply. It looks like in the years to come it won’t be such a “hobby” as it will be a for real food supply. Also it is the start of this farm’s slow venture into vegetable sales. If that would have been mentioned here ten years ago I don’t think it would have gotten very far. But now all the generations here approve it, with zeal! Our girls have proven themselves the last couple of years that they have what it takes to see a garden through the whole summer, with a little parental help of course. The larger garden will have some serious crops in it besides all our regular ones. There will even be an area for dry edible beans, which we don’t have room for now. And this next year the plan is to have all old fashioned heirloom varieties and get away from the traditional garden seed outfits altogether. Until this year I never realized that even our favorite varieties were being bought out by Big Ag. There again they are taking over. Nothing is sacred!

And last but not least, we went out to inspect our Open Pollinated corn that we are saving for seed. And it looks like I can give it a thumbs up. It’s great! The cobs are all hanging good and dry, it matured beautifully, dried down faster than hybrids, and is standing good,(better than our hybrids did this year). So, there’s going to be some seed saving this winter, for us and several neighbors and friends. One neighbor, a dairy farmer, was so impressed that when the seed salesman came to his place last week, this salesman was from the “biggest” seed company for those in the know, he told the salesman he was getting his seed from the neighbor. Well, the salesman asked him what company does the neighbor sell for. My neighbor said, the Christian Agrarian Seed Company. The salesman said he never heard of it.

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