Since we love exotic farms and they are quite popular too, here’s yet another exotic animal that is quite different from any other conventional farm animals but can make a great pet, not to mention quite useful too, as owners swear by it! farmcommunities.com
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Raising Wallabies
Posted by admin on June 30th, 2009
What’s preserving your dry fruit? Sulfur dioxide!
Posted by admin on January 5th, 2009
Using sulfur dioxide to preserve dry fruits is a very common method used commercially since sulfur dioxide eliminates the possibility of discoloration among dried produce and it inhibits bacterial growth thus prolonging the product’s shelf life. Sulfur dioxide has been allowed by the FDA for human consumption and found them to be safe at some [...]
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No Comments »Guano – the Natural Remedy for Infertile Deficient Soils
Posted by admin on December 16th, 2008
Birds are generally thought of as creatures of air with little to do on land except picking food and dropping excreta. But eco-conscious communities are now turning to the excrement of these airy creatures as the most valuable organic fertilizer, known as Guano in common terms. While a number of different bird excreta are now [...]
Posted in Agriculture, Featured Articles, Organic Farm Communities Tags: Featured, guano to, organic, organic farming 1 Comment »What is organic farming?
Posted by admin on December 10th, 2008
Organic farming is just farming without the use of chemical fertilizers and other practices that are not only harmful to human beings but is also damaging for the environment. farmcommunities.com
What foods should we eat organic?
Posted by admin on December 10th, 2008
Organic food is meat, vegetables, fruit and other fare that have been grown in a way that does not use pesticide, chemicals and other agricultural methods that are not natural. In other words, these foodstuffs have been grown the traditional way like composting instead of chemical fertilizers, crop rotation and other eco friendly practices. farmcommunities.com
What is organic certified?
Posted by admin on December 6th, 2008
When the organic produce in question, passed the organic certification process set for organic farmers, it is organic-certified. We stumble upon this word everywhere since people become more conscious of what they eat, in the market, in restaurants, in shopping area as well. This is due to worldwide scare of the ill-effects of non-organic crops [...]
Posted in Food Safety, Organic Farm Communities Tags: organic, organic certified, Organic Farm Communities No Comments »Hormones, Antibiotics, and the Safety of Dairy Products
Posted by admin on November 30th, 2008
Dairy products, especially milk, are part of the daily diet for most people. Milk is the primary food for children and an important part of diet for growing individuals and adults. Given the demand of the rapidly growing population, cattle have been injected with synthetic hormones to increase milk production. In the Unites States, about [...]
Disease-Free Crops in Green Farming
Posted by admin on November 12th, 2008
Healthy communities, whether of humans or any other living forms, have no place for diseases. In eco-friendly communities, growing disease-free crops is the main focus of farming. It is true that microbes are part of our ecological space but those bad ones, which have evolved to flourish by destroying crops, are never welcome. Shutting them [...]
Posted in Farm Communities, Featured Articles, Food Safety, Organic Farm Communities Tags: eco green, Farm Communities, Featured, Food Safety, org No Comments »Growing in Wisdom with Organic Farming
Posted by admin on November 12th, 2008
Healthy food and eco-friendly production account for the increasing popularity of organic farming in modern societies. What is more is that farmers in an organic farming community get a better know-how of the way nature works. Such techniques of natural farming probably originated in the earliest horticultural societies and were common knowledge in subsequent agricultural [...]
Organic Farm Communities for Green Living
Posted by admin on November 7th, 2008
Organic farming is one of the few practices that prove the advance of human consciousness in terms of environment-friendly agriculture, while actually getting back in time for learning. While the term ‘organic’ was first applied in 1940 to communities that practiced this method of farming, its history dates back to antiquity. Today, our concept of [...]
