Tag: farming
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The End of Marketing?
by Farmer Stephen It should not come as a surprise to our customers that we need help being farmers well and running a farm business well. From our first season to now, no year has been the same and every year has brought its own challenges. We often read farming books and listen to farming…
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“You Spent How Much on a Turkey?”
~contributed by 2024 turkey buyer Bryan “You spent how much on a turkey?” my wife exclaimed. “I don’t exactly remember,” I said. Which was, strictly speaking, the truth. I did not exactly remember how much the turkey cost, but it was more than I was expecting, and far more than I will willing to admit to my…
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Meet the Team: Amanda Mills
Welcome to our monthly blog series: Meet the Team. Each month, we will share an interview of one of team members! We hope you will enjoy these! This month we’re interviewing Amanda Mills! Where did you grow up? I grew up as the oldest of 4 in a small town in northeast Ohio. What did…
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Meet the Team: Roxanne Wood
Welcome to our monthly blog series: Meet the Team. Each month, we will share an interview of one of team members! We hope you will enjoy these! This month we’re interviewing Roxanne Wood! Where did you grow up? I grew up in Silver Run, Maryland which is a small town technically part of Westminster, just…
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Meet the Team: Beth Turner
Welcome to our monthly blog series: Meet the Team. Each month, we will share an interview of one of team members! We hope you will enjoy these! This month we’re interviewing Beth Turner! Where did you grow up? I grew up in Alexandria, Virginia. I was very much a “suburbs-of-DC” kind of kid. My mom…
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Our 5 Favorite Food & Farming Movies
Winter is a great time to watch movies. With the early sunset times, the dark evenings are the perfect time to *squeeze* the family onto the couch and enjoy watching something together! Here are our favorite food & farming movies for the family *PLUS* one more favorite for mom & dad! These are in no…
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Frederick CSA Droppoint Announcement
We are excited to announce that Good Soil Farm is starting a Frederick CSA Droppoint this year! The droppoint will be on Mondays from 5:30 to 6 pm at Gravel & Grind, located at 15 E. 6th Street, Frederick, Maryland 21701. The droppoint in Frederick will be boxed and ready, but we’d love to chat…
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Cookbook Review: Joy of Cooking 75th Anniversary Edition
by Casey-Mae McGinley; first published in our 2019 paper CSA newsletter This is the best cookbook ever! No matter how much cooking experience you have, there is something you will learn from this book! I recommend every chapter, but I want to highlight the vegetable chapter, since vegetables are what you are getting from us…
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Life After Philosophy: New Episode
Check out Chris Anadale’s nearly hour-long interview of Stephen to hear more about the connection between farming, philosophy, and life! You can listen to it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or another platform: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-18-the-farmer-14-years-philosophy-minor/id1688867447?i=1000643377049
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Country Bunnies In the City
This past Friday, Stephen and I attended the Future-Harvest Chesapeake Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture (FH-CASA) Annual Conference held in College Park, Maryland. We love FH-CASA and the amazing work they do, and we were so happy to be able to attend the conference again this year! Because of the forecast of snow, and because we…