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Locavores at Horn Farm, green cleaning in Shrewsbury

Colin Kirkpatrick, 12, of Springesttsbury Township, hammers a stake into the ground in his family's community garden plot at Horn Farm in 2010. (File photo) If someone could invent time travel between...

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Container Garden Chronicles: Why I garden

I planted two trays of seeds in mid-March. I also have a black thumb. And now, those seeds are dead. Some days I would wake up, or come home from work, and find a tiny baby plant peeking through....

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Chomp, sniff and stomp at farm stand’s kids’ program

I first learned about Horn Farm Center when I was working on a story about CSAs in York County earlier this year. The center houses four incubator farmers who lease farmland on the Hellam Township...

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Enjoy products of your garden this weekend

For those of us who’ve toiled over the garden all summer, produce is now rolling in abundantly. When I stopped at a Central Market stand last week and asked what was local, there were more options than...

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Obstacles that small farms face

Tuesday evening, I joined York College students, faculty and York County community members for a screening of “Farmageddon.” The documentary follows some of the struggles small-time farmers have had in...

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York College to host talk on homesteading, local food

Philip Ackerman-Leist has been busy. As a professor and the director of the Farm and Food Project at Green Mountain College in Vermont, he’s been at the center of a much-protested decision to slaughter...

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York County Buy Fresh Buy Local plans second annual food guide

(Submitted photo) Are you a local food provider in York County? From farmers and grocers to breweries and CSAs, the York County Buy Fresh Buy Local chapter is seeking local businesses for its second...

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Reciplease! Get your fill of local asparagus while it’s peaking

Everywhere I look, there’s asparagus. Even out my own back window, in the lower garden, where we planted it last summer. That asparagus needs a few cycles before it can be picked, but that doesn’t mean...

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Reciplease! How to make sweet peas sweeter

One of my first memories of “fresh” food was popping sweet peas like candy while hanging out with my grandparents in their garden. I couldn’t have been more than four or five years old, and the...

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Reciplease! Shopping roadside, cukes and a Greek twist on a picnic classic

Some people drive around on weekends looking for flea markets or yard sales, or a not-so-crowded swimming spot. We drive around looking for dinner. In people’s yards. It’s not as creepy as it sounds. I...

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