Platte Prairie Farms - EcoSystems Management

The Importance of touch to a caring community

We humans have many longings. To be part of a vibrant, caring, energetic and engaged community is one of the most powerful. Think about the hugs, ritualized handshakes, back patting and wrestling we engage in when we are together as a community. Look at the children. We learn [...]

esential local healthful in season organic vegetables.your Primary Healthcare System… Healthful Local Foods, Exercise and Community.

[ 2009/05/09; 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm. 2009/05/23; 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm. ]  Learn the principals of all grain brewing using inexpensive equipment and techniques. During the 2 session class, participants will get hands on experience crafting a fine Red Ale using organic malted barleys from Seven Bridges Cooperative.
 

Session 1 Brewing
 Saturday May 9th  2:00—4:30PM

Home Brewing equipment and sanitation.
 Ingredients 
 Single infusion mashing 
 Sparging 
 The boil and hopping 
 Yeast and fermentation 

    
Session 2 Bottling and [...]

Shanti means peace in Sanskrit, and that is the philosophy I hope to practice in creating and maintaining Shanti garden. Peace to the environment will be observed by using no-till and organic methods, and by implementing permaculture design. By using no-till planting methods, disrupting the natural ecosystem that exists (everywhere in all soil) is avoided. [...]

shanti Volunteer Community Supporting Agriculture
We hear a lot about CSA’a now days even on Channel 5, I’m told(don’t watch the Big Eye myself). It seems usually it’s from the point of view of the farmers and growers. Who speaks for the Community? Who speaks for Earth? If we turn off the static of the cultural [...]

 
oatmeal, steel cut oats, rice, raisins and black beans
  With Platte Prairie Farm’s CSA you can add in organic commodities from the Squash Blossom Coop to your weekly food bag. We have oatmeal, rice, peanut butter, raw almonds, seeds for sprouting, flower, dry beans and other household commodities. And if we’re lucky, morel mushrooms.

The spirit of my grandfather visited me today in the form of a red winged blackbird.
He perched on the branch of the bamboo in my grove.
His song spoke to my soul.
He told me he has blessed my fields and I would have a bountiful harvest.
Put your hands into the rich earth, feel the life, feel [...]

the next step in your quest for optimum health.

Eagle over Line Creek
I’ve been seeing a flock of bald eagles soaring and diving in the Line Creek valley and at Platte Prairie Farm. Both were homes to early farmers. Near my home the Nebo Hill People lived, hunted and farmed six to eight thousand years ago.  The Hopewell culture, People of the Black Sand [...]

Using edge in a keyHole potato bed
 

Had one of those DUH moments last Saturday at Creekhouse Organic Community Garden where I have a No-Till plot. Toby and I were preparing to plant potatoes so we picked out the spot. I looked at the neat rows we had planted last year to the left and the [...]