SEEDS TO GIVE AWAY SEEDS TO GIVE AWAY. Vegetable and herbs Basil - Genovese – Eleonora - lots Basil - Genovese – Elidia - lots Basil - Genovese – Everleaf- lots Beets – Chioggia Cantaloup – Amish Cantaloup – Minnesota Midget Cauliflower – Romanesco Cucumber – Bushy Cucumber-Japanese climbing Eggplant – Lao green stripe (Thai) Kale - lots Onions – Ambition F1 Okra – ... continue reading...
Collaborative Agriculture: Farming in a Forest
Collaborative Agriculture: Farming with nature using Permaculture and Agroforestry Techniques and principles. Footehills Farm is happy and proud to announce, and launch, our first season of farm classes and workshops. This year’s sessions, in April, June and September, feature hands on, interactive, practical and useful instruction and demonstration of techniques, tools and tips that can make your efforts sustainable and profitable. Each session’s topics will reflect the jobs and ... continue reading...
Food As Medicine
Nutrition or is Food Medicine? The right food is as important to the body as the right gas is for a car. We have gotten to believe that only a doctor’s prescription for a pharmaceutical is really what is going to make us well when in fact the opposite is often true. Many of us have reactions to pharmaceuticals because although based on plants they have upped the power of the chemical to a point that is often too strong for many of us. Also, the built-in safeguards that a plant-based chemical ... continue reading...
The New Us 2019
Footehills Farm New Year 2019 When I first started writing the new entry for our blog, I was going to try to write something deep and philosophical about the farm, the forest and our places in them. Instead, since it is a new year, I am going to tell you about our new business plan for the farm – where it came from and where we think it is going to. When we started building the farm we had the idea of being closer and more in control of our food and building in an ... continue reading...
Reflections & New Beginnings for 2018
Reflections and New Beginnings 2018 Foote Farm Christmas Letter Here it is folks, our annual musings about the past year on the farm. These have been interesting times for us this past year. I say that not as a purported curse but as an expression of surprise, gratitude and general happiness. WARNING: At some point in this letter you may detect a subtle sales pitch for our products and you know me, I am nothing if not subtle. The first picture shows our Basil experiment we did with WSU ... continue reading...