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		<title>Egg and Milk Shares</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our initial share offerings from May through July were a great success. The first 13 weeks will be up on July 31 and the next installment will begin the first week of August. The share choices include our farm fresh brown eggs from free-to-roam pastured hens that have not been treated with either hormones or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://farmersandartisans.com/?p=158</link>
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		<title>Blossom Hill Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Farmers: Jo&#8217;El and Bruce Drajem Location: Gowanda, NY Jo’El Drajem and her family operate Blossom Hill Farm where they raise heritage beef, pork, chicken, and eggs. The variety of beef that she raises is a Lowline Angus cross. The hogs are a mix of Tamworth, Old Spot, and Herford.  Blossom Hill Farm currently supplies Farmers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://farmersandartisans.com/?p=123</link>
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		<title>Hawthorne Valley Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Location: Ghent, New York Hawthorne Valley Farm is a certified organic diversified biodynamic farm in Ghent, NY. Their 60 cow dairy operation is a mix of Swiss Brown, Jersey, and Holstein. The Brown Swiss and Jersey cow’s milk content has higher fat, making it perfect for their cheeses and yogurt. They have been making lacto-fermented [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://farmersandartisans.com/?p=113</link>
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		<title>Green Heron Growers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Location: Panama, NY Farmers: Steve and Julie Rockcastle Green Heron Growers is a 200 acre certified organic farm in Chautauqua County. They grow shitake mushroom in their hemlock grove, and pasture raise beef and chickens. Every year the Great Blue Heron Music Festival takes place on their land, and they use rotational grazing methods to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://farmersandartisans.com/?p=105</link>
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		<title>Blackman Homestead Farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Location: Lockport, NY Farmers: Bob &#38; Margaret Blackman Julie Blackman Blackman Homestead Farm is a 160 acre farm in the Niagara Escarpment that has been in the Blackman family since 1852.  The farm raises, fruit, fresh produce, beef, turkeys, and trees.  Julie Blackman has transformed her family’s fruit into a specialty line of fruit butters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://farmersandartisans.com/?p=100</link>
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		<title>Avenue Boys Smokehouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Avenue Boys Smokehouse makes handcrafted fresh and smoked sausages.]]></description>
		<link>http://farmersandartisans.com/?p=87</link>
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		<title>Taste the Difference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the weeks go by since our opening, we find an increasing number of familiar faces inside Farmers and Artisans. We are glad many people have caught on to the quality and uniqueness of our products. This year we are not only challenging you to eat locally, but to taste the difference in the foods [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://farmersandartisans.com/?p=55</link>
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		<title>Raw-Milk Cheese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are often asked about the differences between raw-milk cheese and cheese made from pasteurized milk. First, what is raw-milk cheese? Cheese produced from milk that, prior to setting the curd, has not been heated above the temperature of the milk (104°F, 40°C) at the time of milking and that the cheese produced from that milk [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://farmersandartisans.com/?p=44</link>
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		<title>Heritage Breeds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of you have become aware of the writings of Michael Pollan and his warnings about the dangers to our food system from the lack of biodiversity in foodstocks. Modern food production favors the use of a few highly specialized breeds selected for maximum output in a controlled environment. In many categories, there are only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://farmersandartisans.com/?p=36</link>
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		<title>Sustainability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Collectively, we are catching on to the fact that upholding a healthier planet means a more pro-active approach in our everyday life . With that said, sustainability simply means the ability to live with minimal negative effects on the environment. With green awareness and technology increasing each year, people are changing their everyday routines&#8230;all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://farmersandartisans.com/?p=30</link>
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