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		<title>Notes from The Currant Farm: The Call of the Wild</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a very strange 2011, weather wise, 2012 seems to be starting out on the same path. It’s been an unusually warm winter so far with very little snow and temperatures in the 30s and 40s most days. While some &#8230; <a href="http://currantevents.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/notes-from-the-currant-farm-the-call-of-the-wild-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=currantevents.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20163473&amp;post=112&amp;subd=currantevents&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from The Currant Farm: The Call of the Wild</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Notes from The Currant Farm: A Farm Visit and Other Miracles</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mornings on the farm begin mostly in the dark for me this time of year. The exceptions are on clear nights when the moon is still above the horizon and its luminance scatters an otherworldly light around trees and over &#8230; <a href="http://currantevents.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/notes-from-the-currant-farm-a-farm-visit-and-other-miracles/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=currantevents.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20163473&amp;post=127&amp;subd=currantevents&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from the Farm &#8211; Thanksgiving and Owls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like many, Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday. In my case, it probably has a lot to do with being so close to the land and having a holiday that coincides with the end of the growing season here &#8230; <a href="http://currantevents.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/notes-from-the-farm-thanksgiving-and-owls/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=currantevents.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20163473&amp;post=86&amp;subd=currantevents&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chopin and Currants</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just returned from Poland where I’m securing new varieties of currants for the U.S. market. Poland is the largest grower of currants in the world. As I drove around the countryside one couldn’t help but notice, anyone with 100 &#8230; <a href="http://currantevents.wordpress.com/2011/10/03/chopin-and-currants/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=currantevents.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20163473&amp;post=76&amp;subd=currantevents&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes From The Currant Farm &#8211; There’s Fungus Among Us!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 01:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Northeast has been experiencing some of the rainiest weather in history. While we had an unusual amount of water in the basement of the farm, we fared better than many other folks in the area. The generator worked well, &#8230; <a href="http://currantevents.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/notes-from-the-currant-farm-there%e2%80%99s-fungus-among-us/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=currantevents.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20163473&amp;post=65&amp;subd=currantevents&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from The Currant Farm &#8211; Tomatoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 12:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the bulk of the heat and humidity of July and August is pretty much behind us here on the Currant farm which means we’re coming to the end of the Dog Days of summer or what the Romans &#8230; <a href="http://currantevents.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/notes-from-the-currant-farm-tomatoes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=currantevents.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20163473&amp;post=54&amp;subd=currantevents&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Notes from The Currant Farm: Snapping Turtles</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 15:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Notes from The Currant Farm 8/2/11 Well the harvest is in! It wasn’t the best year and wasn’t the worst either. It’s always a reason to give thanks. We now harvest with a harvester specifically designed to pick currants off &#8230; <a href="http://currantevents.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/notes-from-the-currant-farm-snapping-turtles/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=currantevents.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20163473&amp;post=31&amp;subd=currantevents&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monarchs &amp; Milkweed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 19:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a farmer&#8217;s perspective, this has been a pretty good year. We&#8217;ve had sufficient rain and sun in more or less satisfactory intervals. I&#8217;ve only turned on the irrigation soaker hoses on the currants once and the rest of the &#8230; <a href="http://currantevents.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/monarchs-milkweed/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=currantevents.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20163473&amp;post=38&amp;subd=currantevents&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tree of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:06:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After more than two decades teaching at The New York Botanical Garden, I get questions all the time about what plants to grow around these parts.  As in many parts of the country, a lot of these questions center around &#8230; <a href="http://currantevents.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/tree-of-life/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=currantevents.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20163473&amp;post=41&amp;subd=currantevents&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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