Rivendell Farms’ Jeffie Hardin participated in the Green Schools Teacher Network Leadership Summit on January 22-23, 2018. As a STEM educator, Jeffie has been actively involved with work being done at a local Title 1
The City of Charlotte is teaming up with consultants at Karen Karp & Partners (KK&P), Market Ventures Inc., Charlotte Mecklenburg Food Policy Council and the Suede Onion to conduct a city-wide Farmers Market Study. The
April 9, 2012 -- Catawba River District Voices I love herbs. Unfortunately, I rarely have time to use them for anything other than throwing a few into some recipes. Even so, the various shapes, colors
April 2, 2012 -- Catawba River District Voices Yesterday, while sitting amidst my strawberry plants, weeding and checking their growth, some of the straw started shaking and out jumped a rather large brown toad. It
March 26, 2012 -- Catawba River District Voices After living on our farm for a couple of years, I vividly remember asking my husband when we’d be done building and expanding our operation. Chris looked
March 19, 2012 -- Catawba River District Voices Spring is officially here on March 20th this year … but I venture to say most of us would bet that it’s been here for a while.
March 12, 2012 -- Catawba River District Voices Our farm just began its 4th season of offering CSA shares. Although that is a buzz word for many local food proponents, others look at me with
March 5, 2012 -- Catawba River District Voices It’s been a busy few weeks around our farm as spring is in the air. We’ve been tilling and conditioning our soil and starting to sow some
Feb. 27, 2012 -- Catawba River District Voices As I’ve mentioned in other blogs, we’ve lived in North Carolina for about 21 years – making us almost native. I love this area and consider myself
February 20, 2012 -- Catawba River District Voices Continuing on from the last blog entry (see 2/13/12 blog), our family began its farming adventure at Whitener's Greenhouses of Huntersville in 1998. Dan and Linda Whitener graciously
