Month: March 2020

23 Mar 2020
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Indian Hill Product Availability

Indian Hill Product Availability

We are excited to welcome you to our new Farm Market, across the street at 8300 Spooky Hollow Road.

You may shop in store, order in advance, or request curbside service:
Email us at farm@green-acres.org
or call us at 513-891-4227 then press extension 1

Regular Hours: Tuesday – Friday 10:30-5, Saturday 9-1

Flowers

  • Mixed Flower Bouquet ($20)

Vegetables

Root Vegetables

  • Beets (Red $4/lb)
  • Sweet Potatoes ($3/lb)

Leafy Greens and Herbs

  • Spinach ($6 per 1/2lb)
  • Dried Herbs (Spearmint $4 each)
  • Microgreens (power, radish, spicy)

Pasture Raised Meats and Eggs

    Our hens live outdoors on pasture, in a fully mobile chicken coop that is moved to fresh grass regularly. They are provided a corn and soy free supplemental feed. If you want to learn more about our mobile chicken coop, click here to see a video!

          Please note: All our meats are frozen.

            100% Grassfed, Grass Finished Lamb

            • Ground Lamb ($11/pkg)
            • Leg of Lamb (bone-in or boneless $16/lb)
            • Loin Chop (4 chops per pkg $20/lb)
            • Rib Chop (4 chops per pkg $20/lb)
            • Shank ($8/lb)
            • Shoulder Roast ($12/lb)
            • Stew Meat ($12/pkg)
            • Tenderloin (average less than 1/4lb, $32/lb)
            • Neck (whole, bone-in $8/lb)

            Lamb Offal:

            • Bones ($5/lb)
            • Heart ($4lb)
            • Liver ($4lb)

              100% Grassfed, Grass Finished Angus Beef

              • Ground Beef ($8 per pkg)
              • Brisket (average 7-9/lbs $9/lb)
              • Hot Dogs (uncured skinless links 8 per pkg $10)
              • Ribs (back, baby back $9/lb)
              • Suet ($3/lb)

              Beef Offal:

              • Kidney ($5/lb)

                Woodland Raised Berkshire Pork

                • Bacon (Sliced, jowl, or ends/pieces $8/lb)
                • Breakfast Links (12 small links $7.25/pkg)
                • Chops (bone-in or boneless $12/lb)
                • Chorizo Bulk ($7.25 per pkg)
                • Ground Pork (unseasoned $7 per pkg)
                • Ham Roasts (uncured all natural $8/lb)
                • Shoulder Roast/Boston Butt ($8/lb)
                • Sugar Free Sage Bulk ($7.25 per pkg)

                Pork Offal

                • Rendered Lard ($18 per quart)
                • Liver ($4/lb)
                • Kidneys ($2/lb)
                • Bones (Excellent for ramen broth – roast with onions, garlic, and ginger, then make your stock. $2/lb)
                • Back Fat (Render for lard or make your own sausage $4/lb)
                • Caul Fat (lacy net of fat, try wrapping around a lean cut like a loin roast or a whole chicken, to baste while roasting! $6/lb)

                    Pasture Raised Turkey

                    • Whole Turkey ($5/lb)

                    Pasture Raised Chicken

                    21 Mar 2020
                    Research Jennifer Mansfield 0 comment

                    Lesser Celandine….Smotherer of Native Plants

                    Lesser Celandine….Smotherer of Native Plants

                    Lesser celandine (Ficaria verna) is a broadleaf plant with a yellow flower, which is native to Europe and Western Asia. In North America it is considered to be a highly invasive plant. You can find it growing in 21 of the lower 48 states, and in southern parts of Canada.

                    Lesser celandine produces both seeds and bulbils. This type of reproduction strategy causes it to be highly invasive, and allows it to spread like wildfire. The three easiest and fastest ways it spreads are water ways, boots of hikers, and hooves of ungulates. The spread of lesser celandine begins to create dense green carpets in our woods and lawns. Studies have shown that these “carpets” inhibit native wildflowers and other plants from finishing their life cycles. When these native wildflowers and plants cannot finish their life cycles, pollinators are losing their sources of nectar and mammals are losing food sources. Can the mammals just eat the celandine instead? Unfortunately no, because lesser celandine has compounds that make it taste bitter and possibly toxic to mammals. These are just a few out of many ecological impacts that are the driving forces to research ways to eradicate lesser celandine from our woods and lawns.

                    We are starting a research project in early 2020 to test eradication methods of lesser celandine. We will be testing the effects of hand removal, and two types of herbicides: glyphosate and metsulfuron. We will measure cover of celandine and count other species pre and post treatment. This study will likely be a multiple year study because other data shows lesser celandine needs multiple rounds of treatments to eliminate it.

                    Below are photos of lesser celandine before and after it flowers, and the dense carpet it creates.

                    –Chad G.

                    pre-flower stage
                    flowering stage
                    13 Mar 2020
                    Research Jennifer Mansfield 0 comment

                    Wildflower Data

                    Wildflower Data

                    In winter we spend a lot of time indoors, analyzing data from the previous year.  In 2019, we had our first opportunity to collect data on native spring ephemerals.  These are native (as opposed to alien or invasive) species whose life cycle is quite short.  The plants emerge, grow, flower and die generally between February and May, before trees fully leaf out.  Our data show that Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) is the most dominant ephemeral across the woods in both frequency and density.  The frequency of wildflowers across 3 of our woodland is shown in the graph.

                    –Jennifer

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