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Western Prairie Food Farm and Community Alliance has been selected to participate in a community of practice focused on regional food systems development. After a thorough review of over 50 applications by a team of project organizers, 11 food policy councils from across the country were selected for the 18-month project, reflecting a diversity of approaches to regional food systems work. Regional food policy councils are collaborative groups that seek to address food-related
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Urban agriculture, urban farming, or urban gardening is cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around urban areas. An urban area is the region surrounding a city. "Urban area" can refer to towns, cities, and suburbs. Urban agriculture is also the term used for animal husbandry, aquaculture, urban bee keeping, and horticulture.
Urban farming is a local food system where food is produced within an urban are
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Cheyenne Center for Creativity has been awarded $75,000 in CSP tax credits by the Department of Commerce.
This is a great opportunity for our community! When you donate to the 202 on Washington Project, you will receive tax credits equal to 70% of your donation.
These donations will be used for Phase II of the project: renovation of the 3000 square foot area to develop a much-needed community event center.
Donations can be mailed to:
202 on Washington Project
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Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing details of a framework to transform the food system to benefit consumers, producers and rural communities by providing more options, increasing access, and creating new, more, and better markets for small and mid-size producers. Today's announcem
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Contour grass buffer strips are narrow strips of perennial vegetation alternated down the slope with wider cropped strips that are farmed on the contour. Contour grass strips are used on cropland with potential for sheet and rill erosion. Many times, grass buffer strips are used in combination with terraces. The grass buffer strips are typically used below terraces where land slopes are less than 4 to 5 percent. Grass buffers work b
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The purpose of this meeting is to gather information and make recommendations to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) State Conservationist, as well as other state and local leaders, related to addressing natural resource concerns identified at the local level.
This meeting will be held at the GMD
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If you weren't at Fresh Seven Coffee today then you missed out on some great information!
David Padgett has been in Poland for 3 weeks with Task Force URE running humanitarian missions to support the Ukrainian refugees at the border.
Task Force URE is a group of US Military veterans that organized to prevent US Vets from getting caught up in joining mercenary groups going into Ukraine. They instead redirect motivated vets to work with them in assisting wo
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They bring in and distribute needed medical and food supplies.
Extract family members who are caught in the Ukraine and cannot get out on their own.
Helps organize incoming veterans in to properly vetted groups where their skills can be best utilized within the Ukraine.
Comforting orphan refugee children in Poland while they wait for relocation.
Getting proper protective equipmen
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This assessment is conducted by Western Prairie Food Farm and Community Alliance (WPFFCA) which includes the counties of Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas and Wallace.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3M8FMSL
Urban agriculture, urban farming, or urban gardening is cultivating, processing, and distributing food in or around urban areas. An urban area is the region surrounding a city. "Urban area" can refer to towns, cities, and suburbs. Urban agriculture is also the term used for animal husbandry, aquaculture, urban bee keeping, and horticulture.
Urban farming is a local food system where food is produced within an urban are
Contour grass buffer strips are narrow strips of perennial vegetation alternated down the slope with wider cropped strips that are farmed on the contour. Contour grass strips are used on cropland with potential for sheet and rill erosion. Many times, grass buffer strips are used in combination with terraces. The grass buffer strips are typically used below terraces where land slopes are less than 4 to 5 percent. Grass buffers work b
Livestock manure has many benefits when used to supply nutrients for crop production. Livestock manure is a source of many key nutrients needed by crop plants. The nutrients include nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, magnesium, calcium, and micro-nutrients. Manure added to crop soil impacts the chemical, biological, and physical aspects of soil quality. Livestock manure is useful to replenish nutrients removed from soil by
Wetland playas have the general characteristics: soggy soils, water-loving plants,
Western Prairie Food Farm and Community Alliance has been selected to participate in a community of practice focused on regional food systems development. After a thorough review of over 50 applications by a team of project organizers, 11 food policy councils from across the country were selected for the 18-month project, reflecting a diversity of approaches to regional food systems work. Regional food policy councils are collaborative groups that seek to address food-related
Cheyenne Center for Creativity has been awarded $75,000 in CSP tax credits by the Department of Commerce.
This is a great opportunity for our community! When you donate to the 202 on Washington Project, you will receive tax credits equal to 70% of your donation.
These donations will be used for Phase II of the project: renovation of the 3000 square foot area to develop a much-needed community event center.
Donations can be mailed to:
202 on Washington Project
Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is announcing details of a framework to transform the food system to benefit consumers, producers and rural communities by providing more options, increasing access, and creating new, more, and better markets for small and mid-size producers. Today's announcem
This assessment is conducted by Western Prairie Food Farm and Community Alliance (WPFFCA) which includes the counties of Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas and Wallace.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/3M8FMSL
The purpose of this meeting is to gather information and make recommendations to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) State Conservationist, as well as other state and local leaders, related to addressing natural resource concerns identified at the local level.
This meeting will be held at the GMD
If you weren't at Fresh Seven Coffee today then you missed out on some great information!
David Padgett has been in Poland for 3 weeks with Task Force URE running humanitarian missions to support the Ukrainian refugees at the border.
Task Force URE is a group of US Military veterans that organized to prevent US Vets from getting caught up in joining mercenary groups going into Ukraine. They instead redirect motivated vets to work with them in assisting wo
They bring in and distribute needed medical and food supplies.
Extract family members who are caught in the Ukraine and cannot get out on their own.
Helps organize incoming veterans in to properly vetted groups where their skills can be best utilized within the Ukraine.
Comforting orphan refugee children in Poland while they wait for relocation.
Getting proper protective equipmen
The Farmer's Market Board has been working to round up vendors who want to participate and give you the opportunity to come and get those products and food you normally only see during the summer time. There will be ready-to-eat foods, take-and-bake food, metal crafts, hand made crafts, packaged meats, salves and oils, and I have heard there will even be fre
Allison Grice's exhibit of photography and graphic design has opened at Quincy Gallery with a reception on March 2nd.
Ms Grice, a St Francis native, is well known here as an exceptionally talented artist with wide range of interests. Over the years, though, it is photography that has allowed her to share her heart.
Whether it's a rusty old pickup or wheat blowing in the breeze against a sunset, Ms Grice's photography shows her love of nature and
So, if you would like to help us put with a play, either on stage or behind the scenes, please come by Fresh 7 this Saturday and let me know.
Eagle, working alongside with the St. Francis Internet Committee volunteers, reached 210 early signups, meaning the upgrade will proceed as planned.
"The support of the community of St. Francis has been simply amazing,' said Travis Kohlrus,
After seeing the 4-28-17 video of the object moving across the moon, @ http://www.latest-ufo-sightings.net/2017/04/ufo-caught-moving-across-moon-baffles-viewers.html it reminded me of a similar video I had shot on 10-22-14 north of St. Francis, KS at sunset. If it wasn’t for that post I wouldn’t have posted this—however both videos to me look as if they are related somehow???
It was worth a post
Camera Zoom was 20X & the video is 500% of normal speed
A Fiber Internet infrastructure in St Francis will greatly increase your internet speed. And by 'greatly' I mean
Turmeric has been used in both Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine as an Anti-inflammatory, to treat Digestive and Liver problems, Skin diseases, and Wounds.
Curcumin is also a powerful Antioxidant. Antioxidants scavenge molecules in the body known as free radicals, which damage cell membranes, tamper with
If this is your recipe, let me know and I will credit you on this page.
Golden Milk
Step 1: Turmeric Paste
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of turmeric power
1/2 teaspoon of ground pepper
1/2 cup of filtered water
Directions:
Mix all ingredients in a small sauce pan and mix well. Turn the heat to medium high and stir constantly until the mixture is a thick paste. This does not take long, so don
You must just see for yourself the destruction and the mayhem in the video.
I will not use this video as a platform to talk about how
The migrating swarm landed and worked it's way down Main street this morning, and the townsfolk pr
Here is a link to the information page on the Kansas Legislature site:
http://www.kslegislature.org/li/b2017_18/measures/hb2389/
March 23, 2017
The Honorable John Barker, Chai
Budget Summary
Proposed budget 2017 Expenditures and Amount of 2016 Ad Valorem Tax establish the maximum limits of the 2017 budget. Estimated tax
Please respond with the area/city you live in and answer the following without regard to money or practicality:
What are the top 3 things your town needs?
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NEWSLETTER FOR 06/15/2020
THE TIME IS OUT OF JOINT – A FATHER’S DAY MESSAGE [3]
Now my dears, said old Mrs. Rabbit one morning, you may go into the fields or down the lane, but don't go into Mr. McGregor's garden: your Father had an accident there; he was put in a pie by Mrs. McGregor.
_The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter
Nature is out of balance, teetering toward an unsavory resolution that may, in fact, be revenge for the abuses that humans have h
Up till now, if a kid wanted to wait until a year or two after high school to find his or her true calling he/she could. If it turns out he was to be starving poet then our world will have found another midwife of truth. If she was t
Photos By Cale Rieger, NRCS Natural Resource Specialist
Proper fence is needed for grazing livestock in a rotational grazing system. As mentioned before, a rest-rotation grazing system is essential for properly managing grazing systems in the western Kansas area of short grass and mid-grass prairie.
Many perimeter fences are 3 or 4 strands of barbed wire. Interior cross-fences are usually a single smooth wire. The interior fe
What are cover crops? Cover crops are grown for the protection and enrichment of the soil. In Agriculture, cover crops are used to cover and protect the soil rather than to be harvested.
Cover crops are used to manage cropland and reduce soil erosion, improve soil fertility, improve soil quality, improve water storage, reduce pressure from weeds, pests and diseases, and improve biodiversity and wildlife in an agroecosystem.
