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We hope you enjoy the stories, news and pictures that we will be sharing through out our growing season. Fertile Crescent Farm, located in Green Bay, Virginia is free of all chemical fertilizers, fungicides and herbicides. It is our mission to grow the highest quality vegetables using a sustainable and ecological approach. This provides our CSA members and farmer's market customers with delicious and safe food, as well as providing a safe environment for the pollinators and pedatory insects that are so essential to our ecological community.



Sunday, January 2, 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Included in these pictures of the beautiful snowfall on the farm is a picture of the Woolly Bear caterpillar. This picture was taken mid November and according to the Old Farmer's Almanac, the longer the middle brown band, the milder and shorter the coming winter; the shorter the brown band, the longer and more severe winter will be. This woolly winter predictor and others I noticed had large brown bands. Mild winter? That would be heavenly!














3 comments:

Gayle said...

Beautiful!! There's nothing as pretty as snow where the vegetables grow! Happy New Year!
Don & Gayle

Sheila said...

Thanks for sharing the photos! Love to see snow on the farm/land, just as Gayle mentioned...where all the veggies grown!
Sheila & Matt

Allison said...

love the snow shots:) the sleddng may be my favorite! fun fun fun...