FARM TOUR Saturday FEB 21, NOON-4PM Celebrate the Year of the Goat Meet the baby goats! Take a botanical walk with Dr. Dave and learn how to make medicine. 2015 is the Year of the Goat! Celebrate with teas, culinary snacks and baby goats. Farm donations welcome! It is an Open Tour – Come whenever you like between 12-4PM. All ages! 10715 Shopton Rd WEST, Charlotte, NC 28278 Exit 4 off 485, past the new outlet mall. Elderberry Medicine...

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FARM TOURSaturday Feb 21, 2015 noon-4pmMeet the baby goats! Take a botanical walk with Dr. Dave and learn how to make medicine. 2015 is the Year of the Goat! Celebrate with teas, culinary snacks and baby goats. Farm donations welcome! Please RSVP for the medicine making class with Dr. Dave. Click the link below: SIGN UP HERE FOR ELDERBERRY SYRUP CLASS   The Goat comes 8th in the Chinese zodiac. The 12 zodiac animals are: Rat, Ox, Tiger,...

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Thank you to everyone who came out for the Farm Hands urban barn raising at Triple C Brewery this past Sunday. ModPaleo had an amazing spread and the turnout was incredible. We are still jazzed by the energy in the room surrounding the local food economy in the Queen city. I am IMPRESSED with Charlotte! Because the event SOLD OUT and they allowed folks in for STANDING ROOM ONLY, there was extra in the pot for everyone who was selected as a...

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…two Subarus turned gravel in their new driveway, with the first of two truck-bed trailers full of live cargo from the desert southwest. The farm name “Wish We Had Acres” was “stitched” on the side of the modern day covered wagon. Under the hinged plywood, sat a nursing mom with her two babes, and a pregnant Daisy; our virgin State Fairground goat purchase, first Nigerian Dwarf, and the beginning of our dairy goat lineage. A second...

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And the Winner is…?! For the winner: Please contact Dr. Dave Hamilton within ten business days at  Carolinas Natural Health (704.708.4404). We will notify you directly by email as well. We will repeat the drawing if prize is unclaimed  by February 5, 2015. Everyone is invited to a free 15 minute consultation with Dr. Dave. Please don’t be a stranger! Visit us at Atherton Mill and Market for refills on herbal medicine, more of our...

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Among the several definitions for “urban homesteading” are the practice of urban agriculture or sustainable living techniques. These sorts of things have been around for centuries but interest in them has grown exponentially of late. People are raising chickens in their urban backyards and cultivating herb and other gardens on high rise roofs and balconies. So what’s going on? How do you start and how much work does it take to keep it...

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