Crazy Boy Farm

Crazy Boy Farm is the blog of Amy Doeun. Find more of my blog entries at www.crazyboyfarm.com

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After six months of winter: Green!

By Amy Doeun, Crazy Boy Farm

After what has literally been a 6 month winter it is so great to get out there and see green. Even better that soon some awesome food will be coming from our fields, (luckily we already have eggs which are awesome with the green added to our chickens diet). We did have some asparagus come up but it got frosted out, hopefully more will be coming.

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Grand opening of Up Cafe

By Amy Doeun, Crazy Boy Farm

Well the warm weather came a few days too late for the grand opening of Up Cafe. But still we had a great event.

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Diverse communities come together at Mother Earth Fest

By Amy Doeun, Crazy Boy Farm

This last weekend we had a great opportunity to attend the 1st annual Mother Earth Fest on the West Side of St. Paul. As Proeun said, "they really know how to throw a party, that was the best party I have ever been to." We had a booth for our farm. The plan was that we would all stay together in the morning and Proeun and I would take turns walking around with the children, but they loved it so much they didn't want to leave. So we reworked our schedule, saved errands and chores for another day and had a great day hanging out with the children, sharing our farm story and celebrating diverse communities coming together to say they care about what happens in our neighborhoods and to earth our home.

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Creating art

By Amy Doeun, Crazy Boy Farm

Imagine a world without great music, or art, one in which Mozart's genius was stifled by the neccessary duty of going to school or Michaelangelo's art was censored by the common ideas of the time. Imagine a world where everyone ate the same things, where they all dressed the same and talked the same. A world in which you could never excel past your "peers" or radical ideas were stifled.

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The Dust Bowl's legacy in CSAs

By Amy Doeun, Crazy Boy Farm

I love it when I get the Land Stewardship Projects newsletter in the mail. It encourages me to slow down, relax and remind myself why I am farming. This issue had a very interesting article about the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Few people are alive who remember living through it, most were children at the time and hopefully shielded by the adults in their life of the worst horrors. Dana Jackson said in the article that the Dust Bowl which resulted from extensive tilling of native shortgrass prairie and natural drought caused the worst, "man made environmental disaster in history."Just to give you a hint of how bad it was here are some pictures courtesy of a PBS documentary and Farm Service Agency workers.

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