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Anichini-Moore Ranch & Farm, located in Northwest Oklahoma, is focused on producing healthy food while restoring the land/soil and ecosystem. By keeping food production and processing local, we help build a more sustainable food system that supports the community. We welcome group tours, school field trips, volunteerism in farm activities, wildlife watching and photography opportunities are available. We offer lessons in composting and natural farming practices. For more information, contact us, browse our site or call (405) 823-8295.

Ranch- We grow and sell endangered wool breed sheep, wool, and grass pastured lamb and large black hog products. Click here for a list of products.

Farm-The Farm has lots of biodiversity and wildlife. We grow and sell natural produce, flowers, nuts, vineyard and heritage orchard with viniferous grapes, apples and other fruits. Click here for a list of products.

Call for Volunteers

We're accepting volunteers interested in gardening, composting, or farming. Call Kathy Moore at (405) 823-8295.

Where we are Located

From the west, take Hwy 15 into Woodward to 34th street. Turn south on 34th street and go south six miles to EW 46. On EW 46, turn west and go one mile to NS 200. On NS 200 turn south and go 5/10th of a mile. The farm is on the east side of the road.

RR1 Box 171
Woodward, OK 73801
Driving Directions

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Blogging from the Homestead

July 30

Anichini - Moore Ranch & Farm September Producer Notes
This month we do not have too many products to list yet. We have a few rhubarb packages listed, garlic and basil. We maybe able to add a few more in a week or so once we begin digging potatoes and if other crops are ripe.

We continue to literally fight grasshoppers and blister beetles on nearly every crop we have organically. We are resorting to knocking the blister beetles off plants with a stick and smashing them, but, there are so many it's difficult to keep up! In the meantime, these insects are devouring and/or damaging our crops. We estimate 95 percent of the potatoes have been defoliated and with recent heavy rains most rotted before we could get them harvested by hand. We are in the process of replanting some that we were able to salvage. We also plan to plant fall crops and some late summer crops within a week or so.

The insects do not seem to bother the Cosmos or African Marigolds which we literally have throughout our market gardens and we are clearing out new areas on the edges of the trees consisting of all sand to begin increasing the organic matter to add more produce for next season when we hope the insects will be fewer and far between! We are clearing fallen trees and limbs out of these areas. Some of the black locust and hackberry will be suitable for fire wood and some to be chipped for mulch. We welcome volunteers or visitors if anyone would like to help!

In fall we plan to have more lamb, beef and a pig processed with newly designed meat labels.

We are also working on a field day with collaborators scheduled for November 13th. In addition, we are in the preliminary stages of planning a local foods dinner and some other projects to build interest in our region for growing small famers including income opportunities, interest in local foods, making more local foods available to restaurants, economic development, farm to school, food and health, and agritourism! Please watch our notes for more information as it becomes available. We are hoping we will see some of you at these upcoming and new events in Woodward!

Our education and farm field Day with a working lunch is scheduled for November 13th from 11:30 to 1:30. There will be four tracks on the farm that will include rainwater harvesting, composting, direct marketing opportunities for farmers with root or storage crops, a separate two hour track for children, and more. There will also be a short pre conference training on rainwater harvesting that begins at 9:30am.

Local food dinner date has yet to be set, but, we plan on a fall dinner with entertainment

.We also have started a CSA that includes the OKC/Norman area too on Coop Delivery day. When we are able to secure more orders or demand we plan to make weekly deliveries or to develop a food route. Members may also pick up at the farm or at specified delivery sites. Please call us for more information.

Thank you for your business and support! Again, please watch for more notes and products in a week or so.

Kathy Moore
Anichini - Moore Ranch & Farm
www.anichinimoore.com
www.okcompostingcouncil.org
405/823-8295

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July 03

Anichini - Moore Ranch & Farm
Just a short update on our items for July. We've added Yukon Gold potatoes, heirloom varieties of garlic, basil, and rhubarb. We anticipate adding Viking Red Potatoes or some heirloom russets before the ordering period is completed. Please watch for updates or new items in produce and herb items. When you grow using only hand tools harvesting takes a bit longer so please call us if you want quicker notice, want us to grow something for you or join our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture).
Thank you,
Kathy Moore
Anichini - Moore Ranch & Farm
www.anichinimoore.com

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June 30

Producer Notes July 2010

Boy, has it been hot on the farm pushing garlic harvest up from mid July to this week! And, we have had unbelievable swarms of grasshoppers that managed to defoliate our potatoes and some of our raspberries and apple trees despite our best efforts laboriously applying organic products to hold them back! Consequently, we are now beginning to harvest potatoes earlier than planned. Please watch our inventory as we will be adding the first of our several varieties of potates to our products list this month, Yukon Gold, and several varieties of mostly heirloom garlic, basil, and perhaps a few either red or yellow onions as the ordering period progresses. I wish there was a better way to predict crops so far ahead of delivery day since we have lots of raspberries now and will soon have Santa Rosa Plums, Nectarines, Moorpark Apricots and maybe some early peaches this month. We ate our first crop of pie cherries, boysenberries, Black Pearl Blackberries and raddishes grown under black locust tree. Looks like we might have our first New Town Pippen and Gravenstein Apples this summer and fall too!

We are later than we planned planting some vegetables since we had an opportunity to add or plant O'Henry and White Lady Peaches, some heirloom pears, more Gravensteins, and Wolf River Apples last month. Since the trees are small yet, we're planting vegetables between the rows of trees.

We're experimenting with other crops too to see if they will adapt to our desert like climate in sun or semi-shade with heavy mulch. We pulled first 13 pounds and then 27 pounds from a few short rows of peas. Many are now frozen for winter or to add to new potatoes.

We do our best to use everything on our farm and even recycle pulled weeds to the animals who seem to enjoy their "salad bar" tidbits and wait patiently for us to throw them over the fence or haul them out in large containers depending on varieties. The pigs seem to relish the "pig weeds" best so we save them just for them! Who would have thought that many so called "weeds" have more feed value than many grasses something we learned through observation during a heavy drought in 2006 when the horses looked fantastic without grass since only "weeds" were available.

There is always something new at the farm with new things to learn, opportunities for experimentation and eating something new from the gardens. Although the days are hot and long and the work is never done,we can not imagine doing anything more fulfilling, interesting, or invigorating! And, somedays we still have enough energy to make apricot, rhubarb, or cherry pies made by scratch that we eat for breakfast before heading to the farm the next morning.

We are also starting a CSA and invite you to call or e-mail us for more information if you want produce more often or want us to grown something special!

Thank you for your continued support for our products! We love growing them and we are greatly enjoying our relationships with all of you!
Kathy Moore
Anichini - Moore Ranch & Farm

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June 08

Sustainable Ag in Oklahoma

There are lots of good info at the OSU Sustainable Ag site. The site is updated quite frequently. Check it out here and be sure to bookmark the page so you can check back frequently! http://www.sustainableag.okstate.edu

P.S. We also added the web link to our links page; http://anichinimoore.com/links.aspx.

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June 03

Anichini-Moore Lessons in Edible Ecology

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Anichini-Moore Ranch & Farm

Raising heritage animals and plants, heirloom fruits and vegetables, and providing education.