Sunday April 22, 2012 Registration: 8:30 am Tour: 9 am – 1 pm Slow Food Miami and Bee Heaven Farm have collaborated to organize the Farm Bike Tour, a fun locavore family event in observance of Earth Day. Start by registering at Bee Heaven Farm, then follow a 12-mile route that takes you on a [...]
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Farm Bike Tour
Posted in agritourism, events, farm, food, locavore, tagged Bee Heaven Farm, Fancy Koi 2, Gaby's Farm ice cream, LNB Farm, Paradise Farms, Slow Food Miami, Teena's Pride Farm on April 16, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Long live Florida 47
Posted in farm, farmer/grower, food, photo, politics, vegetables, tagged Dan Howard, NAFTA, tomato on March 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Round and red, and kind of ordinary looking, the slicing tomatoes in your CSA share box a few weeks ago didn’t seem very special, did they? But they are, and what made this year’s crop different is the way it was grown — in pots of soil, not directly in the ground. (The variety itself, [...]
Slow Love
Posted in agritourism, chef, events, farm, tagged Dinner in Paradise, Paradise Farms, Slow Food Miami on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A special Dinner in Paradise to benefit Slow Food Miami Edible School Gardens. Saturday Feb. 11, 2012 5:00 pm – Reception 5:30 pm – Farm Tour 6:00 pm – Five Course Dinner Featuring fresh local seafood and fresh harvest from the farm prepared by Chef Kira Volz of Broadwings Catering, along with Chefs Christopher Siragusa [...]
Feral dogs kill again
Posted in animals, farm, photo, tagged Bee Heaven Farm, cats, feral dogs on January 2, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Durian the cat is dead. He was killed in his sleep the other night by a feral dog that crawled under the car where the cat was sleeping. The dog went for the cat’s throat, slashing its jugular, and the cat didn’t have a chance. It was dragged by the dog to the other side [...]
Party at the farm
Posted in agritourism, comic, events, farm, food, photo, tagged Bee Heaven Farm, Farm Day on December 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
First, the Miami Herald mentioned the 7th Annual Farm Day at Bee Heaven Farm in its Thursday food section, right at the top of page 2. Then Short Order posted the news. (And it was also posted on this blog.) “Oh no,” Farmer Margie worried out loud. “How many people are coming? A thousand?” She [...]

