Local news: Martha Stewart seeks coop-lovers, seed pros say it's starting time

This tip just in from Midsummer Farm: Martha Stewart is jumping on the urban-chicken-as-trend bandwagon. She's filming a Backyard Chicken show in March and wants to fill her studio audience with chicken-owners. You can go to her website and apply for tickets: http://www.marthastewart.com/get-tickets.

Dairy farmers' coop is helping Hudson Valley Fresh avoid some of the industry pitfalls.

The seed library guys say it's time to start planting indoors.

It's cute baby goat season! Acorn Hill is back to blogging on their kids, and I've heard Sprout Creek has two new members: a kid and baby cow. Moooove your butt off the couch and go visit their farm.

A Times writer asks the age-old question: How feasible is a local diet?