Category: Urban Farming
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Harvest Creations: Oodles and Oodles of Zoodles
I can’t eat pasta any more. My DNA is skewed towards diabetes; therefore, carbs are like a silent killer ninja in my bloodstream. Although I’m in no danger currently, if I were to continue to eat now as I have my whole life, I would be there very soon. Getting Old Ain’t For Sissies. Just…
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Harvest Creations: That moment when your ketchup turns into BBQ sauce
My goal this year is that I take what I need from the farm beds when I need it – for current meals, that is. Then everything else gets sold at the farm stand on Saturdays. Whatever I don’t sell on Saturday, I “put by” as they say. In other words, preserve. This past…
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Water, Farming, and the New Normal
Back in the early ‘90s I lived in Wyoming. Having grown up in the Great Lakes region, and living in Hawaii before Wyoming, I never thought about fresh water or this odd thing called water rights. Water rights and Wyoming was a great education in the pre-cursor to climate change. I was flabbergasted at…
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Bees: The Micro Farm Gets Its Own Pollinators
I mentioned last year that getting bees was going to be a priority for the 2015 growing season. And we did. I’ve been a bad blogger and haven’t shared it with you and for that I apologize. But, it’s just been so dang BZZZZ-eeE here. With the new chicks and ducklings and baseball season and…
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Backyard Chicken Keeping: The Girls Get Curtains!
Wow, it’s been awhile since we chatted about chickens. But the girls have been doing well. The remaining seven cluckers from our original brood of eight are still doing well and laying regularly. Even in the depth of winter I’m still getting about four to five eggs a day and at least twice a week…