Earth Day On The Urban Farm Hey fans! If you’re in town this Thursday, bring yourself and your 36 friends down to the farm. Celebrate Earth Day while learning new skills, building new soil, and making a few new friends. We’re providing live music by talented local artist Pamela Parker and free food to keep…
Instead of having our usual guest blog today, instead I want to give a shout out to all the wonderful gardening blogs I’ve come across recently thanks to Blotanical, a forum for garden bloggers to share their blogs with each other. Some of my favorites include: Curbstone Valley FarmDaphne’s DandelionsUrban Dirt BloomingwriterGarden RantThe Beer GardenTiny Farm BlogTown…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/baldmonk/2302950648/ I’m famous for my Lemon Meringue Pies, but I keep the recipe a closely guarded secret – my husband doesn’t even know it. However, this Lemon Souffle recipe is a variant of the pie recipe, but without a few important ingredients and steps. The key to a fantastic lemon dessert is to use Eureka…
Squeek (Brindle) and Riley (Black and White) Some of you may know that we have dogs. Two large dogs. Squeek (spelled wrong on purpose) is our 5 year old female greyhound/pitbull mix. Riley is our male German Shepherd/Border Collie mix of unknown age. Riley was our first dog and for the first year we had him he…
So, I had two free passes to the Green Festival last weekend. I have been to so many of these over the years, but I figured lets go check it out and see if there is anything new. There were a variety of vendors, food, speakers, organizations and schwag. It is about the closest thing…
Tulip in our backyard There are so many ornamental gardening blogs out there. I love reading them all. I love ornamentals – Trees, Shrubs, Perennials, Annuals, Grasses, Bulbs. I really do. They are fascinating and beautiful to look at. Rich colors, odd flowers, beautiful textures. Ornamentals give the landscape a sense of wonderment. I work…
This week we are honored to have a guest blog from Hannah and Abbie from the Safely Gathered In blog. Their blog is absolutely wonderful and well organized and written. They make the huge task of food storage manageable. —————————————————————————- Syndicated radio host Dave Ramsey advises his listeners to set up an emergency fund that…
AR83060_AR83060-R1-E012, originally uploaded by Alicia J. Rose. Get out and take care of yourself, yoga style. Spring is here and work in the garden will most likely increase. No need to wake up in the morning with a sore back and stiff muscles from toiling all day in the garden. There are many yoga poses…
IMG_2395, originally uploaded by livrachelle. At my first gardening class, the instructor said the number one thing to learn about taking care of your garden is taking care of yourself. If you aren’t in good health, neither will your garden. So wear your sunscreen and strrrrr…ea…..tch. Because gardens are a means of connecting us to…
Thank you to Frances Ellsworth for submitting to us this fabulous photos of pear blossoms at night. I love the deep contrast between the white flowers and black background. If you have a great photo that you think we’d love send it on over to us at dogislandfarm(at)gmail(dot)com or add it to our flickr group…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
