Photo by Jess Watson Recently we were featured in an article along with Esperanza of Pluck and Feather in Edible East Bay, a quarterly publication about the foods of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Yeah, I know, we’re in Solano County but we have a similar demographic to Oakland and we support many of Oakland’s…
Slice compound butter into 1 T. chunks and freeze, originally uploaded by homegrowndotorg. We don’t get much cream so homemade butter is a distant dream. This homemade butter, however, looks amazing!
The Perennial Plate Episode 68: A Tale of Three Seasides from Daniel Klein on Vimeo. I’m super excited about this episode because it includes my hunter-gatherer hero, Hank Shaw. I have yet to meet him, but hopefully in the future I will.
Preserves were the first thing I learned how to can. We got gobs and gobs of various fruits every year – from nectarines to strawberries to figs to persimmons and everything in between. They sit in our freezer taking up space. Then we decided that preserves would make awesome gifts for people. I haven’t bought…
Every year I find it helpful to write about the things I’ve learned in the garden so that I can make sure I avoid the same mistakes next year. Plus it helps teach all of you the obstacles I’ve faced so that you can learn what to avoid. So here’s what I’ve learned this year…
Turkey Town, I love saying it. So when getting livestock you should have some kind of shelter fro them. When we decided to get Turkeys we got them as poults (day old babies). That part was easy aswe just housed them in a old dog crate turned into a brooder for a couple of months….
hello-kitty-ar-15-rifle-2[1], originally uploaded by D-Brown!. Remember Saturday’s post about gardening being girly? Well, apparently Ms. Aloi didn’t see this! A Hello Kitty AR-15. Now you can blog about being a bad ass and Hello Kitty all at the same time….I foresee a new blog soon. Stay tuned.
Being from a counterculture, appreciating art and wanting to farm I really enjoyed this movie. It even made me cry.
I had received this wonderful book called Homemade Cheese: Recipes for 50 Cheese from Artisan Cheesemakers by Janet Hurst to review. I’ve been making some cheese with our goat’s milk but not very much because they don’t produce a lot. I wanted to get more practice but it was going to take us a while…
According to Peggy Aloi, writer for the Huffington Post, feminism has been lost on me. I’m officially girly and no longer a bad ass. That’s kind of a bummer because I’ve always thought of myself as pretty bad ass. I’ve thought of my other gardening friends as total bad asses too. Oh, and apparently my…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
