There are some great classes coming up this month! The Institute of Urban Homesteading has some great classes coming up this month. The available class topics includes Hand Tools for Homesteaders, Raising Rabbits, Lacto-Fermentation, Tempeh, Home Butchering, Cheesemaking, Nut Milks and Cheeses, and Canning Fruits and Tomatoes. You can find more info including dates and…
July is when the garden starts to get into full stride. It was a good thing too. Our 3 months of not buying any food started out with our first harvest of green beans, zucchini and cucumbers. The timing couldn’t have been better. Then as July rolled on tomatoes rolled in. Tomatillos, carrots and celery…
Gobbler, originally uploaded by e.m.crawford. We’re hoping our Blue Slate Turkey, Duke, is as handsome as this fella. If Cranberry is, in fact, a hen we’ll be keeping her and Duke as a breeding pair. Sorry Tater, your going to be dinner.
Last week I was contacted by Nathan Proctor of CALPIRG (the California Public Interest Research Group) about their new video on farm subsidies and how they relate to obesity. ——————————————————– We’re launching a huge effort to educate and mobilize people about how these subsidies — which mostly go to corn, wheat and soy — make…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
