Why We Can’t Give Tours

I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately from people wanting a tour of our urban farm. It is so amazingly flattering that people want to see what we’re doing but it breaks my heart every time when I have to tell them we can’t do it. I can totally understand why they want to…

Read More ›

Feeding Ruminants to Ruminants

Yesterday it was announced that a dairy cow in California tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) also known ubiquitously as mad cow disease. It was the 4th cow in the U.S. to test positive. Two months ago two Californians were found to have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – another type of Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Neither of these…

Read More ›

Book Review and Giveaway!

Yes, I’ve done this review and giveaway before but I have another copy to giveaway in honor of getting our 1,000th like on Facebook! Your Farm in the City: An Urban-Dweller’s Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals I have to say I find this book very thorough. It discusses pretty much everything you need…

Read More ›

Taking a Crap on DIY

Maybe I’m beating a dead horse. After all, Erica at Northwest Edible Life and Esperanza at Pluck and Feather have already covered it. But this totally makes me pants-on-head crazy so I have to say something. Williams-Sonoma, the retailer of very high-end kitchen equipment, just released their new Agrarian line. It’s a gardening and DIY…

Read More ›

I’m Not a Master Gardener

The Master Gardener program is a fantastic resource for people that really want to become SUPER knowledgeable about growing plants. The program is run through the UC Cooperative Extension system and they provide many classes to the public about gardening. I once got to take a great class on composting and after the class they provided you…

Read More ›

Spoke Too Soon

Apparently it was way too early to say things were going smoothly. And I probably made the dumbest mistake I could have made during planting season. I didn’t have a plan for the slugs. Slugs are our biggest pest here. Usually I just put some Sluggo around the new plants and they are fine. This…

Read More ›

Getting Ready for Kids

Sedona is pregnant! Can’t you tell? Yeah, me neither. Well I can tell because her udder is developing and I can feel the kids kick. Every goat is different and you can never tell just how many they are hiding. Remember Infinity at Castle Rock Farm from Tuesday’s post? She only had one doeling who…

Read More ›

Lets Bring Back Bartering

Cash has become this imaginary concept. Its value was once tied to gold but then the government removed the gold standard. Then it became just pieces of paper and metal that we exchanged for goods. Today we barely use physical money and instead use debit cards and credit cards. It’s now become this imaginary thing that has this arbitrary…

Read More ›