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The Mouse and Trowel Awards cover us garden and farm blogs that the Bloggies don’t. Go check them out and nominate your favorite garden blogs!
Best $1 ever spent. We went on a book hunt this weekend. I am excited to report on two really cool books. One old and one new. Both made me delightfully happy. The first place we stopped to look for books was the book and plant sale at the SF County Fair Building in Golden…
Ogródek ziołowy, originally uploaded by pracowniak.pl. We perused vegetable box ideas that were good enough to get us up and looking at the empty spot in the back yard, rooftop, windowsill, fence… What will your vegetable boxes look like? This Tuesday, we selected the above very romantic garden photograph to highlight. Fantasy almost, isn’t it?…
This is our first guest blog. Allurynn and her husband, Doug, own Moonsong Ranch Alpacas and sell their fiber art and fashions at their Etsy shop. Allurynn was kind enough to tell us about her alpacas. Recently I came across this YouTube video circulating around about a Guy from Peru who taught his Alpaca Pisco…
We were so excited that our wedding photographers, <a href=”http://www.tinywaterblog.com/”>Tinywater</a> and <a href=”http://www.edpingolphotography.com/”>Ed Pingol</a> got some great shots of our garden (our wedding was in our backyard). Here are some of them. <br /> <br /> <div style=”clear: both; text-align: center;”> <a href=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2HjPCs7rJRw/S6eG-W9ffEI/AAAAAAAAAGM/TeHRVyO1s30/s1600-h/26415_332003378825_647293825_3462764_2872341_n.jpg” imageanchor=”1″ style=”margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;”><img border=”0″ height=”640″ src=”http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_2HjPCs7rJRw/S6eG-W9ffEI/AAAAAAAAAGM/TeHRVyO1s30/s640/26415_332003378825_647293825_3462764_2872341_n.jpg” vt=”true” width=”428″ /></a></div> <div…
I had mentioned in an earlier post that I plan on taking stock of what I harvest and see what the savings amount to. But that isn’t really a goal, just a plan. Spring at our home is here. The weather is warming up, our last average frost date is only a week and a…
There isn’t quite anything like sipping on ice cold limoncello after dinner with good friends on a hot summer night. It can be hard to find and is never cheap. However, you can easily make it at home and it tastes so much better. It’s great to start now when you are probably drowning in extra lemons…
The question came up this weekend. A friend of mine swears she’s heard from old-timers, friends, her mom who worked at our local nursery for a number of years, that we are Zone 1 (see the smack-dab middle of Oregon). If that is true, it’s a big bummer. But isn’t like, ALASKA Zone 1?? This…
Howdy! So my friend Rachel asked me to contribute to her blog about self sufficiency in an urban setting. So here I am! Albeit I’m not in an urban setting anymore! Right now I am on 2.5 acres just outside Redmond OR. I have a little teeny studio apartment, but I get to play in…
After reading an article in Mother Earth News I’ve been inspired to keep a spreadsheet on the costs and savings from having a vegetable garden this year. I have a scale that I will weigh my harvest with and then will check out local prices for organic produce to compare. I’ve already started my spreadsheet…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
