We’ve been busy lately. Big and small projects alike. And the list just keeps going. This weekend we’ll be planting out seedlings, specifically peas, turnips, rutabagas, kale, spinach and lettuce. Last weekend our first intern, Brandy, came and helped us finish lining one of the big beds with rock. It looks fantastic. Just four more…
I promised a photo of Lucy’s kits when they came out of the box. Well, as of Saturday they were 15 days old and still hiding in the back of the nest box. So I took it upon myself to remove them from the box and put them on the wire. All of a sudden…
Pigs, originally uploaded by Olav Rokne. Pigs. We’re going to have pigs this coming Spring!!! We are truly blessed to know people that are willing to work with us. A coworker/friend of Tom’s will be keeping the pigs on his family’s property where he once raised pigs for 4-H.
We’ve got our very first guest post for the New Year! Today’s post comes from Gary Sieling of Making Beehives. ——————————————————————————— As far back as I can remember, my father has kept bees. As children we each had our own beehive and we helped him extract the honey. I have fond memories of the fragrance…
We have to give a hearty thank you to Tom Theobald, a Colorado beekeeper, who recently uncovered and exposed an EPA memo that could point to why bees are dying in such high numbers. According to them memo, BayerCropScience is selling a seed treatment called clothianidin and it hasn’t done sufficient testing on the chemical to prove…
Gloucestershire Old Spot Pig Yep, you’ve guessed it. We’re in the market for some hogs. Well, actually weaner pigs that we can raise for pork. Of all the stuff we do here, pigs are the least likely to fly with our neighbors. So we’re not going to keep them here. We’re currently working on getting…
Tiffany S. is what some might call a meat rabbit guru and she’s certain that no matter how cute and fuzzy they are, when it comes down to it, you will be able to do what’s necessary to put food on the table. You can find her over at Raising Rabbits for Meat, a blog…
This past Sunday Tom and I joined a group of like-minded people at Biofuel Oasis in Berkeley for their Urban Goat Husbandry Class. The class was taught be the well known Novella Carpenter who wrote one of our favorite books, Farm City. If you haven’t read Farm City I highly recommend you read it. It’s…
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…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
