Through his blog UrbanOrganicGardener.com and social media, Mike Lieberman shares his expertise on urban gardening, green living and real food. He inspires others to start growing their own food and believes that growing just one herb or vegetable will make a difference. It will help to cut back the intensive resources that go into the…
I will preface this by saying that I am not a hunter. Maybe someday in the future I will learn to be more comfortable with guns, but it hasn’t happened yet (right now it makes me uncomfortable to even handle them when they are not loaded). I’m not even an expert in hunting-and-meat theory: if…
Oh, and let’s not forget parsnips, rutabegas, radishes and onions if we’re going to discuss root vegetables. I’d add in salsify but I haven’t tried that yet. Potatoes and garlic aren’t started by seed so we’re going to ignore them for this post. My beef is with seed-started root veggies. It’s usually not recommended to…
Our beds have always been a little wonky. We don’t have raised beds because it would be cost prohibitive to put them in. Over time they’ve slowly changed shape and narrowed. The middle ones don’t even run in a straight line anymore. Needless to say we had to do something about them. We just didn’t…
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.
I posted over a year ago about seed resources and the varieties we plant. Well over time things have changed. We’ve learned more about our property and weather patterns here and have been able to adjust it. Of course it will always be a moving target over time, but for now these are what we’ve…
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…
(This recipe’s gonna be short. Which is good, since it’s great for those last-minute parties where you still want to be a snobby foodie, but don’t have the time to make something complicated.) It’s winter. It’s raining, and I feel like I haven’t been sufficiently warm or dry in weeks. Generally, I am not a…
I hope everyone has a wonderful New Year! I did a post earlier this month about our goals and accomplishments so I’m not going to rehash it. I do want to give a run down of how our garden did this year. Maybe you’ve seen our running total on the sidebar. Well, that will soon…
Hoping to find scions for Arkansas Black Apples What’s a scion you ask? A scion (not the car company) is a plant shoot, bud or small branch that you graft onto rootstock of another plant. The California Rare Fruit Growers have an event every year during bareroot season where people can go and exchange…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
