I know, I know. I’ve linked to Erica’s Northwest Edible Life blog quite a few times. And I’ve linked specifically to her Don’t be an Urban Homesteader Asshole post more than once. What can I say? It’s an awesome post and sooooo needed to be said. While her post deals with those in our community…
Deanna, over at The Crunchy Chicken, directed my attention to this article. It’s actually pretty funny she posted about it today because just last night we watched The Road, which was ruined by the whinny kid, in my humble opinion. I’ve written about being prepared on our other blog, and I won’t repeat what I…
This past storm that came through decided to let us know that we are not immune to the muck. Our friends Heidi, from Itty Bitty Farm in the City, and Kitty, from Havenscourt Homestead, have both lamented about muck. Well, it has finally come here. And since our yard slopes away from our house and…
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…
We came home yesterday after work to find that we had lost all of our herb, tomato, pepper, eggplant, and tomatillo seedlings. We were keeping them in a mini greenhouse since we still haven’t gotten around to building our big greenhouse. Well, it was really windy here today and it blew the greenhouse over. The…
Because of the USDA’s approval of RR alfalfa, I’ve decided to repost this today. ———————————————————————– I prefer to eat and feed my livestock animals organic food. Not just because of the lack of chemical residue left on the foods, but also to avoid genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. Stephanie and I did a research paper…
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…
Sorry Mom, you’re not going to like this, but don’t worry we are totally OK and can handle it. This isn’t really a farm update, but just a home update really. Apparently our neighborhood has been deemed a richer part of town. I find that absolutely hilarious because we absolutely are not a rich part…
We have been considering teaching classes for awhile. We really enjoy having people over and teaching them about what we’re doing so why not make it a little more formal? You may remember my rant about class costs back in September so if we did offer classes they would definitely be affordable. While we had…
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…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
