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…
Back in July I wrote about our plans to change our front yard into vegetable beds for our neighbors. Since then we haven’t done much of anything to the front yard and that gave me a lot of time to think about our plans. While I really want to share our food with our neighbors…
Inspired by Novella’s rundown of her accomplishments I felt the need to put what we’ve done and what we want to get done next year. 2010, you’ve been a busy year. 2009 was mainly taken up by wedding planning activities. In 2010 we decided to get busy. It started with the blog. In March I…
Our first average frost date is November 27th but generally the frosts don’t hit hard until late December and don’t really get serious until January. Well, this year has so far been far from normal, so I’m not quite sure why we thought the status quo would continue in term of average frost dates. While…
This isn’t going to be our usual farm and garden post. I just feel like writing about where I live today. I live in Vallejo. Generally everyone calls it V-town. It’s a city of about 120,000, which is about midsize for the San Francisco Bay Area. It has a beautiful downtown area with stately Victorians…
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…
My seedlings are taking a hit. What’s strange is the seedlings planted closer to the house and activity are suffering the most from pests. The ones planted near the end of our lot seem relatively unscathed. The squirrels have been digging up my carrot seedlings to bury acorns. The birds have been eating my seedlings’…
I like Summer because there isn’t much to do other than harvest and weed a little. Fall and Winter are when we have the most chores. Fortunately after all the hard work we did last year with double digging our beds means we have less to do this year. Right now we’re cleaning out our…
Well, it’s that time of year. Major transitions in the garden are happening. As crops wither they get pulled out. The soil gets renewed with a layer of chicken and goat compost and loosened up a bit before the next crops go in. The squash and pumpkins are all harvested and getting cured. Melons, cucumbers…
So some of you probably know that today is our first day of The Project. How exciting? I’m still a little overwhelmed, but we will make do with what we have. It’s not like we’re going to starve to death or anything. It will just be a little uncomfortable sometimes. Even on hot days when…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
