I’ve read two of Michael Pollan’s books – The Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food (which will come up in a future review). The Omnivore’s Dilemma is definitely one of those required college English class type of books. It has a lot of information and can become difficult to read just because of Pollan’s…
August has really been a good ramp up. We’ve been extra busy harvesting and planting our fall crops. Our totals have more than doubled from July and they’ll just keep going up for the month of September. The beginning of the month we were harvesting by the basket. By the end of the month we…
I suppose you could call it a guest post. We were featured in the San Francisco Chronicle because of our Year Without Groceries. They dedicated their Food & Wine section of the Sunday paper to people like us who are making super local food choices. You can read about it and see some awesome photos…
There are lots of great events coming up this month! Biofuel Oasis is starting up their urban homesteading classes for the season. They are teaching classes on the subjects of beekeeping, chickens,goats, urban fruit trees, olive curing, and rabbits (taught by Esperanza from Pluck and Feather). The Institute of Urban Homesteading has some great classes…
Photo by Jess Watson Recently we were featured in an article along with Esperanza of Pluck and Feather in Edible East Bay, a quarterly publication about the foods of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. Yeah, I know, we’re in Solano County but we have a similar demographic to Oakland and we support many of Oakland’s…
I had received this wonderful book called Homemade Cheese: Recipes for 50 Cheese from Artisan Cheesemakers by Janet Hurst to review. I’ve been making some cheese with our goat’s milk but not very much because they don’t produce a lot. I wanted to get more practice but it was going to take us a while…
Two gallons of raw goat milk for our personal use On August 3rd, a private food club called Rawesome in L.A. was raided by multiple agencies. The manager of the club, James Stewart, his assistant, Victoria Bloch, and small farm owner, Sharon Palmer were arrested. Palmer supplies the club with fresh eggs and chicken. Bloch…
Every gardener has a weed that they curse at. For me it used to be Bermuda grass. I hated it. Our last house had a backyard covered with the stuff. If you don’t pull it all up, any little bit would grow and spread like wildfire. But we were able to control it to a…
OK, snicker. The name is funny. I’ve never really taken the Complete Idiot’s Guide line of literature all that seriously. I guess I just assumed most of them were, well, for the very new beginner. Sundari Elizabeth Kraft’s book, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Urban Homesteading, changed my mind. I have to say it is…
The colors are changing. The dark bright greens are lightening with more yellow in them. The corn’s lower leaves are drying out as cobs swell. The dried beans are coming to their end. We will harvest a lot of them and they’ll probably get their second wind. The “weed” area is browning. Next month’s shot…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
