And our winner for the Your Farm in the City: An Urban-Dweller’s Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animalsbook is El Gaucho! So El Gaucho, email me your address and I’ll get your book sent out. Thank you everyone for entering! I’ll probably have another book giveaway soon.
Monday we were blessed with clear skies and record heat. I woke up that morning blessed with being sick with something that seemed to be a cross of the flu and a cold. So it wasn’t until this morning that I feel somewhat OK. I still am lacking in the energy department and whatever I had has…
Your Farm in the City: An Urban-Dweller’s Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals We were recently sent this book by the publisher. I was just expecting one, but was happy to find two so I could offer a giveaway of the second copy. I have to say I find this book very thorough. It…
For most of this coming weekend we’re going to have rain. This is our big end of frost weekend and so we had planned a bunch of planting but that might not happen now. Our yard is still a complete mud pit. I may just transfer some seedlings into bigger pots and fertilize them. What…
After last year I thought I had learned my lesson dealing with seedcorn maggots. We didn’t plant out corn, squash and beans too early. Actually they aren’t even started yet. We put down compost and manure in the fall rather than the spring to make sure there wasn’t too much organic matter out. And I’m not direct…
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…
Today is another action day to reclaim urban homesteading. But instead of blog posts urban homesteaders are creating YouTube videos. As more people post them, I will add them to this post. So stay tuned throughout the day to see more videos. And please go leave these awesome homesteaders some love on their YouTube videos!
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…
In keeping with the spirit of the Stylish Blogger Award (which seems to be spreading like wild Amaranth), Carolyn Renee from Krazo Acres started her own blogosphere award: This very un-prestigious award is given to those bloggers who share a vision: The vision that growing your own food is a rewarding experience. That making an…
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…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
