1. This isn’t Fight Club. Talk about urban homesteading to everyone. Go ahead and be an urban homesteading asshole. Even if they aren’t interested force them to listen to you. Eventually they will “get it” and will thank you for forcing it upon them. 2. You must live in a city. Well, duh. But you…
It’s about security and health. But most of all it’s about community. Not just the urban homesteading community, but the community we live in. Our security comes from knowing where our food comes from and that as long as we know how to grow it and raise it, we’ll always have it available. It’s about…
This Monday blog about your Urban Homestead and what Urban Homesteading means to you! Let me know if you’re planning on joining in and I’ll make sure to link to your blog on Monday.
Gratuitous Cuteness – Pregnant Goats I’m actually out of things to write about. Not because I don’t have things to share, but because now there’s always going to be fear that I’ll be sent a letter that tells me that if I don’t change my blog I’ll be sued. What’s to say that what I…
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…
Sunday we spent the afternoon at Rush Ranch just south of Suisun City on Grizzly Island. The ranch, which is run by the Solano Land Trust, was hosting a potluck lunch for Slow Food Solano that benefited local Solano County school garden program. The potluck was themed around the book Twain’s Feast: Searching for America’s…
We’ve had several people ask if they can come help at the farm. They want to learn more about urban farming. They want to get their hands dirty. And then Esperanza from Pluck and Feather Farm posted about it. It got me to thinking that maybe we should do that. Help people learn what it…
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…
I first heard about this bill back in early 2009 when it first came into fruition. Mostly I read about people freaking out that it would outlaw backyard gardening, it would destroy organic food and would end small farms. None of which was actually true. When I read all these rumors I decided to read…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
