“Last year it rained into late June and the year before that it rained in July.” Around here it generally never rains past mid May. Most people that I say this to give me a funny look. They don’t believe me and then wonder how I even remember that. To them the weather is a…
Oh how I love the three day weekend. With the days getting longer all I can think about is hanging out in the yard and playing with the critters. But this weekend, this three day weekend I’ve got some big and not-so-big plans. And I have a lot of them. Fava beans need to get…
Even though we can’t give tours doesn’t mean you can’t go check out some other amazing urban farms! Farms on the tour include: Indigoat Farm Shattuck Farm Tiny Berkeley Garden Pluck & Feather Farm Beegrrl Gardens The Algarden & DaTerra Food Forest Pineheaven Farm
I make my own cold process soap. I have a tub full of it in my garage. I no longer buy shampoo or conditioner. I no longer buy body wash. I use apple cider vinegar on my hair instead of conditioner. I wash my face with coconut oil – organic hexane-free extra virgin coconut oil….
Unless you’re talking about licking your own elbow “I can’t” is one of those phrases that is such a downer. I like to help people. I like to help them solve problems or move out of their comfort zone. I like to help people get more power over their lives. Maybe that’s kind of obvious….
I’ve been getting a lot of emails lately from people wanting a tour of our urban farm. It is so amazingly flattering that people want to see what we’re doing but it breaks my heart every time when I have to tell them we can’t do it. I can totally understand why they want to…
Yesterday it was announced that a dairy cow in California tested positive for bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) also known ubiquitously as mad cow disease. It was the 4th cow in the U.S. to test positive. Two months ago two Californians were found to have Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease – another type of Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Neither of these…
Yes, I’ve done this review and giveaway before but I have another copy to giveaway in honor of getting our 1,000th like on Facebook! Your Farm in the City: An Urban-Dweller’s Guide to Growing Food and Raising Animals I have to say I find this book very thorough. It discusses pretty much everything you need…
Maybe I’m beating a dead horse. After all, Erica at Northwest Edible Life and Esperanza at Pluck and Feather have already covered it. But this totally makes me pants-on-head crazy so I have to say something. Williams-Sonoma, the retailer of very high-end kitchen equipment, just released their new Agrarian line. It’s a gardening and DIY…
Apparently it was way too early to say things were going smoothly. And I probably made the dumbest mistake I could have made during planting season. I didn’t have a plan for the slugs. Slugs are our biggest pest here. Usually I just put some Sluggo around the new plants and they are fine. This…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
