Organic Heirloom Tomatoes, originally uploaded by dvautier. Tomato season is well on it’s way. While this isn’t a photo of ours, we are getting a good harvest of Hillbilly, Black Krim, Brandywine, Roman Candle, and San Marzano tomatoes!
Meet Jessa, our gorgeous recipe maven with one of her hens. Photo is courtesy of photographer Heather Hoxsey. You can see more of her incredible photos on Flickr and buy some of her work on Etsy.
Monday is our guest post day. But we want more than just guest posts. We’d love to share your photos of your urban or rural farm. We want your stories whether they are funny, moving or sad to share. And of course we want your knowledge to share. And as usual, we will post any…
July is when the garden starts to get into full stride. It was a good thing too. Our 3 months of not buying any food started out with our first harvest of green beans, zucchini and cucumbers. The timing couldn’t have been better. Then as July rolled on tomatoes rolled in. Tomatillos, carrots and celery…
Gobbler, originally uploaded by e.m.crawford. We’re hoping our Blue Slate Turkey, Duke, is as handsome as this fella. If Cranberry is, in fact, a hen we’ll be keeping her and Duke as a breeding pair. Sorry Tater, your going to be dinner.
Last week I was contacted by Nathan Proctor of CALPIRG (the California Public Interest Research Group) about their new video on farm subsidies and how they relate to obesity. ——————————————————– We’re launching a huge effort to educate and mobilize people about how these subsidies — which mostly go to corn, wheat and soy — make…
Our Broody Speckled Sussex When we first gave chicks to our two broody hens, Lynda from the Wisdom of the Radish and author of a book with the same name asked us about the acceptance. “Did they accept them? I once had hens “accept” new chicks only to, a few days later, decide…
Watermelon, originally uploaded by ari mail. We grow Orangeglo Watermelons, which are a very tasty heirloom variety. Ours aren’t ready yet, but I’m looking forward to when they are!
Have you heard of the Perennial Plate yet? Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine are touring the country to find stories of sustainable food. This episode is when they came to visit the SF Bay Area and they spent a bit of time at Pluck and Feather. I look forward to next week’s episode featuring Hank…
Urban Livestock, originally uploaded by laurenhouston. You got to love livestock in the big city! Sheep and horses take urban livestock to the next level.
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
