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Gardening
- 10 Repurposed (Free or Cheap) Things You Should Have
- 2011 Plans and Varieties
- 2013 Garden Planning
- A Bit of Wild
- A Garden for the Birds (and the Bees) – Part 3
- A Garden for the Birds (and the Bees) Part 1
- A Little TLC Can Go a Long Way
- All About Organic Soil Amendments
- All About Poop – Using Manure in the Garden
- An Education in the Garden
- Appreciating the Holes
- Bareroot Season is Coming!
- Big Plans and Bigger Plans
- Building a Greenhouse for Next to Nothing (Compared to Buying One)
- Carrots, Beets & Turnips Oh My!
- Creating More Growing Space
- Cutting Off a Limb – Pruning Trees
- Dipping Our Toes into the Permaculture Pond
- Dogs and Gardens part 2
- Buying Before it’s Time
- Double Digging
- Dry Farming
- Fall Crops – It’s Time
- Fall Garden Chores
- Farm Diary – The Ornamental Garden
- Feelin’ Spicy
- Flickr of Inspiration- Pervious Pavers and Recycled Glass
- Flickr of Inspiration- Reuse Mosaic Tiles
- How to Layout your Vegetable Garden- Part 3 of 3
- How to Install Irrigation
- Friday’s Tips ‘n’ Tricks – Leaf Miners
- Friday’s Tips ‘n’ Tricks – Saving Seed from Lettuce
- From stalk to plate – Corn Tortillas
- Gardening vs. Urban Farming
- Giant Produce
- Goals and Successes for 2010
- Growing, Curing & Storing Onions
- Growing Peppers from Seed
- Growing Tender Celery
- Growing Your Own Livestock Feed
- Happy New Year!
- Heirloom Apples
- Heirlooms!
- Household Items You Can Use in the Garden
- Choosing Varieties to Grow
- How to Layout your Vegetable Garden- Part 1 of 3
- How to Layout your Vegetable Garden- Part 2
- How to Pick a Watermelon
- How to Rotate your Beds
- How to Schedule Your Plantings by the Moon
- I Want to be a Better Gardener
- In Search of a Purple Peach
- Irrigation Supplies: The Basics
- Is Urban Agriculture a Waste of Resources?
- It’s Here!
- It’s Time for Another Round of What I’ve Learned
- It’s Time for Fall Crops
- Jack and the Beanstalk or Things Learned
- January Planting Schedule & a Planting Primer for difficult veggies
- Letting Nature Take Over
- Maybe We’ll Get Fruit This Year
- Meet Your Farmer – Sunny Slope Orchard
- Mining Leaves – Battling the Nasty Leafminer
- Monday’s Guests – 10 Easy Fruit-Bearing Trees
- Monday’s Guests – Build Your Own Containers for Small Space Gardening
- Monday’s Guests – Compost Tea
- Monday’s Guests – Experimenting with Hugelkultur
- Monday’s Guests – Fruit Geek
- Monday’s Guests – Hopping on board the urban farming trend
- Monday’s Guests – Organic Fertilizer | How to Use and Make Organic Fertilizer
- Monday’s Guests – White Vinegar and Diatomaceous Earth
- More Summer Veggies or Wait?
- My Letter to the City of Oak Park
- No Spraying
- Not Enough Time?
- Our Current Project
- Our Soil Analysis Part 1 – Where We Stand
- Our Soil Analysis Part 2 – Where We are Going and How We are Getting There
- Out with the Old and In with the New
- Pay it Forward
- Peculiar Passion Fruit
- Peppers
- Picking the Right Irrigation System and Installing it
- Planning the Fall Garden
- Planting Schedule for October
- Pomegranate Trees
- Potatoes!
- Putting a Value on That
- Raised Beds vs. Rows
- Reader Questions – Baking Soda and Vinegar vs. Greywater
- Reader Questions: Goats, Gophers and Bunnies
- RIP Little Girl
- Saturday’s Farm Diary – Harvests, Weeds and Other Things
- Saturday’s Farm Diary – Where are my beans and corn?
- Seed Resources
- Seedcorn Maggot, We Meet Again
- Soil Testing
- Soil Testing 101
- Spoke Too Soon
- Squash Pest
- Squirrels, Birds, & Caterpillars Oh My!
- Starting Seeds – How We Do It
- Surviving the Drought in the Garden 2.0 Update
- Sweet Potato Harvest
- Taking it Slowly
- That Hugelkultur Thing
- That Whole Succession Planting Thing
- The 2012 Varieties
- The Barrier Method – Or Getting Ready for a Night Out on the Town
- The Basics of Site Design
- The California Rare Fruit Grower’s Scion Exchange
- The Edible Front Yard Without Pissing Off Your Neighbors (or Your City)
- The Giant Tomato and Other Observations
- The Great Pumpkin Debate
- The Hugelkultur Bed Experiment Update
- The Mushroom Garden
- The Mysterious Medlar
- The Potato Bin Experiment
- The Seed Bank
- The Seed Catalogs are Rollin’ In!
- The Seed Debate
- The Weekend Garden Plans
- Things I’ve Learned Part Deux
- Things I’ve Learned Take 3
- Things I’ve Learned This Year
- Things I’ve Learned This Year – Part 1
- Things We Learned Last Week
- Thursday in the City- Mushrooms
- Thursday in the City- My Garden Imagined
- Time to Just Suck it up and Do it Already
- Tips from a Frugal Vegetable Gardener
- TomatoMania!
- Upcoming Planting Schedule for August and September
- Update on the Black Plastic
- Vegetable Gardening Book Reviews
- Want to Grow and Raise Your Own Food?
- Watering – Hand watering vs. Irrigation
- Weeds
- Weekend Garden Chores
- What the Fodder?
- What I’ve Learned 2013 Edition Volume 1
- What I’ve Learned about Growing Cool Season Vegetables
- What to do with Extra Herbs
- What’s on the Horizon?
- When, How & Where to Start Seeds
DIY
- 10 Repurposed (Free or Cheap) Things You Should Have
- 2011 Plans and Varieties
- 5 Reasons Why You Want Chickens
- 6 Ways that Starting to Raise Meat Rabbits Will Make You More Self-Sufficient
- A Bit of Wild
- A Garden for the Birds (and the Bees) – Part 3
- A Garden for the Birds (and the Bees) Part 1
- A Little TLC Can Go a Long Way
- A Rough Kidding Season
- All About Poop – Using Manure in the Garden
- Appreciating the Holes
- Back to the Basics 2: Acorn Bread
- Back to the Basics: Acorn Flour
- Bareroot Season is Coming!
- Belgian-Style Mussels
- Big Plans and Bigger Plans
- Bitches be CRAAAAZY
- Book Review & Giveaway – A Chicken in Every Yard
- Building a Greenhouse for Next to Nothing (Compared to Buying One)
- Building a Turkey Town for $50 or less in 3 Hours
- Cajun Spiced Crab Cakes
- Canning Season is Almost Here – Stay Safe Out There
- Carrots, Beets & Turnips Oh My!
- Catching some Levain (aka Sourdough Starter)
- Chantarelle and Onion Dip
- Could this be the Cause of Colony Collapse Disorder?
- Cream of Chantarelle Soup
- Creating More Growing Space
- Cutting Off a Limb – Pruning Trees
- Dipping Our Toes into the Permaculture Pond
- Dogs and Gardens part 2
- Dogs & Bees – No Bueno
- Buying Before it’s Time
- Double Digging
- Dry Farming
- Duck Fried Wild Rice
- Elderflower Syrup
- Eliminating Chemicals From Your Hair
- Everything But the Quack: Roasted Wild Duck
- Fall Garden Chores
- Farm Diary – The Ornamental Garden
- Feelin’ Spicy
- Fig and Whiskey Muffins
- Flickr of inspiration- Baskets
- flickr of inspiration- bbq grills
- flickr of inspiration- composting
- Flickr of Inspiration – Got Pig?
- Flickr of Inspiration – Gratuitous Cuteness
- Flickr of Inspiration- Halloween Party
- Flickr of Inspiration- Handmade Halloween
- Flickr of Inspiration- Homemade Candy Corn
- Flickr of Inspiration- Pervious Pavers and Recycled Glass
- Flickr of inspiration- recipe storage
- Flickr of Inspiration- Reuse Mosaic Tiles
- Flickr of Inspiration- Reused Flooring and Curtain Brackets
- Flickr of Inspiration- Sewing corner
- How to Layout your Vegetable Garden- Part 3 of 3
- How to Install Irrigation
- Friday’s Tips ‘n’ Tricks – Leaf Miners
- Friday’s Tips ‘n’ Tricks – Saving Seed from Lettuce
- From stalk to plate – Corn Tortillas
- Gardening vs. Urban Farming
- Giant Produce
- Growing, Curing & Storing Onions
- Growing Peppers from Seed
- Growing Tender Celery
- Growing Your Own Livestock Feed
- Guest Post – Defending Your Flock from the HOA
- Happy New Year!
- Heirloom Apples
- Heirlooms!
- Homemade Deodorant that Works
- Household Items You Can Use in the Garden
- How to Layout your Vegetable Garden- Part 1 of 3
- How to Layout your Vegetable Garden- Part 2
- How to Pick a Watermelon
- How to Rotate your Beds
- How to Schedule Your Plantings by the Moon
- Huckleberry Lemon Sauce
- Hunting 102: Where the Wild Things Are, and Are Not
- Hunting 102b: Senate Bill 1221… Dogs and Bobcats and Bears, Oh My!
- I Want to be a Better Gardener
- In Search of a Purple Peach
- Irrigation Supplies: The Basics
- Is Urban Agriculture a Waste of Resources?
- It’s Here!
- It’s Time for Another Round of What I’ve Learned
- It’s Time for Fall Crops
- Jack and the Beanstalk or Things Learned
- Let’s hit the ocean ’cause it’s AB SEASON!
- Let’s Talk Security
- Letting Nature Take Over
- Making Do With What You Have
- Maybe We’ll Get Fruit This Year
- Meet Your Farmer – Castle Rock Farm
- Meet Your Farmer – Sunny Slope Orchard
- Mining Leaves – Battling the Nasty Leafminer
- Monday’s Guests – 10 Easy Fruit-Bearing Trees
- Monday’s Guests – Build Your Own Containers for Small Space Gardening
- Monday’s Guests- Chalkboard Pots
- Monday’s Guests – Compost Tea
- Monday’s Guests – D-I-Y vs B-U-Y Dishwashing Detergent
- Monday’s Guests – Experimenting with Hugelkultur
- Monday’s Guests- Felt bags
- Monday’s Guests – Fruit Geek
- Monday’s Guests – Hopping on board the urban farming trend
- Monday’s Guests – On Purchasing Honey
- Monday’s Guests – Organic Fertilizer | How to Use and Make Organic Fertilizer
- Monday’s Guests- Tea Towel To Apron
- Monday’s Guests- Treats for body and soul
- Monday’s Guests – White Vinegar and Diatomaceous Earth
- More Summer Veggies or Wait?
- Ms. Squeek Update
- Mucky Mess
- My Letter to the City of Oak Park
- New Face Care Routine
- No Spraying
- Not Enough Time?
- Oink!
- Orange Braised Fennel
- Our Current Project
- Our Soil Analysis Part 1 – Where We Stand
- Our Soil Analysis Part 2 – Where We are Going and How We are Getting There
- Out Among the Bees
- Out with the Old and In with the New
- Pay it Forward
- Peculiar Passion Fruit
- Peppers
- Picking the Right Irrigation System and Installing it
- Planning the Fall Garden
- Pomegranate Trees
- Potatoes!
- Raised Beds vs. Rows
- Reader Questions – Baking Soda and Vinegar vs. Greywater
- Reader Questions: Goats, Gophers and Bunnies
- RIP Little Girl
- Saturday’s Farm Diary – Harvests, Weeds and Other Things
- Saturday’s Farm Diary – Novella Carpenter & Urban Goat Raising
- Saturday’s Farm Diary – Our Dogs and the Garden
- Saturday’s Farm Diary – Where are my beans and corn?
- Seed Resources
- Seedcorn Maggot, We Meet Again
- Soil Testing
- Soil Testing 101
- Some Cool Chicks
- Sorry, Got Nothing Today
- Squash Pest
- Squirrels, Birds, & Caterpillars Oh My!
- Starting Seeds – How We Do It
- Sunchoke Chowder
- Surviving the Drought in the Garden 2.0 Update
- Sweet Potato Harvest
- Taking it Slowly
- That Hugelkultur Thing
- That Whole Succession Planting Thing
- The 2012 Varieties
- The Barrier Method – Or Getting Ready for a Night Out on the Town
- The California Rare Fruit Grower’s Scion Exchange
- The Giant Tomato and Other Observations
- The Great Pumpkin Debate
- The Hugelkultur Bed Experiment Update
- The Magic of Baking Soda
- The Meat Bird Conclusion
- The Mushroom Garden
- The Mysterious Medlar
- The Perennial Plate – Seaside Foraging
- The Permaculture Assessment
- The Potato Bin Experiment
- The Seed Bank
- The Seed Catalogs are Rollin’ In!
- The Seed Debate
- The Weekend Garden Plans
- Things I’ve Learned Part Deux
- Things I’ve Learned Take 3
- Things I’ve Learned This Year
- Things I’ve Learned This Year – Part 1
- Things We Learned Last Week
- Thursday in the City- Mushrooms
- Thursday in the City- My Garden Imagined
- Time to Just Suck it up and Do it Already
- Tips from a Frugal Vegetable Gardener
- TomatoMania!
- Update on the Black Plastic
- Vegetable Gardening Book Reviews
- Want to Grow and Raise Your Own Food?
- Watering – Hand watering vs. Irrigation
- We Got Our Pig
- Wednesday’s Blog – Guns 101
- Weeds
- Weekend Chores – Cancelled due to Rain
- Weekend Garden Chores
- What the Fodder?
- What I’ve Learned 2013 Edition Volume 1
- What I’ve Learned about Growing Cool Season Vegetables
- What to do with Extra Herbs
- What’s Going On?
- What’s on the Horizon?
- Zone 6 or Zone 1?? Late Season Pheasant, AHHH!
Livestock
- 10 Repurposed (Free or Cheap) Things You Should Have
- 5 Reasons Why You Want Chickens
- 6 Ways that Starting to Raise Meat Rabbits Will Make You More Self-Sufficient
- A Garden for the Birds (and the Bees) Part 1
- A Rough Kidding Season
- All About Poop – Using Manure in the Garden
- Bitches be CRAAAAZY
- Book Review & Giveaway – A Chicken in Every Yard
- Building a Turkey Town for $50 or less in 3 Hours
- Could this be the Cause of Colony Collapse Disorder?
- Dogs & Bees – No Bueno
- Flickr of Inspiration – Got Pig?
- Flickr of Inspiration – Gratuitous Cuteness
- Guest Post – Defending Your Flock from the HOA
- Hive Collapse
- Kidding Schedule Change
- Meet Our Newest Addition
- Meet Your Farmer – Castle Rock Farm
- Monday’s Guests – On Purchasing Honey
- Ms. Squeek Update
- Mucky Mess
- Oink!
- Out Among the Bees
- Saturday’s Farm Diary – Novella Carpenter & Urban Goat Raising
- Saturday’s Farm Diary – Our Dogs and the Garden
- Some Cool Chicks
- Sorry, Got Nothing Today
- The Meat Bird Conclusion
- This Year’s Kidding Schedule
- We Got Our Pig
- Weekend Chores – Cancelled due to Rain
- What the Fodder?
- What’s Going On?
Recipes
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