Yesterday, as I was picking up my lunch at Dad’s Sandwiches I overheard two people talking about SB1221. These people were, according to their conversation, in favor of the bill and possibly on the lobbying team in support of it, which is contrary to my position on the bill. I also had to explain this…
So, I am back to civilization after spending a week chasing mountain lions in Mendocino National Forest (yes, there are jobs where you get paid to harass wildlife, and that is a future blog post). After carefully considering my previous question (see Hunting 101) I am sure you are all ready to charge into the…
San Francisco is famous for their sourdough bread which runs wild around there. Fortunately we can all catch our own wild sourdough starter, which is also called levain. Levain is the French term for sourdough starter and has been used for centuries to make bread. Bread made with Levain may even be healthier for you…
Every Christmas Eve we have a crab feed at my house. This year was a bit different because Tom and Junior actually went out and caught the crab for the dinner table. They had great luck catching 6 rock crabs and 6 large Dungeness crabs. More than enough for 5 people, one of which wasn’t…
The Perennial Plate Episode 68: A Tale of Three Seasides from Daniel Klein on Vimeo. I’m super excited about this episode because it includes my hunter-gatherer hero, Hank Shaw. I have yet to meet him, but hopefully in the future I will.
Abalone Diving… Yep. So this summer I have the opportunity to go abalone diving since I’m living and working on the Mendocino coast in and around Ft. Bragg. I have wanted to go abalone diving for a very long time but have not had the opportunity, mainly because my dad, the former Seal, has repeatedly…
I should have called this post “Things I Thought Were Hard to Cook (But Was Wrong About)”, but then I would have had to include all of the other well-kept culinary secrets and…well…some of them are just going to have to stay secrets for a little longer. Today, I just want to talk about mussels….
The recent nice weather has me dreaming big dreams of garden-overhaul: what plants to take out, what new plants to put in…how to put the greenhouse together, what seeds need to be started, whether or not it’s a good idea to get MORE chickens… Spring Cleaning, it seems, is not restricted to the indoors this…
The rains have come again, bringing with them all sorts of delicious spring greens. I’ve spent the past few weeks starting lettuce and spinach (to be moved into the garden beds once this cold snap blows through), and am starting to notice all the delicious edibles popping up around empty lots and fields around the…
I will preface this by saying that I am not a hunter. Maybe someday in the future I will learn to be more comfortable with guns, but it hasn’t happened yet (right now it makes me uncomfortable to even handle them when they are not loaded). I’m not even an expert in hunting-and-meat theory: if…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
