Recently I tagged along with my mom to the grocery store. She was in town visiting and she’s a fantastic cook and was planning on making an amazing meal for her best friend who she was staying with. It wasn’t just any grocery store, though. We were entering the yuppie-hippie grocery store. A full third…
A new year and a new set of projects. But first I’d like to see where we were last year at this time and see if we got anything done that we wanted to. More productive in the garden? This year wasn’t nearly as productive in produce. We produced about 300lbs less produce than 2011,…
Now that I’ve got all the numbers I’m kind of depressed. It wasn’t bad in the grand scheme of things, especially with the animals, but compared to last year’s crops it’s low. The fruit trees don’t help. Of the 27 fruit trees we have we only got fruit off of 11 – less than half…
This month has been interesting to say the least. Our garden is definitely dying down. Most of our summer crops, except for a few stragglers have been pulled out. No more tomatoes (more on that later), corn, beans, or cucumbers. The only fruit we harvested were our apples. Our chickens are seriously molting right now….
August has really been a good ramp up. We’ve been extra busy harvesting and planting our fall crops. Our totals have more than doubled from July and they’ll just keep going up for the month of September. The beginning of the month we were harvesting by the basket. By the end of the month we…
Squeek and her pumpkin As discussed before, Squeek prefers to romp around the vegetable garden rather than stay on her side of the fence. Since she insists on being in there I’ve decided she might as well be useful (other than chasing rodents with fluffy tails). Sitting politely next to one of our volunteer pumpkins you can get…
I’m seriously starting to feel like Jack. This year’s bean trellises were put in at around 10′ high. We thought that would be plenty of space. It apparently isn’t. So now they are producing quite heavily. I think I may have planted too many. For the last three days I’ve been picking about a pound…
Baby Cucumbers This has been a rather productive week here on Dog Island. The summer veggies are starting to roll in. The biggest harvest this week was our very first harvest of cucumbers. We had been keeping an eye on them, but as anyone who has grown cukes will know, they are sneaky and can…
Another week, another dollar…saved. Our zucchini has blown us away. Really, I shouldn’t be surprised. I’m more than familiar with their exponentially producing effect. But see, last year we didn’t get a single zucchini. We had a salt issue and we were lucky to keep any of our squash alive. The zucchini wasn’t so lucky….
Oh boy! It’s been a few weeks since I posted our harvest totals. Why? Well, I was on my honeymoon the last couple of weeks. We spent 10 days traveling around the UK from London to Inverness and almost everything in between. When we got back everything had exploded! While we were gone the heat…
Dog Island Farm is a small urban farm in the San Francisco Bay Area.
