Featured Farmer: Ruth Pepler from Dogwood Hills Guest Farm
Featured Farmer: Ruth Pepler from Dogwood Hills Guest Farm Tell me a little about your urban farm. What’s its name? Size? We are actually really rural. Dogwood Hills Guest Farm…
Africanized Bees: Is Backyard Bee Keeping a Good Idea in the South?
Africanized Bees: Is Backyard Bee Keeping a Good Idea in the South? By Anne-Marie Miller I want to share with you all some exciting news. I survived my first full…
Featured Farmer: Raymond Jess from Phoenix, AZ
Featured Farmer: Raymond Jess from Phoenix, AZ Tell me a little about your urban farm. What is its name? Size? I’m not sure I can call my small backyard an…
Building my Wicking Garden Bed
Building my Wicking Garden Bed By Raymond Jess Updated: May 2017 with new pictures at bottom.Check out Wicking Beds 2.0 and Wicking Beds 3.0 next!I discovered wicking garden beds when…
Cutting the Cost of Raising Your Flock: Growing Greens for Your Girls
Cut the Cost ofRaising Your Flock:Grow Greens for Your Girls By Anne-Marie Miller This is the last article of the series on cutting the cost of raising your flock. I…
Myrna's "Instant Orchard" (in an Urban Desert)
“Instant Orchard” in an Urban Desert By Myrna Hales The truckload of lovely, fragrant, composted soil arrived in our desert scape back yard on January 25th, 2017 and by January 27th we…
What Urban Farming Can Do for Your School
By Kerry Audisho. As you probably already know, I am a huge advocate for growing your own and especially for buying food from local growers. With a network of small local growers, we will be able to build a sustainable, local food ecosystem right in our own backyards. But, it can only work if there are enough food growers.
Fermenting Feed for your Flock
By Anne-Marie Miller. Nothing says spring like getting baby chicks! Our wee puffs of fluff are chirping happily in the garage, toasty warm under a heat lamp. There is just nothing like that sweet sound they make. I am excited to report that I was able to get one of breeds I have been wanting for years: Silver Laced Wyandotte. New chicks mean more fresh eggs in our future.
Featured Farmer: Nancy Bailey from Honey Hill Farm
My “farm” consists of 170 square feet of raised beds. We designed the space to have beds arranged in a U-shape with a center raised bed and walkways that make it easy to access all corners of the garden without stepping inside a bed. I affectionately call our garden Honey Hill Farm because my husband and I live at the top of a hill and Honey our beloved dog oversees all activity in and out of the garden.
Raising Nutritious Insects to Cut the Cost of Raising Your Flock
By Anne-Marie Miller. As requested, I am filling everyone in on how to raise nutritious protein filled insects for your flock of egg laying divas! Thank you for letting me know what you wanted to hear about! I am so excited to share this with you, because it has helped me to greatly reduce my dependence on commercial chicken feed.
