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Book Review: The Urban Farm Handbook

Do you wish sometimes that you had enough land to be able to keep bees, goats, rabbits, and chickens and to grow all the vegetables you could eat, without worrying about neighbors’ complaints?  Lots of us in this movement wish … Continue reading

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Book review: The Urban Homestead by Coyne and Knutzen

Have you noticed a proliferation to urban homesteading and farm to table cookbooks?  Happily, the trend of food production on your own turf has caught on.  I notice more and more front yards taken over by edibles, and less lawns.  … Continue reading

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My Self-Sustainable Dream Has an Organic Garden, Beehives, Chickens, and Even Goats

We just got back from a visit to the Hawaiian Islands (specifically the islands of Maui and the “Big Island”).  What a gardener’s paradise!  If you’ve ever been there, you would have seen how rich the soil is from volcanic … Continue reading

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The Unincredible Inedible Salmonella Egg

While walking in the neighborhood, we stopped to talk with our lovely neighbor, Amy, with whom we always trade homegrown foodstuffs. When we offered her some honey from our bees, she presented us a gift of some eggs from her hens, but then got … Continue reading

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