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Tag Archives: local food buying
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
Posted in Beekeeping, Cooking, Cooking At Home, Ducks, Eating For Beginners, Farmers Markets, Food Revolution, Gardening, General, Growing herbs, Honeybees, Local Food Books, Local Food Buying, Local Food Eating, Meeting Neighbors Through Food, Neighborhood Food Eating, Organic Food, Organic Gardening, Pruning Fruit Trees, Raised Bed Planter Boxes, Self sustainability, Trading Food, Urban Beekeeping, Urban Farming, Wild Food, Worm composting
Tagged beekeeping, beekeeping for beginners, cooking at home, eating local food, farmers markets, food revolution, foraged food, honeybees, local eggs, local food buying, meeting neighbors through food, organic food, organic gardening, self sustainability, trading food, urban beekeeping, urban farming
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Book Review: The City Homesteader
I am fascinated with the current interest in homesteading and all that it entails, and I like to check out new homesteading-related books. The City Homesteader: Self-Sufficiency on Any Square Footage particulary caught my eye. The author, Scott Meyer, worked … Continue reading
Posted in Beehives, Beekeeping Books, Beekeeping For Beginners, Berries, Cooking, Cooking At Home, Eating For Beginners, Food Revolution, General, Honeybees, Local Food Eating, Neighborhood Food Eating, Organic Food, Organic Gardening, Raised Bed Planter Boxes, Self sustainability, Urban Beekeeping, Urban Farming, Wild Food, Worm composting
Tagged beekeeping, beekeeping books, beekeeping equipment, beekeeping for beginners, cooking at home, eating local food, food revolution, foraged food, garden pests, local food buying, organic food, organic gardening, urban beekeeping, urban farming, wild food
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The Bay Area Homegrown Cookbook
I am proud and excited to let everyone know that my partner and I have been included in a new book about homegrown food and local restaurants, The Bay Area Homegrown Cookbook, by Aaron French. We are featured as mushroom … Continue reading
Urban Homestead Inspiration: The Dervaes Family
Before I even dreamt of having my own urban homestead, I was introduced to the work of the Dervaes family in Pasadena. I was amazed at how much food they were able to grow on their 1/10th of an acre … Continue reading
Posted in Food Revolution, General, Honeybees, Local Food Eating, Neighborhood Food Eating, Organic Food, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Urban Beekeeping, Urban Farming
Tagged beekeeping, eating local food, food revolution, local food buying, organic food, organic gardening, urban beekeeping, urban farming
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My (Almost All) Local Minestrone Soup
Recently, much to my partner’s delight, I made summer minestrone soup. It’s a recipe adapted from Maria Helm Sinskey’s highly recommended cookbook The Vineyard Kitchen. I’m doubly proud because most of the ingredients were locally sourced. I’ve included the adapted … Continue reading
Posted in Bartering Food, Cooking At Home, Farmers Markets, Food Revolution, General, Golden Gate Gardening, Local Food Books, Local Food Eating, Meeting Neighbors Through Food, Neighborhood Food Eating, Organic Food, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Trading Food, Urban Farming
Tagged cooking at home, eating local food, farmers markets, food revolution, local food buying, meeting neighbors through food, organic food, organic gardening, trading food, urban farming
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Update: Oakland, CA Urban Farming Regulations
Got this on one of the list serves I belong to, although I got this notice after the date of the meeting. “The attached notice contains information about the first community meeting to discuss updating the City of Oakland’s urban … Continue reading
Posted in Eating For Beginners, Food Revolution, General, Golden Gate Gardening, Local Food Eating, Neighborhood Food Eating, Novella Carpenter, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Urban Farming
Tagged eating local food, food revolution, local food buying, novella carpenter, organic gardening, urban farming
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Urban Farming in the News
Here are two recent stories involving urban farmers, neighbors, and city hall. From SFgate.com: Oakland urban farming prompts plan to redo rules “It has been a tough row to hoe, but urban farming impresario Novella Carpenter appears to be on … Continue reading
Posted in Cooking At Home, Food Revolution, General, Local Food Buying, Local Food Eating, Meeting Neighbors Through Food, Neighborhood Food Eating, Novella Carpenter, Organic Food, Organic Gardening, Self sustainability, Trading Food, Urban Farming
Tagged cooking at home, eating local food, food revolution, local food buying, meeting neighbors through food, novella carpenter, organic food, organic gardening, urban farming
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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
Posted in Beehives, Cooking At Home, Food Revolution, General, Honeybees, Local Food Books, Local Food Buying, Local Food Eating, Neighborhood Food Eating, Organic Food, Organic Gardening, Raised Bed Planter Boxes, Self sustainability, Trading Food, Urban Beekeeping, Urban Farming, Wild Food, Worm compost box, Worm composting
Tagged beekeeping, beekeeping for beginners, cooking at home, eating local food, local eggs, local food buying, organic food, organic gardening, urban beekeeping, urban farming, wild food
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Fruits and Vegetables: Local Eating, Local Buying, and Local Planting
If I could save you a mistake that we made when we first planned our garden, it’s this: plant locally too. We planted a papaya tree which promptly died months later when the cold set in. No one advised me … Continue reading
