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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
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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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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One Discovered Benefit of Local Food
One of the benefits from growing your own food at home, besides the taste, freshness, and immediacy, is meeting like-minded neighbors. We were admiring a neighbor’s front yard orchard and he, Jerry, happened to see us out front. We started … Continue reading
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
