Frugal Friday: What Farm Grandmas and Chefs Do (And You Should To)
When I was in culinary school, we learned how to filet salmon. Even if you are amazingly good (and we weren’t), when you cut the filet off a whole fish there is a little layer of salmon left against...
View ArticleGardening Goals And Edible Expectations
My friend Fruit Lady is brand new to veggie growing. This spring she put in several good-sized raised beds, but doesn’t care how much she harvests. She grows vegetables so that she and her kids can...
View ArticleYield Planning
After, “When do I plant?” the hardest gardening question to wrap you head around is, “How much do I plant?” Everyone, from high-rise gardeners with a few pots to big time farmers with thousands of...
View ArticleWhat Leftovers Look Like
I know people who refuse to eat leftovers. At least, they think they refuse to eat leftovers….little do they know how creative professional kitchens get to minimize food waste. Ever ordered the soup du...
View ArticleTaking The Homestead In For Lunch
I used to pick up lunch at work. You know, a cheapo sandwich from Safeway, a burger from the cool indie burger place across the street, takeout teriyaki from the stand that seemed to have new owners...
View Article25 New Year’s Resolutions For The 2012 Garden
This morning a crust of frost danced over the uncovered raised beds and painted the grass with mercurial shine. The garden sits placid and independent under the chill of winter and it seems a bit...
View ArticleHow To Plan Your Harvest Based On What You Eat (Plus The Winner of The Urban...
One you you awesome readers has won The Urban Farm Handbook. But before you shoot right to the bottom of this post to find out if it’s you, read on to discover a great way to plan your harvest from the...
View ArticleRefactoring In The Garden
2011 was The Year of Additions. We added to our garden: new perennial bed, new mini-orchard, new chickens, two new coops for aforementioned chickens, and a couple new raised beds. We added this blog,...
View ArticleHow To Make Succession Planting and Year-Round Gardening Really Work
The problem with year-round garden planning is that you are being asked to work in 4D, when most of us are accustomed to only planning things in 2D. When planning your upcoming crops, you have to think...
View Article{Reader Question} What Foods Should I Preserve?
My wife and I are newer to the preserving game and are super pumped on it. Last year we preserved a lot of food but it wasn’t really conducive to living off of. We canned mostly jams, jellies, some...
View ArticleGet Your Garden Organized This Year: 2015 Garden Planner Available Now
Maximizing my harvest of homegrown veg is this awesome ever-changing puzzle. For over a decade, I’ve been assembling and reassembling the pieces, trying to find the key to being the best gardener I can...
View Article5 Things Friday 1/19/18
Five Things Friday: where I assemble assorted favorites, oddities, announcements, discoveries, random thoughts, life tidbits and whatever else wasn’t quite long enough for a real post. This week: year...
View ArticleFinalize Garden Plan
Erica’s Notes: By around the end of January, I like to have a pretty clear idea of what I’m growing and where I’ll be growing it. Typically by the last week in January I’ve made a list of what seed...
View ArticleOrder Seeds, Potatoes, Onion Plants, Perennials
Erica’s Notes White or Irish Potatoes (so-called to distinguish them from Sweet Potatoes) are an easy, reliable crop in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve tried a zillion ways to grow potatoes in tubs, bags,...
View ArticleOrder Seeds, Potatoes, Onion Plants, Perennials
Erica’s Notes White or Irish Potatoes (so-called to distinguish them from Sweet Potatoes) are an easy, reliable crop in the Pacific Northwest. I’ve tried a zillion ways to grow potatoes in tubs, bags,...
View ArticleFinalize Garden Plan
Erica’s Notes: By around the end of January, I like to have a pretty clear idea of what I’m growing and where I’ll be growing it. Typically by the last week in January I’ve made a list of what seed...
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