This past weekend we went to our favorite Blue Dog Farm to pick their delectable organic berries. Last year they started a membership program where you pay 20 dollars and get to go blueberry picking whenever you want. This is a great deal and makes it easy find time to pick. We wound up picking […]
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Blueberry Picking
Posted in Cooking, Growing, tagged blueberries, u-pick on July 25, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Goat Hill Giving Garden Gallops Forward
Posted in Growing on July 15, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The Goat Hill Giving Garden is a unique garden started in 2010 and maintained by King County employees. This garden both raises food for the Pike Market Senior Center and teaches employees and friends how to garden in the Pacific Northwest. Classes on topics such as pest prevention, super tomato growing and making herbal teas […]
Starting My First Urban Farm
Posted in Growing on July 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Hello Urban Farm Hub readers. I am a college kid currently on a summer hiatus. Growing up my role in urban farming was one primarily based on watching and eating. It wasn’t until this past year that I began to take an active interest in farming, sustainability, and what it means in respects to community. […]
Old Farm Tools
Posted in Growing on July 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I love old farm tools and on a recent visit to the San Juan Islands I got to see a lot of them. I buy the smaller hand tools when I can, clean off the rust, sharpen them and put them back to use. I picture these men using some of the following tools on […]
Urban Farm Hub on the Road to the San Juans
Posted in Growing on July 2, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Permablitzes
Posted in Growing, Policy on June 29, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
This idea posted on Shareable combines all I love about urban homesteading, community building and transformation. Bring on the Permablitzes! Do you remember that ‘night before Christmas’ feeling… the one you used to get as a kid? The night before my Permablitz, an ‘I don’t know if I can wait until morning’ impatience had me […]
Rain!
Posted in Growing on June 27, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
I adore the sun but the rain we are having gives the plants a nice boost and water drops on leaves and petals emphasizes shapes and colors in a lovely way.
Lambsquarters
Posted in Cooking, Growing on June 5, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Lambsquarters (Chenopodium album) is to some an invasive weed and to others a tasty bountiful crop whose leaves and seeds can be cooked up in many ways. This plant is related to quinoa, requires little water, will grow well in partial sun or shade and Michale Pollan loves it. If this isn’t enough it’s also high in […]
June in the Garden
Posted in Growing on June 2, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Take That Codling Moth!!
Posted in Growing on May 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Every year my apples are damaged by codling moth. This year I am declaring all out war with a yell of “Back off moths, those apples are mine!”. I am using codling moth traps to lure in and catch the little rascals. Trichogramma wasps to get the ones not stuck in the traps. Last but […]
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