Day to day, our decisions count

...door. Some CSAs go beyond veggies and fruits to provide meat, fish, milk, eggs, bread, flowers, etc. It takes some getting used to being in a CSA, because you don’t get much choice in what you’re given week to week, so you and your family need to have a spirit of adventure to go forward with it. CSAs and farmers’ markets teach you many things, including: The amazing flavor of food which is both fresh and in-season. You could live your whole life...

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An Open Letter to Our Mammalian Friends

...ountant will have to devise an elaborate amortization strategy to keep our eggs affordable. I’m also not cool with the daytime raids on the fig tree even if it entertains our indoor cats. To the rats of Los Angeles: avocados do not mature on the tree. This is probably why you take a single bite and allow them to fall to the ground. You’ll never get guacamole this way. And can you please not drop half-eaten grapes all over our patio furniture. Not...

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Why Urban Farm?

...ide as much simple comfort and dignity to our fellow creatures as we can. After all, aren’t simple comfort and dignity among the most important things we wish for ourselves and our children?” It is with this desire to know the food we eat–if just for eggs in our case–that we’ve begun our own urban small stock journey. Welch concludes his essay eloquently, “I have a lot more death in my life than I did before. And, ironically, that’s part of the re...

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Saturday Linkages: Collecting Seaweed, Microfarming and DIY Bike Lanes

.../rHVqqzpdkA — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 19, 2016 Do you put your #eggs in the fridge? It's controversial for some, but it's proven effective against #Salmonella: https://t.co/G2IgoBuG78 pic.twitter.com/BCATGNFEot — The Poultry Site (@thepoultrysite) November 14, 2016 This is the kind of language I hear from people who are getting on with the work to be done… https://t.co/JYXJZUHD0w — Root Simple (@rootsimple) November 19, 2016 Yup...

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A Tour of the Homegrown Evolution Compound

...les. But, we seldom buy greens at the store, and almost never buy herbs or eggs–we’ve got that taken care of in the garden. In the summer we have lots of tomatoes, and right now we have a few avocados. When the fruit trees mature in a few years we’ll have fruit. We’re hippies. Don’t get us wrong, we love hippies. We have no problems with cob ovens shaped like psychedelic snails, but that just ain’t our style. We’ve tried to keep things low key, ju...

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