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Grocery Guy Another group blog about modern food systems and ethics and politics, and also deliciousness and eating. Vegetarians beware of pictures of pig parts. Wooly [sic] Pigs blog This guy is, as Garth likes to say, “a brilliant marketer.” He is growing some extremely tasty Mangalitsa pork out in Eastern [...] Just yesterday, we were telling Garth’s mom what a relief it was that the chickens are old enough to require less work now. We have elevated their foods and waters off the ground a bit, so they don’t scratch so much pine shavings into them. We have given them a bit of dowel to [...] Will be figuring out how we want to link out to our kindred-spirit blogs, but for now, here are some I like. Path to Freedom and Urban Homestead The Dervaes family, in Pasadena, has a yard consisting of about 1/5 of an acre, and last year they grew about 3 tons of food. [...] Solar hen house vents. Solar fence energizers. Solar everything. It seems that at some point in the past few years we’ve reached a point where solar isn’t an “alternative” power source, it’s just the easiest way to do something. Why would I, for example, want to deal with a battery charger to keep [...] Did our first planting last weekend. We put in 20′ of peas under the trellis. 10′ of Sugar Snap peas and 10′ of Oregon Trail. We till a yard-and-a-half of Whitney Farms compost and a gallon or so of complete organic fertilizer (a la Steve Solomon) into the soil. It’s been raining and sunny [...] From here or, less pull quotably, here. Turns out that the state of Washington is running a pilot program to allow retailers to offer samples of beer and wine. I approve. (It’s the first post to a new blog. Of course it sucks. It breaks the ice like an ice fisherman who tries to stretch the season too long.) There are a lot of figures of speech that, when living on a farm, turn out to be more literal than not. Cases in point: 1) [...] |
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