Prefer garlic scapes to turkey ‘scapes — an email exchange

G: Prefer garlic scapes to turkey ‘scapes. Less hurty.

L: Yikes!!

G: But they got a size on them and hella vigor.

Should store h2o2 in the truck I reckon.

(On edit)

Lauren suggests that I clarify that h2o2 is hydrogen peroxide and that I include the photo I took [...]

The perils of heritage livestock.

Heritage chickens. They have great foraging instincts and they love to explore. It’s great and it’s the reason that we raise only these breeds. It’s wonderful to raise an animal that acts like an animal.

Additionally, we raise our birds outdoors from the day we get them. They are on grass and dirt (and [...]

It’s not a baby elephant, it’s a FARMAL CUB!

Now I love Craig’s List. I love what the site does, I love the architecture/usability of the site, and I love that the founder has stayed true to the vision of an accessible community site. And a measure of the success of Craig’s list in being an accessible community site is the number of [...]

I’m Not Saying That We’re Approaching Critical Mass Or Anything…

…but Mighty God King [You may safely assume that all links contain swears and off-color humor] a blog that’s primarily about comic books, jokes about bad science fiction and an unhealthy obsession with Rex the Wonder Dog has published a short essay on sustainable agriculture and responsible meat consumption.

My dog did this [...]

In Which I Score A Bargain.

We got an email off a farming list the other day stating that a nearby greenhouse owner was moving and she was having a greenhouse sale of all the now-superfluous equipment. So I fired the truck up and went to see if I could find a bargain. I managed to pick up:

A 55-gallon [...]

I’m Not Saying That PNW Winters Are Predictable, But…

Ruby’s Life is Hard -or- Maybe I Should Turn on the Electric Fence

We pasture our chickens with a combination of a chicken tractor and electric mesh fencing. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get a good charge on the fence and, in combination with the dogs being friendly with the chickens and keeping predators down, we don’t turn the electric fence on. It’s just a big [...]

Because It’s Got a Picture of a Fracking Cat On It

Sometimes someone writes a really well-researched and well-written book on our relationship with food and sometimes someone draws a smart-assed web comic about the same thing.