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links for 2009-06-11
Posted by Lauren on 11 Jun 2009 | Tagged as: links
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No soil, no food.
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Trapper Creek's notes on raising many meat chicks, including that they go outside at 3 weeks, weather permitting.
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Using one of those big mailboxes as storage for small tools in the garden.
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Bug Girl on earthworms!
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BYC's page on poultry diseases
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A good paper on water quality for livestock.
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More on Trapper Creek's chickens, including their gravity-fed waterer.
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WSU extension article on how they have their broiler tractors set up.
links for 2009-05-18
Posted by Lauren on 18 May 2009 | Tagged as: links
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A great resource on tomato troubleshooting.
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grilled fava beans!
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How to make and dry and grind your own paprika!
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Rhubarb!
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Non-detergent ways to get stains out.
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If we ever find ramps for a reasonable price, this is how we preserve them.
links for 2009-05-08
Posted by Lauren on 08 May 2009 | Tagged as: links
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On growing tea plants (like mine!)
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Purple tomato seedlings = low phosphorus, apparently. And other notes.
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Ever wonder why cut flowers are so plentiful and so much cheaper than they used to be?
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On hops in containers
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Spicy tomato bourbon jam. Substitute for ketchup.
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Yogurt cheese!
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Source of non-CX meat birds.
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Chile colorado is what you eat when it is too warm out for beef stew.
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It turns out that spraying roundup for years has a tendency to select for roundup resistant weeds. Who'da thunk it?
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Notes on how Polyface does their tractored pasture broilers.
links for 2009-04-21
Posted by Lauren on 21 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: links
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Harold McGee on making yogurt! Yum.
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More uses for vinegar! I love vinegar.
Linkification: A good weather/soil temperature resource
Posted by Lauren on 18 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: links
Cliff Mass Weather blog (which you local folks should all be reading, if you aren’t) has a good post about temperatures and other weather considerations for your garden, including a link to AgWeatherNet, showing temps from various stations around the state. He says it’s going to cool off again mid-week … guess I won’t put tomatoes out yet.
links for 2009-04-14
Posted by Lauren on 14 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: links
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Our mustard greens are starting to go insane again — here is a recipe for braised mustard greens with various spices and a small amount of rice to thicken.
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Different flavors of meat birds that act and taste more like chickens than cornish cross.
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Someone with actual expertise hands an industry shill in the NYTimes his rhetoric on a plate. With bacon.
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Harvest crates!
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How to raise seedlings off the grid.
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How to dry and use homegrown hot peppers.
links for 2009-04-09
Posted by Lauren on 09 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: links
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Very thorough post about food safety — manure & produce, etc.
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Culinary dandelions, some of which we are growing — how to harvest and cook them.
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Field Report – Bean Counterculture – At Rancho Gordo, Long-Lost Legumes Get a New Life – NYTimes.comAn article in the NYT about Rancho Gordo, a farm that produces heirloom beans.
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On saving seeds for next season, and saving endangered species.
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Lehman's notes on pruning fruit trees.
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Includes a manual about raising heritage turkeys, which is very helpful.
links for 2009-03-30
Posted by Lauren on 30 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: links
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Notes on what sorts of things you need to do to get a garden started.
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Extensive notes on growing tomatoes from seed.
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Tiny Farm Blog folks trim their onion and leek seedlings so the lights can stay low over them.
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A roundup of some of the how-tos from the Sunset magazine one-block thing, including how to make your own vinegar!
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Preparing for butchering poultry.
links for 2009-03-25
Posted by Lauren on 25 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: links
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Trapper Creek's notes on seed saving.
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A non-comprehensive list of Seminis (now Monsanto) varieties.
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Several examples of seed-starting setups, including various ways to rig up lights.
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Notes on growing hops.
links for 2009-03-19
Posted by Lauren on 19 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: links
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Laura of (not so) Urban Hennery's seed starting chart. It's pretty awesome.
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On parsnips.
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Intercropping and succession planting, including lots of good ideas for pairings.
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Notes about how she handles seedlings in the (unheated, I think) greenhouse — moves them off the mat at 2 weeks, keeps them under plastic still, etc.
links for 2009-03-10
Posted by Lauren on 10 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: links
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Leaf miner is indeed what our chard had last year. All infected leaves must be fed to the chickens; darn.
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She starts pinching basils when they are still very small.
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Notes on low beet germination, and how to recover from it.
links for 2009-03-08
Posted by Lauren on 08 Mar 2009 | Tagged as: links
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What grows well in the shady parts of the yard.
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Using boxes of manure compost as passive greenhouse heat (plus compost factory).
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More seed starting notes. She uses heat mats in her greenhouse but no extra lights (in Oregon somewhere).
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Chitting potatoes (part 1).
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Notes on starting seeds.
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Hand-squished tomato bread soup
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Discussion of earwig removal methods
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Roundup of resources for cheesemaking.
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Solar food dryer made of cardboard boxes.
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Fried Green Tomato BLT — yum!!
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Using milk on the squash to treat powdery mildew
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Non-toxic bug spray made of garlic, pepper flakes, soapy water. Can not be used on chard.
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How to harvest your dried luffas.
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An excellent chicken breed chart with lots of data.
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Wood chips: Nitrogen stealers, or no?
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Farmers, don't forget to get your tetanus shots!