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Yesterday I saw this Lehman’s blog post about feeding turkeys with peanut hearts, which are apparently the little tiny nubbins that you find between the two halves of the peanut. I immediately thought of CB’s Nuts up in Kingston, so I emailed to see if they have surplus peanut hearts. Turns out they do, [...] After at least one (maybe two?) years of thinking about it, and deciding it would be too hard, and wishing I had done it, I’ve finally signed up for Laura at Urban Hennery’s Dark Days Challenge. From November 15 – March 31, eat one meal a week that’s as SOLE (Sustainable, Organic, Local, Ethical) [...] This is not legal advice, please consult your county extension. That’s what they’re there for. I like compost, soil likes compost, worms like compost. Everyone likes compost. You know what I don’t like? Pathogens. Pathogens and weed seeds that show up in uncomposted manure. At last year’s Tilth Producers conference I attended a workshop [...] Good news, everyone! Senate Bill 5350 passed in Washington state. What does this mean? Simple. Previously, it was legal to process chickens on-farm and sell them directly to customers on the farm premises without hiring a WSDA approved slaughterhouse. Thanks to the passage of this bill, the exemption is now extended to all poultry. [...] So, thanks to a great post at Civil Eats about Petaluma, CA, I became aware of a tool called a “short hoe.” Stolen shamelessly from the Smithsonian. The short hoe is a particularly brutal piece of equipment that forces a farm worker to bend double in order to use it for weeding.This offends [...] Hey new chicken! Let’s have cuddles!, originally uploaded by laurenipsum. This is Mr. Klassy. He is a Polish rooster. He came from our friend in Seattle, who cannot have roosters due to noise. He is not crowing yet, but he is trying … I am on my way to a Kitsap [...] So, network issues at work provided my with a day to research various greenhouse options. We’ve had such success with the hoophouses that I’m really fired up to get a real greenhouse going in the spring. My first inspiration came from the Westside Gardener whose site is full of Cascadian goodness. Minus incidentals, this [...] I got dropped off at the market today, fortuitously! Co-workers were going downtown to see Iron Man (I was jealous but too busy to attend) and they pointed out at 5:45 that if they drove me to the ferry, they wouldn’t have to pay for the 15 minutes of parking they would owe if [...] The Seattle City Council passed an absolutely lovely resolution about local food incentives and planning policies to encourage urban gardening. Full text is here. Waves at Joe working in the city archives! The deal with a resolution is that it doesn’t actually *do* anything, but laying out that these are the values of my [...] 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 [...] 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. |
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