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Why We Should Care That Hillary Ran
2008-06-07 19:51:00 I usually try to avoid non-food/farm politics here, even though I’m usually more than willing to discuss them in person. And I’ll be honest and admit that I didn’t vote in this year’s presidential primary because here in Washington state you have to pick a party and can only vote in their primary. Due to ... More About: Care , Hillary
One Local Summer: Week 1
2008-06-07 07:52:00 It seems like the Dark Days Challenge just ended, but here we are at the start of the One Local Summer 2008 challenge. I’ll be posting not only here, but also at Farm to Philly as the West regional coordinator. Check on Tuesday morning for the first recap of the summer - I’ll be posting ... More About: Week
Reflections on Food History
2008-06-06 07:31:00 El had a great post the other day about her family food history and her mother’s perspective on her butchering the meat birds. It got me thinking about the fact that while so many of us are coming together online and talking about sustainability, local food, growing our own and raising meat, that we’re all ... More About: Food , History , Reflections
Michael Pollan at Grist
2008-06-05 07:58:00 If you haven’t yet seen Michael Pollan’s guest post at Grist on the Farm Bill that recently passed congress, go check it out. More About: Michael Pollan
Daily Photo: Purple Iris
2008-06-05 06:52:00 I’ve been taking photos of flowers, so indulge me over the next few days as I post them. I acquired a new skill tonight, not a very impressive one though. I learned to drive the John Deere mower. Mike taught me in about 90 seconds and now I’m really not sure why it took me 30 ... More About: Photo , Daily , Purple , Iris
Chicken and Sturgeon Talk
2008-06-04 07:22:00 Thank you to everyone that commented on last night’s post. I’m still very bummed about the lost chicks, as much because it was my fault as for any other reason. The remaining birds seemed a bit uneasy last night but today were right back to their treat begging selves. They didn’t seem at all bummed ... More About: Talk , Chicken
Coyotes 3: Me 0
2008-06-03 05:54:00 There are hard lessons to learn in life and sometimes they come and bite you in the ass right when you think things are going along swimmingly. Today we lost 3 of the chicks - Molly the white banty, a light brahma and a golden laced wyandotte. Event though our nice next door neighbor had warned ...
Daily Photo: Bzzzz
2008-06-01 19:36:00 The bumble bees are out in full force right now. They can be found on anything blooming anytime it’s not raining. And they’re so busy taking advantage of all that free nectar that they don’t even mind being spied on by a macro lens. More About: Photo , Daily
Garden Update
2008-06-01 06:52:00 It seems like just last week that the garden was a barren patch of dirt and that it would never start to feed us. My how things can change quickly! Pretty much everything is in, even if not up yet. We’re waiting on the pumpkin, squash, cucumbers and pole beans to appear. Plus the second ... More About: Garden , Update
Eeeep! A Mouse!
2008-05-30 07:32:00 This morning I screamed like a little girl. Or maybe shrieked is a better word? For the record I am not afraid of mice, growing up on the family farm field mice in the grain bin were a fact of life. But somehow being confronted with one this morning while running late and wearing my dress ... More About: Mouse
A Window of My Own
2008-05-29 06:25:00 I’m not feeling very interesting or inspired tonight. But as I was sitting in my favorite seat in the house talking to colleagues in Singapore, I thought perhaps you’d like to know what I see? The seat is the new couch in our living room, it rests just below the front window which looks out across ... More About: Window
What We?re Eating
2008-05-28 07:15:00 Lest you think that we’re so busy local eating has gone by the wayside, let me assure you that things are still pretty dang local around here. The garden isn’t feeding us, but hopefully we’ll have lettuce and radishes soon. In the meantime I’ve been hitting the farmer’s markets and the local grocers that reliably ... More About: Eating
Wonderful Whidbey Weekend
2008-05-27 04:21:00 Mike and the dogs and I spent a wonderful weekend at our friends Mia and Ron’s cabin on Whidbey Island. Spending any time on Penn Cove is a treat. Spending a gorgeous sunny weekend like this is always something that I’ll remember for months. For the most part the water was calm, the sun was out, ... More About: Weekend , Wonderful
Tradeoffs - Driving
2008-05-23 06:33:00 All right, I said that I’d talk about tradeoffs that resulted from our decision to move 15 miles north of where we lived in the city. The most obvious one is driving so we’ll start there. When we lived in Everett I worked a short 5 miles from home and so driving to work wasn’t a ... More About: Driving
Who?s More Sustainable?
2008-05-22 06:39:00 I’ve been thinking about how and whether to write this post for a couple of weeks now. And I think I’m going to go for it - hopefully I won’t offend anyone tonight. It seems that lately there’s been a bit of “I’m more sustainable” or “I’m localer” than you going around the blogosphere. And while ... More About: Sustainable
Resurection
2008-05-21 08:29:00 Remember that tomato plant that I killed on Sunday? The one that caused me to decide to break the other tomatoes out instead of sliding them out? Well this morning I had a moment to kill while waiting for my fellow carpoolers and wandered out to the garden. It was raining pretty steadily and had been ...
Playing God by Twilight
2008-05-20 06:39:00 Starting plants from seed is not for the faint of heart. Or at least that’s what I was pondering tonight while I potted up 16 broccoli, 16 Brussels sprouts, 32 lettuce and 8 peppers. There’s something just a bit twisted about thinning seedlings that you purposely started. About choosing which get to live and which die. ... More About: Twilight
Busy Sunday!
2008-05-19 06:23:00 Today was a busy busy day. I’ve got a lot to say, but I’ll start off with the best part of it. Today I had the distinct pleasure of meeting Melinda and Matt of Elements in Time. They moved to Seattle just 2 short weeks ago and today paid us the compliment of driving ... More About: Sunday , Busy
First Summer Saturday
2008-05-18 18:01:00 Yesterday felt like the weekend of summer. Of course, we all know it’s an illusion since summer in Seattle doesn’t start until July 5th. But that’s okay, it’s nice to be fooled for a couple of days. Of course, the lettuce starts wish that I’d realized how hot it was sooner… But we only lost ... More About: Summer , Saturday
All in a rush
2008-05-17 06:46:00 I know I’ve been talking about spring forever, but today was a day that made it feel like we’re skipping straight from early spring to summer. They predicted 85, but I don’t think we quite made it. In a matter of hours it feels like everything has sprung. The mint in the pot from last year ... More About: Rush
Birthday Gift
2008-05-16 07:38:00 This fabulous coat belonged to my great aunt Ruth. She was an interesting woman, what I remember most about her is her heavily rouged cheeks, little pillbox hats and her boyfriend. I think his name was Bill? Anyway, at family gatherings he used to always give me a dollar and tell me not to spend ... More About: Gift , Birthday
Impatiently waiting
2008-05-14 05:45:00 Not really. Today it rained, a nice soaking rain. And though it seems like we’ve been waiting for nice weather forever, it’s okay. It’s okay because the nice weather is coming later this week - it’s supposed to be almost 80 either Thursday or Friday. Until then though, this mass of greenery on the sofa table ... More About: Waiting
My new secret weapon
2008-05-13 06:49:00 I think we all start off with great ambition on every new project. Or at least I do. And then sometimes reality comes along and bites me in the ass. So it was with the great dirt moving project of 2008. When we first started the garden project I was taking my Organic Gardening class ... More About: Secret , Weapon
A distinct lack of smell
2008-05-12 07:22:00 Confession time around here. All is not always perfect in paradise. Until this morning, the water here at the (not so) Urban Hennery smelled distinctly like rotten eggs, and had since we moved in. And while it didn’t actually taste bad, the odor was enough to convince you that it did. It’s something that we knew ... More About: Smell , Lack
Feels like spring
2008-05-11 07:54:00 The fruit trees are blooming, as are the tulips, and spring is definitely here. Finally! Today was overcast but strangely warm, it finally started to rain just as the sun went down. I finished 90% of the hard work in the veggie garden today. That involved finishing 3 of the last 4 rows to be ... More About: Spring
Thursday night
2008-05-09 07:39:00 Tonight I realize that what’s quickly becoming normal would have seemed extraordinary not that long ago. Mike got caught at work late tonight because one of his crew’s had the street opened and it was a mess. When we lived in the city a night like tonight would have gone like this: I would have ... More About: Night , Thursday
Bad Pet Mama
2008-05-08 06:27:00 Sometimes life gets so busy that it’s easy to miss the little details. About 5 weeks after we moved Sterling (our 11 year old cat) started peeing in the closest where his litter box was. Not in the box, but on the carpet near it. He hasn’t used a litter box regularly for years, preferring ... More About: Mama
Urban Farming in New York
2008-05-07 22:36:00 On a lighter note, and in keeping with Denise’s comment, here’s another article from the NY Times. If people can figure out how to farm on vacant lots in New York , Brooklyn and Detroit, I guess there’s just no excuse for the rest of us. It inspires me to see communities pulling together to grow the ... More About: Urban , New-York , Farming
Are We Ready to Hear it?
2008-05-07 06:46:00 Who will tell the people? We are not who we think we are. We are living on borrowed time and borrowed dimes. We still have all the potential for greatness, but only if we get back to work on our country. I don’t always agree with Thomas Friedman, but I almost always respect what he has ... More About: Hear , Ready
And then she pecked my foot
More articles from this author:2008-05-06 06:20:00 This is Wilma. She’s one of the chicks, who are now 8 weeks old. She’s a silver laced Wyndotte and after much consideration, I’ve decided to name her and her twin Wilma and Betty. Not sure why other than that it was the first pair of women that jumped into my head when she ... More About: Foot 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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