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Our co-operative egg farm, now known as Eastside Egg Co-operative, has been up and running for about a month now. We took delivery of 50 fine yearling Barred Rocks the day before summer Solstice, and the rest is hen-story. The coop seems to be working just fine. There are some kinks to work out, some [...]
We built a chicken coop today. It’s part of the volunteer-run egg farm that we are starting. We had a fun and hugely productive work party out at Zenger Farm and framed out our coop in about four hours. There are a lot of little things to finish on it, but even so– it’s amazing [...]
For the practical cyclists among our readers, check out the review Patrick wrote about our Bikes at Work trailer over on the Bicycle Fixation web site. The BAW is our favorite hauler of cargo, and this article tells you why. Here’s a teaser: Sometimes it’s a lot of planning and preparation to carry stuff on [...]
I am only ever a reluctantly optimistic person, so I post this nervously. But I am seeing a real increase in the amount and sophistication of reporting on food-supply issues in the media. A year ago, I was not sure whether the Times or the Post had ever heard of sustainability. Today, in a special [...]
Over the last several months we’ve done a fair amount of pickling, preserving, and canning. I’ve just posted a handful of photos of some of the projects on our flickr pages. Several of the recipes were taken from the book Quick Pickles, which is hardly a traditional preserving resource, but has some excellent vegetable treatments that [...]
Our apologies for taking so long to make this follow-up post. We are so grateful for all of the supportive comments we received in response to our chicken dilemma. We did not respond to most of them individually because we were embroiled in the rapidly evolving events, but we read and appreciated them all. Since [...]
Our initial reaction was to give up. Our goal is not to prove a point, not to make people unhappy, nor, even, to win. Our goal was to nurture animals, to nurture ourselves, and hopefully to add some of that good experience to others’ [...]
The NYT recently reported on a new front in the war against sod, a project called “Edible Estates.” The project is run by an architect, Fritz Haeg. The Times puts it thus: Mr. Haeg regards the Edible Estates project as something of a manifesto. He fantasizes about setting off a “chain reaction†among gardeners that would [...] |
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