I’ve come to the realization that the Urban Farm we left behind is no longer an Urban Farm. It’s a nice house on a tiny piece of property with a ton of potential and all the infrastructure someone would need to turn it back into an urban farm, sure. .…
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Believing that we could produce more, consume less and have a positive impact on our environment, all while living on 1/8 acre in the middle of the city, this quote became the mantra of our small family as we began our journey into a homesteading way of life. We spent 7…
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It seems as though Urban Farming is one of those things that more and more people are catching on to. A few years ago, when I would talk to people in our community about our chickens and bees and all of the veggie beds we were building, more often than…
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Some day soon I will catch everyone up on what’s been happening in my life…in our lives…but for now, we’ll stick with the literal fruits of our labors. Sometimes, when life gets challenging, it’s best to just keep doing what you’re doing, release the things that aren’t working or that…
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Oh September, how I love and hate you all at the same time!!! The gentle glide into fall is a time of year I look forward to every year. The cooler nights, the comfy clothes, the hot tea and hot toddies, pumpkins everywhere and Halloween right around the corner…Oh, I…
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Cayenne is one of those foods that people either love or they hate. If you can hack the punch of this awesome Capsicum, though, there are many health benefits of cayenne peppers that just might be worth a little heat on your tongue and in your belly. With so much…
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Keeping chickens over the past few years has been quite the adventure in both the actual keeping of chickens and in the human response to the fact that we keep chickens. Conversations are either based around confusion or excitement! I get questions all the time like; You can keep chickens…
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Just when I thought that summer was on it’s way quickly into fall, we’ve had two steady weeks of heat. Go figure, right? The garden is in full production mode, though everything is later than it was last year, and even the year before that…I still haven’t even harvested any…