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The Top Five List - Urban Farming Resources
The garden is slowly coming to a sleepy rest this year - nothing much is growing (save my rabbits), and I'm generally just doing garden maintenance and bed building for next year. But in between soap...
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The Rabbit Hutch Blunder
I would like to take a minute to introduce myself to the world.Hi. My name is Lindsey. I can't build things for shit.*hi, Lindsey*Good God. What a typical douche bag Lindsey Move. I decided that the...
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Deliberate Gift Giving Guide
Are you sick and tired of plastic crap for Christmas and Birthdays? The mounds and mounds of imported, easily broken hunks of non-renewable plastic packaged in more non-recyclable plastic, wrapped in...
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Happy Thanksgiving!
I couldn't have said it better myself.SOURCEI hope your day is filled with all the activities that YOU want to do, and that it is calm, delightful and filled with love.Now. I gotta go put a hurt on...
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Joining the Seed Savers Exchange
I guess it was inevitable.I'm just not someone who can do the same thing year after year. In much of anything, really.This last year I started to get really ansty with my garden. Yeah - the roma...
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The Caged Hens
I had the pleasure of attending a very interesting training this last week for my other, day job. I took a lot from it, and wanted to share a little snippet here with you guys.If the instructor knew...
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Lasagna Gardening - A Picture Tutorial
*Maniacal Laugh*The awesome landlord has said yes to more beds in the backyard. And not just any spot, either. The prime, super sunlit, excellent exposure, not too much wind, perfectly level spot in...
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Happy New Year
Hello everyone!This has been my confused face for weeks as I tried to figure out some stuff here on the homestead-front. Hmmmm....what to do, what to do....until:Welcome to the redesigned Northwest...
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Chicken Deep Litter Method - The Results
** Be sure to check out my downloadable Rabbit Processing Guide available in the Videos and Guides tab up top! It's free. It's fantastic. Go check it out!** A while back I posted about how to do the...
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Tips on Getting Organized for the New Year (Not Your Average List)
sourceThis has been a bang-whiz start to the New Year, let me tell you.My wonderful H went in for elbow and wrist surgery and is now recovering and it has been mayhem trying to help him do everything...
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Is Your Garlic Coming Up?
sourceYeah, mine too.And in more ways than one.sourceI had the disturbing realization that I can no longer tolerate garlic. Raw, sauteed, creamed, fried, presented on a platter by angels, whatever. My...
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In Defense of Dumpster Diving - Tapping the Wastestream
* * Another great blog post about this topic can be found on my friend Karen's blog - Making Shift. Check it out! * * About 3 months ago I picked up at a book at the library and had my world rocked.I...
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Introducing Podcasts!
I am so very pleased to announce that after many months of planning, the Northwest Backyard Veggies Podcasts are now officially LIVE!You can listen here. And they will be on iTunes soon so that you can...
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Keep Those Animals Warm! 5 Tips for Backyard Homesteaders.
Oh, my gosh. It totally got cold last week! For those of us West of the Cascades here in Washington, it hasn't really been that cold of a winter. A bit of snow here and there, some nights below...
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My Beef with Jorge Cruise
Alright. I've got an opinion.Which I know seems so UNlike me, right?Kidding.I'm 34, a mother to 1, I'm 5' 5" and I weight 139 lbs. My weight has always been steady. I have no health problems (save a...
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A Weekend of Firsts
This weekend was my first time:Drop spindle yarn spinning ...andShearing my rabbit.Two things I would never have thought I would be doing. But here I am, getting all drooly over Sassy's coat (and how...
View ArticlePodcast #2 - Making Home with Potatoes
The title will make sense if you listen to the podcast, I swear!I borrowed a very good idea from Ms. Kristy Gardner over at SheEats.ca - a show log list of all the books, people, links and/or music...
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I Just Quit Comcast
This video just about sums it up.http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/c38fb80a0d/comcast-doesn-t-give-a-f-ckDon't watch with small children around - it makes liberal use of the "F" word.But it is...
View ArticleHomemade Carpet Powder
Do you have carpet?If it were up to me, our house would have beautiful, soft and springy cork flooring punctuated in the bedrooms by expanses of pillowy dark brown carpet.But...we have carpet...
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What's New and What's GONE
This year I've got some really neat new things getting attention on the 1/4 acre. I will tell you that some of them took some searching out and really old fashioned ordering techniques, but it's been...
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Quail Processing Day and The Two That Got Away
Many years ago I bought my first cat as an adult. I went to the Humane Society and made it a point to adopt the cat that was Least Likely to Be Adopted - the raggedy taggedy one that no one would buy....
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Here's How To Build A Little Greenhouse....
....And get some mad shit done in one very productive sunny NW day.Among some logistical problems on the 1/4 acre, I am constantly faced with rearranging things to make the best use of my space. I'm...
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Step By Step Rabbit Butchering Guide - Pictures and Tutorials
Don't worry - it's a link! I won't force pics on ya' without properly preparing you!I wanted to call attention to the illustrated Rabbit Butchering Guide that I put together to help people process...
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No Cable - Reflections On One Month In (AKA - Why You Should Kick Cable)
In early March I got so pissed off at Comcast that I cancelled our cable.It's something that the H and I talked about doing for a long time. But then it was football season and our Beloved Seahawks...
View ArticleChanges are a'coming...
Hi everyone!Just so you know, this blog will be a bit quiet in the coming weeks (and has been for a little bit) as I make some big changes.All will be revealed in time....And I will be back better than...
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