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Laura Day
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We bought a zoo, er, rented a blueberry farm
A little twist of fate, and we rented a blueberry farm. It’s 5 acres, and it’s been well neglected over the years. In western Washington, that means we have a cold, wet battle with blackberry tangles in our future. The … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Blueberries, Chickens, Farming Philosophy, Local Eating, Philosophy, U-pick, Urban farming
Tagged acreage, Blueberries, farming, U-pick, Washington State
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If your farm goes out of business…
Can you say it was sustainable? I recently sought out information about a local farm called Thundering Hooves that sold pasture finished meat after I saw them represented in an older video about holistic agriculture. What I found was a … Continue reading
Posted in Farming Philosophy, Local Eating
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Quick update
Moving away from the little permaculture backyard, but looking toward the future. Continue reading
A Summer Update
We’ve just passed two years of living on a micro-farm in Seattle, so this is sure to be a long and newsy post. It’s been fun to remember what it looked like before we got started and how it is … Continue reading
Posted in Chickens, Urban farming
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A Deep Breath, and here we go again, just in time for winter!
We’ve moved into a tiny urban backyard farm. If it has chickens, it’s a farm! Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Chickens, Deep Mulch, Gardening, Homestead Life, Local Eating, Urban farming
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“Homeward Bound” A Book Review
I just finished Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity by Emily Matchar. As suggested by the title, the Book discusses why women are thronging back to the hearth in an age when the glass ceiling has been at least … Continue reading
Letter to a Land Owner Try Two
Last February, upon discovering that 1) There wasn’t a community garden in my new apartment complex (or room for one) and 2) about 500 yards down the road is an 18-acre late 1800s farm, I wrote a letter to the … Continue reading
Posted in Chickens
Tagged animals, chickens, farming, finding a farm, greener pastures, Letters, old farms in the city
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The Soappy Road
I’ve going down a road of making my own soap. It started with a bar of “shaving” soap at a farmer’s market almost five years ago. My husband said, “I’ve always wanted to try shaving with soap,” and he hasn’t shaved … Continue reading
Posted in Homestead Skills, Soapmaking
Tagged chemistry, Kevin M. Dunn, science, scientific soapmaking, soap, soapmaking
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Soap Bubbles (What to name a soap company: part 2)
The blog took a summer vacation since I wrote part one. I couldn’t even remember what I called it, so the title of this follow-up post is completely unrelated (oh well). Here are some things I’ve learned about soap and … Continue reading
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My Homestead Odyssey 