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Recipe: Butternut Squash Soup
This weekend we enjoyed some hearty squash soup from the butternuts we recently harvested. The best part about this soup is that it’s thick and savory, perfect for dipping fresh bread into. The kids...
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7 Things Apple
This weekend we packed up the kids and took a much needed drive out of the city to one of my favorite apple orchards. In all honesty, we would be better consumers by buying local apples that were...
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Claire’s Revenge
I don’t think my sister (who is currently working on a masters degree and spends her professional life recruiting high school students for college) ever imagined spending the evening with a goat’s...
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100′ Recipe: Savory Baked Eggplant
Black Beauty eggplant, sliced We’ve been swimming in eggplant for the past two months and I’ve discovered some great ways to cook with it! One of our favorites recipes so far is a take off of the...
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5 Ways We Make It All Work
Chubby. My favorite chicken. One of the biggest challenges that I have found in running an urban farm is this: My husband and I both work full time. Eric works a job that he commutes to each day, which...
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Urban Collaboration
There are always glitches to raising animals in the city. One of the biggest, most obvious hang ups in urban farming is lack of space. And then you have the natural occurrence of animals breeding. The...
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November
Today it started out raining. And now it’s snowing. Our garden is done for the season. Our animals are staying inside their respective “homes” most of the daylight hours (what few of them there are...
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Recipe: Pumpkin Puree
Making your own pumpkin puree is so easy! While I am not opposed to buying canned pumpkin at the store, it is always nice to make my own. Especially with pie pumpkins that we grew ourselves! The kids...
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Duck, duck, roof
Muscovy ducks can fly. Probably, if you can catch them, you should clip their feathers. Especially if you live in the city. If you don’t, you may just end up with ducks on the roof.
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Keeping City Chickens: 7 Things to Consider
“Is that a CHICKEN in your yard?” We get the question all the time as people walk by on the city sidewalk. Yes, it is a chicken. And, in fact, we have ten of them. When we bought our house in the city...
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