I really love Trace Ramsey’s writing at Cricket Bread; I’m always learning something over on his blog - this essay about becoming a farmer is a great example of the poetry and heart in his prose. He recently did a status update on his hugelkultur raised beds - I’d never heard of them before. They’re [...]
Does anyone have firsthand experience with Bokashi? It’s a (pricey) composting system based on fermentation - it looks like it might be good for small spaces, if you don’t have room for a compost pile or a worm bin. The maker seems to be very anti-compost.
Seattle Tilth is having their edible plant sale this weekend - it’s a great sale and there are lots of people there who can answer gardening questions.
I’m really proud (though I had nothing to do with it personally) that Seattle has such a great recycling/yard waste program. You can not only have your yard waste, food scraps, pizza boxes, and now meat and dairy scraps picked up by the city for composting - they’ve even set up a site with information [...]
As promised, here’s a soup recipe that uses the chicken stock you made from the bones of the chicken you roasted.
Black beans are my favorite kind of bean - I use them for cold bean salads in the summer, and in quesadillas, and they’re perfect for soup. It’s nice to have some canned black beans [...]
Wendy Tremayne of Swap-O-Rama-Rama fame has a great how-to up on Craft about making a worm bin out of a plastic storage tub. (The definitive guide to vermicomposting is Worms Eat My Garbage, a true classic.)
