Comments on: I’m Looking For You! http://www.sustainableeats.com/2010/02/13/im-looking-for-you/ Because Food Doesn't Have to Come From the Store Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:37:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: admin http://www.sustainableeats.com/2010/02/13/im-looking-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1952 admin Tue, 06 Apr 2010 17:33:13 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=1644#comment-1952 Julianne, I'd love that! Just write something and email it to annettecottrell(at)yahoo.com along with any pictures. Julianne, I’d love that! Just write something and email it to annettecottrell(at)yahoo.com along with any pictures.

]]> By: Julianne Idleman http://www.sustainableeats.com/2010/02/13/im-looking-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1937 Julianne Idleman Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:38:52 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=1644#comment-1937 Have loved reading along through the Dark Days Challenge and am happy to help with a post if you ever need one. I am involving other families in my sustainable eating with the Dirt to Dinner program. I'm on a corner lot in the middle of Silicon Valley and so far the neighbors have been very supportive. Have loved reading along through the Dark Days Challenge and am happy to help with a post if you ever need one. I am involving other families in my sustainable eating with the Dirt to Dinner program. I’m on a corner lot in the middle of Silicon Valley and so far the neighbors have been very supportive.

]]> By: That Teaser Febraury Sun « I am what I eat http://www.sustainableeats.com/2010/02/13/im-looking-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1417 That Teaser Febraury Sun « I am what I eat Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:57:43 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=1644#comment-1417 [...] out the grass in the front yard and use the space for growing veggies. We want it to look, someday, like this. We had the dirt delivered on Friday and had good intentions of building raised beds this weekend [...] [...] out the grass in the front yard and use the space for growing veggies. We want it to look, someday, like this. We had the dirt delivered on Friday and had good intentions of building raised beds this weekend [...]

]]> By: admin http://www.sustainableeats.com/2010/02/13/im-looking-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1383 admin Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:04:46 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=1644#comment-1383 Jess, I'd love that! A lot of folks expressed interest but I don't have another guest post so feel free to get started. Or anyone else, just write something and email it to me. :) Jess, I’d love that! A lot of folks expressed interest but I don’t have another guest post so feel free to get started. Or anyone else, just write something and email it to me. :)

]]> By: Jess @OpenlyBalanced http://www.sustainableeats.com/2010/02/13/im-looking-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1377 Jess @OpenlyBalanced Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:24:05 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=1644#comment-1377 It looks like you got a ton of responses - that's great! I, of course, am horribly behind. But I would love to write a guest post for you if you are still looking for more, particularly since I'm bound for a new house in a few weeks. With a pear tree. And apples, and figs, and plums and a garden I actually get to keep! Let me know :) It looks like you got a ton of responses – that’s great! I, of course, am horribly behind.

But I would love to write a guest post for you if you are still looking for more, particularly since I’m bound for a new house in a few weeks. With a pear tree. And apples, and figs, and plums and a garden I actually get to keep! Let me know :)

]]> By: admin http://www.sustainableeats.com/2010/02/13/im-looking-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1364 admin Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:28:04 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=1644#comment-1364 Diana, I'd LOVE you to post. I don't see how you have time with all your activities online though. :P But yes, please write something. The stuff I started beginning of Aug is just now ready to eat but we don't get the sun hours you do. What zone are you in? There is a great book called Four Season Gardening by Eliot Cole that really inspired me to try this. I never would have though of it on my own! Diana, I’d LOVE you to post. I don’t see how you have time with all your activities online though. :P But yes, please write something. The stuff I started beginning of Aug is just now ready to eat but we don’t get the sun hours you do. What zone are you in? There is a great book called Four Season Gardening by Eliot Cole that really inspired me to try this. I never would have though of it on my own!

]]> By: Diana@Spain in Iowa http://www.sustainableeats.com/2010/02/13/im-looking-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1360 Diana@Spain in Iowa Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:18:55 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=1644#comment-1360 Annette, This is wonderful!! I would love to guest post if you have any spots open. I'm also an urban homesteader including backyard chickens, organic gardener, and canner ;) I have been meaning to get back in touch with you about beans. I plant my fall beans the beginning of August and they only go until the first frost sometimes as early as October :( These beans are only for eating fresh or freezing. You are definitely inspiring to me as I've been wanting to start growing year round. I'm hoping this year that I can get a cold frame built to see if I can keep chard, spinach, other greens and root vegetables going. I'm definitely open to any and all of your suggestions!! Love your site Annette!!! Diana Annette,

This is wonderful!! I would love to guest post if you have any spots open. I’m also an urban homesteader including backyard chickens, organic gardener, and canner ;) I have been meaning to get back in touch with you about beans. I plant my fall beans the beginning of August and they only go until the first frost sometimes as early as October :( These beans are only for eating fresh or freezing. You are definitely inspiring to me as I’ve been wanting to start growing year round. I’m hoping this year that I can get a cold frame built to see if I can keep chard, spinach, other greens and root vegetables going. I’m definitely open to any and all of your suggestions!! Love your site Annette!!!

Diana

]]> By: admin http://www.sustainableeats.com/2010/02/13/im-looking-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1357 admin Sat, 20 Feb 2010 06:30:47 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=1644#comment-1357 Ok - who's next? Wendy? Mangochild? Or anyone - just start writing and email me annettecottrell(at)yahoo.com. I'm ready for more! :) Ok – who’s next? Wendy? Mangochild? Or anyone – just start writing and email me annettecottrell(at)yahoo.com. I’m ready for more! :)

]]> By: Kelly Orehovec http://www.sustainableeats.com/2010/02/13/im-looking-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1353 Kelly Orehovec Fri, 19 Feb 2010 23:57:35 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=1644#comment-1353 Looks like you have a ton of responses and I am still going to offer a guest post if you want. Let me know. Kelly Orehovc Looks like you have a ton of responses and I am still going to offer a guest post if you want. Let me know.

Kelly Orehovc

]]> By: Dana http://www.sustainableeats.com/2010/02/13/im-looking-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-1322 Dana Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:33:19 +0000 http://www.sustainableeats.com/?p=1644#comment-1322 Your blog has been very inspirational and I look forward to the added knowledge (and possible additional blogs to follow) of these guest posts. I had already been researching nutrition and sustainable living, but seeing how much you've done in such a short time on your 1/4 acre really convinced me to try my hand at more. We have just over 2 acres and will be trying our first ever garden/orchard this year. Neither of us are green thumbs, so our fall back plan will be the farmers' markets or another csa like last year. Let me know which breed of honey bee you decide on. I've been reading up on which are more docile and more hardy, but we're not quite ready for that yet so instead we'll be starting with mason bees. They have no honey to guard, and so are less defensive, and will still do a fine job pollinating. As for your meat rabbit tractor idea, I just want to warn you that they are quite the escape artists. We tried meat rabbits last summer with the same intention of free-ranging them, but found that it would be next to impossible without a maximum security style pen. We ended up giving them back to the farmer we got them from before they'd even grown up, rather than feed them a non-natural diet in a cage. I would love to try again someday once I've given more thought to safe, sustainable methods of doing so. Meanwhile, we've got two sheep who are breaking me into the ruminant side of nutrition in the hopes that I'll be able to have dairy goats someday. (You would not believe the amount of raw milk we go through each week!) We're also still trying to raise laying poultry, despite predation and other set backs. Our chickens contracted either bird flu from wild migratory birds, or swine flu from me (the timing made it hard to be sure, and that's just a guess based on my research of their symptoms), and had to be nursed back to health in a dog crate in our bathroom for several days (they recovered). Guess I'm learning in a trial by fire sort of way. Good grief! Gotta start somewhere though, and it has been fun and educational trying to live more sustainably. Keep up the great writing! Your blog has been very inspirational and I look forward to the added knowledge (and possible additional blogs to follow) of these guest posts. I had already been researching nutrition and sustainable living, but seeing how much you’ve done in such a short time on your 1/4 acre really convinced me to try my hand at more. We have just over 2 acres and will be trying our first ever garden/orchard this year. Neither of us are green thumbs, so our fall back plan will be the farmers’ markets or another csa like last year.

Let me know which breed of honey bee you decide on. I’ve been reading up on which are more docile and more hardy, but we’re not quite ready for that yet so instead we’ll be starting with mason bees. They have no honey to guard, and so are less defensive, and will still do a fine job pollinating.

As for your meat rabbit tractor idea, I just want to warn you that they are quite the escape artists. We tried meat rabbits last summer with the same intention of free-ranging them, but found that it would be next to impossible without a maximum security style pen. We ended up giving them back to the farmer we got them from before they’d even grown up, rather than feed them a non-natural diet in a cage. I would love to try again someday once I’ve given more thought to safe, sustainable methods of doing so.

Meanwhile, we’ve got two sheep who are breaking me into the ruminant side of nutrition in the hopes that I’ll be able to have dairy goats someday. (You would not believe the amount of raw milk we go through each week!) We’re also still trying to raise laying poultry, despite predation and other set backs. Our chickens contracted either bird flu from wild migratory birds, or swine flu from me (the timing made it hard to be sure, and that’s just a guess based on my research of their symptoms), and had to be nursed back to health in a dog crate in our bathroom for several days (they recovered). Guess I’m learning in a trial by fire sort of way. Good grief!

Gotta start somewhere though, and it has been fun and educational trying to live more sustainably. Keep up the great writing!

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