Sustainable Eats

At long last I’ve finally gotten up my strength to stay up late one night and design the child’s garden. I’m really excited about this giveaway, just thinking of a child’s excitement and how fun this will be!

Once again using my favorite garden planning tool, www.growveg.com, I’ve designed this garden to be 4 feet [...]

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We finally finished the chicken tractor that I meant to have done last fall. And when I say we I mean my wonderful husband who finally got tired of tripping over the supplies that I had strategically left in the way in the garage. That technique serves me well.

Guess What? Chicken Butt.
Last [...]

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There wasn’t much interest in this giveaway but I’m guessing it’s because we limited the area. So here are the winners:

Which means Laura and Beth, you win!
Thanks everyone for entering! I’m gearing up to do the child’s garden giveaway just as soon as my antibiotics kick in and I can once again function [...]

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Chicken Little came home from school one day with something he was so exciting to give to me. He handed over a slip of paper covered with little cut out hearts and a poem of sorts penciled in newly learned letters of #2 lead.
It took me awhile to make out what it said but [...]

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We have a winner – according to www.random.org it’s number 15.
KnitMomma – please email me at annettecottrell(at)yahoo.com so I can get you your package and make sure I have the right size gloves for you.
Be watching either later this week or early next for a new gardening giveaway geared towards kids. I’m hoping to [...]

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I’m getting questions on when things can be planted outside and I know some of you are from other parts of the country so rather than post this in timeline format I’m posting by soil temperature.  I know you can buy special soil thermometers but you can also use a digital meat thermometer and call [...]

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My orchard isn’t big but it is mighty. I have big plans for this formerly useless strip of land between city houses. I expect it to produce enough fruit to feed my family and several others. Where there was lawn there will be food!
I’m planning on creating an intensive orchard here, meaning the fruit trees [...]

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Are you an urban farmer, gardener, food putter-upper or someone who is striving to be more sustainable in a city or suburban environment? Then I’m looking for YOU!
I started this blog as a way to challenge myself to stick to my guns – because I was fed up with food companies and the larger industrial [...]

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It’s time to start planning for what you’ll eat next year! For many who can’t grow all their own food that may mean simply taking stock of what pantry items you are going through so that you can make plans to buy from a local farmer and preserve as much of that as possible.
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It’s always good to log in to your wordpress account and see you are still the only administrator.
Here we are moving into the second week of February and in Seattle the dark days are feeling not so dark any more. My condolences if you happen to be back east and are under snow right [...]

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