Sustainable Eats

A quick blurb to let you all know that on May 1 (coming up soon!) there will be an Eco-Chic Festival at Ravenna Eckstein community center. I’m most excited about the swap they will have where you can bring your baby/kids items and swap them for other items – how cool is that? [...]

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Do you want to be a farmer but live in the city? You can! This weekend the Seattle Urban Farming Coop is having an awareness and fundraiser at Ravenna Ridge SPOT Farm (7355 33rd Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98115.) It’s the first annual big Mini Goat Festival!
May 1, Sat., 5-7pm wine & [...]

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I have an Earth Day entry for you but you have to go to The Next Family to read it. I’m guest blogging in the hopes of spreading my little green tentacles in an ever widening web…
I also wanted to leave you with some eye bytes from Joel Salatin’s talk last night at Kane [...]

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I’ve been working on a virtual tour for those of you who couldn’t make it this weekend but still want a glimpse into my mad world. I gave up on the youtube since I can’t get the audio drivers to work and I’ve loaded some pictures onto flickr.
If you look along [...]

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Just a quick reminder that tomorrow, Saturday April 17 from 1-4 is my open garden! I hope to see everyone there but if not I’ll schedule another so just email me with suggested dates. In early May there will be a Tuesday home school tour and later in May I’ll be on the [...]

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Tonight I attended the opening of a charrette at UW on  designing for urban food. I wish I had known about it sooner so that I could have spread the word!
It was amazing, thought provoking and inspiring to listen to the speakers and hear ideas of designing spaces, utilizing abandoned properties and maximizing what we’ve [...]

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I’ve been crazy busy madly planting, starting, sowing and harvesting the last few weeks. I have a rough garden map courtesy of www.growveg.com (which I’m not affiliated with) but the variety of things I have makes it impossible to rely on something like that completely as I’m growing so much that it doesn’t all [...]

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This weekend I planted my potatoes in recycled coffee bags just like I did last year.

What I love about this method is it allows you to grow bonus food by simply finding a few square feet anywhere in the right light conditions, even over concrete.  If you aren’t using your driveway to park the car [...]

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I’ve been wanting to do this all winter and it seems the time is never right so I’m just scheduling it now. I’m planning an open garden for April 17th for anyone who can make it.
Want to see how my garden is laid out or how I can fit 22 fruit and [...]

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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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