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It’s been two years in the making…
But now they’ve come…
And No One knows what to expect…It’s…
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Chicken Invasion
Already exhibiting personality…
Our story continues from last week’s post.
Our pullets arrived late …
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The latest edition of Mar Vista’s Bounty Hunter is live and ready for your cheese-y delight: This week you’ll learn about Milk Man Cheese
Services and find out where to get local artisan cheeses in Southern California.
In an effort to expand our garden ecosystem, we’ve gone the way of the farmer, adding backyard chickens to our list of on-site resources. This
is the story of how we got started. We intend to share the process in hopes of making it easier for others who plan to do the same.
We spent two years researching and being skittish about getting them, while everyone with chickens kept saying, “Just get them!” 2012 rolled around, as did …
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“Dear Gardenerd,
How do we know if our seeds are genetically Modified?”
Excellent question! I have answers for you.
The good news is that GMO seeds are widely available to the commercial agriculture industry, but the push to sell them to home gardeners is not yet popular (and most likely not lucrative).
The bad news is that farmers growing non-GMO crops for seed are having a harder time isolating themselves from farms that …
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A very thoughtful question came into Ask Gardenerd this week:
“I’m new here. So far my big challenge is getting started. I do have a question. I do want to eat organic. Let’s say I get a small plant, like an herb, from Home Depot or a similar store, I plant
it and grow it organically with no man-made chemicals are pesticides. Does that make the plant organic? Is it kind of organic? If I keep it growing year-after-year and grow it organically, will
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It’s time to harvest those cabbages that have been growing over winter. As readers may remember, we planted a newly discovered variety of open
pollinated Vertus savoy cabbage from Bountiful Gardens this past fall, and now we’re reaping
the benefits. It’s hard to find an open pollinated or heirloom variety of savoy cabbage, so we were very excited to test this one out.
The results are in, and they …
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The latest post from Mar Vista’s Bounty Hunter is ready for your viewing pleasure. Check out this great way to refill your home and body products:
After seeing Vegucated, the vegan documentary that shows the underside of our country’s meat
and dairy industry, I was highly motivated to find organic milk products from truly trustworthy suppliers. Many of our organic dairy manufacturers like Horizon and Organic Valley still utilize
confined feedlot techniques and, without going in to details, they don’t treat their cows very well. I wanted control over my dairy ASAP.
I did …
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Growing new varieties each season keeps the garden interesting. Since we focus on heirlooms and open pollinated varieties here at Gardenerd,
our choices are not new, but rather newly discovered. After a slight seed debacle last year where we grew seeds from an (unnamed) seed company that purchased Romanesco seeds from an
untrustworthy supplier, resulting in Romanesco that looked nothing like Romanesco, we tried again this year with guaranteed seed.
What …
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The latest post from Mar Vista’s Bounty Hunter is live and ready for your perusal. Feast your eyes on some great legumes and find out how to
cook them with a delicious recipe or two:
Sun Coast Farms has its Finger on the Pulse (of
Beans, that is)
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