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CSA Haul: 2010-09-02

Small Farms CSA on Wordpress New this week: okra, shitake mushrooms, sweet potato greens.

I'm glad E's back from Maine so she can figure out how to prepare all of these!

Joe says we'll be getting beef in a few weeks and butternut squash next week.

 

CSA Haul: 2010-08-26

We've just joined a local CSA (Small Farms, run by the Love is Love farm). I've decided to keep track of how much we get of what, just because I like taking pictures and making lists. :)

 

How To Make a Survival Kit

If you've ever considered making yourself a survival kit (or 72-hour kit, bug-out bag, etc.), you may have ended up like me - pulling out your hair over the unending lists of things you ABSOLUTELY must include.

In an effort to help you, dear reader, as well as myself, I'm trying to organize the overwhelming amount of information I've found into manageable chunks.

How to compost for beginners: the easy 2-trash can method

Trash can composter I admit it: I am a lazy composter. So, when we decided to start composting, I wanted to find the easiest way to handle our kitchen scraps.

Solution? Garbage bin composters = NO MAINTENANCE.

Organic gardening: natural pesticides

We had great success preventing our tomatoes from getting eaten this past summer by using a natural, organic pesticide. There are lots of organic pesticides that you can make on the cheap.

The Perfect Loaf - a Bread Machine Recipe

I finally got the top of my perfect loaf of whole grain, nutty bread to stop falling at the top. Here is the successful recipe: