Backyards Really Can Produce There are approximately 250,000 households in the city of Seattle.  The citizens of the city of Seattle stood together and now have the ability to keep 8 hens per household.  There is a sense of local food and self sufficiency in the Pacific Northwest.  Backyard chickens …

Repurpose and Utilize  There are a vast multitude of ways to repurpose waste within our own communities.  This waste is from common everyday processes that occur all around us at any given time, on any given day. These non-products of daily occurrences must be dealt with in some manner.  Often …

Urban Farm Craze Refugees? Our unwanted or non-laying birds typically go into tamales or similar dishes (young roosters are better for frying than old hens that need slow cooking).  We can’t simply keep nonproductive birds in such a small holding so we utilize them fully. People are so removed from …

The Brower Brooder and Chicks Here’s some Cornish Rock cross straight run chicks in the Brower brooder. They love to eat. And sit around. They’re fairly tame and quiet. Regular looking yellow biddies. I want to see how fast they grow. UPDATE:  They grew plenty fast.  We moved them out …

Moroccan Spiced Coffee 1/2 cup coffee or espresso beans 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon 1 or 2 whole cloves 3 to 4 cardamom pods 1/4 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg 1/4 teaspoon ground ginger (optional) Put the ingredients in a coffee grinder and grind them up uniformly. Makes about 6 tablespoons roughly …

Chicken Fueled Early Greens Here is the greens patch we grow a lot of micro greens and smaller leaf greens in. We have two of these made with scrap lumber and a polypropylene corrugated top. The top will lift back on those warmer days so that they don’t get overheated. …

Here is a typical tray of 6 pack starters.  These are easy to find and are very common in the nursery trade.  They are cheap, and reusable if you take the time to sterilize them between growings.

My new favorite tool. Not sure what it’s called. It’s a Japanese hand tool. Really makes a difference planting starts.

Ten spots per runner. 60 holesmax for three inch pots. Fashioned after a popular design.