By Rian, on July 25th, 2009
You may have noticed that I wrecked upgraded my blog. The crack technical staff (i.e., me) here at Urban Hayseed, LLC (yes, there really is such a thing) spent hours and hours upgrading our software, resolving all the broken plugins, and installing a new theme that allows for a bit more customization. As [...]
By Rian, on July 22nd, 2009
I know what you’re not saying… you’re not saying to yourself:
Oh, sure, he’s all ‘bee, bee, bee…’ and ‘whoop-dee-doo, I made raspberry sauce’ and stuff, but where’s the ‘Preserve’ in ‘Produce, Prepare, Preserve’? What a jerk! WHAT A JERK!!!
Hey now! Calm down. I was getting to that.
By Rian, on May 7th, 2009
One of the folks on the PDX Backyard Farmers group asked a question that I paraphrase here:
“The tomatillos that I grew last year produced a bunch of seedlings this year. I don’t remember if they were hybrid or heirloom varieties. What am I going to get from these plants?”
I’m no tomatillo expert, but I’ll share [...]
By Rian, on March 15th, 2009
I just had a bowl of ice cream with my kid. He’s two. I want to feed him things that represent “food” as closely as possible. Hence, all the gardening, chickens, and what-not.
I try to buy local and reasonably organic (knowing that the standards for organic have become kind of bureaucratic and exclusionary for local [...]
By Rian, on August 22nd, 2008
Another in my series of “I don’t have anything to say about my garden” posts.
The weather here in Portland has… mostly… sucked. First we did the never-ending-winter spring, and now we’re doing the hah-hah-the-fall-rains-have-started summer. Of my one beelion tomatoes, approximately none are ripe.
So, fine, we make the love!
Or… if you can’t get anyone to [...]
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