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I just created a Yahoo group called “Portland Backyard Farmers” as a sister/brother/estranged-step-cousin group to “Portland Backyard Chickens“. It seemed like a good idea to have a separate place to share sources, tips, questions, etc. about raising fruits and veggies, pollinators (my personal favorite), and preparing and preserving the goodies. It’s a big topic, but I [...] OK, I decided. I’m going to go with two routes: drilled through blocks and a big, ol’ piece of PVC stuffed with straws. Why two? Erm… cuz… three would be too many! OK, today I’ll show you how my patented drill-through-rolled-liner (DTRL) idea works. Last year, I tried a similar thing, but for some odd reason [...] Happy Valentine’s Day, if you’re into that kind of thing. As my three faithful readers may know, I am obsessed with mason bees (Osmia lignaria). Honey bees and bumble bees are also quite awesome, but the mason bee I find particularly interesting because: It’s native. Whoo-hoo! There’s something native to somewhere still! I have a sunburn. From the sun. In Portland. It’s that time of year again. February in Portland is when the sun torments us with days of t-shirt weather followed by a week of freezing rain, hot afternoons, hail, lightning bolts, locusts, piña coladas, bikini teams, and armies of zombie slugs. It’s also the time that I [...] One more trip around the sun. You might imagine that I don’t have any pictures of that. As for the topic of this blog… I haven’t posted much this summer because it’s been oddly unsatisfying out there this year. It is August 15th, and I have yet to harvest a ripe tomato– with the exception of some [...] |
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