Archive for April, 2009
WEEKLY MEAL WRAPUP
Though our schedule was slightly interrupted with a slew of different community events, here’s what we enjoyed eating last week. SATURDAY out SUNDAY Breakfast – out Dinner – homemade pizza topped with homegrown, marinated peppers, homegrown-made tomato sauce, organic cheese and homegrown salad MONDAY Breakfast – homemade skillet granola Lunch – homegrown-made kimchi (made with [...]
OLLAS ARE HERE
For those customers who have been waiting patiently for their ollas, happy to say the wait is over! We just got our latest shipment of ollas and will be packing and shipping them out this week. I still can’t get over the simple beauty of these clay pots, they just look so lovely all together [...]
IN THE GARDEN
Now that we back to overcast and cooler “sweater” weather, we are still having to deal with the aftermath of the triple digits temps ( hot weather smashes 90 + year records.) that caused much of the cooler weather greens bolt. The dramatic spike in temps really played havoc with the greens knocking our rotation [...]
LOQUAT CRUMBLE
With two baskets full of loquats and a bag of extra raisins leftover from the potluck on Sunday, I whipped up this very simple yet tasty loquat dessert. Everyone enjoyed it so I was glad I made enough for breakfast tomorrow. Read more about growing and using highly nutritious loquats.
GROW YOUR OWN GROCERIES
The National Gardening Association estimates that a well-maintained vegetable garden yields a $500 average return per year. A study by Burpee Seeds claims that $50 spent on gardening supplies can multiply into $1,250 worth of produce annually” Our household loves facts & figures especially when it comes to keeping track of our progress here on [...]
AROUND THE URBAN HOMESTEAD
The garden’s growing and that means produce is coming in that needs to be eaten, sold or preserved. Now that we’ve gotten past the flush of Earth Day activities it’s time to get caught up with our lives and projects here on the urban homestead – there’s definitely lots to be done! Falling back into [...]
GROW THE FUTURE
{Written on Friday but didn’t get around to posting it} I’ve pretty much finished the posting blitz with over a dozen entries in 2 days! What a doosey! Catching my breath now. Hope you enjoyed playing catch up with me. This weekend we’ll be Out & About. Saturday (April 25) come down and see us [...]
BACK TO BACK
Sunday we had a busy day on tap. First we were off to Claremont to table and give a short urban homesteading presentation during their downtown Earth Day festivities. Thanks to Sorrel and Sustainable Claremont for the invite! Also thank you the lovely couple who offered us scrumptious baked chocolate muffins and lemonade from their [...]
GREENING THE EARTH DAY PASADENA
After a week where summer and spring wrestled with each other over weather dominance, this weekend is turning out to be just spectacular. Happy to say we are back to our regularly schedule weather pattern…. for now. On Saturday PTF and FG both had a table at Pasadena’s Greening the Earth Day in Memorial Park. [...]
PEDAL POWER
Our bike blender was used to blend some wonderful smoothies for the girls at Westridge School here in Pasadena this morning. Thanks for the invite LM! Really glad we could be apart of the ground breaking ceremony for your LEEDs certified science building. Congrats. Everyone had a blast!
