Tag Archive for ‘Goats’

WILL FORAGE FOR FOOD

When raising animals in the city, one has to rely on outside sources of feed (no back forty of hay here in LA).

TOUR TIME!

Kicking off spring with our first school tour of the season.

JUST DUCKY!

Our new batch of ducks have taken to finding their way on top of the goat house and hanging with goatsies.

HERE COMES THE SUN!

Sure is nice to see that yellow bright ball in the sky! The greyish clouds are moving out, leaving brilliant blue skies and nippish temps – just in time for fall!

FALLING FROM OCTOBER SKY

For the past 3 days there’s been wet stuff falling from the sky! Yep, tis raining! Quite a dramatic change in that it’s 40 degrees COOLER than it was just last week!

DUCKY TALES

Sorta sad there’ll be no more fluffy butts (for awhile at least til we get a new batch of chickens come spring), but we are happy that they’ve integrated nicely with the chickens, ducks and even goats.

FUTURE FEAR SBS DATELINE

Others are approaching the future differently, believing the biggest threats we’re facing are problems that we’ve caused ourselves. Meet the Dervaes family of so-called ‘urban homesteaders’. They’ve already adapted and are living self-sufficiently and almost entirely off-grid.But are they all being over cautious, or will the rest of us be under prepared?

AUGUST HARVEST TALLY

Now that fall is just around the corner I can honestly say this was the COOLEST summer (ever), well, that I can remember. From June-August there were only two or three “really hot” weeks. So Cal gardeners, how did the cool summer affect your garden? Did you find it an easier or harder growing season?

GOT MILK?

This week, Fairlight the foodie, gets up close and personal with a jar of peanut butter. Warning: the montage of photos are not yet rated and may not be suitable for folks who are drinking their morning coffee or tea while reading….

Urban Homestead: Local, Organic and in the City

[the] Dervaes Gardens sits practically on top of a Pasadena, California, freeway and is only blocks away from the famous Rose Bowl. Outside are all the trappings of twenty-first-century life: automobiles, satellite dishes, supermarkets, car washes, and stores…