Chicken links
- Just how smart is a chicken? Smarter than you think.
- How to feed chickens without buying grain.
- 5 ways to get the most out of your chickens.
- Every chicken lover should have a Back Yard Chicken account. Great for answering questions.
- Chicken feed recipe here
- Lovely chick brooder for those who do lots of it.
- Page with a wide variety of chicken coops. Some really great inspiration.
- This automatic chicken feeder can probably be adapted to a number of purposes. Its wonderful when the answer is simple.
- Two tools for helping you select the right breed for you. Hendersons's Chicken Chart & My Pet Chicken breed selecting tool.
- We also have a few pages of our own dedicated to raising chooks.
- Black Soldier Fly composting could go under gardening or chickens because chickens love grubs.
Gardening links
- Edible ground covers. Thats two garden remedies in one! Coolness.
- Low pressure irrigation system may be of special interest to rain water users.
- How to grow a traditional living hedge
- Grow on 1/10 acre informational video.
- I recommend you follow Growingyourgreens on YouTube. Great information.
- Make your own bone meal. No throwing out bones anymore just because they wont go in the composter.
- Expanding what we eat from Casaubon's Book
- How to pasteurize soil.
- Retractable window garden for those with limited space.
- Britta talks about apartment window hydroponics and the power of open source.
- If you like quinoa, maybe you should grow quinoa.
- Academic article about a composting greenhouse. Some ideas maybe useful on a home scale. Worth the read.
- We havnt tried eating Glass Gem Corn, but its beautiful to see. Let us know if you have grown it!
- How much land do I need? I dont agree with all these figures, but its an interesting tool for sizing your land needs.
Gardening tower promises to provide compost and lots of planting space in a vertical design. Very attractive.- Selecting plants to improve indoor air quality. also Plants that tell you when your air is polluted.
- This page about Mittleider gardening comes highly recommend. We havnt use it so let us know what you think of it.
- Things you can grow from produce.
- Really informative page on potato towers. Includes some really important info. Also has potato towers for sale.
- Calculate soil required for raised beds.
- Great article about lettuces and how to get the most from them.
- Nice little garden markers using old forks and soup can lids.
- How to make moss graffiti
- 25 no/low cost gardening tools.
- There may be a biological reason behind the fact that even thought farmers work harder, they are happier than people working in a cube.
Great watermelon trellis helps with the biggest watermelon problem. Space!!!- 10 veggies that to ok in the shade. Something we all have to deal with on Urban Farms.
- Fascinating article about the things you never thought plants could do. Hopefully it will give you even more respect for mother nature.
- How safe is your garden soil? Here is an article to help you take a look.
- This page has a better than most list of make your own household cleaners and gardening projects.
- Green Dean of EatTheWeeds.com is a personal hero. Check out his YouTube Channel.
- For anyone facing long term unemployment or underemployment, gardening can be a way to combat stagnation, depression as well as a way to stay healthy and well fed. Here is a short but very acute article on this topic.
- Seattle to build one of the first public food forests/parks. I would love to see more and more of this. Every city and community should have a free food park.
How to build a wicking bed. Im hoping that we can build one and try it for raising our most moisture sensitive crops like broccoli.- Another type of bed is a hugelkulture bed. We would like to try one of these as well but we gave away all the wood from the tree we lost last year before we ever heard of such a thing. Maybe some of you can give feedback.
- This sweet potato project helps to illustrate why how our food is handled should be important to us and just how ignorant we are.
- 1000 questions about growing Veggies in California answered.
- When to start your seed thanks to Jonny's Selected Seeds. Here is another seed starting page that includes a few different plants. Zone 7-8.
- Look up your last frost date by zip code. Really easy to use unlike looking at a tiny map and trying to decide where just what you are looking at. Thanks Dave's Garden.
- There are many good sources for seeds. We have used Territorial Seed and Horizon Herbs.
- Organic Gardening Monthly to do list by zone! You will need to click around to find your right month and zone.
- We are currently working on our own potato bins. However instead of building something new, we are reusing our disappointing BioStack composters minus its lid. Very similar!
