Raising Chickens and Urban Gardening
When it comes to gardening, I’m a rule breaker. Yes, I’ll admit it, I don’t map out my garden on graph paper to predetermine where each plant will go; I overlook companion plantings and I totally ignore suggested plant spacing. Call me a rebel with trowel-in-hand. Breaking the Rules I tried to follow the rules, once. When I converted to…
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The Huffington Post Features CdA Coop Garlic Scape Recipe The Coeur d’Alene Coop had the honor of being featured in the Huffington Post’s Kitchen Daily last Friday for an article about garlic scapes. The HuffPost was doing a round-up of garlic scape recipes and wanted to use my photo which was featured in my own post about garlic scapes last…
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The Great Garlic Scape Last fall I planted about 50 bulbs of Spanish Roja garlic — a hard neck variety with a hot and spicy taste. The garlic is doing extremely well and I’m anticipating a bounty of bulbs this fall. One bonus of growing garlic is the tender, tasty garlic scape that appears on the plant in spring. It…
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I had an interesting and enlightening (albeit short) interaction with a potential customer at Farmer’s Market last Wednesday about the 2nd St. Chicken Ranch eggs. The customer wanted to know if the eggs were from “free range” chickens. A valid enough question. I said no, they lived in a coop with pen…and she walked away. I was a little stunned…
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