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Banyan's End: Meet the Chickens: Bellatrix the Black Australorp
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Sustainable Living and (sub)Urban Farming in the Central Valley. July 12, 2012. Meet the Chickens: Bellatrix the Black Australorp. All of us in the family are huge. Fans of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter books, so it was only natural to go with a Harry Potter naming theme for our chickens when we got them as day-old chicks in April of 2011. This is Bellatrix, our Black Australorp. Bellatrix the Black Australorp. Bellatrix the Witch (photo courtesy). Snuggling with me as a little chick. Bellatrix has been th...
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Quirk It Yourselves – DIY | quirkutopia
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The deliciously eccentric region of ideas, art, food, wine and brews. Quirk It Yourself – DIY. Category Archives: Quirk It Yourselves – DIY. DIY, just not alone. One annual gathering is Transition Sebastopol Reskill Fair in October at the Laguna Farms CSA (Community Supported Agriculture – more on those HERE). January 9, 2013. Recently expanded Moto Shop featured on NatGeo program Let It Ride! Be warned; it also features a segment on creating veryumfeminine makeover on a Harley Dyna. Wilder and Aleks hav...
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quirkutopia | The deliciously eccentric region of ideas, art, food, wine and brews | Page 2
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The deliciously eccentric region of ideas, art, food, wine and brews. Quirk It Yourself – DIY. Newer posts →. The Spore Recovery Of New Orleans. July 11, 2012. The fernhangers are returning, spore-sourcing the green recovery. The ferns of Nola have been sporely missed indeed. Photo by Heather Granahan. Gettin in the fern spirit…more sources of all things good and ferny. Photo by Heather Granahan. Shiny new paint isn’t stopping these brave fluffy fronds. Photo by Heather Granahan. Photo by Heather Granahan.
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Banyan's End: DIY Outdoor Sink: Rinse Veggies, Save Water
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Sustainable Living and (sub)Urban Farming in the Central Valley. June 13, 2012. DIY Outdoor Sink: Rinse Veggies, Save Water. Last month, my handy husband put together an outdoor sink for the homestead using an old stainless steel double basin our neighbors were throwing away, plus some 2 x 2s and a few small items purchased at Hibbert Lumber. My new outdoor, water-saving, veggie prep station! Mr English filling the rinse basin with just-picked oranges. Chard soaking in the rinse basin. Now when I triple ...
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Banyan's End: Double-digging Dividends
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Sustainable Living and (sub)Urban Farming in the Central Valley. August 26, 2013. The big double dig is paying off! Back in October of 2012, I started a double digging project. Inspired by reading John Jeavons' book How To Grow More Vegetables. The goal was to improve the soil in my garden beds and hopefully increase veggie production. It was a lot of work, and even though I knew I wouldn't see the results for many months, I opted to broaden my experiment and double dig several more beds. It's a lot of w...
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W & J: May 2013
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Thursday, May 30. This year, our birthdays fell on Wednesdays. For my big 3-0, we went downtown for a date night. We celebrated the night before with my parents during family dinner. The following week, the boys and I made W a birthday cake and dinner. We kept it simple. It was Theo's first time baking with us. He's a fan. This past family dinner was W's turn. He got to pick the menu. Wednesday, May 29. The Rest of Memorial Weekend. Since we were out all day Saturday, we never left the house the followin...
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Banyan's End: Fleeting Fungi
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Sustainable Living and (sub)Urban Farming in the Central Valley. April 9, 2013. One great thing about garden paths mulched with woodchips is watching all the fascinating stuff that emerges from the mulch after a rain. When the woodchips have come from a variety of sources, it makes the fungal show all the more interesting. Most of what appears is stuff I've never encountered before (like last May's dog vomit slime mold. Drippy, yucky mushroom. Then there was this understated, grey-hatted mushroom:. That'...
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Ordinary Awe | Holy Chit
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Fall in Love with your wHole Life. Red Dogs and Ridiculous Love. Category Archives: Ordinary Awe. The Dearness of Being. Why would three grown-up professional women dress like chickens and ride rented bicycles on a rainy day in Davis California? Two of my sisters (Judy and Carol) and I recently participated in the Tour de Cluck. I didn’t expect the Rose Bowl Parade. I thought in terms of Gay Pride hundreds of costumed well-intentioned citizens for a worthy cause. The Tour de Cluck. Continue reading →.
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Banyan's End: Tour de Cluck 2013 is Next Saturday
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Sustainable Living and (sub)Urban Farming in the Central Valley. May 17, 2013. Tour de Cluck 2013 is Next Saturday. Davis is one of a growing number of towns hosting tours of backyard chicken coops and gardens, and the city's fourth annual Tour de Cluck, a Bicycle Chicken Coop Crawl will take place next Saturday, May 25th. The Tour is one of the main fundraisers for Yolo Farm to Fork. The Fowlery at Banyan's End. If you can't get a ticket, there are lots of other activities in addition to the actual bicy...
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Banyan's End: WARNING: Don't Read While Eating Breakfast!
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Sustainable Living and (sub)Urban Farming in the Central Valley. May 14, 2012. WARNING: Don't Read While Eating Breakfast! Uh, mom.it looks like Rico barfed in the mulch.". Indeed, the first time I saw this, um, development, in the mulch a few weeks ago, that's exactly what I thought had happened. Dog Vomit Slime Mold, stage 1. A different pile, in stage 2. It basically still looks like this, two weeks later. Thank God for the Internet! Its official name is- appropriately- Dog Vomit Slime Mold, and it tu...
