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Eat The Yard
http://www.eattheyard.com/
A chronicle of an amateur's attempt to get 15 percent of his food from his suburban fifth of an acre.
- Added on: Sep 11th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Jason Williams
- Listed in: Gardening Lawn & Garden
- Tags: sustainable green permaculture vegetable heirloom local food
Recent Posts
For the worms
In the spirit of the listing that this season entails — the New York Times has no fewer than 11 book lists to guide what readers read and buy — and the good reading weather the cool season brings (though it is 77 degrees in San Diego as I write t...
The fortunate rain
The several storms that hit San Diego this past weekend left me little to do in the way of gardening but plan. So I fiddled with my designs for a living-roof chicken coop — designs that needed no fiddling. That will get built in January. Chic...
A whole meal of food
We have been saving snow peas for three or four weeks, dutifully blanching and freezing them until a combination of preserved peas and fresh-picked measured out to two cups. We got there this past Sunday and made vegetarian split pea soup with our...
Four months in
If our production and consumption of calories had been even and steady throughout the year, then by the end of November we should have harvested and eaten 75,030 calories from our property, or about 5 percent of our annual calories. It would be fri...
A new hope
A few weeks ago I planted a perennial gourd called a Chayote, and in this brief period of time it has displayed the durability I’d hoped for in this enduring class of plants. If the squirrels and rabbits are too numerous to be controlled and...
Convergent lady killers
For about $8 you can buy 1,500 ladybugs. Since August, I have released 7,500 in my yard. Despite all of the troubles I’ve had getting things rolling in the garden this year, I have avoided dousing my edibles in chemicals to ward off or kill ...
