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Open House at the Urban Farm at The Urban Farm
October 24, 2009 from 8:30am to 12pm
Fruit Trees with Greg Peterson
The Urban Farm
6750 N 13th Place, Phoenix, AZ 85014
Requested donation: $10 (Cash or check only)
Learn what fruit trees to plant, what grows well and what doesn’t in the desert, the single most important thing you nee…
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- I love simple, mindful living, cooking from scratch, simple building projects, gardening, composting, chickens, crocheting and knitting, recycling, and reading. Urban homesteading is my goal!
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Hi all- I would like to order some Cornish X next week, but would prefer to have my mother in law raise them in Prescott rather than in Phx. Anyone know how Cornish X will do in cooler weather up in Prescott?
Jay
I didn't get a chance to thank you Doreen but this was VERY informative, a must for all newbies!
So I cooked the first of the rabbits we processed last week. Fried it like chicken. What went wrong is I have never fried chicken and I cooked it too long resulting in rubber rabbit so I popped it into the crockpot for three hours and it was divine…
I was just reviewing John Jeavon's book How to Grow More Vegetables and in it he mentions planting Mexican marigold (Tagetes minuta) for controlling nematodes.
Hi Brittany,
Now is sure the time to be making Kombucha since it's been gone off the shelves for a few months now. I so miss it! I hope and pray that the issues get resolved and it comes back.
I've had some really good success with making Kombucha…
Hi Chris - I don't have a PH tester. I've always just added bagged composted mulch, steer manuer and Starbucks grounds to my existing AZ soil to ammend. Some years my spring tomatoes are really good and sometimes not so good. Is there anything in ad…
Thanks for the heads up. When should transplants go in? It's so stinking hot out there! I have an area preparred and ready to go but dragging my feet in fear of the heat.
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Thanks,
Macey
Here are some links to plans for building a compost tumbler. We could have a workshop to build a few of these. Tumblers aren't inherently faster; it is just hat they tend to get turned more often than bins compost.
Jeff
jeffysimpson@yahoo.com
http://shoppingmatchmaker.com/compost.htm
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Nature-Community/2003-04-01/Compost-Tumblers.aspx
http://www.solidwastedistrict.com/projects/bin_barrel.htm