Tis the Season for baby chicks! Rachel will show you how easy it is to keep chickens in your backyard.
Chickens in Phoenix? You bet! Chickens make great pets, efficient bug and weed eaters and excellent soil tillers, not to mention that they provid…
Raising Chickens in Your Backyard with Rachael Bess at The Tempe Transportation Center is located at 200 E. Fifth Street (near Forest and College avenues) at the base of A-Mountain. The class will be on the second floor in the Don Cassano Community Room.
January 26, 2010 from 6:30pm to 8pm
Learn how fun keeping chickens in an urban environment can be!
Rachel will show you how easy it is to keep chickens in your backyard. Chickens in Phoenix? You bet! Chickens make great pets, efficient bug and weed eaters, excellent soil tillers, AND…
Building a Biodynamic Compost Heap with Maya Dailey
HANDS-ON, Limit 15 people
Suggested donation $20
Come down to the Farm at South Mountain and assist Maya in building a biodynamic compost heap. Biodynamics seeks to capture the "life force" in pl…
Tour de Coops tickets are available for $10.
Purchase tickets online at www.tourdecoops.org
Do you like urban fowl and creative people?
Come check out the Phoenix Tour de Coops, the self-guided tour of the Valley's coolest urban poultry setups! Ov…
I'm trying to track down the contact info for a local business that raises and sells composting worms. I think it's called Wonder Worm (located somewhere near Baker's nursery). I heard about it from two different people, but can't find any info onli…
Hi, somehow I missed the note you sent me months ago. So sorry, if you still need worms I have a lot of them now, they seem to have been multiplying nicely. Chris
Hello All~
Here is the info on Wonder Worms. It is a local home business near Cambell and 30th street, run by Maureen Anderson, 602 957-4099
She charges $10.00 for a quart , about 200 to 300 red worms.
This is enough to get your worm bin going, has been beneficial to my garden, and has been a fun hobby.
Enjoy
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.
For families who are interested in raising eco-conscious children and living more in balance with nature... Bring your kids to this fun, interactive and informative class on learning more about sustainable living and permaculture. What does it mean…
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have you tried canyonland for worms?
Here is the info on Wonder Worms. It is a local home business near Cambell and 30th street, run by Maureen Anderson, 602 957-4099
She charges $10.00 for a quart , about 200 to 300 red worms.
This is enough to get your worm bin going, has been beneficial to my garden, and has been a fun hobby.
Enjoy
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