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Digging the Dandenongs: Bye bye bee bee, bye bye!
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Sunday, December 30, 2012. Bye bye bee bee, bye bye! Recently our wonderful, garage dwelling, feral bees ran out of space and a drone cut a hole through the interior wall into the garage. Bees not being the brightest, they then congregated around the rear window to the garage hoping that somehow the glass would disappear and they'd be able to go on their merry way. Just to show that they're not fast learners, a couple of days later the exact same thing happened and again we lost a few hundred bees. David...
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Digging the Dandenongs: Treat Peach Leaf Curl Now! Lime-Sulphur Recipe
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Thursday, August 09, 2012. Treat Peach Leaf Curl Now! For those with peach, nectarine, apricot, plum or almond trees in particular, it's almost time to treat your trees before bud burst in order to prevent any hibernating fungal growths from infecting the new growth. As soon as you see the pink starting to show on the buds, spray your tree - it is not possible to control the fungus once it's entered the leaf, so don't leave it for the buds to open. WARNING - Don't get it on your skin or in your eyes!
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What Makes Something “Local?” | ModernDomestic
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Chronicling an obsession with baking, pastry, dessert, and living the sweet life in our nation’s Capital. What Makes Something “Local? April 17, 2012. I really liked this piece from The Post. About why Qualia Coffee, a local coffee roaster, isn’t allowed to sell at some farmers’ markets in the DC area. The reason? Because, although Qualia roasts the coffee locally, the beans themselves aren’t locally sourced (literally, they can’t be grown in this climate). What do you think? What makes something local?
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Another Year Without Groceries: Why We are Doing This
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Another Year Without Groceries. We successfully went a year without buying food from grocery stores, restaurants and convenience stores. Now we're going for another year. Why We are Doing This. We are going to start this new project on October1st. Why October1st? Really, I have no idea. It's as good a time as any and to be honest, it's an easy date to remember. It also allows us time to do research before just diving into something. So why are we doing this crazy project? But here we're trying to do some...
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Another Year Without Groceries: October 2011
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Another Year Without Groceries. We successfully went a year without buying food from grocery stores, restaurants and convenience stores. Now we're going for another year. Sunday, October 30, 2011. Remember the Red Roasted Tomatillo Sauce? Here's what you do with it. I posted a recipe on our other blog a few weeks ago for a Red Roasted Tomatillo Sauce. Recipe. I promised to post this recipe but I just kept forgetting to. Well, here it is finally. 1 quart of Red Roasted Tomatillo Sauce. 1 onion, chopped.
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Another Year Without Groceries: Find Your Whey - March: Time to Get Cultured
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Another Year Without Groceries. We successfully went a year without buying food from grocery stores, restaurants and convenience stores. Now we're going for another year. Thursday, March 1, 2012. Find Your Whey - March: Time to Get Cultured. It's March's Cheese Challenge. We finally have a name thanks to some brainstorming from Sean over at Punk Domestics. This month we're finally getting a bit of culture. We're going with soft cheeses so you won't need to worry about having a press yet. When my goats ar...
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Another Year Without Groceries: April 2012
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Another Year Without Groceries. We successfully went a year without buying food from grocery stores, restaurants and convenience stores. Now we're going for another year. Monday, April 30, 2012. Finding Your Whey - May: The Hard Stuff. It's time to get serious about cheesemaking. This month we're going to be making hard cheeses! You'll need to also make sure to get the pressure gauge. So you know how much pressure you're applying. The other option is you can make one. This is going to be a lot of fun!
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Another Year Without Groceries: Finding Your Whey - May: The Hard Stuff
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Another Year Without Groceries. We successfully went a year without buying food from grocery stores, restaurants and convenience stores. Now we're going for another year. Monday, April 30, 2012. Finding Your Whey - May: The Hard Stuff. It's time to get serious about cheesemaking. This month we're going to be making hard cheeses! You'll need to also make sure to get the pressure gauge. So you know how much pressure you're applying. The other option is you can make one. This is going to be a lot of fun!
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Another Year Without Groceries: Finding Your Whey - June Challenge: Cheddaring
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Another Year Without Groceries. We successfully went a year without buying food from grocery stores, restaurants and convenience stores. Now we're going for another year. Friday, June 1, 2012. Finding Your Whey - June Challenge: Cheddaring. We've covered several different cheeses now, including the basic mesophilic hard cheese. And of course Cheddar. There are several ways to make cheddar. The shortcut is farmhouse cheddar. A more involved way is stirred-curd cheddar. June 2, 2012 at 8:57 AM. I must admi...
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Another Year Without Groceries: November 2012
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Another Year Without Groceries. We successfully went a year without buying food from grocery stores, restaurants and convenience stores. Now we're going for another year. Wednesday, November 21, 2012. What is a GMO? In case you didn't know (which you wouldn't unless you were also following my Dog Island Farm. Blog), we've got a new challenge. On the horizon and this time we want you to join us in it. The challenge is to go a month without GMOs. The challenge will begin January 1st, 2013. GMOs are differe...
