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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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Banyan's End: December 2012
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Sustainable Living and (sub)Urban Farming in the Central Valley. December 27, 2012. Christmas Cabbage (and Cabbageworms). On the first day of Christmas my garden gave to me, a cabbage for Caldo Verde. On December 24th we harvested this beauty from the brassica bed along with some kale, sliced up a chorizo, and transformed it all into a traditional Portugese soup. Because it was a red cabbage, the Caldo Verde turned out more like a Caldo Verde y Rojo, but no matter. I collected a nice handful for the chic...
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Banyan's End: February 2013
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Sustainable Living and (sub)Urban Farming in the Central Valley. February 28, 2013. Earlier this month I found myself engaged in what has become a February ritual around here over the last ten years: kneeling in the middle of the crushed granite garden path trying to yank all the little clumps of fescue out of the ground before the warm temperatures cause them to go to seed and guarantee next year's spring weed crop. Suddenly I thought, "Wait a second.why am I doing this? Cutting the boards to size.
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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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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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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...
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Community Resources - Yolo Ag & Food Alliance
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Community Engagement News & Outreach. Stronger UCD Connection Committee. Community Engagement News & Outreach. Stronger UCD Connection Committee. Center for Land Based Learning. Yolo County Dept of Health and Human Services. Yolo County Dept. of Ag. Yolo AFA Puts on Annual Ag Tour for Supervisors. Waste Not, Want Not with the Yolo AFA. 2nd Annual Yolo County Ag Tour is a Success. Find out what is new with the Yolo AFA. Stronger UCD Connection Committee. 2016 Yolo Ag and Food Alliance. Mdash; Up ↑.
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Banyan's End: August 2013
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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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