Sloth bears up a tree.
Emerald boa up a tree
Zebra munching grass.
Wolf hiding in woods.
Bear sniffing wind.
Jaguar cat napping.We went to the Woodland Park Zoo yesterday.
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Take one American middle-class family, living in suburbia, mix with a desire for a simpler, greener, and more local life, and what do you get? Down on the Funny Farm: Adventures in Suburban Farming with a family who knows next-to-nothing about farming.
Egg Count: too many to keep track of any more.
Funny Farmers
Goals of the Suburban Farm project
1. Eat seasonally, locally, sustainably, and organically.
2. Grow more of our own food.
3. Increase community, decrease our consumerism.
4. Live and play simply and locally.
5. Eat vegetarian 3-4 times per week.
6. Buy only what we need or truly love.
7. Make less trash.
8. Repurpose reusables. Do more with less.
9. Whenever possible buy used, good for the environment and the bank account.
10. Remake: take old, unwanted, or worn items and remake into something desired.
2. Grow more of our own food.
3. Increase community, decrease our consumerism.
4. Live and play simply and locally.
5. Eat vegetarian 3-4 times per week.
6. Buy only what we need or truly love.
7. Make less trash.
8. Repurpose reusables. Do more with less.
9. Whenever possible buy used, good for the environment and the bank account.
10. Remake: take old, unwanted, or worn items and remake into something desired.
Labels
- Alchemy
- Alex
- Anni
- Ari
- Baby birds
- bargains
- Barkley
- Book
- bumbling bicycler
- Celebrations
- chickens
- community
- Cost
- cozy corner
- critters
- CSA
- David
- Eco
- Exceptions
- Farming Finger
- fishies
- flowers
- fun
- fun and free
- garden
- Goals
- gym
- holiday
- home
- Intro
- Julie Ann
- Kitties
- Lisa
- Local food source
- market finds
- menu
- Movie
- news
- pests
- preserves
- Project update
- Reader Q and A
- recipe
- recycling
- remaking
- Scenic views
- seasons
- shout outs
- slug wars
- strange sitings
- suburban adventures
- summer
- trash
- trees
- unusual
- urban adventures
- vacation adventures
- video
- Wedding
- What's in Anni's purse today?
- wildlife
- Win-wins
- worms
- writing
- zoo
- Zucchini 100
Book of the Week
- Grow, Cook, Eat by Willi Galloway
- A Slice of Organic Life edited by Sheherazade Goldsmith (Packed with great ideas and solutions to set you on a path to a more natural lifestyle)
Booklist
- A Slice of Organic Life by Sheherazade Goldsmith
- Alice Waters & Chez Panisse by Thomas McNamee
- Audacity of Hope by Barack Obama
- Book of Compost by MIke McGrath
- Compost, Rodale Organic Gardening Basics
- Diary of a Compost Hotline Operator by Spring Gillard
- Grub, ideas for an urban organic kitchen by Anna Lappe & Bryant Terry
- Homestead Year: Back to the Land in Suburbia by Judith Moffett
- Mother Earth News, a magazine
- On Good Land, the autobiography of an urban farm by Michael Ableman
- Passionate Vegetarian by Crescent Dragonwagon
- Putting It Up with Honey by Susan Geiskopf
- Secrets to Great Soil by Eizabeth P. Stell
- Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant
- The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald
- The Self-Sufficient Life by John Seymore
- vintage cookbooks by Barbara Swell, published by Native Ground (see entry of Jan. 22nd)
- Yankee Magazine's Panty Hose, Hot Peppers, Tea Bags, and more for the Garden
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