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wasSUP?!
June 1, Saturday, 8AM. An army of college students from SUP – Sacramento Urban Plunge – descended on our urban farm and worked some magic with shovels, a few wheelbarrows, and the good humor and energy...
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10,000 thanks
Though perhaps silly in the context of so many websites out there of such huge readership, and just as silly given there is no more significance between the numbers 10,000 and 957, we nonetheless...
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1-0-8
The projected high that will likely topple records for this date in Sacramento is 108 on Saturday. Worse, it may not get below 70 at night. In the face of such imminent and plant wilting heat waves,...
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butternut nut 2
We’ve been chided for posting after the fact: Presenting grow tips and recipes for certain vegetables after they have already been harvested, but not when those very veggies should be going into the...
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triple berry jam
It’s that season when berries of all shapes and flavors – blackberry, strawberry, raspberry, blueberry – start appearing in the garden or at the farmer’s market like delectable treasures of every...
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mystery wheat
An interesting news clip from CNN about genetically modified wheat – supposedly from a test field ended in 2005 – turning up in a farmer’s wheat field in Oregon....
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gad zukes, good bread
I (Anthony) yet again made the mistake of planting too many summer squash plants. I tell myself annually that I am only going to plant one. Then I reconsider and put in one each of crookneck and...
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ugly ducklings
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck. But what if the duck doesn’t quack, and it looks mostly like a duck, except for a rather odd looking snood sprouting from its head...
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robot lettuce
I think we’ll just stick to raising our fruits and vegetables in our garden without robots: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/14/5565939/robots-to-revolutionize-farming.html And clearly, no one is paying...
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Wild Blackberry Jam – low sugar version
“I don’t can much, but what I do can, I do can well.” -Anthony. Atop that list of what I can is wild blackberry jam, the fruit handpicked along a well-traveled roadside near our home. These past few...
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