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City chick gets her hands dirty on her urban homestead planting an edible garden, raising backyard chickens, preserving the harvest and working toward a greener future

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Entries Tagged as 'beneficial insects'

Intro to Beekeeping: Part III

April 9th, 2009 · 2 Comments

The first post in this series covered the roles of different bees in the colony. The second post in this series talked about reproduction, swarming and environmental needs of a colony. This final post will focus on equipment needed to start keeping bees in the city and potential disease.
Glen Andresen advised that a love of [...]

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Tags: beekeeping · beneficial insects · permaculture

Summer Garden Transition

July 27th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The garden is undergoing the late summer change. I am allowing the lettuce to go to seed, so I can attempt to save them for next Spring. The arugula and spinach were allowed to do the same thing, and I pulled them out to dry about a week ago. I have never tried saving seed [...]

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Tags: beneficial insects · food forest · gardening · vegetables

Bee-Keeping Workshop

July 24th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Last Sunday at the Lents International Farmer’s Market, they had a guest speaker come to talk about bee-keeping in the city. This has been something I have been curious about for some time, but I was never really sure if you could do that in the city. To answer that question, yes you can keep [...]

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Tags: beekeeping · beneficial insects · lents · methods · permaculture · workshop