My first experience with the Park Slope Food Coop was back in December when I was here in New York for a month. Jay had joined after realizing how awful New York grocery stores are. The produce is awful, the selection is meager and the prices seem enormous to our Northwestern eyes. A friend told [...]
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Park Slope Food Coop’s Newest Member
July 22nd, 2010 · 2 Comments
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Annual Chicken Coop Cleaning
June 14th, 2010 · 5 Comments
The chickens have been patient through a very wet, cold Spring in Oregon. Wet conditions in a chicken coop can often lead to increased chances of disease and bacteria, so a dry coop is important to build. Mine held up pretty well, but things still got soggy.
I like to do an annual deep cleaning of [...]
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More Later
March 10th, 2010 · 3 Comments
My final review for the term is tomorrow - woohoo! My project this term was designing an area in the Lents neighborhood of Portland and converting it into an urban agricultural park for the local residents. I think it turned out well, but we will see what the feedback is in a few short hours.
On [...]
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Chickens Back in Business
February 10th, 2010 · 1 Comment
“An egg! An egg! An egg!” You could hear the excitement in my voice carrying through the neighborhood on a recent, drizzly evening as I did my regular check on the chickens. A little brown egg quietly laid in the nesting box.
I then recalled how my urban hens seemed to be making quite a ruckus [...]
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Bare Root Tree Planting
January 20th, 2010 · 1 Comment
It is the perfect time of year to plant bare root trees in the garden! While the trees are sleeping for winter, consider what corners of the garden you can stick more fun fruit trees.
I’m dreaming about 5-way pear trees that produce five different varieties on the same tree. The multi-variety grafted trees are also [...]
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