Hip Chick Digs

City girl gets her hands dirty planting an edible garden and raising urban chickens

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Highs and Lows

July 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment

The budding urban food forest has a recent success: the fig tree is alive!
In case you missed the earlier post, we transplanted a 15+ foot fig tree into our backyard in early June. Not a great time to transplant a fruit tree, and the fig was none too pleased with us. However, we kept at [...]

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Tags: gardening · permaculture

The Fig Tree That Could

June 8th, 2007 · 4 Comments

It all started at the Horse Brass… Jay and I were sitting around a table of friends the other night when his buddy, Blair, offered up his fig tree to us. He was even willing to throw in some bamboo he had thinned out recently as well. The fig tree was great, but he had [...]

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Tags: food forest · gardening · trees