• Gardening & Pets

    City Folk’s Farm Shop First Look

    by  • March 20, 2012 • Farm & Market Tours, Featured, Gardening & Pets, Homesteading • 2 Comments

    handmade tools at city folk's farm

    City Folk’s Farm Shop opens today in North Clintonville. Located at 4760 North High Street, at the intersection of Beechwold and High, City Folk’s is a sustainably-minded urban homesteading store. They stock gardening, house keeping, and animal husbandry supplies for central Ohio backyard growers. Lil and I stopped in yesterday to see the store...

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    Garden 2011 Review and Plans 2012

    by  • March 15, 2012 • Gardening & Pets • 5 Comments

    reading seed packets for kids garden plan

    I asked Hounds in the Kitchen Facebook fans what they wanted to read today and they chose garden plans. If your favorite was an alternative topic (salt, cornbread, or charcoal) I’ll get to it soon! I remember hanging out of a second story window last year to get the overhead view for the 2011...

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    News and Notes from OEFFA

    by  • February 22, 2012 • Events, Gardening & Pets • 2 Comments

    I presented and attended the 33rd annual conference of the Ohio Ecological Food and Farm Association (OEFFA) conference last Saturday and Sunday. The conference was inspiring, educational, and fun. I loved learning from experienced growers, meeting new and old foodie friends, and strolling the exhibit hall to learn what’s happening. In the coming weeks...

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    Planting Edibles in Our New Zone 6

    by  • January 30, 2012 • Gardening & Pets • 8 Comments

    The USDA recently updated their Plant Hardiness Zone maps. The new map reflects that warmer temperatures allow less-hardy plants to survive Ohio winters. Columbus (and most of Ohio) is now in Zone 6a, an upgrade from Zone 5b. Not in Columbus? Check out the interactive map to find your Zone. It must be noted...

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    She Was Hiding Something

    by  • January 9, 2012 • City Chickens • 2 Comments

    Can you spy the oddity in this picture? How about the chicken egg behind the bush?Which, upon looking closer, turned out to be a whole nest of eggs. It seems our chicken Austra has been laying for quite some time. We had our suspicions when her feathers grew back in completely and comb turned...

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