the farm
Farm is not a noun or a verb; Farm is a philosophy. You certainly don’t need to move to the country to adopt a farmer’s attitude - even an über urbanite can use eco-friendly paint or plant a windowsill herb-garden. Use the lists and links below to navigate articles ranging from growing to grazing to green interior design, all intended to help you make farming your frame of mind!
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- How To Make Dandelion Oil (And Also, Why You Should Want To)
- How To Make Oil Of Oregano At Home – The Perfect Autumn Project To Prep For Cold And Flu Season
- Natural And Cruelty-Free Pest Control: Rats And Mice
- A Teeny Tiny Room For A Very, Very Big Little Boy
- Mason Jar Travel Cup HACK: Homemade Cuppow/EcoJarz Sip Cup
- DIY Eco-Friendly Daily Shower Spray
- DIY Cake Stand Made From Thrifted Dishes. Also What?! Eco-Friendly(er) Spray Paint!
- DIY Cleaning: Is Borax Really As Green As It Seems?
- Greening The Little Things: A Homemade + “Hack” Round-Up
- DIY Homemade “Scrubbies”/Scouring Pads
- Vegan Taxidermy
- Natural Homemade Liquid Dishwasher Detergent
- Natural ‘Homemade’ Carpet Cleaner: Stain Removing Method
- Family Cloth: Getting Set Up
- Homemade Holidays: Reusable ‘Java Jackets’
- Homemade Holidays: Crock Pot Candles
- Natural Homemade Dishwashing: Dish Soap and Dishwasher Detergent Recipes
- Natural Homemade ‘drain-o’, or How To Unclog Without Harmful Chemicals
- Home Made Tea Bags
- Natural Homemade Laundry Detergent
- Townhomes Are Super Duper – You Should Probably Buy One
Flora
- Gifts From The Garden In Winter (AKA — I Heart California)
- My Happy Place: Pics From My 2016 Garden Adventure!
- Welcome To My 2016 Garden Adventure!
- Are You Ready To Garden?? Let’s Do This Thing, Twenty-Sixteen!
- Welcome To My 2015 Urban Garden! Plus, Some Real Life Real Talk.
- My Garden In Winter
- Eco-Friendly DIY: Homegrown Luffa
- Veganic Gardening At Home
- Cheap & Easy Compost Bin System
- More Photos From My 2014 Yard & Garden Adventure
- Welcome To My 2014 Yard & Garden Adventure!
- Just A Few Upcycling Projects Around My Yard And Garden
- Small Space Gardening: How To Make Inverted Hanging Tomato Planters Out Of Plastic Water Jugs
- My 2012 Garden, A Retrospective
- Potato Tower Project: The Results Are In!
- Final Photos From The 2011 Garden-stravaganza
- The Potato Tower Project, Redux
- An Update From The 2011 Garden-stravaganza
- Welcome To My 2011 Garden-stravaganza
- A Watering Can Hack For Newspaper Pots, The Tragedy Of Thinning Seedlings, And Getting Ready To Head Outside
- Getting Ready To Garden: 2011 Edition
- Goodbye Garden 2010
- The Great Seed Exchange, And A Little Update From The 2010 Tiny Garden
- The 2010 ‘Tiny Garden’ Is . . . Not So Tiny!
- The Balcony Herb Garden, 2010
- The 2010 Micro-Farm Is Chuggin’ Along Into Summer
- A Tip For Transplanting Tomatoes
- A Tip For Thinning Your Garden: Don’t Waste Those Babies!
- 65 Common Things You Didn’t Know You Could Compost
- Spring On My Micro-Farm, and the 2010 Tiny Garden
- How To Make TP Roll Seed Pots
- Gearing Up For Spring: Bonzai’s Garden Guide
- Taking A Chance In The Garden . . .
- Autumn Update: Gearing the Garden Down
- Autumn Harvest: Saving Sunflower Seeds
- Spice Harvesting Project: Saving Dill Seed
- Potato Harvest: The Tire Tower Project
- Spice Harvesting Project: Saving Coriander Seeds
- Summer Garden’s Slowing Down, Autumn Garden’s Gearing Up
- How To Cultivate A Strawberry Patch
- Growing A Fall Garden
- Summer Garden Story: The Harvest Continues
- Saving Seed: Snow Peas
- The Continuing Saga Of My Growing Garden
- Summer Garden Story: Little HQ and the Humble Harvest
- My Growing Garden: Another Follow-Up
- My Growing Garden: Potato Tire Project
- An Introduction To Container Gardening
- My Growing Garden: A Few Follow-Ups
- On Gardening, and the Never Ending Efficacy of Twine
- All About Compost
- How To Grow Potatoes in Tire Towers
- It’s Time! – Tips For Transplanting Seedlings
- Simple Solutions For A Shared Garden: A ‘Twine Web’ Wall
- How To Make Newspaper Seed Pots
- Growing From Seed: The Big Move
- Growing From Seed, The Continuing Saga
- How To Start Seeds Indoors
Family
- Turning The Wheel Of The Year — Reflections On 2019
- Celebrating the Wheel of the Year: Yule
- Celebrating the Wheel of the Year: Mabon
- Celebrating the Wheel of the Year: Lammas (Lughnasadh)
- Celebrating the Wheel of the Year: Litha
- Celebrating the Wheel of the Year: Beltane
- Celebrating the Wheel of the Year: Ostara
- Celebrating the Wheel of the Year: Imbolc
- Celebrating the Wheel of the Year
- New
- Summer Bucket List 2018
- Spring Things [2018]
- Spring Break Family Road Trip Part II: Desert Hot Springs, Joshua Tree, & Big Bear Lake
- Spring Break Family Road Trip Part I: Anza Borrego Desert & The Salton Sea
- For His Eighth Birthday
- And Then There Was Vesper . . . [AKA, Winter 2017]
- Vegan Parenting Moments: I Took Him To McDonalds
- Our Annual Family Disney Adventure — Take 4!
- Matt Pond At Five & 1/4!!! Oh And Also, About Five & 1/4 . . .
- Do Vegan Kids Get More Cavities? (Plus — How I Take Care Of My Vegan Kid’s Teeth!)
- What Do The Bloggers Call It? A “Life Update”?
- Holidaze (2016)
- Santa Barbara To Shasta: Our Annual End-Of-Summer Adventure
- Here’s To New Beginnings – My Baby Is In First Grade!
- Spring Break Photos, Because Look! I Got My Photos Back!
- Our Annual Vegan Family Disneyland Adventure: Round 3!
- Vegan Parenting Moments: The Popsicle
- An Ending And A Beginning
- Raising Vegan Children: The “Pretend You’re Not Vegan” Game
- Surprise Video! Eco-Vegan Gal Interviews Sayward + Waits About Growing Up Vegan
- Celebrating FIVE Years With My Favorite Person On Earth
- A Few Pics From Our Annual Family Disney Adventure, Because Holy Moly, The Kid Is Turning FIVE. And Also, More Tips For Eating Vegan At Disneyland!
- On Vaccinations, And Living In Community
- A Few Photos From Christmas
- Feminist Books For My 4 Year Old Son
- Eco-Friendly Vegan Camping! Part III – Yosemite & “How To Be Vegan”
- Eco-Friendly Vegan Camping! Part II – A Few Of My Favorite Natural Products
- Camping! Eco-Friendly Vegan Camping! With Kids! And Gluten-Free Too! Oh, So Many Ways To Frame This. Part I – Food
- Big Changes!
- Vegan Family Vacation: Vegan At Disneyland
- Awesome Zoo Alternatives For Vegan Children! #2 – Animal Sanctuaries
- Why Don’t Vegan Children Go To The Zoo? Also, There Are Awesome Zoo Alternatives! #1 – The Natural History Museum
- You still with me?
- and then i found my Happy, it was hiding under the sun in California . . .
- Not So Fast, Lady
- Drive fast, and take lots of chances
- Nothing Lasts Forever
- But I’m not gonna live my life / On one side of an ampersand
- the fantasy hides a fractured facade; facade; facade; facade
- I ate the red berries / And fell into the pond / I found myself in a dream / Where all my worries were gone
- “caught it early, prognosis is good”
- Making Lemonade
- The End Is The Beginning
- Hey, How Ya Been?
- Saturday Afternoon & A Birthday Party For Two Pint-Sized Plant Eaters
- Easy DIY No-Sew Knee Pads For Baby-On-The-Crawl
- Diapering The Bonzai Bum – Part II
- Diapering The Bonzai Bum – Part I
- Low-Impact Child Rearing ~or~ ‘Babies The Bonzai Way!’
- The Littlest Rebhal
- I’m In Labor!
- A Bonzai PSA – “Babywatch 2010″
- Letter From The Editor
- The Pregnancy FAQ