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Bread today 4/23/19 here at the ranch
Organic, Naturally leavened Sourdough bread baked in a brick oven. Follow me on Instagram!
Agritourism, Fruit and Flower Farm
Our off grid, hand built Farmhouse is now available for group rentals. It’s wonderful for retreats, family reunions. Separate private spaces, catered or not. The house has five bedrooms plus a bunkhouse . It sleeps 14 plus areas for camping. Our rustic farm kitchen...
It’s not where you live. It’s how you live.
Roseman Creek Ranch knows this with all its heart. Working to try to help the world from our little spot of land. Appreciation, generosity, and a curious mind is welcome here.
Garden Work- January in Northern California
I always want to shout out to everyone- This is the time ! These are the moments to create everything you want in your garden for spring, right NOW ! What you do right now determines how your garden will do and look all year. It is time to plant, and transplant new...
Local small farms are important
Good Farm Fund awards grants to 14 Mendocino County farms By: Erick O’Donnell The Good Farm Fund, an agricultural grant program sponsored by North Coast Opportunities, awarded $20,000 worth of grants this week to 14 small farms throughout Mendocino County. The grants...
Life
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed...
Organic Garden Maintenance
Organic Garden Maintenance If you are having a maintenance service maintain your grounds and gardens, pay attention to whether or not they are routinely using Round Up. If you have a gravel driveway and it has not been recently replaced, you are likely to be getting...
New Local Blog Mark Gross
My friend Mark Gross, a long time writer for the Washington Post has started a local blog. He is excited and ever so curious about the area, so he's finding the inner sanctum and writing about it. He told me he would help me host a local party. I have a hard time...
Developing Land in Mendocino Coastal Area- categorical exemptions
Now I'm no expert, but I have gone through developing two properties, bought as bare land in the Mendocino Coastal Area. I can say I was shocked and surprised each time by how difficult and challenging this was. I'am in no way a legal representative of these building...
Class K Mendocino County
Navigating class K , or Rural Residential permits is a bit complicated, yet well worth it. A very well written law, Class K allows you to build using recycled, upcycled building materials and alternative methods of construction...
Download Book for free here.
I posted this last week, but some of you didn't figure out that the book downloads for free. Even though supporting this wonderful author by buying the book is fantastic. All of Gene Logsdon's books are really informative and helpful. Read them !...
Agricultural community
I stumbled across this book many years ago. It got me so excited, I ran out and bought ten more copies and gave them all away. Then I bought a few more a few years later and gave them away again. Read this inspirational book of community and regeneration....
Apple Pie
I can't make an apple pie without thinking of my brother. He decided one year to master an apple pie. This was also the year he stayed home to try to win Dialing for Dollars . Some of you will remember this show that called random phone numbers and if you were there...
Climbing trees
When I was twenty I visited a garden and saw an older woman up in a large tree pruning. I vowed at that point to climb trees in my forties. Now that I'm mid- fifties, climbing bigger trees doesn't feel so comfortable any more. I can't believe I'm admitting this. Today...
Small Farming best solution to climate change
I like the part in this article that likens buying food shipped from around the world, to getting a delivery at home from a energy efficient Hummer, air conditioning on full blast and all the windows rolled down....
Great article about Muscovy ducks
http://milkwood.net/2014/01/14/muscovy-ducks-a-great-homesteading-breed/#more-17647
Pizza Night Wednesday January 15 – 6 o’ clock
Come to the farm for pizza night. We have a farmer who is experienced at cooking pizzas in a wood fired oven here, so we are doing it ! Another week of it. Come if you like, bring toppings and drink of your choice. See the farm, enjoy vegetables from the gardens. Just...
Want to learn how to Graft Fruit trees ? Feb 1st
Mendocino Permaculture’s 31st Annual Winter Abundance Workshop Saturday, February 1, 2014, from 9 am to 4 pm, rain☂ or shine ☀ at the Fairgrounds in Boonville, on Hwy 128 Seed, Scion & Cutting Exchange with Hands-on Fruit Tree Grafting FREE TO ALL Classes all day on...
Why Local Business is so Important
http://grist.org/cities/locally-owned-businesses-can-help-communities-thrive-and-survive-climate-change/
Why Our Food is so Dependent on oil
http://www.resilience.org/stories/2005-04-01/why-our-food-so-dependent-oil
Basic Vegetables to grow
There are easy vegetables out there that can supplement most people's diet very happily with little effort. My favorites for this coastal location: 1.chard 2. Kale 3. Zucchini 4. Cherry tomatoes 5. Lettuce 6. Peas I really think the large trough planters are quite...
Stone Soup -cooking from the garden, whatever the season
I'm afraid I'm quite boring in my use of spices, although most of the spices I use come straight from the garden. My husband and kids don't like spicy food much or strange herbs, even curries. So my standby is a good base of fresh veggies, whatever is currently...
Grow your own Mushrooms ! Class March 3rd 1-4pm
Workshop: Grow Your Own Mushrooms on Logs With John Richardson This workshop will teach us which hard wood logs to select, how to prepare and inoculate them with spawn plugs, which varieties of mushrooms work best, and how to take care of the logs. Each log can...
The super rich
How power-mad neoliberalism trashed your life, but made the super-rich even richer… In Around the web on January 16, 2013 at 7:33 am From GEORGE MONBIOT The Guardian How they must bleed for us. In 2012, the world’s 100 richest people became $241 billion richer. They...
Kids on the Farm
I love what farm life offers kids. Time to remember just how to have fun with everything. Make your own toys. Learning all kinds of body skills and capabilities in the midst of a working family.
Fun on the farm
Life on the farm sometimes feels like that movie "Babe", you know where all the animals are such crazy characters ? The animals here are like that. Our horses are some of the funniest. We already had the horses when we moved here, so we tried hard to provide them with...
Happy Life in the Country
New Years Day working in the garden. So much garden work to do at this time of the year. I'm pruning deciduous trees and shrubs, fruit trees, roses, hydrangeas, fushias. Cutting back perennials. Transplanting or planting out new plants. I have an area where I make...
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry
Everyone should read this book to understand the demise of American agriculture, which has led to the dysfunction of our society and our health. "The Unsettling of America" by Wendell Berry Wendell Berry writes here during a rainstorm in Kentucky, watching the creeks...
My Husband comes from the country
I have the most wonderful husband, sometimes he seems like he was made to order. I think a lot of this is from being raised in the country. Having country values. You get married to someone you love and you can continue loving them your whole life. Ethics are hard...