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bouldercreekmama and Stephanie Brown are now friends
August 6
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May 31
bouldercreekmama joined Joy Williams's group
Vermiculture
It's about time to discuss it! Especially since a lot of people don't understand it.
May 31
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May 18
Joy Williams and bouldercreekmama are now friends
May 18
bouldercreekmama replied to Lisl's discussion 'Kindergarten Curriculum' in the group School Gardens
I know the Life Lab Curriculum seems spendy but it is well worth your investment. I just went to a workshop @ the Life Lab garden for preschool age @ UCSC yesterday. They have excellent curriculum for K-8.
April 5
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March 29
bouldercreekmama joined Joy Williams's group
Home Cheese Making
A discussion of Cheese Making, Recipes, techniques, animals, whatever people want to talk about in terms of this wonderful food.
March 28
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School Gardens
March 28
bouldercreekmama joined Joy Williams's group
Hummingbird, Bee, and Butterfly Gardens
How to plant a hummingbird, bee or butterfly garden. The picture is of a male Anna's hummingbird on my deck.
March 28
bouldercreekmama joined Donna Smith's group
Urban Farmers
This forum is for those interested in bringing food security to our city limits. Urban farmers, those interested in Community supported agriculture, backyard farmers, Spin Farmers, and those who care where their food source comes from. Welcome!
March 28
bouldercreekmama joined Chris Bocchino's group
The Pecking Order
Everything chickens! Weather you are a backyad gardener with two or a small farmer with 200 this group is for you. Everything from incubating to butchering and everything in between. Please feel free to join in on the discussions.
March 28
bouldercreekmama is now a member of Kitchen Gardeners
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March 28

Profile Information

Where do you live and garden?
Boulder Creek and Mountain View, California
How long have you been growing food?
4-10 years
Dream garden travel destination:
I win the lottery and quit my job and garden at home everyday
Favorite foods:
organic

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At 9:47pm on May 31, 2009, Joy Williams said…
hey, you're my neighbor, wanna chat on the phone?

my email is hummingbird@surfnetc.com I'll share the phone number there.
At 7:50am on May 31, 2009, Anh Collins said…
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At 2:08pm on May 18, 2009, Joy Williams said…
welcome neighbor!

You have goats? I would love to make chevre. When you said you would like to know some local resources did you mean you wanted milk, or just wanted to learn to make goat cheese? I haven't tried making it yet, but would love to. I have a number of recipes in my book. Finding unpasteurized goat milk would be great! Camp Joy is supposed to have dairy goats too, and he'll sell the milk, but it would be cool to work with you too.
At 9:41am on March 29, 2009, Ian said…
Hi bouldercreekmama, Welcome to KGI, I'm sure you'll find the community interesting. If there is anythimg I can do to help, then please just leave a comment on my page.
 
 

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Strumelia commented on Joy Williams's group 'BeeKeeping'
Donald you lucky to live in an area where you can start a new hive at any time during the year! In New York one could never start a new package in December! =8-o We'd love to see pix of your current hive. :)
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marion stewart added a blog post
Red osier dogwood is just the best plant for this time of year – cut down some branches – you can find them in fields and ditches and then place them in garden pots or containers. Fill the over-season containers with soil to hold the stems. Attach...
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Donald commented on Joy Williams's group 'BeeKeeping'
Hi Everyone: I am new to kitchen gardeners and I currently have one bee hive and I am planning on buying one four pound package of bees and a queen in December. If my luck is strong I will also capture a swarm and end up with three total hives goi...
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Donald joined Joy Williams's group
BeeKeeping
Bees! How they benefit us, how to keep them, how to maintain them! Experts invited, and welcome.
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Donald replied to Valerianella's discussion 'Honeybees Face Towering Threat From Cell Phones'
I had not heard of this new link of cell phone towers to CCD, but I believe that CCD is caused by a number of different things and is mostly limited to large scale professional beekeepers that put their bees on large semi-trucks and haul them all ...
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Maya replied to Penelope's discussion 'Feeling Stuck'
Oi! Penelope! The cooking shows are designed to make people who've grown up eating processed foods and without a Fannie Farmer in the house want to go to a restaurant and be demanding, or buy expensive, exotic ingredients that they'll mostly never...
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Salma Kamal commented on Muhammad Nadeem Iqbal's photo 'SUNFLOWER WITH SUN'
Yes! Sun flowers .I went there yesterday. The site of sun flowers is spactacular.But flowers seem smaller then big variety which I have seen growing their previously.
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Glenn Fletcher commented on Glenn Fletcher's photo 'My Allotment'
Hi Maggie I hope you are well. I see most of the people on a Friday afternoon, when i do not have to go to work. Most of the other plot holders are retired so they go on weekdays when i am at work. It can be quite solitary, which i find quite plea...
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Martha Hill replied to Janet Hoshel's discussion 'Vert Slightly sweet sauerkraut ????'
Thank you for the email addy !! I am always looking for variations on the food I preserve !! Let us know how yours turns out !! You can`t have too many recipes you know !! I don`t think that I would add sugar till after the brining process !! It c...
18 hours ago
Martha Hill replied to Chris Bocchino's discussion 'Been a while!'
Congrats on your new venture !!! Hope it does well !! Will be looking for you back in the future when you have things under way !!
18 hours ago
Martha Hill replied to Penelope's discussion 'Feeling Stuck'
You are forgetting one thing !! The person who will be eating the food you prepare !! Yourself !!! If it pleases you,,,I wouldn`t worry about anything else !! Cooking should be an adventure !! I wouldn`t make a comparison unless you have tasted th...
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Georg Strafella replied to Jeff St.Clair's discussion 'Compost news'
hi jeff, as i suppose you live in crete, do know anything more about the phrase "strafela", is this a usual word in greek?? or is it used just in certain parts of crete?? would be great if you could give me any info about it, thanks, georg
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Maggie commented on Glenn Fletcher's photo 'My Allotment'
Wow, they are good sized plots. I wish we had allotment areas here in Adelaide. Do you get to know the other allotment gardeners?. We have almost finished our composting, pruning back, seed saving and planting out of our seedlings. With a small ga...
21 hours ago
Glenn Fletcher commented on Glenn Fletcher's photo 'My Allotment'
Hi Kathryn This image is a screenshot from Google Earth. The only drawback with Google Earth is that you cannot zoom in as close as you would like. I have a greenhouse in the bottom right and a shed and covered compost bin at top right. A lot of t...
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HOW TO - ADD A LINK

Several people have experienced difficulty putting working links into comments and blogs etc and I know it is clumsy.... so here is how you do it.....

First type the text you want to appear....  ie  IAN'S PAGE

Then go back and highlight the link text.

Then hit the hyperlink button...a pictogram of a chain link.

Your browser may intervene and request permission to allow temporary scripting or some similar message.   Allow it and go back and highlight the text again

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Created by Ian Jun 7, 2009 at 7:28pm. Last updated by Ian Jun 8.

Forum Policy

Hi, I'm starting to put together a few guidlines on using the discussion forum on here.

I would be happy to hear any comments you may have.  This is very much a work in progress so plese feel free to ask me to add anything you think is needed.

I don't want to make our community hide bound by rules and regulations but I think that, as the community has grown, some explanation of what is expected is needed.

Administration

You can refer any que

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Created by Ian May 23, 2009 at 1:55am. Last updated by Ian May 25.

Climate maps

Hi following recent discussion I have put climate maps of the USA, Australia and Europe on here for reference..

 Climate map of the USA

Climate map of Australia

Climate map of Europe

 

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Created by Ian Sep 12, 2008 at 6:20pm. Last updated by Ian Apr 14.

Recipes, Recipes, Recipes

Hi Everyone,  I've started to collect together recipes from various posts on the site and put them all together here.

If you have a recipe you want to add on here, just post it on the site and leave a comment on my page telling me where it is and I'll go and fetch it back here.

They are organised in Contributor Order but I'm open to better suggestions!

BEVA'S RECIPES

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Created by Ian Jun 2, 2008 at 9:54am. Last updated by Ian Apr 13.

US STATES ABBREVIATIONS

 

US STATE ABBREVIATIONS

AK - Alaska               AL - Alabama              AR - Arkansas
AZ - Arizona              CA - California           CO - Colorado
CT - Connecticut          DC - Dist of Columbia *   DE - Delaware
FL - Florida              GA - Georgia              GU

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Created by Ian Jan 27, 2009 at 4:27pm. Last updated by Ian Jan 27.

HOW TO - MAKE COMPOST

Recently there was an excellent discussion about composting. I’ve pulled together all the various comments here. You can also watch KGI's video on composting here.

 

 

KATE’S ADVICE

I used to have a tumbler that we made from a wine-barrel but

1 you have to fill it up all at once

2. it seemed mostly

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Created by Ian May 30, 2008 at 5:29am. Last updated by Roger Jan 15.

Notes Home

Welcome to Notes.

To view notes that are in the system hit the "all notes" button above.

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Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 12:10pm. Last updated by Ian May. 30, 2008.

A Note about Notes

I have just written this note so that I can see what we can achieve by using this new feature.

If you read this and have any suggestions then please leave a comment on my page or email me.

Ian

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Created by Ian May 28, 2008 at 6:19pm. Last updated by Ian May. 28, 2008.

 

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