The Urban Dirt Farmer

I bought a 1967 Camaro. I don't have room in the garage for it. So I built it a house, next to our house. Lol. Here's the mul...

Until this point the yard beside our house dropped fairly severely to the street. The ground underneath the overhang of the house on that si...

Getting a head start on preparations to plant some winter vegetables during this coming Fall (feels like it will never get here with tempera...

One year ago we planted four "dwarf pomegranates" next to our house. They were about 2-3 feet tall when planted and after one year...

We have a small "side yard" off of our main back yard area. It has mulch in it, which is apparently catnip for dogs, of which we h...

It's been a while since I've updated the blog and thusly I apologize sincerely to our many (two) blog followers. So when last we tal...

With Fall upon us, we have to get moving on our transition from urban crop growers to landscapers. The cowpeas and buckwheat in the front ya...

Both our buckwheat and cowpeas we planted back in June are almost completely matured and ready for harvest. Now since we're using them t...

I'm not sure how they got their name, but I love them. Texas Mountain Laurel is an evergreen shrub/tree that is very hardy (once establi...

We have another part of our property that was just beat to hell when the house was being built. The ground got so compacted that it looked l...