The Fresh Loaf
Forum, information, blogs, and recipes for baking
Great collection of baking recipes and photos
Organic farm that grows, repackages, and sells natural foods. They can tell you the source of anything with their private label on it.
Bob’s Red Mill
Packages a wide variety of whole grains, flours and legumes. They will tell you the source of all their items if asked.
Lentz Spelt Farms
Private farm that grows spelt, emmer farro, camelina, and einkorn. They sell through retailers and directly to the public. Look for einkorn to be available in 2012.
Pleasant Hill Grain
Online store that specializes in a wide variety of kitchen tools and appliances, including food grade buckets and gamma seal lids for storing grains
The Urban Homemaker
Family‐run online store with a wide selection of grain mills and other kitchen equipment
Pleasant Hill, California
Information and forum for backyard chicken keepers
Seattle Farm Co‐op
Member‐based cooperative that promotes sustainable urban farming through classes, supplies, and a member forum.
My Pet Chicken
Mail order—3 chick minimum
Fias Co Farm
Information on goat care, including plans for goat housing, and cheesemaking
Goat Justice League
Jennie Grant’s website dedicated to backyard mini‐goats
Oregon Cheese Guild
Nice listing of Oregon artisan and commercial cheesemakers
Washington Cheese Guild
Information, recipes, and a forum for cheesemakers
Washington State Cheesemakers
Nice listing of Washington artisan and commercial cheesemakers
Nonprofit educational organization with
classes on all manner of urban farming
from gardening to rainwater harvesting
to livestock keeping
Nonprofit that organizes volunteers to harvest and distribute communal fruit
Fat of the Land
Langdon Cook’s foraging blog and book by the same name
Fat of the Land: Adventures of a 21st Century Forager, by Langdon Cook. Seattle, WA: Skipstone Press, 2009.
Database of wild food sources in Portland, Oregon
Wildman Steve Brill
New York, New York
Comprehensive wild food site
Portland Community Garden Program
City of Portland’s Community Garden Program. Search for “community gardens” on city website: www.PortlandOnline.com/
Seattle BioChar Working Group
SeaChar hosts biochar‐stove‐building workshops throughout the greater Seattle area, sometimes at points beyond.
Seattle Permaculture Guild
News, information, and events put on by the Seattle Permaculture Guild
Seattle P‐Patch Program
City of Seattle’s Community Garden Program
Seeds of Change
Rancho Dominguez, California
Extensive selection of organic seeds
Cottage Grove, Oregon
Certified organic sister seed company of Territorial Seed
Territorial Seed Company
Cottage Grove, Oregon
Garden supplies and seeds, trialed for the Pacific Northwest climate
Ballard Bee Company
Company will set up bees in your backyard or sell you equipment. Will customize a standard hive if you’re interested in the foundationless method featured in this book. Our favorite beekeepers Ken and Rebecca Reid recommend customizing Langstroth‐style hives, as these are the industry standard and use the most commonly available components.
Online forum concerning all styles of beekeeping
Bee Source Forum
Huge online forum concerning all styles of beekeeping
Online directory of pastured meats, dairy and produce in the United States and Canada
Online directory of local foods, farms, and farmers markets in the United States
Online directory of fresh, locally grown, and sustainably produced food in the United States and Canada
Active forum with a focus on meat rabbits
Family‐run business that raises chickens, turkeys, pork, and grass‐fed beef. Chickens are Cornish Cross but raised without soy or corn.
MAKING SOAPS & LOTIONS
Active forum with threads on any animal you can keep in the city plus fiber, crafting, soap and lotion making, and food preservation: all manner of homesteading
Soap Making Forum
Active forum covering soap, lotions, and other products
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