The Cellar and the Pantry Blog

Like many suburban homes, mine has a narrow strip in between the sidewalk and the street.  They're called the "parking strip" and are usually surrounded by concrete or asphalt on four sides, making them the perfect container for a hardy, aggressive spreading crop that otherwise might threaten to escape and take over your garden.

The only problem is that people don't expect there to be edible crops there--and neither do dogs.

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So says one of the "urban homesteaders" interviewed recently in the New York Times' look at traditional food crafters in San Francisco.  Apparently "homesteading" is the term the Times has chosen to apply to people who make their own food from scratch.  I'm not wild about it, but I haven't been able to find a better one ("foodcraft" was my attempt).  What do you think?

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