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Tag Archives: urban farming
New beginnings! The Exceptional Women Awardees Foundation is growing!
We have wonderful happenings in our world – The Exceptional Women Awardees Foundation, founded by the Larraine Segil Scholars. is launching a cohort of amazing women in June 2018. These women called EWA ( Exceptional Women Awardees) will go through … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Philanthropy
Tagged EWA, ExceptionalWomenAwardees.com, Larraine Segil, Mentoring women, urban farming, women in business
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Amazing crop of tomatoes this year – pears too -some of our animals passed while a new animal joins the family – sweet rescue
After our beloved Central Asian Shepherd puppy of 1.5 years Smokey, died suddenly in her sleep a month ago we have been searching through rescue places for another rescue who could get along with our three cats. We found one … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Dogs, Family, Fruit, Gluten Free, Jams, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children
Tagged cooking with kids, crops, dogs, farming, fruit, goats, jams, pear butter, pears, rescues, tomatoes, urban farming
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Our new Segil Urban Farm Fellow was appointed this last weekend – a wonderful celebration!
This is the time of year that the Segil Urban Farm Fellow is appointed through an endowment my husband and I have made to the Shalom Institute. What a fabulous camp it is and the environment with the market garden, … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Philanthropy, Raising Children
Tagged animal husbandry, Bee Keeping, Camping, giving back, goats, paying it forward, Philanthropy, Shalom Institute, urban farming
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The New Segil Urban Farm Fellow – Training Camp staff in Urban Farming, Beekeeping and More
Every year we endow a young adult to become a Segil Urban Farm Fellow at the Shalom Institute Children’s camp in Malibu. My husband Clive trains them with his deep knowledge of farming in an urban environment ( although you … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Goats, Little farm products, Live Events, Philanthropy, Women's Topics
Tagged Bible, charity, Chesed, doing good, Empowering Women, Fellowship, Judaism, Philanthropy, Talmud, Torah, Tzedakah, urban farming
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Bella the Cow is stealing the Little Farm Show!
We are in love with Bella our new cow! She is very tame – was in a petting zoo -and so loves kids ( and they love her). We are planning to breed her in a few weeks – hope … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cows, Family, Raising Children
Tagged Cow, family, farming, grandkids and animals, Grandma, Little farm, Miniature Cows, urban farming
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Such fun with our goat babies this year!
We have been bottle feeding three goat kids this year – and they are now so tame that they follow us around like puppies! Such fun for the grandkids! And us too! Also three new baby kittens – no more … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Dogs, Family, Goats, Raising Children
Tagged Cooking with Grandma, cooking with kids, family, Goat kids, having fun at home, raising children, raising goats, urban farming
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Segil Urban Farm Fellow Endowment – for future generations
We are so proud to have endowed an annual fellowship for an Urban Farm Fellow at the Shalom Institute and Camp in Malibu Hills. This fellowship will enable a young adult to spend the summer at the camp becoming expert in … Continue reading
New baby goat kids – so cute! And the nights after they were born were so cold that we made them little blankets ! An earlier post showed one in denim. They have quite a few changes of outfit – adorable!
Twins ( two sets) were born to two of our Alpine goats. Here is one set of twins. Are they cute or what? And they were shivering at night so we dressed them in little blankets – adorable!An earlier post … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Goats, Little farm products
Tagged cold weather, giving birth, Goat blankets, Goat kids, goats, goats giving birth, Little farm, miracles of birth, urban farming
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Baby goats in denim
Our goats are kidding – seriously that is what they call it when goats have babies – and since there have been some cold nights our farm manager made them blankets – our grandkids love the idea – are they … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cheese, Family, Goats, Meat
Tagged Baby goats, domesticating animals, ewes, goat cheese, holding animals, kidding, kids, lambs, Little farm, sheep, sheep's cheese, sheep's milk, urban farming
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A lemon guava tree – the perfect gift for the Urban farmer – from his kids and grandkids!
Our children and grandchildren gave us the perfect fathers day gift – a Lemon Guava tree to add to the Little Farm! We had a planting ceremony – so adorable! And a lovely weekend together. So much fun!
Posted in Family, Little farm products
Tagged family, Fathers Day, fruit, grandchildren, grandparents, healthy, lemon guava tree, Little farm, outdoors, planting, urban farming
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Our Little Farm Produce – Cherries of the Rio Grande – yum! Also Surinam Cherries!
We grow multiple exotic fruits – one is this amazing cherry – Cherry of the Rio Grande – isn’t it beautiful? Tastes amazing too! And here are Surinam cherries – an entirely different taste but also delicious!
Our newest workers at The Little Farm – four little boys! Don’t they look adorable?
I buy my Little Farm shirts and clothes for all our staff at the farm from Lands End – with logos and all. So our newest workers of course must have shirts as they get bigger! Here the four newest … Continue reading
Face painting for little ones! Such fun!
Hanging out with the grandkids is the best thing that I do in my life. The twins Noah and Gabriel decided that face painting was what they wanted. So at a recent farmers market – they became ‘skeleton’ and ‘monster’. … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Fruit, Little farm products, Raising Children, Recipes
Tagged citroen, Face painting for kids, Grandma, Little farm, urban farming
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Camp Grandma – what my grandkids call our Little Farm – how I love that! Broiled Broccoli and Kale too!
We try to make our Little Farm the most wonderful place for kids – especially our grandkids and their friends. Certainly there are lots of jobs to do here – picking up the eggs from the quails ( 30 of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Cheese, Family, Fruit, Jams, Little farm products, Other wonderful treats, Poultry, Raising Children, Salad, Vegetables
Tagged Camp Grandma, cooking with kids, family, fruit, grandkids, Little farm, urban farming, vegetables
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Cooking with Kids – Planting, Growing, Picking the produce, Cleaning, Cooking and Eating with family – what could be better!
Here are my grandchildren helping to plant peppers and tomatoes at our Little Farm along with Max Arteaga and their grandpa whom they call Zayda ( my husband Clive, the farmer -orthopedic surgeon is his day job) . Max has worked with … Continue reading
Fennel – an amazing herb – cooking with kids and teaching them the value of herbs in adding flavor (instead of salt) – also a Sugar Cookie Recipe
Fennel is a wonderful herb that grows wild in California. If you ride horses, during the spring time in California, there is an abundance of wild mustard and fennel that grows along with sage and your steed will love to … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Desserts, Raising Children, Recipes, Recipes to Make with Children, Snacks, Tips
Tagged cooking with kids, desserts, family, farming, Fennel, fennel pollen, meals, pollen, recipes, sugar cookies, tips, treats, urban farming
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The Differences Between Cows Milk and Goats Milk – Great for those who are lactose intolerant!
This article is Reproduced from United Caprine News (US) March 1989. The reason I am publishing it here is that it is one of the best descriptions I have found for the topic – and because we use a … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Family, Raising Children, Tips
Tagged cheese, cooking with kids, cows milk, family, farm, farming, goats milk, organic farming, pasteurized milk, urban farming
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Cooking with kids – planting, watering, waiting, growing, picking and eating your food!!!
Source: Uploaded by user via Larraine on Pinterest What could be better than planting, watering, waiting, growing, picking and eating your food! And snow peas are a wonderful healthy snack. The next best thing is cooking with kids – and … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Snacks, Vegetables
Tagged big city, cooking, cooking with kids, eggs, gardening, grandma music, grandparents, hens, organic farming, planting growing, Snow peas, urban farming, watering
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