What Bunnies Eat

No additives or chemicals to worry about, grown right in your area by folks that you know. In urban areas like Chicago or Detroit you might find music, mimes, puppet shows for the kids at the market along with the produce vendors.

The farmers' market is one of the few places where I can find red-ripe jalapeno and serrano chiles, which add rich flavor tFreshly picked cucumbers need no peeling to rid them of a waxy coating, and they just taste so much better than their grocery store...

Her eyes were huge, so I knew she wasn't completely comfortable. Read more of City Stock » Tags animals , Audrey Pavia , rabbits I had never been kissed by a rabbit before; it was something I had only dreamed of.

Season the flour with your favorite Mexican seasonings such as cumin, coriander, and cayenne pepper. Of course, wear gloves any time you work with cactus, as they are covered both with large spines and with glochids (tiny barbed hairs).The peak season...

Our chickens have the run of the yard during the day and have taught me a whole lot about what chickens — or at least, my chickens — will eat. Plus, these antics keep pests in the garden to a minimum.

I sure don't like the rabbit, but I do like my kid and my dog and don't want them accidentally chowing down on something as toxic as a mothball. Plus, catching rabbits is never easy (just ask Elmer Fudd), and although the Havahart trap is far more sophisticated...

I have raised a lot of worms, and I have a big box full of them now that I use to process our kitchen waste. It doesn't usually take too long for the birds to swoop down and scoop up the treat.

In the spring and early summer, the bullfinches switch to three different types of fern. Ferns produce a toxin in their leaves that discourages most vertebrates from eating them, although dinosaurs ate these plants in large quantities before their extinction.

The co-op provides sample menus and recipes for dishes made from local ingredients. “Eat Local, America! gives us a chance to introduce newbies to the local food movement in a fun, engaging way, and also to challenge local food lovers to get creative.”...

Johnny-jump-ups' little pansy faces look beautiful on top of goat cheese. Rose-Scented Sugar To make rose-scented sugar for baking or for sweetening tea, combine one part rose petals with two parts white sugar and leave it covered for a month.

As soon as I unpacked, I laid down on a lounge chair in the backyard and watched the chickens bed down for the night and my horses play with one another. The drive up was a real education in how much of California is still used for agriculture.

At home, I'd never eaten greens such as chard or kale . Beets, turnips , kohlrabi and celeriac never crossed the family threshold. Two-thirds of a day's meals may be over and I've consumed little that counts other than a tangerine and some chopped celery...

Many shrubs have evolved adaptations that help to defend them from herbivores; Japanese privet, for example, is poisonous to horses.Deer, elk, hares, rabbits, sheep and goats are all common herbivores that can graze on shrubs, depending on the species...

As an adult, however, the history and culture of people who lived so closely connected with the land intrigued me. Wild, natural foods and medicines are here and available to me, not just a thing of history books.

Moths leave a sticky, webbed reside on the plant as well as holes that indicate its feeding path. Green army worms and cutworms are also major offenders of sunflowers and leave ragged holes or "windows" in the leaves.

One of the best things about learning plants in a new place is finding their associations. Tried & True Part of the challenge for me is learning plants in an environment that is very different than where I grew up.

The Speckled Sussex hopped out of the bin with a live baby mouse dangling by its tail from her beak. Meat from Subway? Hundreds of eggs were stored directly under the bricks at ground level.

Water lilies are flowering, aquatic plants that come in a variety of bloom colors. Animals such as beavers, ducks and deer also eat parts of the water lily. Aquatic leaf beetles chew holes in the leaves, causing stippling.

Peccaries snack on acorns in the desert scrub of the southwestern U.S., while numerous kinds of squirrels the country over horde them in their famous stockpiles. Storer and Tevis, Jr., in "California Grizzly" (1955), note that grizzlies in that state...

Another option is to plant deer-resistant plants around your pansies. Easy-to-grow pansies (Viola x wittrockiana) produce brightly colored flowers, but the blooms attract the attention of deer, which like eating these protein-rich plants.

During this bloom period, expect to find about eight or so flowers along a 15-inch stalk. The flowers are flanked by pale green foliage located near the plant's base. More than 40 different daffodil species exist, and most produce yellow or white colored...

The shiny surface, reflective light and movement of the pie tin twirling in the wind scares birds away. If the netting is placed right on the plant, birds can still poke through and get some buds.freestar.queue.push(function() { googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-300x250-ATF-1");...

Photo by Rick Gush We don't enjoy the tast of broccoli Romana as much as the green variety. I've seen a few cabbage moths, so I'm sure the worms will arrive at some point. She will also make a few vegetable-cheese pies with the broccoli, and that's really...

They produce brightly colored fruit and can be found not only in Australia but in the tropical rainforests of Indonesia, the Pacific Islands and Hawaii. It was also used by the aborigines to make pestles and coconut husking stakes.Beach cherry can be...

The one on the right we saw at a botanical garden in Acapulco, Mexico. The first expedition de Orllanna accompanied originally set sail looking for "The Land of Cinnamon," a hope echoed in one of the early Spanish names given to the Amazon River - Rio...

Cleaning away debris and picking off snails and slugs may help prevent them from destroying your crops. Like snails, cut worms create "swiss cheese" damage to the foliage of the hosta.

Not only are they eye catching but they produce seeds that are a common snack for people. When they find a food crop, they will return to it year after year. Humans are not the only members of the animal kingdom who enjoy snacking on this small seed.