What are you planning to do with your garden this week? Are you still getting tomatoes or thinking about putting things to bed?

Between harvesting honey and making pasta sauce, fall is busy at the farmette. But even as the warm sun feels endless, I know if I just jump ahead a month, the weather and the world I see outside will be very different than what's out the window today. The urge to nest is coming on strong.

One of my favorite things to do when not stirring the plum butter on the stove is plan my winter reading. I just saw that the folks who publish two of my favorite magazines "Hobby Farm" and "Hobby Farm Home" have started a new magazine that I bet Greengirls readers will want to know about.

"Urban Farm" magazine promises to "promote the benefits of self sustainability and to provide the tools with which to do it on any size property." Editors say they want to reach out to those in the city and suburbs, those who are inspired by the local food movement and who want to start raising chickens and growing food for themselves, supporting local agriculture and living more sustainably.

I saw a preview in one of the other magazines I get, and liked it, but I haven't read the whole magazine yet. Anyone seen it? What do you think? You can find more info at www.urbanfarmonline.com. Major bookstores should have the first issue on sale now or you can order it online here. If you Twitter, you can also follow Urban Farm on Twitter at http://twitter.com/UrbanFarmMag.