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Food, People, Power: New Healthy Food Co-op Opens in Oakland
What do you do if you find yourself in the middle of an urban healthy-food desert? Look for an oasis for sustenance. Oakland may be on the list of the [ … ]
July 4: How are you celebrating Independence Day?
Like millions of Americans, we’re celebrating July 4th, Independence Day. However, we’re celebrating this national holiday by focusing on the many aspects of our life that, in various ways, have [ … ]
The Greens Restaurant in San Francisco: Cooking Up Solutions to Climate Change
For the last twenty-eight of the thirty years of the Greens Restaurant in San Francisco, chef Annie Somerville has championed and celebrated all that sustainable, vegetarian cuisine can represent: local, [ … ]
Freedom Gardens and the 100 Foot Diet Challenge
More and more people are taking the plunge into backyard gardening. Some are even planting fruits and veggies in their front yard and adopting the “no-mow” approach. Last year one [ … ]
Locavores: Get to Know Your Local Farms
The local food movement is gathering steam. To keep locavores informed about best farming practices, one organization spreads the word about what sustainable farmers are achieving under the radar. Formed [ … ]
Healing Waters Promise Transformative Change at Harbin Hot Springs
After a twisting journey up mountain roads or through vineyards, about two hours north of San Francisco Bay area or northwest of Sacramento, and tucked up the side of a [ … ]
Will Work for Food (Security): Five Tips to Volunteer with Purpose
Next to bathroom breaks and brushing teeth, eating may be one of the most routine, daily activities we engage in. Yet perhaps because food is so engrained in our everyday [ … ]
Breaking New Ground: Three Tips to Support New Immigrant Farmers
Got some epazote, gai choy on your farmers market list this week? As new immigrant farmers plant agriculture careers on American soil, our produce options increase with fresh flavorful options [ … ]
Untapped Abundance: Three Steps to Adopting a Neighbor’s Fruit Tree
Pear pie. Pear ginger muffins. Pear cordials made from aging pears, sugar and vodka. Pears canned in sugar syrup. Pear jam. When Mary calls me every year at the end [ … ]
Authentic Chick Lit: An Urbanite Turned Farm Girl’s Reading List
I’ve been reading the Little House on the Prairie book series aloud to our six-year old son, Liam. The cover just fell off “The Long Winter,” perhaps due to the [ … ]