Thursday already? Let’s see what I got this week. Only one basket of strawberries. These will go quickly; about 1/3 of them got et up for dinner. Half dozen eggs, in the new TLC Ranch packaging! Like a real egg carton, and everything! Evidently, they don’t have too many of these, though. In this week’s [...]
After I told my mom about my upcoming butchering class (this Sunday at Avedano’s in San Francisco) she asked me “Where do you hear about these things? Well, while reading the Craft: blog, I saw this: You may or may not know that I’m also a knit and crochet designer, so this was too much [...]
We’re enjoying a bumper crop of volunteers lately for the San José crew at Village Harvest, so this morning we split up first thing. Five of us went to a house we’ve picked for the past few years, and spent an hour and a half picking kumquats. The house also has big apple and plum [...]
If you have fruit trees that produce more than you can use, and you live in the South Bay, then I hope you will register your tree(s) with Village Harvest. But if you live elsewhere, or would just like to join a more informal network of fruit sharers, then check out Neighborhood Fruit. While groups [...]
I didn’t end up making a pie, because my parents had brought up a birthday cake, and it would have been all too much. But I did manage to make a meal where I had a personal connection to every ingredient except some seasoned bread crumbs and the wine from Trader Joes. Oh yeah, and [...]
I’m a docent at Año Nuevo State Reserve. Today I went for my one-day-a-month-in-the-off-season, where docents don’t lead guided walks, but are available to answer questions and keep the seals safe. Since it was a Saturday morning, and I didn’t have to be at the park until 9:30, I stopped at the Westside Santa Cruz [...]
Or, A Trying Day. Since much of the appeal of blogging lies in punning titles, I also wanted to work in something about a render farm. But I’ll go on with the actual blog post. This morning, I opened my 1975 edition of The Joy of Cooking to the section titled “Know Your Ingredients.” In [...]
It’s Thursday afternoon, again, time to see what goodies Live Earth Farm has sent in the box this week. Now that I’ve blogged this way for a whole, week, it’s time, too, to see how well I used up last week’s box. Lettuce and dandelion greens, and then baby tatsoi. I made a Big Salad [...]
You are cordially invited to an Open House at the San José/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant next Saturday, 16 May, from 1:30 – 5:00 pm. This is the kickoff workshop for the public outreach for the plant master plan. If you care about water in the South Bay (unless you live in Sunnyvale, where [...]
Tuesdays are Village Harvest days, at least the San José team that’s my usual posse. Heather, aka La Jefe, has been doing a sterling job of scheduling fruit that is not grapefruit, and we had two lemon trees today. One was in the backyard of a townhouse in one of those little pocket developments that [...]