Todd is my new Veggielution hero. Not only did he bring the compost pile back to steaming life, but he lavishes us with homemade food. Today he brought two kinds of bread (plus cheese and butter to eat them with) a zucchini spoonbread, and the means to make stuffed, fried zucchini blossoms. I had prepared [...]
The premise of this blog is that I actually do something every day that relates to local food (always true) that is worth writing about (sometimes a stretch.) Today I rode along the Guadalupe River trail and saw even more elder bushes, and two stands of rose hips (where I didn’t actually remember any roses [...]
Or, My “Can-Do” Attitude. Last night’s meeting with Mike and Steve Borkenhagen of Eulipia was very energizing. They’re being so very generous with our fundraising dinner, doing it for us at cost and being very flexible about menu and seating arrangements, depending on how many tickets we sell. As soon as Amie has a page [...]
When biking Los Gatos Creek Trail, I ride by an enormous avocado tree. As avocado trees do, it has heavy years and light years. This year is a heavy year. I gleaned the ones from the sidewalk, not the overhanging limbs, and I still got quite a few. Today’s CSA box came with baskets of [...]
A rather miscellaneous assortment of things that caught my eye this morning. First, from Wooly Pigs, the fattest (non-wooly) pig I’ve ever seen. How does she walk around with her belly scraping the ground like that? Is she pregnant? Second, a nice article in the Chron about “urban homesteading.” Kind of a miscellaneous assortment itself, [...]
We went back to the pears of Summit Woods this morning, picking more at last week’s orchard, plus another house. Village Harvest is all about the team, for me, and we have a great time picking together. Here’s John bull riding: And here are La Jefe fabulosa and Henry in the orchard. For snack, we [...]
No photos today. I picked a lovely kumquat tree, about six weeks too late, but the kumquats were enormous and seedless, so it is certainly a tree we should return to in force next year. I’ll bring the fruit with me tomorrow, and we can distribute it. I’ve about got to the point where I [...]
Yesterday morning’s drive to Año Nuevo was not the normal jaunt up the coast. As soon as I got over the summit on Highway 17, the sky was filled with smoke, and it got darker and browner all the way down the hill, through Santa Cruz and up to Davenport. Well over half the traffic [...]
I’m off to Año Nuevo today, to tell people all about the elephant seals (and to hear about how the park will be affected by the state budget.) So today’s post is a newsy one. The California Coastal Commission on Thursday voted to deny the city of San Diego’s request for a third waiver from [...]
A busy day. First thing in the morning, I harvested at Veggilelution, to the detriment of my now-scratched-by-zucchini-vines arms. Here are the perps: Amie got some cool old wooden crates from an orchard, and so we picked into those. We also picked lots of pretty tomatoes. All in all, about 90 lbs of veggies that [...]