Via the magic of Twitter, I bring you two links: Rebecca Thistlethwaite and Jim Dunlop are hot farmers, and FarmsReach is connecting farms and restaurants, although I want to see use by larger institutional customers.
I’m off to a WPCP CAG meeting this evening, where I’ll be sure to point out the impossibility of the CAG members’ number one priority for the plant upgrade being “improved architectural features.” But here are a couple interesting links. Serious Eats has a post on community supported kitchens, kind of like Dream Dinners, but [...]
There is a nice article in the LA Times about gleaning and neighborhood produce exchanges. Nancy Garrison, Willow Glen Master Gardener extraordinaire, has been talking about starting a produce exchange here; now that the LBAM restrictions have been loosened, maybe it will come to pass. Serious Eats has been tilting ever more in a sustainable, [...]
I got a reply from Kevin O’Day, the Deputy Agricultural Commissioner for Santa Clara County, about the LBAM policy changes. He says that, while the federal and state LBAM project managers are still working on the written updates to the quarantine policies, their verbal changes have been used to update the County’s webpage. The new [...]
The LA Times reports that the citrus psyllid found in Riverside and Imperial Counties last month has now been spotted in Orange County. It’s not bad in itself, but can transmit a deadly citrus disease that is already wrecking havoc in Florida. Meanwhile, the AP wonders whether LBAM is so bad. I really need to [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
I read a lot of blogs, and it’s funny to see unexpected crossovers. While I enjoy the Consumerist for its snarky tales of purchases gone horribly wrong, I was happily surprised this morning to read a post tagged “locavores,” reporting from a Seattle Times article about a new mobile slaughterhouse in Washington state that will [...]
Isn’t that always the way, you hit “Publish” and then find something else to post about? Just like Talk Like a Pirate Day always sneaks up on me, giving me no chance to plan, I just saw that tomorrow (8 August) is Sneak Some Zucchini on to Your Neighbors’ Porch Day And they should be [...]
First, there is a new fruit fly in So Cal. “This is the first time the white-striped fruit fly, which is native to tropical Southeast Asia, has been detected in the Western Hemisphere.” Needless to say, there is a now a huge quarantine zone in part of LA and San Bernadino counties. How long do [...]