Quite a miscellany today. First, I made it back to Veggielution for maybe an hour this afternoon. Time to do a better job of scheduling. I knew things would be much bigger after two weeks away in high summer, but I was still happy to see the newly-staked tomatoes in the new plot. Today we [...]
And a separate post to link to a piece from Civil Eats about FarmsReach. We drove by a huge Sysco distrbution center today; quite a Goliath to go up against. I really want to know more about it.
I’m off to Kingston, Ontario to visit friends. I’ll report on the local food of Eastern Canada!
I’ve so far mostly spared you from my other obsessions, including California politics. (Recall that I started blogging in 2003, when I was running for governor myself.) But when I read this article in the Chron yesterday, my first response was “Gavin is trying to lure me away from Jerry Brown!” At City Slicker Farms [...]
There are a couple things I want to link to, this Wednesday of food articles. First, Kim Severson in the NYT, about rock star butchers, which, like so much else I read about food, only makes sense if you are, in fact, totally obsessed with the scene. I am, in fact, totally obsessed with the [...]
We went back to the same orchard in Los Gatos that we’d picked the Saturday before last, but it was a bust. We had less than 100 lbs of fruit suitable for distribution to show for our pains. But a morning with Village Harvest is never wasted. I brought a loaf of the apricot bread [...]
The paper of record has two articles of note. One is a good piece in the Sunday magazine about Will Allen and Growing Power, the amazingly productive urban farm in Milwaukee that is the prime inspiration for Veggielution. My favorite quote: So no, Growing Power isn’t self-sufficient. But neither is industrial agriculture, which relies on [...]
The Santa Clara County Grand Jury has issued yet another scathing report on the Santa Clara Valley Water District. Santa Clara Valley Water District – Awash in Cash as County and Cities Drown in Red Ink. The report slams the District’s recently-build water quality laboratory and two proposed project in Alviso, the slough dredging and [...]
The Chronicle has stopped publishing a real food section on Wednesday (at least online; I haven’t seen the paper Chron for quite a while.) They spread their food articles out over the week, and a couple days ago, there was a very nice article on food preservation through fermentation. Not only are there recipes, but [...]
The Maker Faire starts tomorrow at the San Mateo County Expo Center. I’ve attended both years it’s been in existence, but it can be hard for me to find a meaningful connection at a giant event that has hundreds of things going on at the same time, with thousands of people all trying to do [...]