The KTSF piece was broadcast last night. You can find it here. I couldn’t get a link to just the video itself; this is the Chinese language news home page. As of this morning, the clip is the second one down on the right, with a little closeup of an orange tree next to it. [...]
Back to my real life, including Village Harvest on Tuesday mornings. Today’s harvest was a jaw-dropping 1,700 lbs of: oranges, lemons, white grapefruit, tangelos(!), mandarins(!!) and pink grapefruit(!!!) There was also a plum tree that was two weeks past its prime; I brought the two or so pounds of very soft fruit home, and will [...]
Not a huge haul this morning, although our two single apricot trees gave us a respectable 140 lbs or so. This tree is on Curtner right near the freeway (where they support Campbell annexation, BTW.) I got there a good 15 minutes early, and wondered if the homeowner knew I was from Village Harvest, or [...]
It was like Tuesday on Thursday today, as Village Harvest returned to the streets of San José to glean backyard fruit. We were mistaken for a roving party at first, as we were brunching on the hood of Julia’s car, with a spread of smoked salmon in cream cheese, pepper jack, and Henry’s apricots, which [...]
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 [...]
This morning we picked apricots in Berryessa, quite a ways away from our usual haunts. This area of East San José is a sea of suburban homes, shading to the monster as one gains elevation, so it was a surprise to turn the corner and see an apricot orchard lining one side of the street. [...]
Today was my first apricot harvest of the year, a very large orchard in Los Gatos. One of the most enjoyable benefits of volunteering with Village Harvest is being able to spend time in beautiful places like this. Beautiful, but hot. There was a snafu with the truck, and, by the time our hero Bud [...]
Today we ventured a bit farther afield than our usual stomping grounds, picking a large orange tree in the neighborhood charmingly known as Rosemary Gardens. We had quite a few people today besides our regular Tuesday crew: a new volunteer, Michelle, who found us through the VH website, Vivian from my knitting group, and four [...]
I had a brief scare earlier this week, thinking I’d have to miss today’s harvest, but I managed to make it work, since we were picking both the first plums of the year, as well as kumquats. All new houses for us this week. I did have to arrive late, so I missed most of [...]
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 [...]