Posts Tagged ‘Garden Everywhere’
Friday, June 4th, 2010
It’s Farmers Market Season! And even with the partly cloudy weather in Seattle – with a good chance of some sunshine over the weekend – the markets are exploding with colorful fruits and veggies and other local bounty. One of my favorite markets in town is the Magnolia Farmers Market, next to Magnolia Community Center [...]
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Tags: Farm to Table, Garden Everywhere, Seattle, Sustainable Home
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Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
and Arbor Day… My Bubba used to give me saplings as gifts in the spring, and I don’t remember for what occasion, but I came to believe it was a totally normal gift. She believed, and passed the idea on to me, that planting a tree was a mitzah, or a good deed. Give a [...]
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Tags: Calendar, Garden Everywhere, Oakland/Berkeley, Portland, Texas
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Throughout my travels I have noticed, for lack of a better term, the culinary trends, of the places I visit. In 2002 in Germany I found orange husk tomatoes, or ground cherries (smaller and sweeter, but look like tomatillo pouches) garnished on every trendy cafe’s plate, last year froth hit the scene big time with restaurants [...]
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
In between writing and traveling, there is gardening. And the herbs I’ve got going this year come straight from my adventures- Here are some of the varieties I’m growing here at the GrassRoutes Garden, and a few reviews from my new GrassRoutes Urban Eco-Travel and Green Road Trip guidebooks of places that have influenced my [...]
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Favas, with their plush pods, double-coated beans and undeniably Spring-like flavor, are the talk of the town this week around GrassRoutes Headquarters. Our own patch of favas (working simultaneously to re-nitrogenize the soil from last year’s tomato crop), are bursting in bloom, with heavy bean pods hanging from the lower stalks. Easily grown without fertilizer [...]
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Monday, March 2nd, 2009
I’ve been writing about dirt all day, biodynamically-farmed dirt. Here’s an excerpt and some resources: “…There are some acres of Sonoma land farmed one step beyond the organic model, where pesticides are prohibited, and instead follow the stricter biodynamic method. Biodynamic farming is one of the branches on the tree of German philosopher Rudolf Steiner’s [...]
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Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Ah Oakland! There’s still enough sun and warm breeze to keep the garden growing. Last weekend I canned the last of the tomatoes, except a few rogues like this one, I added a squeeze of lemon, a few basil leaves and some salt to each jar. Fava beans are happy, adding nitrogen to the beds [...]
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Tags: Cook This, Garden Everywhere, Oakland/Berkeley, Portland, Seattle, Sustainable Home
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Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
Roasty? Growing? Confused? Don’t be. I’ve been benefiting greatly from the basil grown by this reuse technique. Ever get a bit lazy and get a roasted chicken from your local grocer? Even at Farmer Joe’s, my Oakland choice family market, the roasted chicken packaging is extraneous and far from eco-friendly. But taking a second look [...]
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Tags: Fun Projects, Garden Everywhere, Oakland/Berkeley, Recycle Everything
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
The first day of Oakland’s fabulous Labor Day festival kicked off with gospel, Bobby Hutcherson (goosebumps the whole performance!), the faculty at Oakland Public Conservatory of Music, local Latin sounds and plates of Tibetan momo dumplings. The GrassRoutes booth, sandwiched between 10,000 Steps (a downtown Oakland park rejuvination project), City Slicker Farms and CAFF (California [...]
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Tags: Buy Me, Calendar, California, Diversity, Garden Everywhere, Listen, Oakland/Berkeley
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
I’m off to Slow Food Nation’s Change Maker’s Day, where people from across the industry will gather to talk shop and get more people involved in knowing the where, why and how of what they eat and drink. People like the founder of Dagoba Chocolate, the chefs at Berkeley’s Eccolo, Oakland’s Bay Wolf and San [...]
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