Posts Tagged ‘Sustainable Home’
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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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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Tags: Garden Everywhere, Oakland/Berkeley, Sustainable Home
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Mignonne Gifts and Decor, currently on 1000 Jefferson Street in Oakland’s Old Town, is moving surely and soonly to Berkeley’s San Pablo Avenue. Benefit from the move by taking part in the 30% sale owner Johnelle is offering – glasses, dishes, wall hangings, and her special refurbished furniture line are all going for less. I’ll [...]
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Tags: Buy Me, California, Explore, Sustainable Home
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
Ever find the perfect venue, shop, resource or event in a city where you travel and wish it would come home with you? Its a little like not having a GrassRoutes Guide for a city you’ll soon be traveling to, you just want it! I feel that way about a few things I’ve discovered on [...]
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Tags: Calendar, California, Explore, Sustainable Home, Weekend
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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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Sunday, October 5th, 2008
Well, aside from the fact that we get to go on, or at least try to, there is a rather unpublicized measure in the approved bail out bill that deserves major attention. It wasn’t in the first plan that was turned down, either. The U. S. of A. has extended solar tax credits! These were [...]
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
Today California took another couple steps towards going green. Ground was broken on what hopes to be a Gold LEED certified Oakland skyscraper, caddy-corner to Oakland Marriot. And, Arnold signed an anti-sprawl bill to mimic the sucessful building strategies that make population density, and access to public transit and shopping, work in European cities. Benecia [...]
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Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Mendocino’s Brewery Gulch is the redwood oasis you dream of when you think of the California Coast. The lux accommodations are built of redwoods, but not the freshly chopped kind. These logs were the largest ones, some with 15-foot trunks, which had sunk when they were originally felled in the late 1800′s. When these trunks [...]
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Tags: CA Wine Country, California, Imbibe, Lodge, Sustainable Home, Up Early
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