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(Disclosure: I received a discounted International Food Blogger Conference (IFBC) registration fee in exchange for writing three posts about my experiences at the conference. All opinions are my own.) This is part 2 of a 2-part series on a visit to an olive grove and olive oil processing facility in Yolo County, California. The first part […]
(Disclosure: I received a discount on the International Food Blogger Conference (IFBC) registration fee in exchange for writing three posts about my experiences at the conference. All opinions are my own.) This is part 1 of a 2-part series on a visit to an olive grove and olive oil processing facility in Yolo County, California. The second […]
This is my second post about millet, a class of grains that doesn’t get much attention. The first post gave some background on millet and UC Berkeley’s Millet Project, and can be found here: The Millet Project Looks at the Nutritious, Drought Tolerant, Gluten-Free Grains Called Millet. After learning about the Millet Project, millet’s attractive […]
This is the first of two posts about millet, a class of grains that doesn’t get much attention. The second post has information about millet production and use around the world (with charts and maps!) I can get quite nerdy about ingredients, so when one of my newsletters told me about an upcoming event called […]
You might have spotted Belgian endive in your local supermarket and thought “yet another salad green, nothing special.” But you’d be wrong. Belgian endive is an amazing vegetable that requires significant agricultural ingenuity to grow.
This is part 2 of a series on my tour of Marin Sun Farms. Part 1 is Open-doorness is our certification. The Chickenfeed Chronicles “If something is small or unimportant, especially money, it is chickenfeed,” says the idiom collection at Using English. But at Marin Sun Farms – and many other chicken and egg operations, […]
(Updated, 11/27/16: fixed broken links) This is the first part of a two-part series. The second part is Chickens on the Pasture. In early July I took a tour of the ‘headquarters’ of Marin Sun Farms, a company that is best known for grass-fed beef, superb eggs, and pastured chicken and is a regular fixture […]
The Edible Schoolyard, an educational garden and kitchen at Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School in Berkeley, California, has been my path, so to speak, twice recently. The first time was a cover story in the East Bay Express. The second was an actual visit to the garden, my first visit ever. I wrote a […]
(Updated 10/30/16: fixed broken links, changed photos) Over the last several years, the urban farming movement in Detroit has received coverage from a variety of publications, from large newspapers to niche publications. Earlier in the week, the Los Angeles Times looked at Hantz Farms, which aims to use farming to bring Detroit back from the […]
Continuing post-Japan-trip blogging, a few photos and comments about seasonality and urban farming in Japan. Seasonality Although the Japanese can get any food at any time, seasonality still plays an important part in their food culture. I was there in October, which is apparently chestnut season, as advertisements for chestnut ice cream and other chestnut […]