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OPENeducation Celebrates Chez Panisse’s Dedication to Edible Education

November 5, 2011 No Comments

(Updated 3/28/15: new information about the San Francisco Diggers and their namesakes from 17th century England. 12/14/16: fixed broken links) Some birthday parties are enlivened by a clown, a magician, or a karaoke machine. But when an legendary restaurant like Chez Panisse hits 40 in a creative city like Berkeley, California, you can expect something […]

California Travel, Farms, Gardening

A visit to Berkeley’s Edible Schoolyard

May 17, 2010 No Comments

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 […]