Photo by Audrey Pavia Our eggs come in some weird shapes and sizes. I remember the first time one of our chickens laid an egg. We’d gotten the chickens as pullets and had been impatiently waiting for them to grow up so they would start laying. The morning I went out to the coop to […]
Courtesy Tom Savio The Southern California Horticulurist Society will honor Yvonne Savio in September for her influence on Los Angeles’ gardening community. Once a year, the Southern California Horticulturist Society, a forum founded in 1937 to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and expertise within the fields of gardening and botany, deems one exceptional individual to […]
I’ve officially given up on trying to control anything in the garden.
Courtesy Butte College By May 2011, Northern California’s Butte College will produce enough solar energy to meet its energy needs, making it the first grid-positive college in the U.S. Butte College, a community college located in Northern California and resting on a 928-acre wildlife refuge, has been recognized over the last few years as a […]
When the heat and humidity are too high for anything but "have to" jobs around the farm, it's a great time to straighten up the shop.
Courtesy Liz Palika Zenyatta stops to hear the crowd roar. Urban farmers may have less land to work with than rural farmers and may spend their days listening to car horns honking instead of birds singing in the trees, but we have one advantage over our country brethren: We have access to a lot of […]
Photo by Rick Gush As a teenager, in a struggle to make ends meet, I used materials like these to clean sidewalks in exchange for donations. I used the money I earned to buy work clothes for a farm job. When I was 19 years old, I found myself in a strange city with absolutely […]
I never thought I’d be more disappointed when my computer died than when a plant died, but it has happened.
