Photo by Judith Hausman Some may consider these tomatoes rejects. I consider them soup. I finally found it. Thanks to food goddess Alice Waters’ The Art of Simple Food (Clarkson Potter, 2007), I finally have the perfect summer tomato soup recipe. After many attempts that turned out too watery, too acidic, too sweet or were […]
Courtesy Cornerstone Farm Ventures Cornerstone Farm Ventures created the “Mini Mobile Processing Unit,” a smaller, less expensive mobile slaughtering unit. One of the consequences of the consolidation of food production in the United States is the dramatic decline in the number of slaughterhouses. According to the USDA, the number of USDA- or state-inspected slaughterhouses has […]
Photo by Audrey Pavia Petunia is an important stop on my walks around the neighborhood. Even though I have horses to ride and chores to do, I still feel like I need to take a walk around the neighborhood a couple of times a week for exercise. Nothing clears my head after a day at […]
My rear office garden, which has floor-to-ceiling window doors looking out on it, is a fairly charming little mess of green leaves and comfortable shade, and it boasts two peices of garden sculpture.
Urban farmers can look up the day’s agricultural forecast using Weather.com’s Farmer’s Forecast tool. Urban farmers are already strides ahead of generations past, as they transform vacant lots, small backyards and rooftops to luscious garden hosts. But living in the age of technology means urban farmers also have access to resources they never would have […]
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 […]
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 […]
