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Slow Food

Foraging for All

A conversation was sparked at a recent Slow Food meeting about ‘over-foraging’ local watercress.  Coupled with information I gathered about someone trying to sell bags full of their collected wild bounty at a local supermarket, I was alerted to the importance for awareness of the availability of wild foods coming into season and the thoughtful [...]

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Bee My Honey

I am reading about bees.
Since 2006, 30-90% of honey bees have left their hives, never to return.
Pesticides are one of the culprits that have been fingered.  A group of beekeepers has called on the EPA to remove Poncho, a commonly used pesticide, from store shelves.  The group claims that Poncho may be responsible for the [...]

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Naked Hippies and a Roach Coach

Off the plane in San Francisco and I head straight to the Oakland Farmers Market where fresh guacamole sells for $5.00, citrons are everywhere, and I buy Indian samosa’s laden with cilantro chutney.
Fresh juices, pomegranates, music, chef demonstrations fill my senses.
Ahh.. I love this life!
The citrus is abundant, the artichokes giant blooms with stalks as [...]

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Sexy Winter Carrots are the Lazy Man’s Root Cellar (and they are topless)

I found this photo of topless carrots selling for  75 cents more than Caitlin’s. Perhaps”topless”  is the way to sell.

“I hate when it frosts in the Spring!” said my son Oren.
His dad answered, “It’s not Spring yet!”
No, but we want it to be, I thought. But, wait! What could this frost possibly be good for?  [...]

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