From the daily archives: Thursday, May 15, 2008
The calendar says May, but where I live in San Francisco, it’s been feeling like the dead of summer lately. My thermometer says 85, which is unseasonably hot for my otherwise moderate city. Usually, my lunchtime staple is soup, however a warm bowl full of chili may be great in November, but [...]
Continue Reading →I know this might sound pompous (my daughter’s favorite word these days), but I have some free advice about eating. You don’t have to be a rocket scientist or a brain surgeon to eat in a more healthful, environmentally friendly, sustainable way. You don’t have to be an amazing cook, [...]
Continue Reading →I’m relatively new to this crazy Farm Bill thing. I was invited last Summer to an event at Paul Newman and local food activist chef Michel Nischan’s restaurant, the Dressing Room in Wesport CT, to listen to an amazing panel of speakers and participate in a dialog about the 2007 Farm Bill. [...]
Continue Reading →After a brief hiatus, Urban Agriculturalist is back! Urban Agriculturalist is a series on the ways city and suburb dwellers use their land as a food resource.
Last week, the New York Times featured a few part-time professional urban farmers in areas of New York City where a high demand and low supply [...]
Continue Reading →What’s for dinner? Imagine just looking outside your kitchen window. Imagine United States citizens raising forty-percent of our nation’s fresh fruits and vegetables in home gardens. Imagine sixty percent of Americans actively gardening, harvesting over eight million tons of food a year.
No, this isn’t a pipe dream prompted by the current [...]
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