UC Master Gardener Lecture series via podcast

University of California Master Gardener Lecture Series, via podcast!
http://www.uctv.tv/gardening/index.asp?summary=show&seriesnumber=11

Cistus!

Cistus x purpureus. (RockRose)

Eschscholzia time in the garden

California Poppies, here and there, in the garden. Eschscholzia californica

Fallen Fruit

Fallen Fruit. Harvesting and planting fruit trees in public areas
http://www.fallenfruit.org/

Looking for inspiring new models in the Global Food System

Doors of Perception 9: Juice / Food Systems. Looking for inspiring new models for change in the global food system.
http://www.doorsofperception.com/juice/

Urban Habitats and Just Food

Urban Habitats, an Electronic Journal on the Biology of Urban Areas Around the World. Issue # 4 focuses on Green Roofs and Biodiversity.
http://www.urbanhabitats.org/

Just Food, an NYC nonprofit, working to develop a just and sustainable food system. They run a CSA program and a 'City Farm' program, increasing local food production.
http://www.justfood.org
They have also published a guide to growing chickens in the City!
http://www.justfood.org/cityfarms/chickens/

San Francisco Street Trees Map

A new San Francisco City-Wide Street Trees Map! Search by species, plant date, etc...
http://216.103.100.65/mapguide/sftrees/index2.aspx

About the project
http://216.103.100.65/mapguide/sftrees/index.aspx

GFE Asparagus

Asparagus at the GFE! Herbaceous perennials, we will harvest from these from a great many years to come (up to 15 years I've read). These stalks were very fat, 3/4 of an inch in diameter.

Santa Rosa Plum

The 2 year-old Santa Rosa plum beginning to blossom.

The Beginning of Spring

Spring is telling us it's here in little ways at the GFE. Apple blossoms, in our hillside orchard.

Where have all the bees gone?

NPR's Forum has a great radio program about European Honeybees and Colony Collapse Disorder. CCD is an unexplained hive problem identified, at the moment, by its one symptom...that the bees never come home. Plus Honeybees in Nature.

Forum, NPR
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R703090900

Honeybee Focus, Nature
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/honeybee/index.html

The Garden blog

A blog for Garden for the Environment. This blog will be a place for garden observations and garden going's-on, news about organic food and sustainable agriculture and frankly, stuff we just love. Enjoy!