Garden for the Environment

Plants Sales!

2009-09-10T17:16:00.001-07:00

Looking for an excellent plant sale?
If you are in Sonoma this weekend, stop by the Sonoma Garden Park Plant Sale from 9am till 1pm, Saturday 9/12. http://www.sonomaecologycenter.org/

If you are in the Santa Cruz area, stop by the UCSC Farm and Garden Apprenticeship plant sale, 10am till 2pm Saturday 9/12. http://casfs.ucsc.edu/community/calendar.html

HANC's Greg Gaar in the SF Chronicle about Native Plants

2009-07-15T18:06:00.001-07:00

Greg Gaar in the SF Chronicle! All about the HANC Native Plant Nursery.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/15/DDO218HBK8.DTL

SF Sewers Blog!

2009-07-15T17:29:00.000-07:00

Cool! The SFPUC has a new blog to keep up with new SF Sewer and Stormwater plans!

http://sfsewers.blogspot.com/

Victory Gardens animated Movie! We love it!

2009-07-14T12:27:00.001-07:00

We love this! A Victory Gardens animated Movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQ7FvLbeilU

SF Mayor Newsom says unused city lands must be used for food production!

2009-07-10T18:11:00.000-07:00

Mayor Newsome just released an exciting 'Executive Directive' calling for Healthy Sustainable Food in SF, including increasing local food production! Amazing!

SF Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/07/09/MN5C18L6RG.DTL

Civil Eats
http://civileats.com/2009/07/10/san-francisco%E2%80%99s-new-sustainable-food-mandate/#more-4272

Mayor's Press Release
http://www.sfgov.org/site/mayor_index.asp?id=107483

Summer Garden Reading

2009-07-09T17:16:00.000-07:00

Hey All, thinking of doing some Summer Garden reading? Here is a list of Gardening books for Summer reading from the NY Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/books/review/Gardening-t.html?pagewanted=1&emc=eta1

Will Allen from Growing Power in NY Times

2009-07-07T16:07:00.001-07:00

The amazing Will Allen (A MacArthur Genus award winner) from Wisconsin's Growing Power Farm is featured in the Sunday NY Times Magazine, Sunday, July 5th.

"Will Allen, a farmer of Bunyonesque proportions, ascended a berm of wood chips and brewer’s mash and gently probed it with a pitchfork."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/magazine/05allen-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine

Home Sweet (Urban) Homestead

2009-07-07T16:06:00.001-07:00

An article about Slow Food Nation captain Anya Fernald in the Sunday NY Times magazine!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/magazine/05food-t-000.html

SF Street Food Festival, August 22nd, 2009

2009-07-02T17:12:00.000-07:00

'Eat Real' Street Food Festival - San Francisco

On August 22, 2009, join La Cocina for a block party celebrating global street food, from tacos and tamales to pierogi and fried dough. La Cocina's micro-entrepreneurs are teaming up with some of SF's most notable chefs for a one-day feeding frenzy. We're closing the street. We're pouring street food inspired cocktails in the beer & spirit garden. We're serving casual, affordable food from every corner of the globe. Fun! More info at the Eat Real website.

An Organic Converation

2009-07-02T17:10:00.000-07:00

A new radio show is all organic! "An Organic Conversation discusses today's challenges and their solutions, healthy living, and sustainable choices, blending science with ancient knowledge, and spirituality with many observations and stories from the land."

Listen On-Line at http://www.helgehellberg.com/radio-show/

The Education of an Urban Farmer

2009-07-02T17:07:00.001-07:00

Bay Area Gardener, Homesteader and Writer, Novella Carpenter, has a new book and it is out! The Education of an Urban Farmer. Read the review on the NY Times, "Living off the Land, Surrounded by Asphalt".

When 'Local' Makes it Big

2009-07-02T17:04:00.000-07:00

From 'When 'Local' Makes it Big," NY Times, May 12th, 2009
"Frito-Lay is one of several big companies that, along with some large-scale farming concerns, are embracing a broad interpretation of what eating locally means. This mission creep has the original locavores choking on their yerba mate..."

From the Ground Up, a new food doc

2009-05-28T18:11:00.000-07:00

From the Ground Up is a documentary film project about what happens when ordinary people in urban environments grow their own food. Forthcoming. By local film maker Kristi Stephens Adams.

http://fromthegroundupmovie.blogspot.com/

Food Sovereignty Curriculum

2009-05-28T18:06:00.000-07:00

Download Food for Thought and Action: A Food Sovereignty Curriculum

http://www.grassrootsonline.org/publications/educational-resources/download-food-thought-action-a-food-sovereignty-curriculum

100 Day report card

2009-04-30T12:03:00.001-07:00

Michael Pollan's 100 day report card for the Obama administration

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/04/29/100_days/index3.html

Help Grow a Farmer at the Santa Cruz Farm and Garden Apprenticeship

2009-04-03T13:13:00.000-07:00

Help grow more farmers by supporting the Farm and Garden Apprenticeship Program!

Today, more than 1,200 apprentices have been trained in the organic fields, orchards and greenhouses at the Farm and Garden Apprenticeship at UC Santa Cruz, learning not only how to raise food and flowers, but how to make the food system itself more sustainable by addressing issues of social justice. This year the Farm and Garden Apprenticeship Program has put out an urgent request to their supporters to help raise money for a critically important apprentice housing project that must be completed this year.

http://www.growafarmer.org/

Free Strawberries! in 1907

2009-03-26T19:06:00.001-07:00

"Red, ripe, and luscious, wild and sweet. Great quantities of them, and they are being carted home daily to be jammed, jellied or eaten in their natural state, with or without cream. Delicious in flavor and appetizing to look upon, they have been eagerly hunted by both young and old, who gather them in buckets, lard cans, basins, tin pans and any and all sorts of vessels that are warranted not to dissolve and lose their precious burdens." - San Francisco Sunday Call, 1907

http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Free_Strawberries!

Do Not Mail Registry

2009-03-26T14:56:00.000-07:00

On Tuesday, March 31st, the SF Board of Supervisors will decide if San Francisco will be the first municipality in the country to pass a resolution in support of our Do Not Mail Registry in California. The momentum built by this vote is the push we need to make junk mail history in America. DoNotMail.org, and GFE, is urging San Franciscans to contact their supervisors in support of the Do Not Mail Registry.

http://www.donotmail.org/

GOOD magazine says "Make California America's Organic Farm"

2009-03-26T13:17:00.000-07:00

Make California America's Organic Farm?

"Alice Waters isn’t the only one pushing the effort to convert California to wholly sustainable agriculture. If even the government agrees it’s possible by 2030, what’s the holdup?"

at GOOD MAGAZINE
http://www.good.is/?p=16439

Foraging in SF

2009-03-26T11:20:00.000-07:00

Check out SF Weekly's Article on Foraging in San Francisco.
"Out of the Wild"
http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-03-18/news/out-of-the-wild

3 Readings for Victory Veggies in the News

2009-03-24T16:28:00.000-07:00

For all of you heartened by Veggies coming to the White House Lawn, here are 3 readings to add to the excitement.

1st, going back to 1991, Michael Pollan calling to "Abolish the White House Lawn"!
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/opinion/22op-classic.html?th&emc=th

2nd, Mark Bittman from the NY Times, weighs-in on if Organic Food is better for you.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/weekinreview/22bittman.html?hp

3rd, "Is a Food Revolution Now in Season?" Another NY Times article, perhaps they are warming-up to the idea. From the Business section, believe it or not.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/business/22food.html?_r=1&hp

Tis' the Season!

SUNSET Plant Finder

2009-03-24T16:19:00.000-07:00

Sunset magazine has just created an online "Plant Finder", a searchable database which will help you find the best plant for your garden! Very cool.

http://plantfinder.sunset.com/sunset/plant-home.jsp

Obamas to Plant White House Veggie Garden!!!

2009-03-19T17:59:00.000-07:00

"On Friday, Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of White House lawn to plant a vegetable garden, the first since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II..."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/dining/19garden-web.html?_r=1&hp

GOBAMA!

Go learn to Farm!

2009-03-12T17:41:00.000-07:00

ATTRA (which is an EXCELLENT resource) lists Sustainable Farming Internships and Apprenticeships across the US and Cananda. Go learn farming this Summer!
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/internships/

How to Homestead

2009-03-12T11:55:00.001-07:00

How to homestead! Great videos of urban homesteading!
http://www.howtohomestead.org/