Plants Sales!

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

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!

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!

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!

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

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

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

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

'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

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

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

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..."