Lease Signed

GRAND OPENING Berkeley Student Food Collective

$5 Burger: red and yellow onions from Pinnacle Farm, cilantro from Catalan Farm, kaiser roll from Semifreddi, and chanterelle mushrooms wild harvested from a friend.

We've been working hard all summer long. Now we have a store: 2440 Bancroft Way off Telegraph Avenue - a place to get your Thanksgiving coffee in the morning, Hella Vegan tamales for lunch, and fresh local produce for home. 100% local/organic/fair trade/affordable.

GRAND OPENING mid-October

Apprenticeships

MODERN HOMESTEADING in Coastal Oregon

The bathhouse with green clover roof.

Apprenticeships in Communal Eldercare, Ecoforestry, and Permaculture & Natural Building at the Mountain Homestead. In the midst of 365 acres of preserved temperate rainforest in coastal Oregon. Completely off grid with micro-hydro and photovoltaic systems. Gravity fed water. Food locally sourced. All buildings built with local materials. Income from commercial Eco-Forestry. It's too much.

SEMI-RURAL COMMUNAL LIVING in Sonoma, CA

Goats for clearing invasive exotic weeds.

The Occidental Arts and Ecology Center has five internships available annually: two in the garden, two in the administrative office, and one in site maintenance.

Founded in 1994 by a group of biologists, horticulturists, educators, activists, and artists. Center’s work addresses the challenges of creating democratic communities that are ecologically, economically and culturally sustainable in an increasingly privatized and corporatized economy and culture. Combines research, demonstration, education, and organizing to develop collaborative, community-based strategies for positive social change and effective environmental stewardship. Didn't know corporatized was a word.

ECOLOGICAL HORTICULTURE at UC Santa Cruz

Alan Chadwick, founder of the UCSC student garden

The Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems offers practical as well as academic training in the techniques of agroecology and organic farming and gardening. The Apprenticeship in Ecological Horticulture is the oldest of the Center's programs, offering hands-on training at the UCSC Farm and Alan Chadwick Garden. I'm applying this month! :D

Forty Dollar Day

LIST Of Things Consumed last Saturday

$2 French pastry that seriously weighed maybe half a pound! don't know why.

$2 coffee I think I'm developing a delicious addiction to this stuff. trying. to. resist.

$0 five flights of wine we hit up Sonoma with a stack of coupons.

$4 flight of French champagne 'twas bubbly.

$12 bottle of muscat sweet and fruity, like mango sorbetto.

$5 half a curried chicken sandwich from a fancy touristy market. curry plus mayonnaise, though, that's good stuff.

$5 shared picnic things: brie, smoked gouda, chocolate, plums, cherries, and almond thins 'cause Berkeley Bowl's the best, ever.

$2 entrance to the East Bay Underground Market very Bay Area ["Bayrea"], nice damned progressive Bayrea atmosphere

$5 adobo chicken bowl = goodness goodness goodness out of a Filipino grandma's crock-pot.

$4 vegan black bean tamale w/quinoa cruelty-free tamales from "Hella Vegan Eats."

$2 plate of pickled veggies from a Himalayan food stand.

$1 cup of sugar cane juice in a cup of disappointing size.

First Ever

MARKET East Bay Underground Market

The first ever in the East Bay.

food/music/drink > empty parking lot

This Saturday, August 7th, 5-11pm

@ the parking lot of 24th/Broadway, Downtown Oakland (near Chinatown I think)

$2 at the door + online waiver

There'll be live music, maybe beer/wine, vegan tamales, salsas and ice cream, Vietnamese pancakes, homemade mac n' cheese, liquor cakes, pulled pork sandwiches, 'n more.