This Sunday from 11 to 5 at the Farm in Santa Cruz. I'll paint your face if you want. Or if not, you could do an apple tasting or go on a hay ride or learn to cook. $5 please.
9/22/11
9/21/11
Fingers Crossed
BUSINESS Farmscape, your family farmer
Having been a part-time residential gardener for five years in college, I spent a whole lot of time planting, weeding, and pruning all kinds of things. It's a good thing I loved it. Anyhow, I remember spending hours each week gathering pounds and pounds of plant debris and thinking that it'd be neat if all those branches and leaves I had individually hand-cut were somehow valuable.
weeding & pruning:waste material
as harvesting:fruits & vegetables
So, fingers crossed, I get to interview for a company that answers to such an opportunity, Farmscape. Maybe I'll get to be someone's 'friendly' family farmer and we'll all get to smile and eat healthy food under the sunny skies of so-cal.
Until then, I'll be savoring my last three weeks at the UCSC Farm & Garden. More specifically, the Up Garden (Alan Chadwick Garden).
9/20/11
Two Days
TWO DAYS Left of Summer, officially
The Fall, reminds me of cozy times in Berkeley with the smell of leaves on the floor <3
About a year ago:
Valley Life Sciences Building, UC Berkeley
9/14/11
Heirlooms (Vegetables & Fruits)
Are absolutely beautiful and superior in every sense: visual, tactical, aromatic, cultural. (I don't have my pictures uploaded yet, so I'll try to process my memory into really descriptive words, eek.)
Today, I attended the 2011 National Heirloom Exposition in Sonoma, and I found myself - In the show room on sensory overload, feeling and smelling heirloom fruits and vegetables, wishing just wishing I could take a bite of that delicate, pale golden pear skin as I quaff its floral scent - Talking to this lovely man:
at the trade show about how his neighbor, the founder of Baker Creek Seed Company, started off his heirloom seed business as a boy at the age of 15, stapling xeroxed pages of his home-made seed catalog at the local copy shop - Asking the buyer of Bi-Rite Market whether similar 'community-based' markets might be viable in less fancy neighborhoods and finding that it's a difficult question to answer - Marveling at the general beauty of heirlooms in their intense colors, shapes, and smells, wondering why all food isn't this pleasurable to hold and look at - And lastly, feeling mild resentment build towards those dull cookie cutter lumps of pale vegetables and fruits at Safeway :(
Today, I attended the 2011 National Heirloom Exposition in Sonoma, and I found myself - In the show room on sensory overload, feeling and smelling heirloom fruits and vegetables, wishing just wishing I could take a bite of that delicate, pale golden pear skin as I quaff its floral scent - Talking to this lovely man:
at the trade show about how his neighbor, the founder of Baker Creek Seed Company, started off his heirloom seed business as a boy at the age of 15, stapling xeroxed pages of his home-made seed catalog at the local copy shop - Asking the buyer of Bi-Rite Market whether similar 'community-based' markets might be viable in less fancy neighborhoods and finding that it's a difficult question to answer - Marveling at the general beauty of heirlooms in their intense colors, shapes, and smells, wondering why all food isn't this pleasurable to hold and look at - And lastly, feeling mild resentment build towards those dull cookie cutter lumps of pale vegetables and fruits at Safeway :(
9/5/11
Small Business Development
SERVICE Small Business Development Center, LA Region
Free and low-cost services around small business start-up and development, including workshops and one-on-one consulting. Centers all over California, not just LA.
GUIDE Governor's Office of Economic Development: Business Permits
Enter in your 'business type' and city to find out what specific permits and licenses may be required on the city, county, state, and federal levels.
Legally required for any sales occurring more than twice per year, including Ebay and Craigslist sales! More research to come...
Enter in your 'business type' and city to find out what specific permits and licenses may be required on the city, county, state, and federal levels.
Why? Because omg I need a job! and if all else fails, I can at least try to make one up, maybe. And for practice, maybe.
9/4/11
Right Time
CONFERENCE Good Food Conference & Trade Show
It seems as though fate has it in for me. Whether it's an unplanned, long-awaited reunion of friends in the Cheeseboard line, or the first sustainable food conference in LA held just a month before I return from the Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems. Timing is just right.
Laden with key experts and pioneers within southern California food, I hope to hit up these talks:
FOOD POLICY & HEALTH SUMMIT (Friday, 9/16 @ Santa Monica College)
9:00-9:45 am Public Health & Food
10:00-10:45 am Food with Integrity
11:00-11:45 am Public Policy & Food12:00-12:45 pm Scaling Up to Meet the Demand for Local Food
1:45-2:45 pm School Food Best Practices
12:00-12:45 pm Scaling Up to Meet the Demand for Local Food
1:45-2:45 pm School Food Best Practices
TRADE SHOW
12:00-5:00 pm Buyers & Producers/Suppliers
LOS ANGELES FOOD POLICY COUNCIL WORKSHOPS
2:30-3:30 pm Building Power for Fair Food: Grassroots Organizing and the Farm Bill
From Farm to Landfill: Can ‘Good Jobs’ Be Part of the “Good Food” System?
CalFresh: Making SNAP a Good Food Program
3:45-4:45 pm Food Equity, Healthy Retail, and Community Driven Demand
Growing Good Food in Our Neighborhoods: Urban Agriculture, Food Security and Health in Los Angeles
Street Food: Where Food and Social Justice MeetNow, some maybe related photos:
BUNS.
Tomatoes
8/29/11
Because I like to nap after lunch time.
PATIO
Walk-in fridge, for ALBA distribution
Motivated by my love for afternoon naps, been working on this:
Photos of a recent field trip to ALBA (Agriculture & Land-based Training Association), a small business incubator & distributor for local farm workers in the Salinas Valley.
Vegetables: Here they are!
Walk-in fridge, for ALBA distribution
Greenhouse growing: Patrick with the little Kubota tractor
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