Planet Veggie Garden

We live in Oakland California about 10 miles across the Bay from San Francisco.
San Francisco is known – probably worldwide – for being on the “liberal” edge.
In the past few years they’ve put through a rather huge restaurant food waste recycling program, banned plastic bags in grocery stores, banned polystyrene (aka Styrofoam) food containers and [...]

This was the weekend of field trips…
Yesterday, we took a day trip down to Ben Lomond, CA home of Love Apple Farm. Farmer Cynthia Sandberg gave us and 30 others an incredibly informative class on growing heirloom tomatoes.
I first heard of Love Apple Farm when my sister sent me the link to her page on [...]

Slow Food Nation ’08 is coming to town this weekend – August 29th to September 1st. Just what is Slow Food? (from slowfoodusa.org):
Slow Food USA is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to supporting and celebrating the food traditions of North America through programs and activities dedicated to Taste Education, Defending Biodiversity and Building [...]

How many of you gardeners out there are a bit lonely in your gardening “hobby”… how many of you have friends and family that – when they see or hear about your garden – say “that’s nice dear” and steer the conversation away from such “fringe” activities?
That may change in the future. Home veggie gardens [...]

…on every roof.

I was on a walk the other day and spied this garden tucked away on a garage roof.
Some folks don’t have space in their yard or even have a yard. As they say, where there is a will there is a way.
If you are considering a roof garden – be sure the roof [...]

Quick… what word did the New Oxford American Dictionary deem word of the year for 2007…
LOCAVORE
A locavore is one who eats locally grown food. Local often defined as grown within 100 miles.
So Carnivore – meat eating.
Vegetarian – vegetable (and fruit eating)… shouldn’t it be a Vegavore?
Locavore – engages in the sustainable practice of [...]

San Francisco City Hall planted it’s Victory Garden over the weekend.
A few weeks ago there was a sprawling lawn in front of City Hall. That was dug up (the sod was given away) and transformed into garden beds.
The beds were planted over the weekend. Harvest is scheduled for Labor Day.
Not your typical City [...]

We’ve heard it: pesticides bad, organic good.
That’s a big part part of eating well.
But there’s another part that has been getting some attention…
Eat Local.
The benefits to eating local are reducing your carbon footprint and perhaps eating food that you’re physically/evolutionarily more adapted to. For instance corn has been a huge part of the [...]