Food-lust [-n]: a great respect for food.
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It started out as wanderlust, a yearning to learn more about our food system and the agricultural questions shaping it. But the journey revealed something more direct: foodlust.
Food deserves our respect. We can take a seed, add sun, water, and air, and create something nourishing for our bodies, communities, and environment.
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Don't be a Grain Brain
Happy cows grazing at Baker Ranch - Doyle, NV Raise your hand if you use grass-finished as one of your main criteria for buying meat. Raise your hand if you truly understand what...
All You Need to Know
As I get more acquainted with food systems, the more I get tangled in all the regulations and status symbols that come along with it...USDA this, certified that. And in the case...
The Elephant in the Room Just Roared
I've had this blog for almost two years and this is the longest lag in posts I have ever had. Getting a non-profit off the ground takes 24/7 leaving little time for much else. But...
LIVE with Joel Salatin
Bill Kelly w/ Joel Salatin inside the Growing Dome at the Truckee Community Farm. Last month, the Tahoe Food Hub had the fortune of co-hosting a lecture with the famed farmer,...
Hubbin' it Up For the Camera
Photo courtesy of Daphne Hougard The story of the Tahoe Food Hub has a lot of moving parts and can be hard to capture in a press interview but Laura Brown with the " The Union "...
CSA with a side of veggies
Photo courtesy of Daphne Hougard Recently, I've been playing with a soapbox idea about the misunderstanding behind the meaning of CSA. And for good reason...Just the other day, I...
Shedding Some Light on Our Food
Drawing by: Jana Vanderhaar w/ verdantconnections.com Tahoe Food Hub interns: Taylor Wood & Jaynie Miller Last week,the Tahoe Food Hub tabled at its first event giving deadline...
Children ARE Our Future
Candy Belsse's 5th Grade Class - Truckee Elementary It might be a little corny, but Whitney Houston pretty much hit it spot on, "Children are our future!" And in keeping with the...
Guest Chef
Guest blogger, chef and rad skier...Cody LaPlante Something I haven't done yet at Food Chronicles is have a guest blogger. Pretty standard stuff for most blogs. Guess I was...
Never Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen
One complaint about organics is that it too expensive. I'm not so sure about that...I just made an awesome organic, meal for six people under $35! I'm calling it, sweet potato...
Fear of Success
I attended Nevada County's Sustainable Food & Farm Conference this past weekend in Grass Valley, CA and enjoyed an all-star line-up of keynote speakers... Temra Costa - author of...
Keep It Simple
My Tiny Home, all 400sft of it! I've been waiting for the one-year anniversary of one of my most favorites posts so I could rerun it. Ironically, just in the last week, it has...
Handpicked
Recently, I was asked to be a guest blogger for Handpicked Nation , an authentic food & farm site. I wandered around in a field of possible stories and settled on one of my hot...
Frack is Whack
For every action there is a reaction. But I think we forget this sometimes. Or, is it because something doesn't get talked about or reported, that we don't think critically about...
Tis' the Season
Christmas Eve harvest @ Truckee Community Farm As we gather together this happy day and celebrate with a cornucopia of holiday foods, we should pause and assess the seasonality of...
Edible Landscapes
Photo courtesy of Jamie Kingham The winter edition of " edible Reno-Tahoe " just hit newsstands and pasted below is the beginning of an article I wrote about some fascinating...
Food Swap
Food artisans at the Truckee Tahoe Food Swap I just went to my first food swap on Sunday night and I'm super fired up about this idea. A food swap is where you make food and trade...
Reruns: Eliot! How Does Your Garden Grow
Eliot and his wife Barbara on their farm in Harborside, Maine Now that I've officially been indoctrinated with the principles of 4-season growing, I wanted to give tribute to my...
Wasting Away
The holidays are always a good time to revisit the amount of waste we generate in this country because probably at no other time during the year is more waste produced than during...
Ding Dong the Witch is Dead!
By Now, most everyone has heard that Hostess Brands - producers of synthetic, sickly-sweet, gastro-hideous, eco-terrorist, snack foods - has filed bankruptcy and is going out of...
Staying Warm in a Cold Climate
No, I'm not talking about climate change but rather keeping your crops warm during winter. We are just beginning our 4th season here at the Truckee Community Farm's Growing Dome...
If You Want Something Done Right...
The debate between organic and conventional agriculture is not nearly as polarized as the news would have you think. There is a large gray area in the middle where conventional...
Get Your Incubator On!
Adam & Laura - graduates of Organic Field School I participate in a working group helping a land-grant university (name withheld) evaluate the best way to use their 1,000 acre...
Give 37 Some Props!
I just received my California Voter Information Guide . It is a tremendous resource outlining candidate platforms and arguments for and against different ballot propositions. I...
Trailing of the Sheep
I'm en route back from Ketchum, Idaho and a mountain bike weekend to celebrate my friend's 40th birthday! It was four, glorious, fall-colored days where valley after valley...
Raising Domes
There is something about getting a logo that makes things feel legit! Check it out! it comes in purple, green and of course black. We co-branded the logo since the Growing Dome at...
Leading By Example
When I heard Michael Pollan ( Omnivore's Dilemma ) speak last October in Cleveland on National Food Day , he made an interesting statement...that a sea change in the agricultural...
Mountain Grown
The recent issue of Edible Reno-Tahoe just came out. I have an article in there about how the Growing Dome got its start and how one was lucky enough to land in Tahoe so I could...
Local Food...Local Economies
Tom Philpott is one of my most favorite food and agriculture writers. I first started reading his stories when he was at Grist.org . The other day, a friend forwarded me his May...
Tastinista??
If the term fashionista wasn't bad enough, i heard this McDonalds' radio ad the other day where a women was a self-proclaimed "tastinista!" Why? Because she saved money on food by...
One Dimensional Views in a Three Dimensional World
I love NPR! I work from home so all the reporters and anchors are like my co-workers...Renee Montagne, Neal Conan, Kai Ryssdal, Melissa Block, Chris Simmons, etc. But yesterday on...
Giving Non-Organics a Bad Name
Every week, I pretty much, have something that inspires a blog post. It may be a rant, an epiphany, a story, a farmer profile, an update about one of my food projects, etc. This...
May I Have This Dance?
When I first came up with the "foodlust" concept, I tried to visualize what it might look like in a logo. I kept visioning this debonair, swashbuckling gentleman dipping a leek...
Rice: Made in the USA
Last month, I traveled just southwest of Chico, CA to Hamilton City. I was on assignment for the Rodale Institute and an article about organic rice farmer, Greg Massa . You can...
Get Fired Up!
Stephen Ritz (left) with two of his students. Click for Stephen's TED talk. If you need a little inspiration on how to make a difference, go no further than Stephen Ritz's TED...
Be Afraid...Be Very Afraid!
On May 3rd , I spoke about the domino effect that California's GMO Label law, Proposition 37 , could have not only in California but throughout the entire US food system, click...
This Little Piggy
2wk old pigs at Massa Organics in Chico, CA. Click the image to watch the video. To change our food system, we can vote with our forks, support farmers who transition to organics...
When In Drought...Feed the Soil
Our first corn! As I inspected our small crop of corn in the growing dome today, I found one lone ear infested with aphids. The crop is almost ready to harvest so I thought I...
Take Your Vitamins!
The Veg-heads Game: The blueberry, mushroom, cucumber, carrot and tomato When talking to kids about fruits and veggies, you have to speak their language. Dressing up and playing...
My Two Cents
If you have followed this blog, you will know I am a BIG fan of the Rodale Institute . They are the foremost authorities on organic agriculture. The Rodale Institute has been...
Get in My Belly
Beet Ravilois (sample photo, not from the actual recipe) One thing I didn't want this blog to become was another recipe site. But one's love for food is what drives them in their...
Lavenderliscious
Lavender Ridge - Reno, NV (photo courtesy of Lavender Ridge) Lavender is a pretty likeable plant. It's pretty to look at, smell and do stuff with. It is by far one of the most...
Farmer's Dilemma
Spring Bounty Nothing gets me more fired up then a farm tour. Yesterday I traveled to North San Juan outside of Nevada City, CA to pick-up veggies from Mountain Bounty Farm for...
Bed Sheets for Raised Gardens
I had the fortune of attending a gardening workshop this past weekend in Pagosa Springs, CO where the Growing Domes are manufactured. It was wonderful to meet the designers of...
Introducing...The Tahoe Food Hub
For the past four months I’ve been taking a leadership class to gain related skills, learn more about my community and network with other, local professionals. It is hosted by the...
Soil Blockers
In the 80's, there were these hideous sunglasses called Blu Blockers made famous by an infomericial featuring a catchy, rap jingle . When I heard of soil blockers, that was the...
Eat Your Colors
One of Five "Eat Your Color" fridge magnets Our first Gardens to Hospitals event is about to kick-off next week in Jackson, CA. Gardens to Hospitals (G2H) is a project of Lisa’s...
Strawberries Go for the Gold
Me at Swanton Berry Farm - July 2011 The Food Chronicles turns 1-year old next Thursday, May 17th. Hard to believe this adventure started a year ago. I feel like I've just begun....
Farmers Rage Against the Machine
Revenge of the Superweed A few months ago, I wrote a blog post which outlined a pretty far-fetched, but thoughtful, plan to reform US agriculture. The premise placed the ball in...
Hug Your Mother!
The Kompost Kraft table at Tahoe Truckee Earth Day celebration. Last Saturday the 21st marked the 42nd Earth Day! Hopefully, you all got out to hug Mother Earth and honor her...
Good, Clean and Fair!
The Slow Food snail I pulled out my wooden, travel utensils; opened my reusable container; and began eating my seasonal, organic broccoli and asparagus tossed in pasta and olive...
April Harvest
Truckee Community Farm is green with harvest - April 16, 2012 The grow dome and the Truckee Community Farm received its first news article! Read the entire story in our local...
Making Soil
See photos below for making dirt into soil The grow dome is really starting to take off. We are harvesting greens at least once a week: chard, spinach, lettuce, and mustard...
"What's Your Tree?"
This cover is from April 2009 but I picked it for the trees :) Every now and then I stumble upon a copy of The Sun (no, not the tabloid. This SUN is way more cerebral). My friend...
Compost Tug-o-War
Here is the last in a series of articles that recently ran in the Spring 2012 issue of Edible Reno-Tahoe . When I was first assigned this story, it seemed pretty cut and dry, a...
Stepping Outside My Bubble
Happy cows graze outside of Jackson, CA in Amador County. Sometimes you need to shake your snow globe to really be able to see what you are doing. Today, I had that chance... I've...
Recycle Your Food
Me showing off my notes for worm composting! When I first arrived back into Tahoe last fall after being on tour for my independent study, I met with the editor for Edible...
"Meet The Farmer:" Rise-and-Shine Farms
I just had a series of articles come out in the most recent issue of " Edible Reno-Tahoe " magazine. Here is the first in that series! It is a profile that I did of an organic...
Rerun: That's How Food Moves
Amish farm in Ohio I recently saw a documentary on PBS about the Amish way of life called, " The Amish ." It reminded me of my own unique experience this past summer when picking...
Aquaponics is the New Hydroponics
Aquaponics system: water tank for fish with trellis above for plants Monday the 5th is three days before the full moon and according to the biodynamics calendar , it is a good day...
Elevator Speech
Having an elevator speech for anything you do is a good idea. It could be for a new project, campaign or even your profession. We shouldn't get stumped by simple questions like,...
Ecological Literacy
I'm brushing up on my environmental education for the Gardens-to-Hospitals program that I'm building for Lisa's Organics . It's a program where school gardens partner with...
Eliot! How Does Your Garden Grow?
Eliot Coleman and his wife Barbara Damrosch on their farm in Harborside, Maine. The only thing holding Tahoe back from being like its food abundant cousins down the hill, are its...
Composting a Career
Composting windrows at Full Circle Compost in Minden, NV I wrote this article for the Rodale Institute. Start it here but finishing reading it there . It just got posted to their...
"Mouth Revolution"
CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE VIDEO! As genetically modified (GM) crops become more and more ubiquitous covering thousands of acres nationwide, it is becoming harder and harder to avoid...
Social Security
I handed the postmaster my yellow slip and he returned with a package from Amazon. I hadn't ordered anything so while he processed my other mail, I opened the box to find the...
In The news!
Last week, I was sad to read an article on Yahoo news that said agriculture was the #1 useless college degree. Last time I checked, I still needed food to live. How can farming be...
Defending My Thesis!
Building blocks to a Sustainable Food Community I've often referred to my independent study on sustainable food systems as my un-accredited PhD program. Over the past seven...
Work With What You Got!
One of the venues at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival Six years ago, I went to my first Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City, CA. At the time I was there representing...
The Eagle Has Landed
Lisa's Organics' slogan I've been back in Tahoe two months now. In the absence of snow, I've been hard at work shaping what will hopefully be a bountiful career in food activism....
Rerun: Gene Logsdon
Gene with one of his 16" ears of corn I feel truly honored, The Rodale Institute reposted one of my most favorite posts on their website today. It is an interview I did with Gene...
Transition Time
This morning I saw the sunrise! No, it's not what you think. I was not out all night celebrating New Year's. Although, that would have been fun too. Instead, i was clear headed...
Rerun: Teach a Man to Farm and He'll Eat Forever
Nathan Harkleroad, Incubator Program Manager, with Pablo Perez of J & P Organics Every since I learned about the ALBA farm model, I haven't been able to stop talking about it. At...
Getting Busy in the Biggest Little City
The last few weeks have been a crash course in Northern Nevada's growing food movement. I've had the great fortune to meet many of the people involved in helping to protect and...
That's my BHAG!
Me sailing to my blue sky dreams for a new food future :) As I've moved through this food journey, I've called upon my blog to help me clarify my thoughts and work through...
I Love Reruns!
Farm Abbondonza...Rich, & Shanan and family in front with me. The crew sitting behind! I'm feeling a little reflective and decided to repost one of my very, first blogs. The...
Waking Up to Soil Science - Part II
Continued from the previous post on December 2nd... What soil biology tells us is…conventional agriculture kills soil. If we need soil to grow plants, then eventually conventional...
Waking Up to Soil Science - Part I
Ever heard of a noble lie ? This regal term dates back to Socrates and Plato’s time. By definition, it’s a myth told by the elite to keep social harmony. As an example, Plato was...
My Foodshed
Defining one's foodshed can mean different things to different people. I recently became a member of our fabulous, local food co-op in Reno, The Great Basin Community Food Co-op ....
How to Grow a Farmer!
Over coffee the other day, my friend, Dan Smith with the Genesa Living Foundation, posed the question, "How do we create more farmers?" It was like throwing me a ball of catnip....
Foodlust the Movie!
Before I left for Boulder last June to embark upon my food project at the Abbondonza Farm, I got pocket dialed by an old friend, Iain Paterson. It been a while so I called to...
Organic, Inc. - Book Blog Vol. 4
A common misconception is that chemical based fertilizers and pesticides didn’t exist till after WWII when Monsanto wanted to unload their reserve of biological arms on American...
Farmer Revolution
In the wake of Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, resigning and a new Italian government on the horizon, it makes you wonder, "is it really that easy?" Out with the old...
What You Need To Know About the Farm Bill But Were Too Afraid To Ask!
Where has our democracy gone? Perhaps our government is playing a game of neener-neener-neener in retaliation to the Occupy movement...The house and senate agriculture committees...
Boots on the Ground
After two and a half months in Ohio, I return to Tahoe to get boots on the ground. It's time to take what I've learned over the past five months and start working within my...
Connecting the Dots of Occupy Planet Earth
A global map of Occupy movements on 10/15: http://map.15october.net/ Whether you are still uncertain about the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations or you want to better understand...
The Lesser of Evils
I'll admit...ever now and then, the point of purchase displays with candies and sweets will get the worst of me. I blindly grab for the Reese's or Kit Kat hoping no one will...
Schooling the Land Grant Universities
Aunt Dororthy in front of her house in Salem, Ohio When I was younger, my siblings and I would each get to spend solo weekends with my Aunt Dorothy. We cherished the one-on-one...
Michael Pollan LIVE!
Food Day was Monday October 24th. Schools, farms, communities and kitchens everywhere celebrated in a feastly fashion to recognize the need for more thoughtful consideration of...
FOOD DAY
If you haven't heard, Monday, October 24th is FOOD DAY! Let's get out there and show food how much we appreciate it. It's not a stretch-your-stomach pre-Thanksgivng. It's more of...
Occupy WORLD Street
Till last week, I'd kept a peripheral view of the Occupy Wall Street demonstration. As satellite protests popped up around the country and the world, I began paying closer...
Got Milk?
"Whoa Becky! That's a lot of milk you got there!" (her name really is Becky) My Sundays are starting to become synonymous with farm tours. But today's tour was of a slightly...
The Compost Tea Party
If you want to get a party going in your soil, make a compost tea and serve it up. It's a process by which you steep compost and spread the solution on your garden, crops or...
Putting Biology Back in Soil!
View of the Rodale Institute and farm from the orchard Last Thursday afternoon, I headed to Kutztown, PA and a 3-day soil class at "the" Rodale Institute . For years, I've revered...
Ride-a-long with Dr. Oran Hesterman, PhD
Oran Hesterman of the Fair Food Network and me Over the past month, I've quoted and commented from the book, Fair Food , by Dr. Oran Hesterman PhD. On Monday, I had the unique...
A Field Day with Gene Logsdon
Carol and Gene Logsdon In 1974, a book of poems came across Gene Logsdon’s deskwhile working for the Farm Journal in Philadelphia. He read four poems and closed the book. He got...
Composting and Mountain Biking...A Match Made in Ohio
Born and breed in Ohio...mountain biking and composting Mountain biking and composting together...two of my favorite things. It's like a Reese's cup but only better for me and the...
The Church of Joel Salatin
Joel Salatin on Polyface Farms "Festivaling with my Mom" had not been on my bucket list of things to do but after this weekend, it had a speedy induction and then swiftly checked...
This I Believe...
NPR coined it best when they came up with the series, "This I Believe." We all have a voice. We all have big thoughts. We all have an opinion. But often don't have a place to...
Farm Junkie
Brunty Farm Owners:Jeff Brunty and Melanie Schenk I'm a farm tour junkie... I love visiting different farms, meeting the growers, hearing their story and learning new practices. I...
I'll Show You a Barn Dinner
Agrarian life runs in my blood...My mom's whole side of the family are farmers. As a child, I can remember the hour drive to visit my grandmother and relatives in Salem, Ohio and...
Weed Yourself to Happiness!
Thursday was my last day working at George Jones Memorial Farm. I'm sad to miss the rest of the growing season and the birth of the farm cat's kittens but this Saturday's event is...
Which Organic Are You?
The more I read and observe, the more I struggle with the variance in organic farming practices. The organic label allows pest & weed applications derived from "natural sources"...
Let's Get Together Now
What was a Friday lunch with the Director of City Fresh, Nick Swetye, rolled over into a Farm Bill roundtable with Ohio Senator, Sherrod Brown .That's pretty much how it...
Word of the Day: Agtivist
I have a new favorite word..."Agtivist!" Saw it on Grist.org the other day. They have a whole series profiling different food activists. If the Oxford Dictionary can select...
More Than Just Grass and Grain
I weaved through gorgeous farm country this past weekend to go mountain biking just north of Columbus. Unlike the Amish country of last week, the landscape here was bordered by...
It's Not Dirt...It's Soil!
The subject of soil is where I like to geek-out! Once you start learning about it, it can really blow your mind; like how in one teaspoon of soil there is over 700 million...
Milk, Schmilk
My Dad handed me a receipt the other day with the price of two milks circled...one was organic at $4.69/half-gallon and the other was a non-organic brand at $2.39/half-gallon. It...
With a Name Like Tar Sands...It Can't Be Good!
A sincerely, important protest is happening right now in Washington D.C. against the proposed Keystone-XL pipeline which will bring oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada to...
Meet Your Farmer
When I was working for the Wild & Scenic Film Festival last year, I stumbled across some videographies about eight Maine farmers . I was entranced by their stories clicking...
Jump In!
If your not already involved in the local, food movement, but want to be, it can feel a little like playing double-dutch jump rope...your on the sidelines wanting to play but...
Monster Mash
Sexy, isn't she? This is the Somat Pulper 3000. Okay, it's just called the Somat Pulper but 3000 better describes its powers. It looks like a widget maker but this little beauty...
BACK ON THE FARM – FOODLUST PART III
Phase three of my food journey began today…a 6-week internship on George Jones Memorial Farm in Northeast Ohio. I’ve landed in some pretty amazing places along the way starting in...
Book Blog - Vol. I: "The New Agrarianism," Issue 5
See the August 3rd post for the introduction to the book blog. Brian Donahue's essay, Reclaiming the Commons , had me grabbing for a pen. I know it's a good article when I want to...
Book Blog - Vol. I; "The New Agrarianism," Issue 4
See the August 3rd post for the introduction to the book blog. I first met David Orr at a TOOLS conference for environmental groups back in 2009. He gave an inspiring speech which...
Green Jobs
With unemployment rates fluctuating, there is one job ripe for the picking...organic farming. And many reputable news agencies think so too... Fast Company , E Magazine , MSN ,...
Priority Principle
I had dinner with some girlfriends this evening on a backyard deck with Lake Tahoe in the distant background. Not a bad spot! Each of us catching the other up on our summer...
DANGER...Don't Touch the Food!
Skull & Crossbones aren't what I really picture when I think of sweet strawberries or any happy field of green for that matter. I snapped this photo last week while on my...
The Irony of Corn
I was sitting on the back stoop at friend's BBQ the other night typewritering through an ear of corn. I commented on how much I love corn-on-the-cob. Others nodded in agreement...
Tax It!
A friend forwarded me an article from The New York Times this weekend by Mark Bittman entitled, " Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables ." Then today, Grist.org's Tom Laskawy...
Working Things Out
It was like Christmas morning when I opened my Roots of Change list serve today. Just yesterday, I was commenting on the shortcomings of a tax on junk food to subsidize healthy...
Summer Camp
Our days may not have been filled with canoeing and basket weaving, but in many ways, the past two weeks of this conference have felt like a trip back to summer camp...living in...
Coffee Cupping 101
After a long day of presentations, we were rewarded with a stimulating class on coffee cupping - similar to wine tasting but for coffee (click on the image to the left for a...
Paradigm Shift
When creating a sustainable food system, what we are really proposing is an alternative food system. Applying a sustainability model to the current conventional model is like...
Dig Deep
The way I learned about UCSC's Agroecology seminar was through a list serve I am on with Roots of Change . Today, the entire Roots of Change staff came to present on their efforts...
Teach a Man to Farm and He'll Eat Forever
I want to hand a blue ribbon to all the programs and initiatives I've been learning about this past week but my favorite so far is where we visited today, ALBA! The ALBA growing...
Farm to Table
Farm to Table is such a lovely concept and conjures up all kinds of white picket fence and red barn images. Along the way to the table, however, the food has to stop at some sort...
Farm Bill 2012
The Farm Bill which governs subsides and appropriations to farmers and food programs is about to expire this fall. Big Ag is lobbying fiercely in their own best interest while...
Farm Tour
This weekend, fellow co-workers, Jared and Ben, took my open air classroom on the road to two, other organic farms. Both are located just a few miles from Abbondonza. Seeing the...
Post Title.
Last night we went to see The Samples at the downtown street fair in Louisville, CO. Their visceral sound brings you back to the moment you first heard them...driving west on I-70...
This One Went to Market
The farm is starting to go off with produce. Not as much as it will in August but the fist harvests of the season are definitely exciting. Today is in preparation for the...
Farm Family
Today was Shanan's birthday (center). Lucky girl was born on the Solstice! We took a long lunch and fired up the brick oven to make pizzas in celebration. In the picture to the...
Crossfit Farmstyle
It's Monday and another HUGE day on the farm. Always something to learn! The coolest thing by far was learning how to siphon. Maybe this was something you learned way back when...
Buzz Words
There are lots of buzz words out there to catch consumers attention making them think they are making the right food choice...all natural, organic, sustainable, healthy, local,...
Hey...that's my farmer!
So there I was...at a stop light on Broadway Ave which cuts right through the heart of Boulder. I've got my left elbow out the truck window and tapping my right hand on the...
Food Time!
Check it out..We made food! I was so excited for this morning's harvest in preparation for the Wednesday night Farmer's Market in downtown Boulder. It was Abbondonza's first time...
Eating in Season
While on the subject of Supermarkets...it reminds me of something I concluded while reading Michael Pollan's book, Omnivore’s Dilemma. It became evident that supermarket...
Sleezy Food
When it comes to our country's perception of food, this picture says it all, Price Chooper! A lot of supermarkets are using this approach to attract customers... Save Mart,...
It Ain't Cheap Folks!
Headed home after an east coast wedding. For this project it is great to visit different parts of America and see other perspectives of our food system. Universally, I've come to...
Airport Woes
I'm traveling back East today for a friend's wedding and by far one of the most stressful parts of traveling and moving through airports is finding something to eat that you feel...
Get Connected
A food awakening is definitely liberating but also overwhelming. All of a sudden you realize all the factors you have to consider...is it local, in season, organic, sustainably...
Frickity Frack
My number one site for all green news is www.grist.org . I will reference them a lot during this blogging experiment. Today Barry Estabrook had an article on the impacts of...
Skin Track Dialogues
I'm a backcountry skier. It's my winter passion and one of my favorite ways to enjoy nature. But to get to the top of the mountain, you have to hike up a long way. Most often you...
Food Desert
Today I am in the town of Bridgeport, CA. And while you may not think a beautiful town at the base of the Sierra Nevada would be a "food desert," it in many ways is. A food desert...
Nutrient Rich
Today I was reading a news clipping that my Dad sent me from the Wall Street Journal dated, April 9, 2011. It was an interview with James Prokopanko, CEO for fertilizer giant,...
Do Today What You Can Do Tomorrow
Today, I started this website and blog so i will have a forum to collect my thoughts, concepts and inspirations for a new food economy.
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