Pasta a la Carbonara with Leeks and Arugula

Sometimes you don’t know you’re looking for something until you find it. Sometimes you’re just minding your own (or everybody else’s) business mindlessly surfing through facebook when a friend of yours posts a recipe to another friend of yours saying “we need to make this” and you can’t not look, because hey, it’s food and…

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Reader Questions – Accepting the Chicks

 Our Broody Speckled Sussex  When we first gave chicks to our two broody hens, Lynda from the Wisdom of the Radish and author of a book with the same name asked us about the acceptance. “Did they accept them? I once had hens “accept” new chicks only to, a few days later, decide…

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The Perennial Plate

Have you heard of the Perennial Plate yet? Daniel Klein and Mirra Fine are touring the country to find stories of sustainable food. This episode is when they came to visit the SF Bay Area and they spent a bit of time at Pluck and Feather. I look forward to next week’s episode featuring Hank…

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How to Pick a Watermelon

It’s Watermelon season so I figured now is a great time to teach you how to pick the perfect watermelon whether it’s at the store, farmers’ market or in your own backyard. Most people just grab one out of the bin and hope for the best. But nothing can be more disappointing than a lackluster…

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Bitches be CRAAAAZY

Our female dog spazzing out with the sprinkler No, I’m not going to talk about my nutso dog. Instead I’m going to share my experience at the Oakland Urban Ag meeting last night. I’m not going to be nice for once and I’m definitely going to call shit out, so consider yourself warned. And for…

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New Face Care Routine

I’m one of those poor souls that has to put up with both acne AND wrinkles. I swear, once I turned 30 my skin decided to get back at me for all the years that it was rather normal. So I went through all of the different brands. I think ProActive was the only one…

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I Eat Meat

With the vast majority of Americans eating meat, sometimes you have to wonder why this statement is controversial. But it is. For some Americans, a very small minority of Americans, meat to them is akin to murder. They are incredibly loud. Any news article I read there’s always the same ones commenting about how people…

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